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“Medical Workers Of Bored Panda, What’s The Weirdest Thing A Patient Has Ever Come In With?” (40 Stories)
If you ask a medical worker about their worst patient or encounter, they are unlikely to reveal much in person. However, I figured that if you offer them an anonymous online thread, they'll tell you all about their oddest, saddest, and funniest stories (and most of the time all of that combined into one)!
With that being said, I decided to ask medical workers of Bored Panda to share their weirdest patient stories and they sure delivered without hesitation!
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#1
I once had a patient who came in with her baby daughter. The daughter was a baby, maybe one by the looks of it. The lady told me all these things about how she was anti-vax and blah blah. She then asked me to “fix” her baby. You guys, it was d**d. She was holding a goddamn corpse.
Final score:
454points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Ham Explosion. An adult that's one thing. But this is a child. Mom was probably in such deep shock she'd left reality. For that, as a medical professional, that is very sad.
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Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
So...just out of curiosity: was mom admitted for psychological evaluation?
Robert (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yes she was, I think she is in some sort of institution right now
Load More Replies... SciencePandaTheSecond 4 years ago (edited)
Death. Hard to cure since it's usually fatal. But in all seriousness, that's really sad.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
To be fair, some people do get better from Death, temporarily.
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Skyler Sage Tang 4 years ago
Seriously, I don't know how we've reached this point where all it takes for people to believe in crap is a Facebook post. Vaccines save lives!
ACatNamedStromboli 3 years ago
True they do but my guess is that she didn't get medical attention when it go so bad. Poor baby.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
OK, this one is not at all amusing in any way even to someone who'd done ER duty in a pandemic as an MD.
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#2
Before I had a liver transplant, I suffered from a condition called "Ascites" that makes you retain fluids and your belly looks like you are 11 months pregnant (I am a guy). Every week I'd go to the hospital to get the fluids drained (usually around 10 to 11 liters). Since it was a teaching hospital, more often than not there was an attending nurse and a very young doctor.
The procedure required an ultrasound machine, operated by the nurse, and a 9" needle to penetrate the abdomen and find the sack with the liquid. Most young doctors had never done anything like it and they were nervous and a little bit disturbed. Once this very young doctor got physically sick and white as a sheet. He also couldn't find the sack. He kept prodding and getting more and more panicked. By then I was an old hand at it and I had seen it done properly at least a dozen times, so I asked him "do you mind if I give it a shot?".
At first, he blabbed something incoherent, so I added, "I won't tell anyone, I just can't afford to leave without being drained, this is the one day a week when I get to feel normal for a few hours". He finally agreed and I took hold of the 9" needle. Watching the ultrasound screen, in a few seconds I found the sack and we started filling 2-liter bottles with the liquid.
It was a 12 liters day, requiring six two-liter bottles. My father-in-law drove me there that day, and he was watching the proceedings, but it was too much even for him. He passed out and had to be put on a gurney. Both the doc and my FIL were traumatized. The nurse joked with me about it. I eventually got a liver transplant and that issue went away. I am almost at the 20 years mark.
Final score:
450points
Kim Lorton 4 years ago
Wow! Amazing story! I am so glad you got your transplant! I worked in a teaching hospital and assisted new doctors snd experienced ones do this, for ascites and for draining fluid off the lungs. I even assisted one butt head doctor do a liver biopsy at bedside, who didn't numb the patient up enough and it was hell! He was so full of himself, i wanted to stick that freaking needle in him! Good pain meds were given afterward! It was as bloody as they say it is!
Joan Zatorski 4 years ago
I am so sorry you have suffered this way. I hope this posts inspires people to become organ donors: sign your drivers license, everyone!
Marco Conti (Submission author) 4 years ago
Indeed. I was a donor from the day I turned 18. I never thought I'd be the one in need of a organ donation. My donor was a hero. A very young skydiver that survived long enough after a failed jump to authorize the harvesting of his organs, as his family was far away. When I hear people whining about not wanting to donate for some petty reason, I think of him and his courage. I try, and sometimes succeed, to live up to his example.
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Suzi Q 3 years ago
I have Polycystic Liver disease. My liver is full of cysts that keep generating. It's a common condition for kidneys but rare for it to be only involving the liver. It took a couple days to diagnose it (5 days in the hospital in immense pain.) I was referred to a liver transplant specialist. Turns out my liver functions normally but they have to drain a very large (grapefruit sized) cyst. When they drain it (same process op describes,) they shoot alcohol into it so it won't refill. Thankfully my doctor got it on the first shot. However the alcohol spilled out of the cyst. That was THE most painful thing ever. I'm not a stranger to pain (major chronic pain and multi level back deterioration,) but this was a different level of pain. I don't envy this person. Glad his transplant worked.
lil ninja 4 years ago
Now there are these amazing things called PleurX drains… so much easier now and can be done at home.
Marco Conti (Submission author) 4 years ago
I had no idea.Thank you for bringing it up. I hope I'll never need them, but I sure could have used them back then. Going around with a belly up to here, on a skeletal body, was terrible. I tried coaching my daughter's tennis team but I couldn't hit backends because the belly was in the way. Second to the post transplant period, that was the worst.
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Cecily Holland 4 years ago
I am so glad you don’t have to go through that anymore. I’ve been known to boot students out of the room. Don’t try using the they have to learn guilt trip on me. They see your file with consent for medical students and think you are their personal pin cushion. I withdrew consent. There are limits
Shelby Moonheart 3 years ago
I'm glad you were able to get a transplant. I and seven months out from getting a new kidney. Transplants are miraculous.
Marco Conti (Submission author) 3 years ago
Kidneys are supposed to be easier than livers, but it's still a traumatic experience and knowing someone else might have had it tougher is going to be a small consolation. All the best to you.
Load More Replies... Yayheterogeneity 3 years ago
I'm very glad for you, that you are doing so well. Sounds like you had to suffer through quite an ordeal to be well again.
#3
I had a patient that wouldn’t let me take his temperature with a non-contact device on his forehead. He was worried about “blasting radiation into his pituitary gland”. First of all, you’re 90 so I’m sure by now your pituitary gland is a little bag of sand by now; and secondly, where did you get this info? Facebook?
Final score:
348points
Joanna 4 years ago
I've had lots of men refuse to let me take their temperature orally because they thought the temperature probe was too phallic and they thought "it would be gay." I can take it rectally if you would prefer it, bro.
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Take it in the armpit like the little babies they are
Load More Replies... Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Facebook is famous for medical misinformation and propaganda! People believe only what they want to believe - these a are supposedly normal intelligent people! We medical people don't know a thing!
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Facebook M.D. - your source for Medical Disinformation. 🤔
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Nothanks L. Walk 4 years ago
Radiation and the pituitary... I've heard that before somewhere. Can't remember if it was Fringe or X-files, but there was a guy eating pituitary glands or something, because his own wasn't producing enough, I think?
Random Anon 4 years ago
Oh people just being alive you're being bombarded by radiation. If there aren't any radiation at all, we would all be dead.
#4
Too many!
The guy that used tampons as earplugs at night, forgot to take them out and had a shower. He didn't realize how absorbent they were!
The woman complained of a sudden and severe irritation 'down there'. She had sequin knickers and wore them inside out, several of them had come loose and worked their way inside.
The lovely old lady who came in with 'stabbing pains in the chest', upon inspection we noted that she was indeed being stabbed, by the lamb-chop bone in her bra.
The young lad that had a speculum stuck in his mouth. We don't where/how he got it but apparently, he was trying to pretend to be a duck. (For the guys out there that don't know, a speculum is a medical tool that is most commonly used for examining vaginas).
Final score:
328points
Trillian 4 years ago
I could never in a million years fit even an extra small tampon in my ears???
olx 4 years ago
that's ok, nothing smaller than your elbow is meant to be brought near, as every brit kid knows from brain stabbing horror stories from parents and teachers alike
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Thay 4 years ago
What size tampon was the earplug dude using? Like really were they doll size or did he have big ass ears?? I genuinely want to know how this actually happens😂
Jonathan Labelle 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWu_bhmxmBk&t=35s&ab_channel=TheGoatandYourMom-Topic
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Scarlett 4 years ago
...He was pretending to be a duck...why do I see one of my friends trying this?
Cassie 4 years ago
"a speculum is a medical tool that is most commonly used for examining vaginas" - Specifically for prying them open. Let's not be gentle about it.
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 3 years ago
Let's not be gentle. Because the speculum sure isn't! 😂😂😂😂
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debrina blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
There was a brain??? For any of these absolute idiotic wackos???
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My friend was an ER doctor. Had a guy come in with a flashlight stuck up his b**t. When my friend came back from his break he asked the other doc how the patient with the flashlight up his b**t was doing and the other doc asked him, "Which one?" It was a busy night!
Final score:
306points
Amy G 4 years ago
Ever heard that song ‘You Light Up My Life’? I vote that for their wedding first dance.
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Mary Peace 3 years ago
The fact that it's part of the body will not stop a word being censored, but... there are better words to use. Rear. Bottom. (Sorry if I had a sheltered, UK upbringing, but I'm over 60 and not changing now.)
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#6
We had a patient who came to the ER after a car accident and had a metal fence pole all the way through his right chest, in the front, out the back. He previously had his right lung removed so he walked away with no injury after a pipe through the chest.
Final score:
289points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Encountered something like that when I did an ER nurse internship. Of course he was lying on his side. The pole was so long they couldn't get him through the doors without calling a welder emergently to cut it smaller. Meanwhile we worked on him outside.
Emerald Joanna 3 years ago
He didn't walk away with NO injury...he would have had two pretty decent wounds...
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Many years ago the base commander (I think) had a similar accident. They had to cut around half his body to remove it. **shudder**
Raelene Christie 2 years ago
South Africa late 80's was doing Friday night shift when a fella walked with an ad in his head. I was very new to the job and literally almost fainted. After x-rays it was discovered that the ad was stuck in a slice of bone. No real damage. He was stitched up observed for a couple.of hours. I went to check on him before he was due to go up to the ward and he told me.I was burning Friday night and he had some drinking to do and.left. Never heard.any more about it.
#7
Not medical, but dental. Had a woman who was obviously an addict come in for a tooth ache. I had to help her fill out the new patient form because it confused her too much. Every health question was met with ‘what’s that?’. We finally get her back in the room to start X-rays and holy smokes. No wonder this lady had a toothache. She was LITERALLY growing ALGAE on her teeth. It was horrendous. We ended up having to refer her to a dental hospital because the work was so extensive. I couldn’t eat anything with seaweed in it for years. It looked just like the stuff on her teeth.
Final score:
264points
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
BRB, gonna brush my teeth again. Edit: Just got back from the dentist. No cavities!
MarioRossi 3 years ago
Looking at the picture, for a second I thought that the guy had teeth growing out of his upper lip. Then I read the post and it was somewhat even worse.
Emily 3 years ago
I thought so too. I think the person in the photo is a woman though. I could be wrong. I don't see any facial hair (though women can have that too)
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Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
My best friend was a meth addict for a number of years. She's been clean for 27 years now 😁👏👏👏. For those who have never encountered someone addicted to that, you'd be surprised what can happen when they have sunk so low. I hope they got her help.
Amy G (Submission author) 4 years ago
Congrats to your friend on her sobriety! I’m so glad she was able to get help, it’s a heartbreaking thing to see when they don’t.
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Random person 3 years ago
I'm going to go brush my teeth with holy water. Anyone want to come with?
#8
I work in learning disability care and once had to accompany a young lady to the hospital who was complaining about pain when urinating.
Somehow she had inserted peas into her urethra and attempted to fish them out with a bobby pin - over a week before she went to the ED.
Final score:
259points
Stolas 3 years ago
I'm a lifeguard and special needs and i personally find this rly f*****g ablist
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Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
The poor girl was mentally delayed. I only hope she did it herself.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
You'd be surprised what can happen with those folks. They had to redo policies in regards to Time Out rooms when someone sat and actually pulled out every tooth in his mouth. You'd be surprised.
Featherytoad 3 years ago
I'm writhing in pain right now. I had to be cathed a few times due to bladder issues caused by MS. I just wasn't draining. It was so hard for them to find mine and one time they had to sedate me because it was so painful. How the hell did she do this and then to use a bobby pin down there. I still have phantom pain from being cathed.
#9
A 79-year-old man presents to ER with an aerosol air freshener can up his a**…told the doctor it “slipped in" when he went to sit on the toilet…it was so far in there he needed full abdominal surgery to remove it because even the colonoscope couldn’t reach it!
Final score:
237points
Vicky Z 4 years ago
We could have a whole different post only with patients that showed up with something up their ass
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
We had a couple come in they had sex the gal had a Tampon in then they could not get it out. Male stated he tried for three days with needle nose pliers to get it out so he thought may be he should bring her to the ER. The guy worked at the hospital (housekeeping). Both were college grads. You just wouldn't believe the horrible mess that girl was in! How do you graduate college with the IQ of plankton!
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Every time I read "patient presents" I picture Kramer sliding through the door going "tah dah!"
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
A hospital in Berlin had a kind of informal jackpot going to give to the first person, who showed up to ER with something stuck in their butt and didn't give them the "I slipped"-Story. They would always put a small amount of money into it after having a patient like our elder gentleman here.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
Can people just suck it up and go buy a dildo?! I used to work in those shops, I promise we don't care what you use, what you do. We aren't judging as long as it's all consensual and you're properly informed!
Silre 3 years ago
Like, you can get them online and they'll come very discreetly.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
The absurdity of telling that lie is comical even if teh situation is not. IMHO. What, you think we don't know?
#10
Not me but my dad who was a physician. He said he hated the ER, this was back when there were no "ER specialists" just doctors on call. I asked him why, and he said he was sick of "removing" things that had no business being where they were. I said, "like what?" And he said, "like flashlights, baby bottles, and squash." I asked no more.
Final score:
237points
Johnny 4 years ago
That doesn't sound like much of a story - someone thought a squash would make a good toy, then it got stuck... or broke when they tried to remove it. It's the flashlight stories that I don't understand -- that does not look like a comfortable object for this purpose.
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lara (Submission author) 4 years ago
It was, in point of fact, a crook neck squash. And I did not want to know anything else.
FreshGanesh 3 years ago
Fully agree! I advocate for ability to buy dildos. But not everyone has access, be it to purchase or have it privately delivered. And some of these people have needs!!!
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Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
I have seen a video where they pulled out a can of beans and then a potato.. Dude had his whole dinner stuck in there.
Amanda Hunter 4 years ago
I realise now that I lead a sheltered life, and prefer to keep it that way!
Skyler Sage Tang 4 years ago
A lot of people do think that baby bottles and flashlights are good items for inserting into different holes. Seen too many of these.
Skyler Sage Tang 4 years ago
Context: was interning in the ED just before this lockdown.
Load More Replies... Nothanks L. Walk 4 years ago
If you got a squash up THERE it has no business with that name. At that point it's a Crushless Fruit.
Flash Henry 3 years ago
My friend is an ER nurse. They keep a chart in the nurse's lounge with a list of all the stuff they've removed from people's butt holes, with a tally counting the most popular items.
#11
A woman came into our ER with a very swollen finger and in a lot of pain. While doing a lot of dishes, a box of spaghetti fell over, as she tried to catch it to avoid it falling into the sudsy sink, one strand impaled itself under her fingernail. Since her hands were so wet, the spaghetti slid all the way to the top of the nail. It. Was. Horrifying. Everyone was cringing! The doctor had to cut a slit into her fingernail to fish it out! We all had funny reactions! The woman said it was so painful that she wanted her finger cut off! She had instant relief when the doc cut the nail and relieved the pressure.
Final score:
234points
David Houde 4 years ago
I can relate. I used to work with very fine screws (1.0 to 1.4 mm diameter). Hence you have to use very fine screwdrivers. One day I slipped and stuck the screwdriver under my thumb nail. Dead center. I hit it with such force that the screwdriver went all the way up to my nail bed. All while under the nail. I was unconscious within seconds.
ispeak catanese (Submission author) 4 years ago
Exactly! It was so awful! We all felt it!
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
Slit into her fingernail to get it out? Nope nope nope. I'll admit the next patient thank you so you don't have to pick me up off the floor. Everyone has things they just can't be there for. I only had 3.
Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
Yeah. I once shoved a 0,5mm crochet needle under my nail by accident. It went halfway. Pulled it out myself, was very lucky not to have an infection. It hurts really bad.
Well then 3 years ago
Something like that happened to me. Got an infected hangnail. It was so painful a coworker walked by me and lightly brushed it. I got dizzy, knees buckled, almost fainted. Went to the er and they had slice my nail open to drain it. Doc didn't even numb it first. He said sticking a needle in it would hurt just as bad as what he was about to do 😩
Bethany Byers 3 years ago
Last year I got a sliver of tempered glass from a cellphone cover impaled directly under and into my nail bed. It was one of the most shockingly excruciating pains I’ve ever had. There was a brief moment where I though I could suck it up and with a tweezers pull it out. Bad idea. As soon as I touched it i screamed and almost passed out from the pain. Went to urgent care where they had to do the same as the OP, slice into my nail and finger to remove it.
#12
I once had to explain to a patient that there was no need for us to check his b12 levels because he was actually not on a vegan diet.
Still, he insisted on being a vegan because he only ate poultry regularly, while other meats or fish only "a few times a month" and also it was always organic. He genuinely thought he was a vegan and therefore needed his b12 level checked.
I ended up saying, "b12 deficiency is only a problem for those vegans who don't eat meat."
Final score:
229points
Chich 4 years ago
He may have worried about his B12 levels but it is not just a problem for vegans. I'm not vegan by any stretch but was diagnosed with Pernicious anemia in my 40's. I do not absorb B-12. Easy to treat now but in the past it caused serious health issues. Annie Oakley died of it in 1926
Joke Vermote 3 years ago
same here! Diagnosed with Pernicious anemia when I was 30 years old. Get a shot every month now and that solves most of it
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Jeff Mako 4 years ago
Technically speaking, you can be B12 deficient without being a vegan...I see it not infrequently in my practice a
Well then 3 years ago
I've been having appetite and food sensory issues lately. My doc is constantly on me to take b vitamins.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago
I don't know about this. My doctor suggested I take a B12 supplement even though I eat meat because she said people absorb less of it over time as they get older.
kath morgan 4 years ago
Yes, my mum has B12 injections because her absorption is so poor. She’s not any kind of vegetarian.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
We live in a post-meaning world were definition no longer apply to anything. Vegans eating poultry? On what planet?
Ashley Schriber 3 years ago
I'll also chime in and agree that B12 deficiency is not exclusive to vegans. I was found to be deficient just a couple of months ago. Don't know how it happened, but I'm not even close to being vegetarian.
#13
Was on a med-surg-gyn-weird diseases floor. Had a patient come in with Pemphigus. A skin disease. A not often seen one.
Also had a patient come in with a rare genetic disease that both parents were Caucasian, but the baby had very dark skin and hair and their features were Caucasian. He was also in a wheelchair and his skin was very delicate and broke down easily. Can’t remember the name of it, De. … something. But it was very interesting.
I also had several patients with cystic fibrosis, under this one doctor’s care. They aged from teens to 36. Very old for a patient with CF. He was very invested in their care. One patient came in and he was dying. He asked that any nurse not comfortable with his morphine dosing schedule, not take care of his patient. He was of the opinion, that they could pretty much tell you when and how much they wanted or needed, and where to get it. He later was in the news as the doctor who broke the genetic code for CF. He was based in Orlando, Fl. He was an amazing doctor!
Final score:
206points
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Bless him. A doctor who really wanted the best for his patients. Although in my opinion, most doctors and other health care workers do want the best. Kim, you must have found all this very interesting.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
It is very true that most Dr and healthcare worked want what is best, but the insurance companies, hospital admin, politics, pharmaceuticals companies, etc. make that very hard sometimes.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
Why would a health professional have a problem with the morphine doses of a dying patient? Reminds me of when my father died. Docs gave him two weeks to live, but they kept him undermedicated for pain (bone cancer). When I protested, they told me "You wouldn’t want your father to get addicted to Morphine, would you?" as if it was a perfectly reasonable position to have. HE WAS DYING! He didn't have time to get addicted to anything. Honestly, it was a miracle I didn't go get a baseball bat and broke their kneecaps, then give them an aspirin for the pain. Addicted my a$$. The last memories of my father are of him screaming in pain. Thank you docs for that recurring nightmare.
Kim Lorton (Submission author) 4 years ago
Because some were so religious that instead of doing the orders the doctor ordered, they weren't going to help “ kill” them with the morphine. It was sad to see, but it happens. After seeing people suffer, i never had a problem. He was honestly the most compassionate snd caring doctor! I did home and impatient hospice later in my career and loved it. Helping people be comfortable in their last months or days and not leave this world traumatically in pain. At end of life, addiction is not an issue, but they couldn't see past their religions dictates to do their job as a nurse.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
I think that skin disease is, wait for it.....Epidermolosis Bulosa Dystrophia. It is a rare very painful skin condition when wherever you get the smallest bump to an area, the skin bubbles up into a big blister and ruptures leaving an open raw area. If it's severe enough you can have that happen extensively all over you body. If it happens a lot to your fingers with the healing process they can actually fuse together. You can get severe skin infections. The most severe can also have severely stunted growth.i know this because as a nurse's aide when I was a teenager the chronic care hospital had an 18 y/o teenage girl with it. She was about the size of a 3 y/o. Early every morning she had to have a special bath and then wrapped in sterile bandages with Vaseline on them so they wouldn't stick. Back then that's all they had. It was horrific for her.
Kim Lorton (Submission author) 4 years ago
It is not for the faint of heart and took three of us to change the dressings . Vaseline dressings.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It is! One of my cousins had it (and probably older relatives too, but all they knew for sure was they had 'failure to thrive on their death certificates). She died at about 9.
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Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
I always listen intently to patients with cystic fibrosis and type one diabetes. They are the experts in their care.
Molly Block 3 years ago
Googled Pemphigus and the first photos were of cocaine induced pemphigus. Wish I had NOT looked!!!!
Tammy Wait 3 years ago
While driving a 40 ft bus I had an extreme pain in my right chest as I turned a corner. The pain was so bad I thought I was going to die. I was taken to the hospital, and they kept researching my heart. 2 years later, tons of exams, physical therapy, boss is pissed because I am on limited work. Finally I got pissed and demanded a specialist. I said to him " I was turning a corner and had an extreme pain in my right chest" HE SAID I HAD RIPPED MY PECTORAL MUSCLE====2 f****** years later! I had to get the muscle ripped again to be out of pain!
#14
I’m the patient here. Guess what I did?
Yeah, I ate a flower with a bee on it. Not only did I get stung, but guess what else?
The flower was the one thing I was allergic to. I couldn’t breathe because I still had a petal AND a bee stuck in my mouth, and my tongue basically blew up. I did not eat any greens, or anything purple because the flower was purple.
Final score:
205points
Happi doggi (ve/ver/vis) (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
I went to a Montessori school that basically ignored us. We were hungry, and the special crackers were gone. To this day nobody knows how bad that school was. Read my submission to my post “Hey Pandas, Have you been to a private school?”
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Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
That's awful. My daughter had the good fortune of attending an excellent Montessori that she still talks about fondly, 40 years later.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
I did this once, but it was a dandelion and the bee only got my lip. It still hurt like hell.
Per-Ole Sjuve 3 years ago
Not the place to ask "guess what I did?". Most of us will immediately guess something with a squash or flashlight.
#15
Not my story but my friend is a paramedic and got called to a house where someone thought a person "might" be d**d. The guy had hanged himself at least 3 weeks previously. Think advanced state of decomposition. She said she can remember thinking, "What do they expect us to do? Resuscitate him?"
Obviously, she didn't say anything and just contacted the police. I assume some people just panic and don't know who to call in this situation.
Final score:
194points
Laura Jones 4 years ago
so sad no one had worried where he was for 3 weeks that guy certainly needed some friends
Muff_Fluff 4 years ago
I’m sure there was someone, but maybe that someone thought they were being ghosted or the person just was taking a break.
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13 4 years ago
I don't know how dispatch works over there but where I live it's one central number for police fire or medical department and it's the job of the operator to figure out which one you need.
Johnny 4 years ago
Yeah, I'm guessing that they called 911, reported a suspected death, and they dispatched paramedics in case the guy wasn't actually dead and needed medical assistance. It's much better to send paramedics when a coroner is needed than to send the coroner when paramedics are needed.
Load More Replies... FreshGanesh 3 years ago
Like most censored posts here, I think it is a Lithuanian (BP isn’t an American site) thing in regards to journalism and trauma triggers.
Load More Replies... KimB 4 years ago
Lord I don't think you ever forget that smell...I can't even describe it to you but once you smell it, you recognize it immediately
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
When i was younger i went into a house with my mother, we walked in and we smelled something musty but sweet. then we went out side, we say the fence has been broke down and i went closer, my mother yelled for me to come back and we left, i asked what that smell was and she had told me, if I ever smell that, then leave, cause that's the smell of death She would prepare bodies and stuff at a temple she worked at and you have to leave them out overnight for Shinsosai {shinto religion}... and she said on hot days they can smell like they had been outside for weeks
Load More Replies... Tracy Wallick 3 years ago (edited)
Sad as this is, I'm very distracted by the fact that BP is censoring the word 'dead'. Seriously?
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Would you prefer unalived? Pining for the fjords perhaps?
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Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Of course people panic and don't know who to call. You don't find a dead person every day. And school doesn't teach you "okay so when you find a deceased person, first you do X, then you phone Y..." I'm sure 99% of people wouldn't know what to do.
Sue Hazlewood 3 years ago
But had they seen the body? Just because they thought the person may be dead might only mean they were worried they had not seen them for a while. Can't tell from this post.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
If someone has been dead for 3 weeks, you need a Necromancer, not a doctor.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
to be fair, a lot of those have to have the body pronounced by a Doctor and Coroner, so its not too unusually for police to call for an ambulance
SS 3 years ago
In the UK, maybe it’s different because ambulances are free, but you’d definitely call an ambulance for a death. They aren’t a priority (you’d probably wait up to 6 hours) but they transport the body to the mortuary.
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 3 years ago
Found my friend dead (not unexpected) and phoned 999. When they asked "Which service do you require?" I just said "I don't know" and explained the situation. Done
#16
Had a patient call 9-1-1 with a three-liter coke bottle up his a**.
Final score:
192points
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Well, a human a**s can stretch up to 7 inches without taking damage. And as I learned from a separate thing, raccoons can fit into a space of 3 inches. So technically you can fit 2 raccoons up there without your butt breaking.
Carolyn van Weel 3 years ago
Why do people keep sticking very odd things up their rear? Don't they have safer things at sex stores?
Marco Conti 4 years ago
How does that even work? One liter, sure. Who doesn't? But three liters?
Meredith Grey 4 years ago
3 liter coke bottle? What the hell is that? We literally have NO SUCH THING as a 3 literally bottle here in Australia.
#17
I'm not a doctor, but I was once in the doctor's office waiting for a check-up when this woman bolts in with her young child, screaming that she was bleeding. Her kid was on her period.
Final score:
192points
Pa4040 4 years ago (edited)
I believe that there are too many women (mothers) who are extremely uncomfortable discussing anything related to how the body works and changes during puberty, but not knowing that your daughter is probably on her period?
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Well if the kid was quite young she may think it is too early for that to happen
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Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
This one depends.. how young was the young child? I started spotting when I was around 7yo, and got my periods around 9yo. My Mother was watching for it because hers came early too. On the other hand, most of my friends think it's normal to get them no earlier than 11 or 12yo.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
My daughter and I were both 9yo. Unfortunately for me, my mother had not yet had "the talk" with me, so I thought I was dying. (This was in 1974.) Fortunately for my daughter, her body's development was something we talked about regularly from the time she could talk.
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Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
I think the important question here is, how young? It it was one of those weird cases of like a 5-year old getting a period, i totally understand the panic
SZ 4 years ago (edited)
No wait, this is actually genius. How do I forget my period so thoroughly that it ceases to exist?!?! BUT on a serious note, this is very sad, especially since girls who menstrate early tend to be picked on for being 'different' before everyone else catches up. I hope the mom calmed down once she realized what it was.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Maybe her daughter was very young, so she panicked. I heard about young girl, who had her first period at age 8.
Ines Olabarria-Smith 4 years ago
I went to the vet next door becáis my female poodle was bleeding. The doctor looked at me very surprised because I’m a girl. In the end we both laughed (I still do) In my defense Is only had male dogs so I didn’t know how it worked.
Cecily Holland 4 years ago
If you can’t explain periods to your female child you have no business breeding. End of!
#18
My wife works in the ICU and a large lady came in once and they had to give her a sponge bath and they found an old oreo under her b**b.
Final score:
180points
Jason Laverick (Submission author) 4 years ago
It is true. She had a woman also come in for an MRI and was too big and had to use the MRI machine at the zoo.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
We had to do this with a woman who was nearly 900 pounds - had to take her down to the laundry to weigh her (this was the time when hospitals did laundry, prepared meals ). This gal was so plump we kept losing washcloths in the folds of her skin! She was filthy we had to keep track if the wash cloths like they keep track of used sponges in the OR!
Cleshawn Montague 3 years ago
I heard about a dead kitten under the boob of a very large woman after developing an infection.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
I would say this was bad but.... my sis had some big 'old ones and..... she finds all kind of things in there, I want to point out she has Overly sized ones where she needs to buy custom bras, we are trying to help her get reduction since there so big it hinders her ability to stay steady when walking, she isn't a large person, but they are breaking her back, but it's funny her grabbing down and pulling out a pen to draw with or just jokingly pulling something huge out, that she like put there like a wrapped candy "there's where i put it!" funny as heck
Molly Block 3 years ago
This made me die laughing for some reason! I'm a larger woman, and I love OREO's so much too, but this was hilarious!! Sometimes I find a green pea or a bean or crumb or something in my bra, because I have a large bosom, but trust me, I've never lost and entire cookie! This was just funny, and relatable.
#19
I had a severely psychotic patient who was convinced she had consumed human flesh and was always trying to induce vomiting. She was eventually discharged. Later she was re-admitted when her relative (a new mother) had caught this patient preparing to eat the baby.
Final score:
170points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
What?! Needs some MAJOR antipsychotics and diligent monitoring that she takes them.
Joanna (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yeah, that's what the hospitalization was for
Load More Replies... Random Anon 4 years ago
Schizophrenia? When lucid, she may little to no recollection of what she did while in psychosis.
Joanna (Submission author) 4 years ago
I really hope she won't, but I don't know - we were able to reduce some of her distress but her psychosis proved too tenacious for us and she was discharged (no point in suspending an innocent person's rights and locking them up if you've failed to help them). I've only had a few patients who remember the worst of their psychoses.
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#20
As a paramedic with over 25 years in the job, I have witnessed a lot of things.
One that sticks with me is a call I dealt with over 20 years ago. A lady dialed 999 and the call was passed as "broken finger". It was only when we arrived we found that she had actually broken a fingernail, and was wanting us to fix it as she was going to a dinner party and wanted to look her best. For context, the patient lived in a large house with a private drive and considered herself to be in the upper class.
My crew mate did indeed 'fix' the broken fingernail back on, with a big comedy bandage you would normally expect to see in a cartoon. Our patient was not impressed by this, as it made her look ridiculous, and she uttered that immortal line "I will get you sacked for this".
My crew mate, being less subtle than me, educated the lady on the inappropriateness of the situation (in words of very few syllabus) and it would be a shame if we did get sacked and details of this call 'leaked' to the press. I don't believe a complaint was ever made...
Final score:
169points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
She should have had to pay a fine for this. Not that it would have made a dent in her bank account. But she'd probably be pissed to have to pay it. Or contact some connection to get it tossed.
Tee Witt 4 years ago
That is the problem in the UK. People call ambulances for sprained ankles, broken fingers, headaches, back aches.......... they should be fined when people are dying waiting for ambulances.
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
WTF. She called ambulance? Because of broken fingernail? You know, here you don't have to pay for ambulance, when you have medical emergency, but for this, she would pay a fat fine.
Jennifer Crompton 3 years ago
Hubs is a firefighter/paramedic and he's gone on emergency calls for stubbed toes and skinned knees and I thought THOSE were obnoxious. This one takes the cake. Lol
James Pasquini 3 years ago (edited)
Super Glue it? Nah, Duck Tape! That would look so much better for her party.
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Not a doctor. Sat in the waiting room at the health center, waiting for my doctor when a worker from the building project next door came in. He had his hand wrapped in a big towel and just stood in the line for the receptionist.
He left a large trail of blood running from the towel. Not dripping, running in a small stream. Luckily someone more or less shouted to get him some attention. When a couple of nurses came running the dude said something like: "I just cut myself a bit", not really seeming to realize it had to be bad. Either he was cool as a cucumber or in chock. Probably the latter.
Final score:
164points
Happi doggi (ve/ver/vis) 4 years ago
If he thinks he just cut himself “a bit” what could he have done that was worse than this?
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago (edited)
I slammed my thumb in a car door once. Immediately wrapped (tightly) it in a handkerchief. Didn't feel it until the doctors receptionist demanded I show her, to prove I needed emergency attention that would ruin her appointment schedule that was already >30mins behind... compound fracture with needing 5 stitches and a splint.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Mother cut an artery trying to cut something -I was a kid- thank goodness the Insurance man was there he did first aid and took us to the Doctor. We of course did not have an appointment and were told to sit down we would have to wait - Another patient in the room went to the receptionist and said mom was bleeding all over the floor and needed attention. She said she'd see if the Dr. would see her now. He came to the waiting room and raked that uncaring SOB over the coals in a full waiting room. The Doctor got a round of applause. Mom was Okay after a transfusion!
Load More Replies... Eva B. 4 years ago
Sounds like my boyfriend. He once was working next to a health center and cut 3 fingers (one of them really bad). So he wrapped it in his t-shirt, went over and stood in line (because in our hometown you have to wait, no matter where you are bleeding). The other patients saw it and told the medical staff. When the doctor took care of his fingers, she told a nurse that she needs more light. So he took out his flashlight and held it for her. He even watched her when she cleaned the fingers and sew the tendon(?) back together. It was no shock, he thought it was very interesting.
KimB 3 years ago
Your brain actually protects you when you injure yourself severely by pumping out endorphins which block some of the pain pain and your sympathetic nervous system also kicks in pumping out acetacholine which lowers your blood pressure and heart rate to slow down bleeding and help you remain calm. The human body is truly amazing!
Ellen Ranks 3 years ago
True. Had this happen to me several times. When I broke my nose in an accident. When I fell on my face and my front tooth was hanging by its nerve. When I fell on gravel and cut my knee so bad you could see the bone. When I ran into somebody with glasses on and his glasses cut into my face. All of those times I bled a lot. Hmmm I did have a lot of weird little accidents now that I think of it.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
It was shock. It was probably so bad he couldn't get his head around what happened. People with severe injuries can do that.
Lutz Herting 3 years ago
Not everyone panics from stuff like that. Once, on a construction site, a disc grinder for concrete got stuck, hit my head, and threw me several feet from the ladder I was on. On the way down it sliced open half of my wrist with a pretty wide cut and the impact knocked me out. I was alone in the building, so nobody found me. When I woke up, I staggered to the car and wrapped a full pack of bandaid around my wrist and my shirt over that. In the hospital, I had a fun chat with the doctor while he cut away on my wrist (it was not a clean cut, but a rip, so they had to cut away even more skin to get it to heal). When he wanted to start sewing it shut, I stopped him and took a few minutes to move my hand around and watch how all the tendons work. I mean - I could see the INSIDE of my hand while it moves! How often do you get the chance? It was awesome! I guess people are just different when it comes to this stuff. You know what freaks me out? Meeting people and TALKING TO THEM! :P
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Something like that once happened to lady from my town. She was working on the field and accidentally stuck her hand in harvester. It almost torn off flesh from back of her hand, we could see her bones. But she was calm, she looked at her wound and said: "Oh, I'll probably need stitches."She needed a lot of stitches, and still has big scar on her hand. She later said she didn't feel any pain.
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
I'm not surprised she didn't feel any pain, sounds like her nerves were all detached from her hand.
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Parents brought their 8 yo daughter in with a crooked forearm, stating they had no idea what happened. Turns out the girl broke her arm right before departing on a Disney vacation. They asked her if she'd rather go to the hospital or go on vacation. She chose vacation (shock) and as a result of really poor parenting, something that would have been remedied with a simple cast turned into surgery and a longer, more painful recovery for their daughter.
Final score:
156points
Susi Moffitt 4 years ago
Horribly irresponsible! Some people either shouldn't have kids or they should ACT like parents!!
Béla Kun 3 years ago
Most ppl should not have kids, there, I fixed it for you.
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🦩Laneypooh🦩 3 years ago
thank s like asking a toddler "would you rather spinach or a lollipop?" hmm I wonder which one they would choose...
Kitty 🇺🇦 3 years ago
Someone I know didn’t get a cast until like 5-7 days after breaking her arm because she was so tough about it. The doctors could’ve blamed the parents, but honestly, she was just a badass about it, barely complained about the pain at all. 😂 Just to twist a similar story around.
Alleman Jennifer 3 years ago
My son comes home from weightlifting one day and said his arm kinda hurt. Ok roll up ur sleave buddy and let me check it out. His forearm was literally bent in the middle. Apparently he had hurt it a few weeks earlier but it only bothered him when he lifted weights so didn't feel the need to mention it. We got it checked out. It was totally broken.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
No way they would miss she had broken hand, and it must be painful for poor girl. What were they thinking?
Lynn Morello 3 years ago
Never give a kid a choice of Medical or Fun. We all know what the kid would prefer.
#23
P**is fish…. A fish swam up into this man’s urethra. He had been on vacation and WAITED UNTIL HE WAS BACK to get looked at!!! That was nearly 20 years ago and I will never forget that poor guy.
Final score:
155points
Lance LaRocque 4 years ago
The TV show River Monsters had an episode on that fish. If I remember correctly it lives in the Amazon River
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
Never pee when swimming in the amazon!! 😱 the candiru is a tiny parasite that attacks other fish by entering their gills, it mistakes people peeing for water coming out of a fishes gills 🤮
KimB 3 years ago
I've read they are attracted to the urea and nitrogen in urine
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
If I ever travel to the Amazon I'll duct tape it. I am not one of those guys obsessed about their family jewels, but that... that makes me very uncomfortable.
Karen Grace 3 years ago
It's a very small fish and only attacks men who pee into the water. The little fish literally swims up the stream into the urethra.
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ErraticEel 3 years ago
My username is based off this story https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2011/09/13/eel-removed-from-mans-bladder-after-entering-penis-during-beauty-spa-148230/amp/
#24
Mostly ER.
1. Dead babies brought in.
2. 17 yo girl stabbed in the heart by someone who tried to steal her cellphone, dead on arrival.
3. Lady attacked by a pet python. I clamped onto her wrist and wrapped itself around her neck, luckily she survived.
4. Guy took Viagra, effects did not wear off, 36 hrs later he came into ER because to pain was too much.
5. Police officer shot in the face, had to have total reconstructive surgery.
And so much more...
Final score:
151points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Emergency rooms are horror stories and unbelievable things have to be attended to its the next worst thing from COVID!
Shelby Moonheart 3 years ago
My dad, a regular doctor, had to do an ER rotation in the 1970s. This was his story about the evils of drinking alcohol. A carload of young men had been drinking and were out driving. The passage stuck his head out the window and the driver swerved close to a telephone pole. The passage was decapitated. The other men were brought into the ER with injuries too. Dad just said, think that the driver will have to live with what he did to his friend for the rest of his life. That is why you should never drink.
Alex Schroeder 3 years ago
so this is why it took so long for my lil brother to get careafter he basically got catapulted off a hammock into cement with his chin
Cleshawn Montague 3 years ago
Well, isn't the ER a place to bring in a dead or dying baby? Are the supposed to just call the morgue from their house?
Kaa 3 years ago
How about usually going to the doctor before the baby is terminally ill?
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#25
I once handled a man that had inserted the p**is in an active vacuum cleaning pipe, it swelled a lot and got stuck. Totally purple after removal.
Final score:
150points
mamafrog 4 years ago (edited)
Because men seem to have a very bad habit of sticking something important to them in places they shouldn't.
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The Scout 4 years ago
That is quite common, and swellings are not the worst that can happen. A more serious form got the nickname "Morbus Kobold" in Germany: The Kobold by Vorwerk, a top-notch vacuum cleaner at its time, had its motor down in the suction tube and a sharp-edged rotor gear directly behind the end of the intake - so attempts to use it for masturbation regularly ended with irreparable damage and often complete penis amputation. There even was an approved medical doctorate thesis about masturbation injuries by vacuum cleaners as early as in 1978 (University of Munich).
Marco Conti 4 years ago
This actually happens a lot. I have read about it multiple times, with excuses like "I was vacuuming in the nude...", because who hasn't done that?
Molly Block 3 years ago
His hand would have been a much better choice. I hear if you use your non-dominant hand, that it's almost like someone else is actually doing the 'job' for you.
Dee on bikes 4 years ago (edited)
These are like 50% of the episodes on the "real stories of the ER" TV show. I used to bet with my partner whether or not they were going to remove it at the end. lol
#26
A patient who filled a condom with Hard as Nails (a glue that sets hard as nails) inserted it while the glue was still not set. Then it set and it took every surgical instrument we could think of to extract it.
Final score:
143points
Jonathan 4 years ago
I'd be curious as to exactly what thought process he had going on here lol
Bisces 3 years ago
DIY dildo? You know trying to make a mold and cast? Idk
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
He read the label and thought "Hard as Nails? Here I go for the grace of God!"
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
For so many of these stories, it would have been less embarrassing for the patient to have just bought the appropriate sex toy.
Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
at that point I would have cut it all off, he lost his penile privilege
Stephen Smith 3 years ago
I wonder how the glue managed to set in the condom, hard as nails come's in a tube and and it will only set in the tube if it's a few years old.
#27
My mom was an ER doctor. Years ago an older man had a motorcycle wreck on the turnpike and they were ready when he came in. Everyone took their places (he was unconscious) and began cutting clothes off. All of the sudden everyone stopped…. He had a tiny padlock through the end of his penis with a chain going up to a nipple and a tiny lick holding it there. No keys to fit on his person. They had to call maintenance to bring cutters to cut the locks.
Final score:
141points
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
If they had informed them they would have the key
Load More Replies... MarioRossi 3 years ago
*Lock! Took me a while to understand that it wasn't a tiny lick on the nipple :-)
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Wow. I guess he didn't want that organ donated. (That's dark humor. In medicine, motorcylcists are nicknamed organ donors.)
Zack Podany 3 years ago
This reminds me of a public service announcement I saw on Twitter not long ago. FYI, emergency rooms do not have tools that can cut titanium.
kkathleen517 3 years ago
"A tiny LICK holding it there"??? what the f**k is that supposed to mean? Anyone?
kkathleen517 3 years ago
Oh my God nevermind..lock they meant. I'm an idiot. 🤦
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#28
I work registration in the emergency room…I’ve seen some weird stuff in the month and a half I’ve been here. We had one woman come in with a lit cigarette and a newborn…she had given birth in her car, and decided to wait to come in so she could finish smoking.
Final score:
132points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
A month and a half? Oh its just the beginning! Be prepared to see anything and everything.
Blake Ingram (Submission author) 4 years ago
Oh, I’ve seen some sad stuff, too…the wonderful life of the night shift makes it even better.
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
I expect that as your career goes on, you will see a mother carrying a newborn smoking a cigarette and muttering "Wassup b**ch?
Mary Peace 3 years ago
Let's be 'grateful' the baby was born OK. Can't vouch for the upbringing, tho.
Grady'sRaider 3 years ago
Watched a woman in labor get out of a cab in front of the maternity hospital. She leaned forward against a large maple tree, obviously experiencing a contraction, and took two handfuls of bark off the trunk! Word!
Lutz Herting 3 years ago
Dude, after having GIVEN BIRTH IN A CAR, you seriously deserve a smoke.
#29
Found a 6mm fragment of a metal axe in a guy's eyelid - he had no idea it was there.
Final score:
131points
Marco Conti 4 years ago
How does that happen? I had an eyelash in my eye for a couple of hours and it was hell. It felt like someone put a sequoia tree there.
Molly Block 3 years ago
I've had enough of these horror stories. I'm leaving now, to go read the national news instead, LOL. Not sure which is worse actually..... The "Proud Boys" have stormed into a library in SanFran while they were having a story time about trans people. The proud boys are a bunch of proud pr*cks if you want my opinion. Nothing but troublemakers.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Wow. Imagine if he had gone in for an MRI instead. That would have bee... Traumatizing.
Della Greymane (Submission author) 4 years ago
That actually happened to a friend of mine. He had a large piece of shrapnel in his leg that had never been removed. He developed really bad pancreatitis to the point of almost being dead. Someone put him in an MRI not knowing it was there (and him unconscious). Shrapnel came ripping out of his shin and he came to, screaming like a banshee.
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Della Greymane (Submission author) 4 years ago
He had been hit in the face when an axe had ricocheted. He thought the dark hard roundish place in his eyelid was just scar tissue. I took a dental panoramic xray and boom. Also had a BB stuck in his lower lip but he kinda knew about that one (remembered getting hit with it but couldn't remember if they got it out). Guy had a really bizarre life story, I tell ya.
Load More Replies... LadyHardanger 3 years ago
I have a spot of rust on my iris. At some point when I was about 10 I got a small metal splinter stuck in my eye, and didn't notice for a couple of years when the spot was noticeable. The eye doctor drilled the splinter to smithereens and got the remains out with a q-tip. So now I've got a brown spot on my blue eye, and I've no idea if I can get an MRI, because the doctor wasn't sure if he got all of it. I'm 40 now...
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I heard a story of a woman who had a hard contact stuck up in her eyelid for 8 years and didn't know until she started getting eye pain
#30
Saw this guy who ‘accidentally’ injected an EpiPen into his junk.
He got worried and came into the ED. He claimed it was totally an accident and just wanted to see how the thing worked, but his friend told us he was out of viagra and wanted to see if the EpiPen works as a replacement, since it’s epinephrine/adrenaline.
Spoiler alert, it doesn’t.
Final score:
128points
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Another Facebook medical education probably - when will they ever learn?
Nimues Child 3 years ago
"Facebook medical education" + "ever learning" = a hard no.
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Skyler Sage Tang (Submission author) 4 years ago
Trembling, fast heart rate, anxiety, rise of blood pressure, and infection if it's not injected into the right place (e.g. penis, butt cheeks)
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Urgent care registration staff here. Had a man come in because he "needed a boil on his arm checked out". I didn't ask him to, but he unzipped his jacket (no shirt on underneath) and showed me his arms. This was NOT just a boil, he had rubber surgical drains coming out multiple sites on each arm.
He had left an out-of-state hospital where he was being treated for purulent cellulitis without notifying doctors or getting his Rx for antibiotics. He said he had to get to Montana for a friend's funeral and didn't have time to stop long. Our doctors told him his case was too severe and he needed to go to the ER because he was septic. He refused an ambulance ride and said he'd drive himself. We checked hospital records later that day and the man never checked in at the ER. He just continued his drive across state lines.
Maybe there were eventually 2 funerals in Montana that day.
Final score:
126points
Remi 3 years ago (edited)
To be fair, people are unique in how they process different pains. I've had two separate infections get to the point of sepsis because it just feels a little uncomfortable for me. On other hand I don't handle joint pains well at all. Edit: added missing word are
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Aboredpanda 3 years ago (edited)
Jesus. When I was septic all I wanted to do/was able to do, was sleep. D: Must've been a cery dear friend. Grief will mess a person up.
Kaedy Doyle 3 years ago
Wouldn't he be running a high temp and possibly delirious, not in his right mind- so forced admittance.
#32
My mum, before retirement was a diabetic wound care specialist (UK based). One patient (no names were given) she told me about was a gentleman who came in with what looked like lots of ulcers over his leg. For those who don’t know about diabetes, patients have to look after their legs and feet due to circulation issues, due to not looking after their blood sugars. Anyway, this gentleman had these ulcers on his legs and my mum asked “what on earth had happened?!!” Turned out that due to his diabetes he had lost the feeling in his legs and he was chatting away on the telephone, not realising that his new puppy had been chomping away at his legs!!!!
Final score:
123points
MaireC 3 years ago
Yeah, had a diabetic patients chart a few years ago, where he didn't realise how bad his feet were until the dog licked his toe off😬 ...and the guy who didn't realise he'd broken a bone in his foot, and didn't take off his boots for a few months (was out in the wilderness in Alaska). It worked its way through the skin, but his foot was so necrotic it didn't bleed. Amputations started with the foot, and the last I saw was it had been taken up to the hip. Diabetics, check your damned feet please!!! If you can't maneuver enough to see with your eyes, use a mirror!!!!
That Person 3 years ago
I heard a story from my mom's friend at the hospital that she once worked as a nurse and had a diabetic man come in who needed his foot amputated because his new puppy had eaten half of it
Barbara Vandewalle 3 years ago
I have friend who did not take care of her diabetes. It destroyed her eyesight. She is blind.
Hyde and Seek 3 years ago
Puppies(7 months & younger) will chew everything they can get their mouth around and will try to eat said thing a few examples:shoes ,socks,lingerie,prosthetic limbs,chairs,couches and people.
Load More Replies... #33
A 'Rampant Rabbit' in the bowel. Amazing x-ray! Ouch.
Final score:
122points
Pa4040 4 years ago
Wait what? Was that an actual rabbit?? Or is it just the name of some adult toy that I never heard of ?
David Brown 3 years ago
I worked in the er for a short time before transitioning into being a paramedic. One night during a full moon this guy comes flying up the ambulance ramp blowing his horn and blinking his lights screaming his "friend" was being eaten alive. We got his buddy out of the car and onto a stretcher and straight to a room. He had no visible bite wounds and was dressed about as weirdly as you'd probably imagine. Doctor comes in asking the normal questions and the patient and his friend go quiet. Come to find out they were experimenting with butt play and dude put two hampsters up his a*s. Animals doing what animals do started fighting, clawing, and gnawing their way around trying to seak freedom from their captivity. He ended up having surgery to repair what damage was done and not one but both hampsters somehow survived the ordeal. Two of the operating room nurses ended up with butt hampsters as pets. By far one of the weirdest nights and experiences of my life.
Aamna Shah 3 years ago
Wow! This made me laugh and cringe at the same time.
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mamafrog 4 years ago
Lol, had to read the explanations in the comments because my mind immediately went to when the stories about Gerbils or Hamsters in delicate places was a thing.
Roxanne D'souza 4 years ago
Meanwhile when I was about a year old, my mom was once cleaning my diapers and she found a porcelain white rabbit mixed in with my you-know... Turns out I was playing with the figurine and then shoved it into my diaper when I got bored. She still laughs when she tells this story
Susan Bosse 3 years ago
Used to work in Medical Records at a medical center. Rabbit or a silver bullet happened often. Also live gerbils. People are such freaks. Not judging at all but there's just no other way to say it. Haha
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Oh, c'mon. We're all judging these freaks, for no other reason than for animal cruelty.
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David Brown 3 years ago
People with weird sexual kinks will sometimes put hampsters or gerbils up their butt for sexual gratification amongst other things.
Load More Replies... Uber Mensch 4 years ago
I trust you meant "flareD" base, because flareS tend to get rather warm...
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I work in an Emergency Operations Centre where the emergency calls come in. Took a call from someone reporting an RTC. Patient wasn't breathing well so I advised the caller to put one hand on the patient's forehead and another hand under their neck and to tilt the head back to open the airways. Caller said 'I'm not going to do that'. When I asked why he said 'He doesn't have a forehead any more'. The patient had jumped from a bridge and then been hit by a lorry and dragged several feet along the tarmac.
Final score:
122points
Lutz Herting 3 years ago
Yeeeaaaaah - you know, maybe THAT is the information you should START THE CALL WITH INSTEAD.
Al Padilla 3 years ago
A hunter, out in the woods calls 9-1-1 (Emergency) on his cell phone "Emergency Operator, please state your problem." "My friend! We were out hunting, and suddenly he collapsed. I think he's dead!" "Well, first make sure he's dead." [BANG!!!] "OK, now what?"
Emily 3 years ago
Please tell me this is a joke! Why would an emergency operator phrase it like that?!? If they were friends, why would the caller think shooting the guy who collapsed was the right thing to do? If he called 911 in a panic, why would he then shoot his friend?
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Grady'sRaider 3 years ago
In the days before motorcycle helmet bubbles were invented, I saw one of my classmates come to school with his nose bandaged and two short tubes sticking out.
#35
Patient was me but it wasn't anything really weird...I got hit by a hockey ball in the face, which hit the bone on my right cheek...very clean and semi-deep cut so blood went EVERYWHERE and fast. Other kids I was training with were horrified, as were coaches. Not going to lie, even with holding pressure against the cut when I turned up in the ER it was hard to tell where I was injured there was so much blood. I looked like Carrie. Traumatised more than a few people. Oops.
Final score:
117points
Thay 4 years ago
Ouch! My face hurts now but hope yours is all better..... Damn I seriously feel that😆
Yula Lopez (Submission author) 4 years ago
All better thanks, even got a cool scar (not hugely noticeable though thankfully). Took a few weeks for people to look at me normally again though ;)
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Stephanie Downs 4 years ago
What is a hockey ball? Is it called a ball in other areas of the world, rather than puck? Or is this a totally different game? Lol
Jenny Pugh 3 years ago
The is ice hockey and field hockey. Field is played with a ball.
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Brenda 3 years ago
At 16, I flipped over the handlebars of my 10 speed, skid several feet on my face & arms, rolled over & bike landed on ribs. Chin torn from right side of mouth leftward 5 inches. At ER they gave me white towels and a bucket , which I filled 3x waiting for plastic surgeon. Thought it would never stop bleeding. One last covered her kids eyes walking past. It was pretty gruesome looking
Well then 3 years ago
When I was a kid I got a deep cut on the bridge of my nose. My brother found me in the bathroom with blood running down both sides of my face, staring in the mirror like a zombie. He said I just turned, looked at him, and went back to staring in the mirror. He said he could see my bone. I didn't start screaming until he said he was going to have to take me to the hospital.
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
I tripped once time, fell and hit my face on the side of the house against a drain pipe. Missed the edge of the brick by centimeters. Had a nasty black eye but luckily no broken bones. Still have problems with the nerve endings in my cheek
Atchaco-Leigh 3 years ago
I have had this injury myself though the hockey ball hit just further up my face breaking my nose, fracuring my skull and causing 3 teeth needing to be replaced. It hurts like hell. I hope you're okay now. Also, at least you managed to notice, because of how mine hit my face there wasn't much blood and also because of my high pain tolerance I didn't really notice that my nose had broken, I just thought I was having a nosebleed which for me is normal so no one thought anything of it.
Victor Botha 3 years ago
BALL FIELD HOCKEY IS PLAYED WITH A BALL.. Not the entire world revolves around Ice Hockey.
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#36
When I was about 5 or 6 I shoved a peanut so far up my nose I had to go to hospital to have it removed, the thing that I remember most was how surprised I was that the doctor just dropped the peanut (once removed) down the back of a radiator instead of giving it back to me to eat.
Final score:
104points
iBlank 4 years ago
for me it was a berry off a holly bush... was shooting them out of my nose at my brother, and accidentally breathed in once
Henry Cheves 4 years ago
I got a penny, but my dad got it out with tweezers. I also had a scrap of paper wedged so far deep in my ear I needed surgery to get it out.
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Marco Conti 4 years ago
Why in the back of a radiator (as in a environmental heating element)? Wasn't it biological waste after it had been in your nose for a while? Maybe "radiator" has a different meaning here?
LAWLAWLAW (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yup the warm up a room type radiator, this was about 40yrs ago and it was only a peanut
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Leoninus Fate 3 years ago
"giving it back to me to eat" ....I....I think that's enough BP today... Good bye
Julie Blaylock 3 years ago
Cinnamon red hot candy. Didn’t have to go to the hospital, but I remember my Dad holding me on the kitchen counter laughing while I cried and the thing melted and came out. Burned like H***!
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
As a kid, I once put a crayon in my ear and had to go to the ER to have it removed. About 2 hours later, my aunt asked me how I managed to do such a dumb thing. So I showed her... Yup, back to the ER!
malenchki 4 years ago
Hasn't every child done this. My friend did it when she was nine with a bit of lego
Notyomama 3 years ago
No. I didn't do that and none of my siblings did either.
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HappySquirrel 3 years ago
I think every parent has these stories about their kids. About a week after a hospital stay when he was 14 months old for rotavirus & pneumonia, I noticed concerning symptoms: nasty green runny nose, congested breathing from his nose, and foul breath. Took him to the doctor, ended up seeing the elderly pediatrician on staff, who took one look at my son, and asked 3 questions: "Green snot from the nose - only one one side?" "Breath smells like something died?" "Acts like he can't breathe?" I answered yes to all - he responded: "Got something stuck up there. I'll have him 100% cured in about 10 seconds." He grabbed a small forceps, stuck them into my son's nostril & yanked out a large piece of cotton gauze. He was right - 100% cured. Apparently, a nurse left it on his bed in the hospital and he stuffed it into his nose while no one was looking.
Sharron Lindsay 3 years ago
My daughter stuck a dolls eye up her nose. Weirdest thing I've seen - a nostril looking at me.
#37
My co worker from years ago was a RN and she was fond of casually telling ER horror stories. One memorable story she told was when this motorcyclist was brought into ER, fully conscious, but he had a broom handle that had impaled him through the stomach, he had somehow run into a broom stick. He had been wearing a leather jacket and the zipper had come out the other side.
Final score:
92points
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
A friend of my dad died when they made a motorcycle tour. That friend's brakes were broken. He flew out of a curve, head first into a tree. He was wearing a helmet, but of course still had a headache. Dad told him to take off his helmet to check for injuries. As the friend takes off the helmet, the skull pops open and the friend falls over dead. The helmet had held his cracked skull together. That was almost 40 years ago, Dad only got to talk about it recently. Even today he can't forgive himself for telling his buddy to take off his helmet. He could live.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Sorry, but his friend was dead the moment he hit the tree. The injury you describe, being so instantly lethal when he removed the helmet, was so extreme that it was only a matter of maybe a couple of minutes before he would have expired in any case..
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Grady'sRaider 3 years ago
In the waiting room at the ER, a guy came in wearing leathers walking like he just dropped a load in his drawers. As he went by, it became apparent all the leather was gone from the back of his clothes, and he had a terrible case of road rash.
Yourname942 3 years ago
How do you life from a punctured stomach? Maybe the broom saved his life by holding in fluids
Jaybird3939 3 years ago
Worked in Dr's offices, but not a nurse. We were sitting around telling stories, and the nurses started talking about their 1st day horror stories from other places. Some were pretty bad, and some happened at that office. One nurse, again on her first day, a patient came in with genital warts around his a**s. The cure is to freeze them with liquid nitrogen. So after the Dr did that, the nurse had to stand behind him and hold his butt cheeks apart, 10 minutes or so. We asked her what they talked about. She said "Oh, we both have dogs so we talked about that." Cool as a cucumber
MarioRossi 3 years ago
That must have been Hagrid driving his flying motorcycle through a quidditch field.
#38
My dad is an er doc and I’ve heard it all. Eyeball hanging out by optic nerve. Saved the eye. Also cysts. Lots and lots of cysts. Cups of pus. I will never be a doctor due to these stories.
Final score:
84points
Walter Brameld 4 years ago
Does an eye still work the same after that? Seems like the muscles that move it would be torn off. Do they try to reattach them?
Tee Witt 4 years ago
My ex. BIL had his eye pop out when hit with a cricket ball. The eye looked normal but he was blind in it.
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iBlank 4 years ago
yeah, i've heard the horror stories for draining cysts. Apparently they smell absolutely retched too
kit kat 3 years ago
Oh yes, probably the worst smell I've ever smelled in the ER hands down and I've smelled a lot
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ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
I think "Cups of pus" will be starring in my new nightmares... FFS
#39
Guy had a penile pump. His wife gave him a powerful bj and the thing popped! He’d come in for a replacement
Final score:
68points
Lutz Herting 3 years ago
Have you written the sentence like this deliberately? It took me several horrifying seconds to figure out WHICH "thing popped".
Hotomato (Submission author) 4 years ago
A balloon is inserted inside the penis and from what I understand there is a way to pump up the balloon from outside the penis. The balloon gets blown up so the couple can have sex. When she was overly aggressive with her sucking the internal balloon popped. So only the balloon needed to be replaced. I was a brand new student nurse.
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#40
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, i was a fairly nee nurse and the diagnosis was a long shot. It took 8-10 weeks to get the results and by then everyone assumed it was negative. Surprise!!!
Final score:
64points
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
Wow! With those kinds of things they usually tell us we've been reading waaaay to much, and come up with weird suggestions. Good on ya for speaking up and thankful they listened to you. I was an experienced nurse and had worked in a hospital where A LOT of docs would never encounter the things we dealt with in their entire careers. At a hospital I worked at later we had a patient where labs said something was wrong with his pancreas and he had a high fever. Scans showed nothing. I suggested to the doc she do something called a Spiral CT. Something not usually done. I suggested this because of what I had encountered at the previous hospital. I said that I'd bet he had an infection in the back of his pancreas. Hard to diagnose. She did, and sure enough there it was. She thanked.me for saving his life.
Tammy Wait 3 years ago
OMG! How many people have died because of a misdiagnosis?
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#41
Some years ago, I was checking into a hospital so I could get an MRI of my spine. As I was giving my info to the admin person, a man (~50's?) rushed in wearing a woman's robe. He bumped me out of the way and told the woman behind the counter "I need to see a doctor NOW! I got my penis caught in my zipper!" She politely instructed him to stand back and she would go get someone to help him, which she did. I sat there with my jaw on the floor, trying really hard not to look at the poor guy, but you know, train wreck. He moved over to a corner near the doors that medical staff would call people from and was wrestling with his issue. The admin lady came back and apologized for the interruption. We continued with my in processing and someone came to get the poor guy with the zipper mishap. Just as we were about to wrap up, one of the nurses came out to the admin lady, handed her an ID and insurance card and said "We're gonna have to admit this guy. He's into the meat and we need to do surgery". My admission process was completed by then, so I went to sit and wait for my turn to be seen. I played these events back in my head and just couldn't get over the poor guys condition and appearance. Was he caught in the act of something naughty? Was that his wife's robe? At what point do you decide it might be a good idea to seek medical assistance? Dang!!
Final score:
25points
Marilyn Holt 4 years ago
So just here I want to give kudos to every doc, nurse, registrar, assistant--anyone who works in ER because ........how do you do it? I so so so grateful for you all.
gellert grindlewald 3 years ago
same from me! (especially the ones who are working on COVID and the ones who stopped my brother from, figuratively, throwing up his insides.)
Load More Replies... Marco Conti 4 years ago
Not proud of it, but I did caught "it" in my zipper once. To be precise the foreskin. Obviously not as badly, but it hurt like nothing else and it bled all over. Getting it untangled was also not pleasant, and it made it bleed more. For context, I was camping and I put my pants on "commando" because all my underwear and swimming trunks were in the wash. Nothing kinky at all. Now that I think back, I remember another camper helping with dinner prep by chopping hot chili peppers. Then he went to relieve himself behind a bush. After we heard the screams, we thought he had turned into a werewolf.
D B (Submission author) 4 years ago
I'm sure it happens way more often than we hear about. I had just never seen anyone actually have to have it surgically removed. I was an EMT at the time and never had anything this crazy!
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Blarrg 3 years ago
Wife (nurse) was doing an intake. He had written "penile laceration" as the problem. She said she didn't need the story, just how bad is the bleeding. "Okay, here's what happened..." He wanted to tell the story. He had gotten out of the shower and was drying off. He notices in the mirror that he's got some nose hairs sticking out, so he grabs some scissors and trimming them. He fumbles the scissors, and now IT WON'T STOP BLEEDING!
#42
Not a medical worker and not a patient but my little sister once broke her collar bone on a family mountain biking trip. Was in extreme pain but decided not to tell anyone so that she could go swimming later. Jumped into a tube while swimming and ended up breaking it in another place. Had to get screws or whatever. I decided to not know all the details as medical stuff makes me nauseous. She's all good now though, still doing stupid reckless crap and i'm still waiting for her next ER visit.
Final score:
24points
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago (edited)
Thing about collarbones, is that you are better off breaking them than the spine they attach to. Which is why it's a good survival thing to have your collarbone go first it's your body's crumple zone
Dane-ish 3 years ago
What spine? Collarbone, aka, the clavicle, attachs between the sternum and the humerus in the shoulder joint. Nowhere near the spine!
Load More Replies... #43
Why are so many sexual stupid problems are clogging up our ER's? I am not a prude I was a nurse years ago. We had this problem then but I don't think as frequently. People don't want to or can't learn or learn from uneducated media (Facebook and the like) are promoting these problems with gusto! Example if hand sanitizer kills COVID - drink some - it has been done with the same results as COVID! People just use that thing called a brain and maybe it will save your life or save you from a stupid embarrassing situation.
Final score:
21points
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
Isn't a big percentage of ER cases people who have something unusual stuck in their r****m?
Jaded Queen 4 years ago
It does seem like people r turning more animal than humans. Only animals in heat Don't have control over there sexual urges. People always think that being celibate or not having sex at 15 means ur suppressing ur desires but it should mean u truly have successfully rose above it. Suppression never works, but doing anything in the moment is also not a great way
Aeon Flux 4 years ago
This is completely untrue. The latest generation to reach sexual maturity (Zoomers) has significantly less sex than anyone preceding them, and they also tend to wait a lot longer before becoming sexually active. Finally, "asexual" was not even a concept people spoke of when I was growing up--so your "feeling" that the world is somehow more sexual than ever is incorrect.
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Brian Bennett (Submission author) 4 years ago
Miss Frankfurter: Please forgive me I did not mean that things like Munchausen's syndrome was something that was clogging our ER's, I know both of the Munchausen' s and the by Proxy one. I have been involved with both - very difficult situations and sometimes tricky to solve. I must say the dog bite was serious and needed medical attention. I think you handled the other guy with the pink eye, very well I would have told him to shut up and sit down because he my get a black eye to match the pink one! So please accept y apologies. Thanks
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I used to clean operating rooms at a local hospital. There was a little dumbwaiter type setup that went from the o.r. rooms to the morgue. It was always open when my shift began. Sometimes there were sad things in there (a child's finger), but we were always amazed by the sheer number and variety of things we saw that were removed from peoples butts! The weirdest was a mannequin hand!
Final score:
21points
Sean Glynn (Submission author) 4 years ago
We asked. This was his third trip to the o.r. in 4 years, all for "i slipped and fell and it was on the floor and went in" type problems.
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A mom and her adult son came to the ER one Saturday evening with a complaint of "cholesterol crisis."
Final score:
17points
Jeff Lazar (Submission author) 4 years ago
Nope. Just bored on a Saturday night and decided that the county hospital would be a good place to kill some time.
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LittleWombat 3 years ago
Sounds like a former friend of mine. An adult man but true mama's boy, always taking his mom wherever she wants to go even if it makes no sense. Instead of telling her something isn't logical, he'd just go along w it. Which would be fine if it wasn't something like this that wastes time and clogs up an ER...
#46
My Grandparents were always at the hospital (both with long-term conditions), and they loved talking to other patients. Grandad got chatting to a man in his early 30s with a hole in his heart. I had been told that is a condition babies Always die from, very soon after birth.
Final score:
15points
Lisa Shaw 4 years ago
Babies don't typically die of a hole in the heart, I have two daughters with holes in the heart and they are 30 and 37 years old, they can live with the hole. Significant holes can be closed, if necessary.
Happi doggi (ve/ver/vis) 4 years ago
I was born with a hole in my heart; It healed by itself. Did not think people died from it.
Load More Replies... Skyler Sage Tang 4 years ago
Tetralogy of fallot is what I'm assuming you are referencing here, OP. Thankfully in this period of time, we have well developed surgeries that correct the defects in ToF. As long as you get it all completed before the age of one, it's incredibly rare for children to perish from ToF.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
When I was a student nurse I looked after a little boy with it. We did not have the surgeries back then. He died. But yes, babies can be born with a tiny hole in their heart. Is a hole that is between a chamber wall that divides the right side of the heart and the left. It can close up as the child grows. And yes, some people can live a normal life with a tiny one and is often not found until an autopsy is done for whatever other reason.
Load More Replies... Bonnie Edwards (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
Also, look up a TV series called "Sex sent me to the ER". very interesting, and mostly entertaining. I have much older medical/ surgical people in my family. My books as a child included my uncle's old medical text books (in full colour). I can only go by what I've been taught/ told by people who have medical training. Plus, I had an aunt die as a baby from a hole in the heart. It's my understanding that every child in the womb has that opening between the different ventricles, and they close up around the time of birth to allow the heart to function properly... and yet this does not always happen. I'm so glad to hear that the surgeries are available now to fix this.
Natalia Maciel 3 years ago
There are heart malformations that are more complex than others... babies do die from heart malformations
cryssH 3 years ago
My grandparents had a son in 1920, he died the same day. He was a 'blue baby', had a hole in his heart, my mom was 5 when he was born/died.
Load More Replies... #47
Not a doctor but I manage medical care so I've seen it all. One lady worked in a cannery for decades. Not young. Decided she had suffered little bits of metal in her vajayjay from her work. Went to the clinic, spread herself wide, and insisted the poor doctor take a long hard look. Poor guy. She was just crazy is all.
Final score:
14points
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
in some places, they call it that. Or it's to avoid censoring..
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ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
Long and hard (insert Beavis and Butthead laugh here)... I'll show myself out
#48
Not the doctor, I was the patient. Well, one of them. My younger brother and I were taking turns getting spun upside down by my older brother. I was being spun upside down and my younger brother got in the way. My tooth went into his forehead. My brother started bleeding and my tooth got knocked lose. My brother had to get butterfly stiches and I had to wear a retainer for a while. To this day my brother has a tiny scar on his eyebrow and I don't know about now but the second to last time I went to the dentist they said my tooth was still a little lose. I doubt it's still loose though because the orthodontist probably would have mentioned it when I got my braces Monday.
Final score:
10points
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Deutschland Mädchen (Post author) 4 years ago
To those who are commenting negatively on this thread: this was just supposed to be a fun place were people can share some interesting medical stories. No one except for the posters know who the patients are. Thank you KimB for your help in corrections. I didn't mean to offend anyone with this AskPandas. Enjoy your day.
X YQ 4 years ago
Imagine how many ER visited could be avoided if people stopped shoving stuff in their a$$.
MonsterMum 3 years ago
People won't stop! If they didn't feel shame buying appropriate toys (with flared bases) there would be less 'lost' items. People need educating.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago
Today I learned that do-it-yourself sex appears to be the leading cause of visits to the ER. That and drunken bets. I was in a car accident about 24 years ago and they took forever to look at my injuries, but promptly attended to the woman in the next bay who had hurt her back doing some sort of drunken party challenge.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago (edited)
My mom was mending my dad's pants when she sewed right over her finger. She jerked and the needle broke off in her finger. She cane to me, "I think we need to go to emerg". The doctors didn't believe that it was still in her finger until the x-rayed it. Then they cut her finger open on the fingerprint side and pulled it through. She reminded me to be careful when I sew
mandy the capibara 3 years ago
ha, I've had the exact same accident! I felt a bit ashamed about going to the doctor for it, because it seemed like a minor injury to me, so I first spend an evening pushing and poking it hoping it would pop out like a splinter, which it didn't because it got stuck in the bone. Poor surgeon had a whale of a time trying to get it out, and I got a stern talking to about taking my injuries more seriously ;)
Load More Replies... LW 3 years ago
I had a patient who was African American, born and raised in a southern state. He had such severe mental illness and would lapse into these dissociative states where he would chant neo-nazi slogans and say the most appalling racist things about Jews and Black people. We couldn't let any of the staff who were black anywhere near him because he would just attack them. It was so startling and sad to witness.
CHuZ 3 years ago
I was a junior doctor (F1) doing ward round with my consultant and registrar and went to see a long term patient in a side room. Out of the corner of my eye I see a pair of bare boobs. Turn my head and realise there's a full size blow up sex doll in the corner of his room. Consultant's eyes flickered to it briefly and then carried on talking to the patient. Registrar carried on writing in the patient notes. Patient answered all our questions as normal. We exit the room without any acknowledgement of the sex doll.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
Not me but one of my oldest friends; when she was on rotation as a 3rd year med student, she did a stint in A&E. One evening a guy came in with two Bic biro pen lids and the handle of a plastic teaspoon down the end of his penis. He had apparently, inserted the pen with the lid on for reasons only known to him. But when he pulled it out, the clip on the lid snagged and remained inside. He poked another pen down, lid first in an attempt to get the first one out but this failed and that lid also snagged and stayed inside. THEN, he inserted the plastic teaspoon handle first, to try and get the two pen lids out but the handle snapped off and it was at this point, that he decided he should probably get to A&E.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
In my stint(s)? Saw same, witha knitting needle. We called in a psych consult.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
ER duty in 2021: Guy comes in hand wrapped up, with a baggie of ice and a finger in it. "Can you put this back on?"... Us: When did it get cut off. Him: Couple days ago. .... That's a no. (Reason he didn't come in: "It doesn't hurt that bad." And people ask why I don't stick with *practice* instead of *research* in medicine?!)
KimB 3 years ago
7 years in the ER taught me never underestimate people doing dumb things lol
Load More Replies... Deutschland Mädchen (Post author) 4 years ago
To those who are commenting negatively on this thread: this was just supposed to be a fun place were people can share some interesting medical stories. No one except for the posters know who the patients are. Thank you KimB for your help in corrections. I didn't mean to offend anyone with this AskPandas. Enjoy your day.
X YQ 4 years ago
Imagine how many ER visited could be avoided if people stopped shoving stuff in their a$$.
MonsterMum 3 years ago
People won't stop! If they didn't feel shame buying appropriate toys (with flared bases) there would be less 'lost' items. People need educating.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago
Today I learned that do-it-yourself sex appears to be the leading cause of visits to the ER. That and drunken bets. I was in a car accident about 24 years ago and they took forever to look at my injuries, but promptly attended to the woman in the next bay who had hurt her back doing some sort of drunken party challenge.
Kendra Miller 4 years ago (edited)
My mom was mending my dad's pants when she sewed right over her finger. She jerked and the needle broke off in her finger. She cane to me, "I think we need to go to emerg". The doctors didn't believe that it was still in her finger until the x-rayed it. Then they cut her finger open on the fingerprint side and pulled it through. She reminded me to be careful when I sew
mandy the capibara 3 years ago
ha, I've had the exact same accident! I felt a bit ashamed about going to the doctor for it, because it seemed like a minor injury to me, so I first spend an evening pushing and poking it hoping it would pop out like a splinter, which it didn't because it got stuck in the bone. Poor surgeon had a whale of a time trying to get it out, and I got a stern talking to about taking my injuries more seriously ;)
Load More Replies... LW 3 years ago
I had a patient who was African American, born and raised in a southern state. He had such severe mental illness and would lapse into these dissociative states where he would chant neo-nazi slogans and say the most appalling racist things about Jews and Black people. We couldn't let any of the staff who were black anywhere near him because he would just attack them. It was so startling and sad to witness.
CHuZ 3 years ago
I was a junior doctor (F1) doing ward round with my consultant and registrar and went to see a long term patient in a side room. Out of the corner of my eye I see a pair of bare boobs. Turn my head and realise there's a full size blow up sex doll in the corner of his room. Consultant's eyes flickered to it briefly and then carried on talking to the patient. Registrar carried on writing in the patient notes. Patient answered all our questions as normal. We exit the room without any acknowledgement of the sex doll.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
Not me but one of my oldest friends; when she was on rotation as a 3rd year med student, she did a stint in A&E. One evening a guy came in with two Bic biro pen lids and the handle of a plastic teaspoon down the end of his penis. He had apparently, inserted the pen with the lid on for reasons only known to him. But when he pulled it out, the clip on the lid snagged and remained inside. He poked another pen down, lid first in an attempt to get the first one out but this failed and that lid also snagged and stayed inside. THEN, he inserted the plastic teaspoon handle first, to try and get the two pen lids out but the handle snapped off and it was at this point, that he decided he should probably get to A&E.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
In my stint(s)? Saw same, witha knitting needle. We called in a psych consult.
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ER duty in 2021: Guy comes in hand wrapped up, with a baggie of ice and a finger in it. "Can you put this back on?"... Us: When did it get cut off. Him: Couple days ago. .... That's a no. (Reason he didn't come in: "It doesn't hurt that bad." And people ask why I don't stick with *practice* instead of *research* in medicine?!)
KimB 3 years ago
7 years in the ER taught me never underestimate people doing dumb things lol
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