We've all been to a hospital at least a couple of times in our lives, and those visits are never, never pleasant. Not only you have to answer a bunch of very personal questions, get poked and prodded but also often endure a great deal of pain, which probably have brought you there in the first place. Nurses and doctors, knowing all this either try to ignore your whining entirely and just do their job, while others try to add some optimism to the situation by making you laugh with hospital puns, funny stories and various sorts of jokes. This list that you'll find below are real stories about the second category of hospital staff and their ingenious ways of keeping patients' spirit up.
From doctors who probably have a Ph.D. in trolling to patients who are taking it rather well and nurses spending their graveyard shifts in very nonconformist ways, the hospital turns out to be an excellent source for funny jokes. So, scroll down, say 'ahhhh' and breathe deep, because you're going to need all the oxygen that you can get for laughing at these funny things found in hospitals!
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Saw This Next To The Weighting Scale At The Hospital
The Definition Of Nurse
The Female Nurse Didn't Think I Was Funny. The Male Doctor Couldn't Stop Laughing
Had My Leg Amputated And My Brother Shows Up To The Hospital Dressed As A Pirate
I Didn't Want To Go To The Hospital When I Had Life-Threatening Illness, Because My Elderly Pet Ducks Required Daily Medications At The Time. I'm The Only Person They'll Allow. The Nurses Let My Husband Sneak Them In At Night
Photo Taken Outside Children's Hospital In Los Angeles. Smart Kid
He Keeps Taking Them Down For Some Reason
This After Hours Clinic Has Got Jokes
Had To Get My Blood Drawn Today. This Was On The Wall At The Lab
Christmas Tree At My Fertility Clinic
Was At The VA Hospital Today When I Ran Into This Guy And His Shirt
Woman Ends Up In Hospital After Mistaking Builders Expanding Foam For Hair Mousse
These Removed Fish Hooks At My Local ER
Girlfriend's Eye Doctor Hit Her With A Good Ol' Dad Joke
Leech Jailbreak
After Crushing And Fracturing His Finger, This Is How My Boyfriend Passed Time While Waiting In The ER
Comforting To See In My Doctor's Office
I Think I Have Found The Worst Game Ever
This Building Is Like Someone Was Making It Up On The Fly
Kind of reminds me of chinese knockoffs trying to use english phrases.
Made My Day... And Her's
Three Broken Ribs Yet Grandma Still Knows How To Keep Her Spirits Up During Hard Times
Found This Mad Lad's Handiwork In The Local Hospital Bathroom
So I Was On The Toilet At My Hospital (Children's) And I Look Up To Find This On The Wall
The Fertility Clinic I Work For Received This Card From A Urologist
He Takes It Rather Well...
It's funny, but fake. It was a photo shoot for an insurance company. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=91277
An ER Nurse And Her Coworkers Decided Gummy Bears Needed To Be Renamed
The Only Book In My Doctor's Waiting Room. I Think I Chose Well
Saw At Work Today... I Work At A Hospital
This Pain Scale Found In My Doctor's Office
Better than the 1-10 scale where you only base it on the worst pain you've experienced. What if you haven't had much before or are worn down by having serious pain a lot? I've always found this really difficult as pain from a broken bone is a different type of pain to, say, nerve pain.
Weird - I toddled into A&E said "i think I my arm is broken" and sat quite comfortably just supporting my damaged elbow with my other hand for a good couple of hours before being seen. I was in too much shock to be operated on than night - 3 hour operation 3 plates 12 screws and a long bolt later - 40 clips 16" scar and semi disabled arm for life - It hurt like hell once the shock wore off
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the ever so nice surgeon let me take a pic of the x ray bionic-arm...c4cd79.jpg 
I can't count how many times i've asked patients to go by this rating, explaining that 10 is considered the most unbearable pain they can possibly imagine, followed by them, without hesitation, saying 10, before getting up and going to the bathroom or something. You're not a ten if you can walk, seemingly unaffected. We take the pain seriously even if it's not a ten.
the only thing near a 10 was a trapped nerve in my lower back - had to crawl to the bathroom in utter agony - crying with every crawl - luckily it eased off after a few days
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Pain affects different people differently - and yes, redheads are more sensitive to pain. I've heard numerous jokes about what the 1-10 scale should be.
I've heard that too. I've seen people cry over a minor injury and refuse to even get up (I think they like the sympathy), yet some people bear the worst kind of pain without complaining.
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I have tried to explain nerve pain versus other pain because I have a very bad back and arthritis from my jaw down. I have to use a walker chair because if my nerve pain says "sit down now" there's no possible way not to. You can't just "work through it". But people just think you're being overly dramatic. It's just so maddening.
My pain tolerance is not like this at all. Starting at six it is, hurts and I'm tired of it hurting, seven I just want to sleep so the pain will go away, eight is when I wake up because of the pain, nine is crying and shaking, ten is don't touch me, don't touch it , don't even look at me thinking your going to touch it.
The pain scale almost killed me in december 2015. I went in with a kidney stone blocking my uritor a kidney failing filled with pus and a blood infection. I am overly stoic so it can be hard to tell how I am other than taking my word for it. Safe to say I was at a true 10 literally almost died. They treated me like a druggie and sent me home cause I was not screaming in pain. Like...dude I was near dead I don't have that in me. Long story short got sent home from E.R two nights in a row third night was transferred to a different hospital and immediately was put under for surgery of some sort and spent a week recovering from some weird thing that apparently has a 50% mortality rate just coz its stupidly rare and often misdiagnosed. Went home the morning christmas eve and a few hours later there were a bunch of tornadoes in the city that the hosputal I had been in
I HATE the pain scale. I went to the ER with the worst pain I’ve ever felt, but I knew it was not the maximum pain one can experience.
This beats the guy who goes from smiling to crying. I always feel so bad for that pain scale.
I say if you aren't crying it's below 6. If you are cry/moaning it's a 7, wailing, crying and thrashing about to try to alleviate the pain at least a little while begging for mercy/death is a 9 and of course if it's so bad you pass out is a 10.
They hurt if they sting you generally and the subsequent pain can depend on your tolerance to the bee venom. I get what is referred to as a severe local reaction. It isn't pretty!
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The avocados in our local market came with little 'Ripe' stickers on. I saved one to wear to the delivery room.
The avocados in our local market came with little 'Ripe' stickers on. I saved one to wear to the delivery room.
