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DNKYD said:
That reminds me of a story one of my brothers told me. When he was a paramedic his partner and him got a call to some dude's house one night. The guy had stuck a billiard ball up his ass and it got stuck. So the genius decides to take a wooden cooking spoon and dig it out. The spoon snapped and the splintered end punctured his rectum. They had to take him in to get surgery to seal the wound and retrieve the ball and spoon remnants from his ass.

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That is the funniest story ever

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A study done by researchers at Brigham and Women?s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston was published in the January 16, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine reported on the high number of surgical tools left inside patients during surgery.

The study on medical mistakes found that operating room teams around the country leave sponges, clamps and other tools inside about 1,500 patients every year, largely because of stress from emergencies or complications discovered during surgery. The researchers checked insurance records from about 800,000 operations in Massachusetts for 16 years ending in 2001. They counted 61 forgotten pieces of surgical equipment in 54 patients. From that, they calculated a national estimate of 1,500 cases yearly. A total of $3 million was paid out in the Massachusetts cases, mostly in settlements.

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