Doctors have removed this 15-centimetre leach from the windpipe of a five-year-old girl. The incident took place when the girl, who has not been named, was admitted to the Paediatrics Department of Wenshan People's Hospital on Monday 30th May. Her family had at first thought that she was suffering from…
This is the moment doctors remove a huge seed stuck in a 77-year-old man's throat after he sucked it down while snacking on fruit. The patient - named only as Zhu by local media in the city of Quzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province - had been tucking into an…
A baby girl who risked dying because her oesophagus stopped before reaching her stomach has been saved by doctors. Erva Kaya was born to first-time parents Murat Kaya, 27, and Ilknur Kaya, 26, in Samsun, northern Turkey. But Erva risked dying after doctors found she was born with an oesophagus…
A man who swallowed a pair of spectacle arms for a bet had to beg doctors to remove them four years later. The prankster - named only as Mr Li in Chinese media - had been too embarrassed to approach doctors after gulping down the arms on a drunken night…
A former jailbird is suing prison officials after claiming that his leg had to be amputated when doctors refused to treat an ulcer on his heel. One-time inmate Clayton McCray, 27, says the medics not only refused to treat him but they confiscated his wheelchair too, worsening the condition. It…
