Had a friend that was a NYC Health and Hospital officer at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan in the 1980's and 90's. He told me among the staff they had converted a secure linen closet into a makeshift private staff museum of what they had removed from patients both internally and rectally through one sort of medical intervention or another. They even gave VIP tours to visiting medical doctors and psychiatrists. Among the "artifacts" were individual standouts removed from stomachs such as $57 dollars in loose change, various assortments of nuts, bolts, screws, and washers that weighed 9 lbs, a near complete flatware service for 12, and various other objects, utensils, and oddities. Some objects were displayed in glass jars with formaldehyde. Most had a date of removal written on medical tape affixed to them. The "anal canal" collection included assorted metal, wooden, plastic, and perishable items and objects, various vibrators and dildos, multiple gerbils and hamster to include the occasional Habitrail tube or accessory, and various sized balls including at least one regulation sized soft ball. You just can't make this stuff up, people do some really strange stuff to themselves and others. Although some were removed from mental patient's stomachs, the vast majority of back door items were removed from the general public walk in or emergency room patients.
