In residency at OHSU, there is one xray posted up on the wall when we go down to clamor for radiology results or beg the radiology techs to get our person in sooner.
It is a plain film of a child, a chest xray. You can see the wee turtle quite clearly in the child's esophagus.
That child is quite lucky that it is not in his trachea. The story that makes the rounds is that gastroenterology takes the child to the operating room and retrieves the turtle with an endoscope. The story is that they both live, though the parents give the turtle to a new home.
I hope it is true.