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"Hospitals in the Halifax area are seeing at least one or two cases each week" Wow - that's an incredible rate - I wonder what the national statistics are like
by josefresco 9y ago
"Hospitals in the Halifax area are seeing at least one or two cases each week"
Wow - that's an incredible rate - I wonder what the national statistics are like?
- Emma_Goldman 9y agoHow are these things not banned? If something is sold for casual private use that predictably leads to hundreds of people having metal barbs stuck in their throat every year, and if the procedure to extract those barbs is sufficiently difficult that it has become recognised as a national problem among surgeons, then there seems to be pretty good grounds for banning it. As this thread attests, there are plenty of alternatives.
- josefresco 9y agoThey've been selling these for years - if the rates of failure are so high I don't understand why we haven't heard more about it. Puzzling.