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X-rays reveal everyday objects found in patients’ bodies

Emergency room physicians often find the strangest things on X-rays when patients come in with breathing pain, gastrointestinal upset, or a tender abdomen. Now we can see them, too, in a new book called Stuck Up! -- a compilation of 100 wacky images of objects inserted, swallowed, or inhaled by patients who were seen at various hospital emergency rooms in Western Massachusetts.

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