Patients Get Bottles, Cell Phones, Buzz Light year Stuck Inside

Author: CARRIE GANN (@carrie_gann) 

One winter night, Dr. Melissa Barton was the attending physician in the emergency department of the Detroit Medical Center. Making her rounds, she picked up a chart for a new patient and read the woman's chief complaint: "eye in the vagina."

The patient told Barton she had been expecting a fight with some neighbors outside her house. Wearing only a sweatshirt and spandex pants, she needed somewhere to stow her prosthetic eye for safe-keeping.

"Those things are pretty expensive and hard to replace," Barton said. "So that's where it went, along with her driver's license."

Unfortunately, it got stuck.

Dr. Gary Vilke, a professor of clinical emergency medicine at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, saw a patient who had four Barbie doll heads stuck in his rectum.

"When you looked at his x-ray, they were looking at you, like a totem pole," Vilke said. 

Apple founding contract fetches $1.5 million at auction

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 sold at auction on Tuesday for $1.59 million, 10 times its estimated price, two months after the death of high-profile co-founder Steve Jobs.

The contract, sold with another document that removed one of the company's initial three partners after just 11 days, was the subject of fierce bidding by six people taking part in the auction over the telephone and online, Sotheby's said.

Eduardo Cisneros, chief executive officer of Cisneros Corporation bought the documents, which had only been expected to fetch up to $150,000 at its auction of books and manuscripts in New York.

The contract established the Apple Computer Company and states that Jobs and Steve Wozniak would each be given 45 percent of Apple's shares. Ronald Wayne, who drafted the contract, was given 10 percent.

But within days, Wayne had decided not be become involved with the fledgling technology company. Wayne was paid $800, and later another $1,500, and was released from the contract. His 10 percent share would today be worth $2 billion.

Wayne sold the documents to a private collector in 1994.

Jobs left Apple in 1984 following a power struggle with the company's board of directors but returned to the company in 1996. He would become the central figure in transforming Apple into one of the world's largest and most envied companies.

Jobs died on October 5 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; editing by Patricia Reaney)

Damien Hirst to show his Spots worldwide

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British artist Damien Hirst, who sold a collection of works for a record $200 million in 2008, will be display his iconic Spot paintings at Gagosian galleries around the world in January, the gallery said on Tuesday.

The exhibition entitled "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011," will be shown simultaneously in all 11 Gagosian galleries around the world, including locations in New York, London, Athens, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. It is the first time the gallery has dedicated all locations to showing one body of work by one artist at the same time.

Hirst, 46, who received the Turner prize in 1995 for an exhibit featuring a pickled cow, is a leading member of the Young British Artists movement along with Tracey Emin, a group noted for their artistic shock tactics during the 1990s.

The spot paintings are a collection of works incorporating multicolored dots on canvases and collages in a variety of contexts and sizes, and are among Hirst's most recognizable collections.

"The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" exhibit will include about 200 works including loans from museums and collectors, with less than third up for sale, according to a report in the New York Times.

The exhibition will run between January 12 and February 18 2012, and will precede the first major museum retrospective of Hirst's work, opening at the Tate Modern gallery in London in April next year.

(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)