A hospital worker had difficulty believing a woman who said that she had accidentally swallowed a toothbrush, the doctor who removed the item said on Wednesday.
Tsai Yuan-jung (蔡元榮), a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Pingtung Christian Hospital, said that the attending nurse asked the woman to repeat her problem several times, thinking that she had misheard her.
“The whole toothbrush?” the nurse had asked, Tsai said.
The woman told medical staff that she accidentally swallowed the object while brushing her teeth in a daze having woken up early that morning.
She reported pain in her chest, the hospital said, adding that it withheld the