The 25-year-old veteran was lifting a packing box when he suddenly felt everything "let loose" in his stomach. When he lay down he didn't feel so bad, but the minute he stood up, the old feeling came back. At the Chicago hospital, he complained of severe, knifelike pains in the abdomen.
When the doctors operated for what they felt certain was complicated umbilical hernia, they were amazed to find that the patient's self-diagnosis of "knifelike" pains had been literally accurate: there was actually a nine-inch table knife in his sigmoid. the curve of the...
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