Don’t let a splinter get out of hand — a California ER doctor is sharing his simple removal hack. Dr. Joe Whittington, who goes by Dr. Joe on TikTok, recommends getting a clean, unused ...

Helpful Hint: New ideas for removing splinters When my 3-year-old came home from preschool with a splinter in two of his fingers, I immediately turned the tweezers over to my husband.

That brief tug was transformed into a surgical billing code: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 10120, “incision and removal of a foreign body, subcutaneous” — at a cost of $414.