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Katie Dollard & Julia Banim

Doctor stumped over mystery of coin found inside patient - that had been there for years

A doctor has opened up about some of the most unusual finds he's come across in the course of his career - including a penny lodged inside a patient's bottom.

Benjamin Schmidt, best known to TikTok followers as Doc Schmidt, claimed he had been carrying out a colonoscopy on a patient with a history of colon cancer, a procedure which is pretty routine in his line of work.

After checking that the cancer hadn’t returned, Doc Schmidt thankfully found the patient's passage to be healthy. However, it was then that he spotted a flash of silver.

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