(not a medical professional) A young person in my life recently had her wisdom teeth yanked. When she came to, she accused the nurse of stealing her tongue. Her mom and the nurse just laughed.

After getting hernia repair surgery I semi-consciously yelled at the nurses about my clothes:


Me: "MY PANTS. WHERE ARE THEY."

Nurse: "Sir, they're next to the -"


Me: "TAKE ME TO THE ROOM WHERE YOU'RE KEEPING MY PANTS."


Nurse: "They're right over -"


Me: "MY PANTS WOMAN. GOOD GOD.".

I sang 'you are my sunshine' at the top of my lungs while being wheeled into the recovery room after my knee surgery. My dad, along with my (now ex) husband could hear me clear across the other end of the hallway, even through the snickers and giggles of the nurses. The surgeon still calls me sunshine when we see each other around town.

After getting her wisdom teeth out, my cousin was having a difficult time waking from the anesthetics. She apparently knocked the pad of paper out of the nurse's hand and said, 'You need to write on a whiteboard, save the trees. SAVE THE TREES, WOMAN."

While getting my wisdom teeth out - I found out I asked all 5 female dental assistants to marry me. To try and seal the deal, I did the splits in the dentist chair and told them "Flexible redheads make good [love]".

I'm also 100% gay.

I was getting a tooth extracted and was really nervous. The dentist said he'd turn the gas up and I'd just fall asleep, then it would be over.

I still remember asking him if he liked chicken and dumpling soup.
Him: "It's delicious, and why do you ask?"
...
Me: "Because that is what I look like [undressed]! Pale and lumpy!"

I had a lump removed from my [chest] a few years ago. The table they had me on was shaped like a T, so my arms were outstretched. As I was passing out, I said to the nurses, "I feel like Jesus." They had to tell me about it when I awoke.

Had a guy start shouting that he loved me, then became super worried and started whispering, “*But don’t tell my wife...*”

Unfortunately, she was holding his hand.

After my endoscopy, my surgeon said I was loudly singing some song in another language and made the nurses laugh. Confused, as I only speak English, I asked what language it was. He said French....and then I remembered that in high school, I had memorized the French National Anthem for extra credit and had performed it with much aplomb in front of my history class (and apparently to the post-surgery team as well).

Im not a doctor but my sister was under and said "make this quick, I need to get back to my unicorn before the vortex closes".

Any incline sleeper device. Fisher Price recalled their rock and play devices, which I think we're the most popular brand of this. But that's any sort of swing or bassinet that's at an incline that's marketed in any way that a baby can sleep in it. And that's just bad because the American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP has recommended for years babies sleep on a flat surface parallel to the ground. Because they don't have the neck strength when they're newborns, such that if they're sleeping at an angle their heads can tilt forward and they don't have the neck strength to lift it up. And that can close their airway off. Urban cases of asphyxia, asphyxiation, and death. Or if they roll to the side, same concept. They can't roll back, tilt towards center.

As a medical malpractice lawyer, I literally see the worst of the worst. But one of the most common and scariest and most concerning cases I see is what we call a lack of informed consent. And basically all that means is that somebody underwent a surgery or a procedure, and the surgeon did not inform the patient of all of the risks of the surgery or the severity or permanence of the risks. And the best example I can give you is spine surgery, where somebody goes in for a spine surgery that carries a risk of paralysis, meaning that even if everything is done perfectly fine, there's still a risk that during the surgery, you could come out paralyzed. But the doctor doesn't tell the patient that before the surgery. And the patient, not knowing that, signs off on the surgery. This happens way more than you would think. And you're actually entitled to be compensated legally if that happens to you. Even if the doctor wasn't necessarily negligent during the surgery and there was a known risk because they didn't tell you about the risk.