ELi5: Why no poisoning when doctor leaves bullet inside you?

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ELi5: Why no poisoning when doctor leaves bullet inside you?

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>ELi5: Why no poisoning when doctor leaves bullet inside you?

There are no poisoned bullets (with [rare exceptions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov)).

There’s always a risk of infection, of course, if a lot of other foreign material is pushed into the body by the entering bullet. But whether or not there is an infection is trivial to determine and if there isn’t one and removing the bullet would involve risky procedures then it’s a reasonable course of action not to remove it.