There's always time for lubricant!

For those not brave enough to click on jazzamac’s link, I’ll just leave this quote here for your amusement;

“…needles, pencils, ball point pens, pen lids, garden wire, copper wire, speaker wire, safety pins, Allen keys, wire-like objects (telephone cables, rubber tubes, feeding tubes, straws, string), toothbrushes, household batteries, light bulbs, marbles, cotton tip swabs, plastic cups, thermomethers, plants and vegetables (carrot, cucumber, beans, hay, bamboo sticks, grass leaves), parts of animals (leeches, squirrel tail, snakes, bones), toys, pieces of latex gloves, blue tack, Intrauterine Contraceptive devices (IUCD), tampons, pessaries, powders (cocaine), fluids (glue, hot wax).”

It made the Daily Mail.

I know Canberra isn’t exciting, but having to resort to sticking cutlery up your Jap’s for fun is a bit extreme by anyone’s standard.

This fad will soon pass.

Some tynes you have to wonder what is prong with some people…

Jezuz man, just take viagra. Fork is old school for a reason.

re: consent

I have had another thought. The patient gave consent for the article to be published in a medical journal. He might be a little surprised that it has turned up in his local newspaper.

The concept of “informed consent” is an interesting one, as often the research subject has no idea what they are letting themselves in for (i.e. it wasn’t really “informed”), and in this case even the doctors may not have predicted the story would go viral (or “feral”, as someone said to me yesterday).

IP

johnboy said :

Well he’s gone global now:

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=d3Ni2EPrLbMn8SMwgQn4hXPRaC1CM&q=International+Journal+of+Surgery+Cases&lr=English&hl=en

May as well book it on Letterman.

I can’t wait for the movie. No, hang on, I can wait for the movie. No that sounds wrong too. I have no interest at all in the movie.

IP

Wily_Bear said :

Isn’t anyone else even slightly perturbed that the hospital released this information? Even though they haven’t identified him, what possible reason was there to make this public? One can only surmise it was to titilate rather than educate.

Hope the poor fella hasn’t done any permanent damage.

No, not perturbed. Medical journals are full of case studies, and it is a valid scientific research method. If you check the actual journal article (link supplied by someone else earlier) you will find that the patient gave consent for the article to be published.

If it was to titillate the journal article would have been headlined “Dickhead sticks fork in dick head” rather than “AN UNUSUAL URETHRAL FOREIGN BODY”. Other doctors around the world will now have a better idea of how to remove voluntarily or accidentally inserted “foreign bodies”.

The Canberra Times’ reason for reporting the article is another matter altogether. But there is an element of “public interest” – is this really what we want our hospitals doing, removing foreign objects inserted for sexual gratification? Haven’t they better things to be doing? Maybe he or other people can be shamed into being a little less dangerously daft. Or shamed into taking out health insurance so that the Little Company of Mary hospitals get do the operation, hopefully with a mandatory preoperative lecture from a nun.

The fact he gave consent is more perturbing. He may be getting a buzz out of the publicity, maybe thinking up his next challenge.

IP

Well he’s gone global now:

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=d3Ni2EPrLbMn8SMwgQn4hXPRaC1CM&q=International+Journal+of+Surgery+Cases&lr=English&hl=en

May as well book it on Letterman.

He asked his wife for a f*ck but she thought he said fork.