Mr L Presents to the Clinic with Severe Groin Pain

Mr. L presents to the clinic with severe groin pain and a history of kidney stones. Mr. L's son tells you that for religious reasons, his father wishes to keep any stone that is passed into the urine filter that he has been using. What is your most appropriate response?

A) "With your father's permission, we will examine the stone and request that it be returned to him."
B) "The stone must be sent to the lab for examination and therefore cannot be kept."
C) "We cannot let him keep his stone because it violates our infection control policy."
D) "We don't know yet if your father has another kidney stone, so we must analyze this one."
E) "I have found it unwise to make these kinds of individual exceptions to hospital procedure."