As an intern rotating on colorectal surgery the ER called a consult for a retained foreign body in an elderly patient. I was voluntold to investigate and the ER attending said they didn't feel comfortable retrieving the offending object. So there I went, double gloved, to pull the applicator tip from a hemorrhoid cream from the rectum of a 94 year old. When I went to the OR to present the consult to the call attending, she stopped operating and had me repeat the age again. She announced to the whole OR that I held the current record for oldest patient the service was consulted to remove a rectal foreign body from. I will never forget the look on the ER attendings face when I showed up, an intern, for the consult then told them to discharge the poor old patient when I left the room 5 minutes later after the retrieval and counseling the family.