funkee
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i thought this could be fake until i saw that it was published (and therefore likely well-vetted) by NEJM. I'm mostly surprised how it could come out so intact enough to be able to see its true shape.
I call this fake. If it was not fake, they would have interviewed the nurse. Those doctors don't spend 1 minute at the bedside unless they are ED doctors or surgeons explaining a procedure to obtain consent. Let's stop the BS.
Where is the nurse that collected thois specimen? Why was it never picked up on a chest X Ray or a CT angio chest? I need to know those answers.
Also, if that was in his lungs, that's a deadly Pulmonary embolism. It could have collapsed the whole lung for all I care.
I definitely need more receipts
NEJM is not a fake journal at all. How do you know how much time doctors spend at bedside? We can spend 30 min to 1 hr at bedside (or longer) when needed depending on the complexity of patient. And a pulmonary embolism occurs in the pulmonary arteries or their branches. this was in the pulmonary bronchus (offshoot/branch of the trachea) and distal branches, not in the arterial system. Not necessarily deadly; it would act similar to a mucus plug and cause potential lung collapse as you say depending on how quickly it formed. Stop your own BS and don't speak so easily on things you are not well-educated enough to understand.
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