Not so funny joke of the day...

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Excerpt from an HSI Newsletter:

Based on a recent case report about a UK woman, we now know two things:

1) If you swallow a felt-tip pen, it may not show up on an x-ray

2) If you say you've swallowed a felt-tip pen, nobody is going to believe you

Twenty-five years ago a British woman was checking her tonsils with a mirror and

a felt-tip pen. According to an NPR report, " She slipped and the pen went down

her throat. "

X-rays taken at the time didn't show a pen, so nobody believed she actually

swallowed it.

Years later, when the woman developed unexplained diarrhea and weight loss, a CT

scan exam revealed the pen. Doctors removed it to prevent bowel perforation.

And the kicker: Yes, the pen still worked. A write-up in the British Medical

Journal includes a photo of the pen and a note written with the pen: " Hello. "

In BMJ, the doctors concluded, " Occasionally it may be worth believing the

patient's account however unlikely it may be. "