Sorry I had to blur two of the surgical images due to KZfaq's content policy. Check out these links to see the original images from the published medical cases! 7:07 (chopsticks): bmcsurg.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12893-019-0594-5 9:23 (fish bone): www.cmaj.ca/content/183/8/925.full

It's a good thing they did an X-ray....If it was an MRI with Sponge Bob..they would have gotten it back without surgery

The pen story was wild! This was all super interesting. I’m a vet tech in an animal ER so we see this stuff daily (usually dogs - they find the weirdest things to eat). It’s almost always surgery to get the object out. So interesting what they do in human medicine! Also cool tip on the button battery! I learned something new :)

Thank you for including the case references in the description.

Is THAT where all my socks have gone!?

As a critical care nurse I really appreciate your amazing videos! Awesome!!😃👍

Thanks Violin MD. your videos are not only educational but pretty fun to watch. It answers a lot of our hidden medical questions.... like what happens when u swallow magnet!!!

Dr. Deshauer, can you play Cello?

I love how you used the Friends couch scene to prove a point. That’s one of my favorite episodes.

Dr. Deshauer, I hope you and Dr. Mark are fine! Missing your videos!❤

Love medical mysteries? Watch this next - one simple dietary mistake that destroyed this woman's legs and sent her to the emergency department! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ob6mmryLyrrHcZs.html

Wow! The button battery! 😮 Mind Blown!

These case studies are a great way to learn about anatomy and physiology.

Putting in mouth by kiddos is not a kid thing 😂

Really enjoy these videos. You have a great way of presenting the information, helping us understand it without an lot of "doc-speak". The marker in the belly for all of those years was incredible! Thank you and keep it going!

Great case presentations/discussions, all translated from doctorese to English. Her enthusiasm is contagious. Kudos from this (retired) endocrinologist. Keep up the great work!

Ooooooooooooh; Whos stuck in the trachea, unable to move? _SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!_

Thank you! This was great content, as always. Years ago my friend was having dental work and the dentist dropped a drill bit in her throat. She reflexively swallowed it. After many days of daily X-rays, she passed it naturally!

A lot of these things are true of our pets too. Which actually makes me think a collab with a vet somehow could be interesting

When you mentioned giving a child who swallowed a button battery honey, I immediately posted that on Facebook. This is a GREAT tip for parents!

‘Doctors shouldn’t dismiss patients stories’ THANK YOU!!!!

Excellent video! My friend’s child swallowed a plastic button once and the doctors kept telling her it didn’t happen as it wasn’t showing up on the X-rays. Well, she was proved right when the button ended up in the diaper a few days later. 🤣

Putting in mouth is what children are made of a standard kiddo thing 😂

I love how you made a video on this topic that was so positive and informative. I’m a mum and I’ve been terrified of my children swallowing button batteries ever since it was highlighted as a significant issue in our ante-natal class. Too many babies have been lost from that. It was nice to watch a video on this topic that empowers people with knowledge rather than depresses us with awfully sad stories. Love your work ❤

Years ago I tried to get someone to stop using wire bbq brushes due to the frightening accidents of them “hanging” around on bbq racks. Scared stuff! Scoffed at me and has never stopped using them

What a relief ! I thought poor Spongebob ended up as a contraceptive !

I love your insight and passion. I learn so much from you! ❤

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Dr. Siobhan I could watch your videos forever, I absolutely love and cherish my time spent on your channel, I just want you to know that I think you’re such a fantastic human and I get so excited to see new content. I always learn so much, some stuff I already know and confirms my knowledge. I also work in healthcare but it’s so fascinating to learn how doctors assess and diagnose medically.

😂 Siobhan! You're so funny! Another phenomenal video! 💗

*I* once swallowed a swallow. And then thrust a thrush down.

Gotta love these medical mysteries ❤. Thanks, Siobhan, for putting the case reference in the description 🫡

Never a dull moment in your line of work.....hope all is well..thank you for all you do🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Love a good Saturday morning medical mystery! Good stuff as always, Siobhan!

Wow, I had no idea about the button battery! I always learn so much from you. Thank you, Siobhan! 😍

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

You are such an incredible storyteller, i love your videos!

Wow, Dr. S. This is an incredible video. So many things happen. This brings awareness to all. Thank you for this and all of these videos.

Many years ago, while visiting Cape Cod, I was told the following story: a man was in the ER because he had a large zucchini stuck up his butt. After it was removed and the man was waiting for his ride home, the doctor put his arm around him and said, “Young man, you have to learn to chew your vegetables more thoroughly.”

Thanks Once Again For The GREAT Content !!!

Love your videos and potentially life saving tips!

I have watched several of your videos, and it’s clear you are an amazing young lady. Dr.,! Oh, how we need doctors like you.

"So I decided to do a little experiment. I swallowed a battery". LOL

Please more content on strange microbial infections and parasites. It is so fun to watch.

I love it when I get a notice that you have a new video 😊

I can't get over the creative use of stock video in this one 😂

Fish bones are scary stuff, they can be extremely sharp and at the same time elastic enough to find the path of least resistance through your soft tissues once they perforate. There was a story a while back about a person that had a fish bone perforate through the back of his throat and into his spinal column, causing an abscess inside his spine that then led to a brain infection.

We had a severely autistic teenager present to the emergency department with constipation. One of my colleagues was relieving the constipation with an enema and didn’t really understand what she was seeing when she got results. It turns out the poor kid had been eating pieces of foam from her school bus seat for maybe a month or two. Nobody knew how bad it would and didn’t figure anything out until she was in the ER.

Really fascinating, thank you for sharing these stories.

This video really pushed my boundaries for squeamishness, but it was still really interesting. Looking forward to your next one!

Such an awesome video! Educational and fun to watch!

Thank you for the great content!

What are the death rates of swallowing foreign objects in Canada? A most intriguing episode; thanks!

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Gosh! These are fascinating stories, but terrifying 😅

Very intriguing video. Thank you for sharing.

If this video doesn't make you more diligent, I don't know what will. Great!

Not long ago we were at a friends dinner, it was a takeout meal and one of the guests found a barbecue brush bristle in her meal!! Good thing she didn't swallow it!!

You're so close to 1 million subscribers!!!!

Quite frankly, I love these medical mysteries because they are very thought provoking and educating. However they are also very shocking, I mean, come on, I would have never imagined someone swallowing a chopstick! Personally I love the story of the man who hiccupped for 3 years straight. Like, obviously that is really bad and I would not like that in the slightest however it is very fascinating and I am still absolutely shocked to hear that actually happened. Anyway Siobhan, you are awesome and keep up the absolutely amazing work!!!

Great video - thank you!

the doctor who chose not to immediately remove a needle made a huge mistake. such a sharp object is guaranteed to perforate the bowels. the odds of this not requiring surgery were extremely small from the beginning, and it could have easily gone much worse.

Love your videos!❤❤

Ur such a well spoken

one of my friends from grade school has a son who recently swallowed a thumb tack. Fortunately, his bowels are fine and the thumb tack made it's natural exit without any further issues.

I work in X-ray and I feel like I have to constantly remind doctors than plastic, glass and wood don’t show up on X-ray. I routinely ask the parents what we’re looking for before imaging and most of the time it’s some kind of plastic. Or people who step on glass will have X-rays ordered… but unless it’s old leaded glass, nothing will show. BUT you do need the X-ray first to be cleared for MRI for most unknown foreign bodies anyway.

Can u make video on Shingles Virus

Keep it going! Very nice video format!

What a perfect time to watch this video 😅😂

I put a patient to sleep years ago for a thoracotomy. He had a tumor, thought to be cancer, in his right lung. When the pathologist revealed what the frozen section was; it turned out not to be a tumor, but a small gear shift knob! There were no scars on his chest due to a vehicular accident. We were all amazed with the "diagnosis"! This happened 50 years ago, and I remember it like yesterday! Imagine going under anesthesia for lung cancer and then waking up and being told your tumor turned out to be a gear shift knob! Wow!

1. Plastic objects don't always show up on X-rays 2. Don't dismiss unlikely stories But you forgot #3...Don't poke at your tonsils with a pen!! 😋

Hi Violin MD, I am a big fan of yours and the videos you produce. One question will will post more videos of you playing your Violin either solo or alongside other musicians please😀😀👍👍

I work with mentally disabled people and I have heard about 2 clients who are foreign objects. One was swallowing spoons and did it over and over again and the other one is eating everything: smokes,dirt,grass, stones,…

Save my boy Bob 🙏😢

Excellent presentation - now I really need to find my toothbrush!

Bruh what they do to Spongebob

It was such a thrill back when you announced you were going to be a rheumatologist. When will you post some RA stories? I was diagnosed with RA in 1987 and recently, rheumatoid vasculitis.

I might still have a plastic reel from an audio cassette in me. I know I swallowed one as a kid, and never noticed it come out again.

Hello Doctor.all your videos are so great we can learn alot about our health.your videos are very educational.i always enjoy watching all your videos.

A phone! I can’t even swallow pills !!

It makes one wonder what happened to all that chewing gum some of us swallowed when we were kids.

very fun entertaining video

My sister babysat a little guy who was somewhere around 3 years old at the time. He was having a lot of sinus problems, so his parents took him to the doctor. They found a tumor in little man's sinus cavity. His parents were very worried it would turn out to be malignant. After surgical removal, the tumor was sent for pathology. It turned out to be a Barbie shoe that had been encapsulated by tissue over time.

This video has challenged some assumptions I held about the role that young age/toddlerhood plays in swallowing random inedible objects.

Swallowing a cell phone would almost certainly void your warranty. ("Stomach acid *is liquid damage, ma'am. Also, ew.")

I once got a kinked feeding tube stuck in my esophagus. The J portion of my GJ tube migrated from my jejunum to my esophagus during a vomiting episode and got lodged there, while being folded over on itself. It was barely visible on an x-ray. I was admitted to the hospital from the ER. I was in excruciating pain, but it was the night before Thanksgiving, and Interventional Radiology wasn’t available due to the holiday. The doctors left the tube there for 36 hours before IR took it out. I’ve never forgiven them for disregarding my pain and leaving it there so long.

Chopstick dare: sword swallowing... but not long enough and no good handle, so, "oops" in it goes!

Really annoying how youtube wont let the images of internal organs be shown.

Old pens were made to high quality, apparently...

We need uncut version 😮

Nice information

On a related note, the author, Sherwood Anderson actually died from peritonitis, after he swallowed a toothpick, while drinking a martini, which perforated his intestine.

When I had my gastric bypass surgery they found something really interesting in my abdomen wall. They found a whole toothpick that I swallowed but didn't know it and it perforated through my stomach and was laying in my abdomen wall fully intact and I didn't have any symptoms before hand

I once swallowed my bottom dental retainer. Spent a total of 3 weeks in the hospital.

Those wire brushes should not be sold any longer! I’ve read too many stories about the pieces of those brushes coming off and getting into food. There are other kinds you can buy that are safe.

When I was about 7 I invented a magic trick. I showed my dad that I put a penny in a glass of water, then drank the water. My plan was to catch the penny in my mouth and later show that I magically had it in my hand. This all went according to plan except that I randomly coughed on the water. My dad, thinking I was choking, freaked out and grabbed me by the ankles holding me upside-down and shaking me until I finally convinced him I was fine.

I love the show Monsters Inside Me and boy there are so many horror stories about button batteries and grill brush bristles. Be careful folks

My uncle was having abdominal pain & thought he had a kidney stone, as he gets them often. Went to the dr & nope, it was a small bullet that was in the deer meat he had eaten the day before! Needless to say, he chews his food thoroughly now.

Hi 👋 😊

Hi Shoban, so what should the doctors use to see plastic or wood in the body? My child swallowed a sharp lego. I took him to the ER. He got X-rays and the lego wasn’t seen on the X-rays. The doctor wasn’t concerned but I never seen the Lego in his bowel movements for the times that I did check.