California doctor removes huge needle from boy’s foot
- Dr Michael Lewis, from California, takes out sewing pin from a 16-year-old’s foot
- He had stepped on the needle and the top of it broke and became embedded
- It took about 40 minutes for the medic to dissect the foot and locate the needle
- Dr Lewis recently popped a woman’s armpit abscess which exploded with pus
Claudia Tanner For Mailonline
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A doctor has been filmed removing a three-inch needle from a patient’s foot in a gruesome bloody video.
Dr Michael Lewis captured the moment he pulled a sewing pin from the 16-year-old boy.
The teenager needed medical help after stepping on the needle and the top of it broke off and embedded deeply under his skin.
In the excruciating to watch footage, Dr Lewis, who runs a clinic in Woodland Hills, California, dissects the patient’s foot before removing the pin in what he calls a ‘fishing expedition’.
‘A young man stepped on a sewing pin about and a half to three inches long,’ he said.
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Dr Michael Lewis filmed himself pulling a sewing pin from the 16-year-old boy’s foot
The patient had stood on the pin and the top had come off, causing it get ‘lost’
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‘The ball that sits on the top of the needle broke off and the needle embedded within the foot.
‘After a long dissection and fishing expedition I was able to remove the needle completely. All tendons remained intact and family was quite happy.’
Dr Lewis had to take an X-ray to help him locate the foreign object – yet it still took a while to find.
‘The pin was two to three inches long and It took about 40 minutes to find,’ he explained.
Dr Lewis slices open the boy’s foot to fish for the lost needle which took 40 minutes to find
He stitches the patient back up after finding the three-inch hpin
‘I wasn’t able to grab it and pull it out so I had to make an incision on top of the foot eventually and push it through.
‘I have always enjoyed performing procedures – It is one of my favorite things to do. I perform multiple procedure weekly from simple things like cleaning out ear wax and joint injections to removal of masses on the skin.
‘Nothing bothers me too much as far as procedures go, however if the smell is bad, it can be really tough.’
A few weeks ago, Dr Lewis had to carry out a rather foul-smelling procedure when he drained a large abscess from a woman’s armpit and it exploded with red and brown pus.
GRUESOME FOOTAGE SHOWS A WOMAN’S HUGE ARMPIT ABSCESS EXPLODING WITH PUS
Previous footage from Dr Michael Lewis emerged of a patient getting a huge, infected abscess on her armpit drained – and there was lots of pus.
The unnamed woman winces and screams as he pops the painful, delicate area.
As the physician takes a scalpel and makes an incision in her right armpit, he tells her she shouldn’t feel any pain.
And as soon as he slices into the flesh, runny red liquid comes gushing out, which the doctor collects in a plastic bag.
Viewers can hear the woman let out a sigh of relief as Dr Lewis exclaims ‘It doesn’t smell very good’.
He then takes a stab at another area with some surgical scissors, where thicker, reddy-brown pus oozes out. ‘Fat abscess!’ he announces.
But the woman, clearly in pain, starts to shake and bang her limbs on the table she’s lying on to deal with the pain as Dr Lewis injects more anaesthetic.
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