November 18th, 2022
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Found a baseball in a guys lung…. Wtf??
While dissecting a cadaver the other day I sliced open the late man’s lung and we found a decaying baseball. Thought we were being pranked or something but the supervisor was just as confused as us. Sometimes this med school stuff just makes me go WTF…..
November 18th, 2022
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Sexcellence
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BoobRockets
OP, in the event you are able to show it was definitely a baseball, please write a case study and title it aspergillosis vs retained bronchial baseball.
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funklab
Nobody's ever going to believe it without video of someone cutting open the lung.
Because you know... there's literally no way a baseball could get into a lung without immediately causing death. Are we supposed to believe the donor inhaled the baseball? Or was it intentionally surgically implanted into the lung then the donor was sewn up and went about his/her life? Are we supposed to believe that someone hit a baseball really, really hard, hard enough to puncture the chest wall and lodge directly in the lung, but not hard enough for that massive trauma to kill the patient... and then the patient just shrugged it off and didn't seek medical attention and let it heal up on it's own?
It's an entertaining story by OP, but it can't be an accurate one.
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BoobRockets
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em_goldman
No he inhaled a baseball seed as a lad and it grew in his lung
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LuciusDickusMaximus
I’m just as perplexed. The current theory among my group is that he had it implanted in there because the guy wanted to express that he “lived and breathed baseball.” A humorous speculation, yes, but nothing else makes any sense
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BoobRockets
Don’t offer to post a picture, you will get in tons of trouble for that. The med school equivalent is a research paper. My school encouraged us to write up cases of interesting anatomy. I would legit try to publish your results if I were you. Would be great resume fodder for interviews. Will anyone believe you? The entire academic research industry is about random trust in people so just get a semi-reputable professor to put their name on it.
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3dprintingn00b
Science is about reproducible results. OP has to inhale a baseball
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Liamlah
The ol' Barry Marshal method
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Liamlah
In first year I really wanted to 'check in' on FB to the cadaver lab and caption it "Cracking open a cold one with the boys" But even that, without pictures, I thought the better of.
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A hoax? Like fake corpse?
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funklab
I respect your dedication to this ridiculous story.
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Ketamate
Interestingly enough OP also is the youngest Rhodes Scholar and is starting their own law firm...
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jgiffin
They’ve also gone back and forth from being male and female several times. Multiple different wives and husbands in the process.
What a life OP has lived!
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Svlad_Cjelli
Apparently it’s a communal account, according to the description on their page. I choose to believe this story is true, for the reason that I want it to be.
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Ketamate
Oh neat, I didnt know that was a thing
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nbm2021
Talk about a swing and a miss
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I made the horrible mistake of googling what an aspergilloma looks like during our infectious disease block in M1, and I think you'd be correct. It looks exactly like a shriveled, wet, decaying baseball. I strongly suspect this is what OP found.
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piind
Ive never seen an aspergilloma with Rawlings written on the side of it
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LuciusDickusMaximus
It definitely was a baseball. We did think it was just something like an aspergilloma at first but after cleaning it off as much as we could you could see the stitching and perfect roundness of the baseball. I’ll ask if I can post a picture, not sure if my uni looks kindly upon that
Turbofat
Lying sack of shit lol
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jotaechalo
Yeah, OP shouldn’t have commented, the lie is better preserved when you don’t have to try to have medical knowledge.
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Time_Bedroom4492
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Casual_Luchador
Sounds like something my dad would say when he got sick of buying me baseballs (I kept inhaling them)
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TheCryingCatheter
Absolutely sick how ungrateful todays youth is
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reflective_marbles
Like oyster pearls!
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Waja_Wabit
Doctor: “I’m afraid you only have 2 months to live.”
Old man: “I’d like to donate my body. Help contribute to medical education by becoming an anatomy cadaver.”
Doctor: “That can be arranged.”
Old man: “Oh, and a request. A prank I think would be really funny.”
Doctor: “How can I help?”
Old man: tossing baseball “Do you know any good thoracic surgeons?”
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no_go_away22
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epyon-
yeah. what is the purpose of this type of account?
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Tiny-Ad-4747
It's not inconceivable that a baseball plombage could have been attempted many decades ago. One option that was sometimes used was ping pong balls.
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starblazer18
That would be wild
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lheritier1789
What the FUCK surgeons are crazy
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bestill46102
Was going to post about the ping pong balls. But you beat me to it. I bet this is what happened
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jungfolks
Wow, that’s a lot of ping pong balls! Very interesting
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