Doctor’s handy life hack frees child’s trapped tongue
They were under pressure to uncork the case
It’s not often that wine and paediatric emergency medicine pair well together — unless it’s w(h)ine, which I’m sure this patient would have done had he not had his tongue trapped firmly inside a glass juice bottle.
At first, the seven-year-old’s parents had tried to free their son by pulling and twisting the object but, with no luck, presented to an ED in Germany an hour later.