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Life as a nurse, doctor or any other healthcare professional can be incredibly rewarding and unbelievably difficult at the same time. There are many pros, but the list of cons can sometimes seem to be equally as long (if not longer), especially after a hard day of helping patients, not all of whom are the brightest of the bunch.

A British nurse, who goes by the nickname GoddessBadger on Imgur, shared her work stories about the most oblivious, impolite, and downright bizarre patients she’s ever had to deal with. Upvote the stories you enjoyed the most, share them with your amigos, and keep on scrolling. While we’re on the subject of nurses, be sure to check out our post about the best and funniest nurse memes — they’re sure to get a chuckle or two out of you.

#1

Nurse-Shares-Insane

"We, of course, explain to her that cola is not an appropriate food to be giving to her child."

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Radek Suski
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People should seek official permission for having a baby

SBW71
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Need a license for everything else, having a baby should be top of the list

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Foxxy
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6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the actual f**k? I don’t understand how a parent doesn’t know that babies either need breastmilk or formula.

Karen Klinck
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But she had the cola on hand Breastfeeding 'ruins your figure'. (Don't worry, I don't understand that one either.)

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Jo Choto
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can someone go through an entire pregnancy and never find out how to feed a baby?

Karen Klinck
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask the mothers who hit up the welfare department for disposable diapers.

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Vicky Zar
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor baby. I hope it had no lasting health problems from all that caffeine and the Mom did learn her lesson.

Vicky Zar
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thinking about this... how did the baby survive a) without formula/ breastmilk and b) with caffein instead?

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A B C
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could we please establish needing a license to make babies?

Martha Meyer
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better, having to take a child raising course once they are pregnant. Otherwise baby will not be handed over after birth.

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Isle_of_stressed_pilots
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really hope that child was taken from the mother

Jolijn Njamin-Geurts van Kessel
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please tell me this baby was taken away from the parents and brought to a safe home?

Nia Loves Art
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mom sounds stupid more than malicious. They should try parenting classes and monitoring before taking the kid away.

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John L
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad part is some people truly do not know any better...

William Teach
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, this isn't a particularly funny story

Karen Klinck
Community Member
6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But it's very true. And it said they weren't all funny--just notable.

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    #2

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

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    Lucas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We also don't call them that in the UK. We have Post Mortems. Infiltration from watching US tv programmes. Not that I mind - the US produces some truly excellent tv!

    N G
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the time you've had to wait in NHS queues it's actually the same procedure

    Lainie Campey
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better to wait and receive free treatment at the point of delivery than pay extortionate prices or Insurance premiums as you do in some countries.

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    Restless
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would rather have the Biopsy :-)

    mr toto
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Follow me to the basement"

    Seabeast
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a mental healthy condition in which people genuinely think they're dead. So someone with that might be expecting an autopsy.

    Eddie
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good then it doesn't matter to you that your doctor is just "OK".

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    #3

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "Truly amazing how much this gets thrown at us NHS nurses when somebody can’t get their own way... Do they not realise that we pay taxes too?"

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    Blue Cicada
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I pay taxes! Also a threat used against police officers, firefighters, and school teachers.

    Bob Beltcher
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, what country is this for?

    blixten1982
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be any first world country... except the United States.

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    Jon Lisle-Summers
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some parts of the country are so expensive that NHS nurses have to use food banks.

    Karen Klinck
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    welfare examiners get that too. Always when someone wants special privileges...

    Joyce Stewart
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nurses are the hardest working people I've ever known. I've been hospitalized several times over the years and they just amaze me.

    Flavia Slag
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my gosh I would get that all the time.

    Mark Howell
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Self employed. It's 9 am lets go play golf ;o)

    Christine Ladyman
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still got this working in private hospitals overseas. ..like their insurance covered them to use us as servants. When visiting child ran out of the room one day, I heard the father tell his wife not to worry, 'the nurses can keep an eye on him' !!!!

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    GoddessBadger’s work stories were a booming success on Imgur. It even made the front page! Her meme collection got 4,930 upvotes and was viewed over 150,220 times at the time of writing. But these numbers keep on getting bigger and bigger, as the stories go even more viral.

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    The emergency room nurse from England detailed just how weird her shifts can get: from one patient refusing suppositories because they’re ‘not gay’ to a mother giving her baby fizzy drinks instead of formula. [Groans internally]

    It takes the patience of a saint to get through to people who are as oblivious as this. So we’re probably all grateful that there are so many healthcare professionals out there who are patient enough to excuse our mistakes.

    #4

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "She was at LEAST 80 years old"

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    Serbob
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My (now passed) 90 year old grandmother said she didn't want to date anyone in her retirement home because they were all too old for her and she didn't have the energy to lift her butt in the air anymore. She had 8 children and said that every time she took her pants off she got pregnant. I hope I'm as spunky when I'm 90.

    deanna woods
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your grandmother sounds like she was a cool lady. I'm sure you will be that spunky.

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    tuzdayschild
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was nervous and asking all the questions on the checklist.

    Lucas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aw... not. I know students are there to learn but that's frightening.

    Karen Klinck
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's honestly automatic. Plus, you can get downchecked by an a*****e if you don't. My mother got carded at 84.

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    Άρης Παπαδόπουλος
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, quite recently a 73 yo Indian woman named Erramatti Mangayamma gave birth to twin girls. And it didn't hurt to ask :)

    Seabeast
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I'm over 60 and was asked that by the paramedics when I broke my ankle last fall, ha ha.

    Karen Klinck
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The first English sentence all nonspeaker refugees learn is 'Are you pregnant?" And you know you've been doing your job too long when you've asked the 23-yr-old *guy* at your desk that! (And yes, I did.)

    Ruth Beaty
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is funny, I get the same question at 65. Look at us you fools! At least read the chart and see our age.

    Loren Pechtel
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup. My wife was going in for minor surgery, the nurse had a problem with the lack of a pregnancy test. Yes, my wife looks young but you're holding her file, you should know her actual age (70 at the time.) That file also indicates she's taking hormone replacement therapy--and why would that be if she wasn't through menopause?

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    Lisa Shaw
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother was one of eleven children, my grandfather used to say every time he used the loo and shook it in her direction she got pregnant.

    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mother or grandmother?.....and shook what exactly?...was it a portable loo?

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    Madonna Rose
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m 79 and I don’t get it...could you put it another way?

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    #5

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

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    Restless
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh dear....that misunderstanding can get them into jail, never mind ER

    Bored Fox
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @Restless People can have fetishes for illegal stuff but that does not always mean that the person has done crimes. So for example not all necrophiles have sex with corpses - just fantasies about it are enough for them. I once discussed with one person who was a necrophile - she just wrote very macabre sex fantasies to one website where stories like that were allowed and that was enough for her. And she knew perfectly that having sex with actual corpse would be illegal and also very unsanitary.

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    deanna woods
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do people really get medical terms that confused. A necrophiliac is attracted to dead people and a hemophiliac's blood is unable to clot. Their meanings aren't even close.

    Vex Boxx
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, people do stuff like this a lot.

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    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are you sure they weren't merely confessing?

    Something
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Word mixups like these can be normal, but in certain cases it can be a symptom of a brain issue.

    Blue Cicada
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very true. But, sadly, many people are undereducated. They have not taken advantage of the education available to them, and have not actively tried to strengthen their knowledge.

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    Jette Wang Wahnon
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father when confronted with a couple of aggressive Jehovah Witnesses.....Sorry guys,I am not allowed to talk to you,I am a philatelist! worked a treat

    Eddie
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The morgue is down the hall and to the left."

    Kim Smith
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't be for advertising necrophilia... ugh.

    cybermerlin2000
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A misunderstanding when arriving for an appointment, a concern when knocking on the door to the coroner

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    #6

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

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    Restless
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seduced, sedated.....i will go for either/or lol

    N G
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either way, i expect to be in bed and asleep in 10mins

    tuzdayschild
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill Cosby is in jail for interpreting these 2 words as the same thing.

    Kjorn
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    saw to much nurse in porn maybe?

    Vex Boxx
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Wait, do I get a choice?"

    Hamlets twin
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is something endearing about being seduced into surgery. A nice little distraction before the anesthesia kicks in.

    John-Paul Bitler
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Patient: Hello Doctor! Nurse: What do you need? Patient: I'm here to be seduced Nurse: Lucky you, I'm an undercover porn star Patient: That's not what I'm here for but I'm down for that 5 hours later Desk consultant: On a scale of one to ten, how was our treatment? Patient: 11/10. Oh, and, you mind if I go into residency here?

    Jennie-Lind Normand
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My great grandmother told a story about her neighbour going in to be seduced to have her baby. Wait, do you mean induce? Seduce, induce, all fiddlin with the same hole! She was hilarious

    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing sexier than a doctor or nurse in their scrubs. Or do I have to remind y'all of J.D?

    Christopher Dixon
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Twenty Twenty Twenty-four hours to gooooo...

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    Speaking of patience with patients (pun intended), Jacksonville University has some great advice on how to deal with incredibly inconvenient individuals. The most important thing for a healthcare professional is to remain calm and maintain control.

    Furthermore, it’s vitally important that nurses, doctors, and other hospital staff be as empathetic as they can. If a patient is angry or upset, they might simply want to complain a tad, so try talking to them, show them that you understand their pain and that you’re on their side. We’re all human beings and we all want to be heard.

    #7

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "Racism is surprisingly common. I am British but not white so I face a lot of these comments. Sometimes I can be on an entire shift without a white British staff member...

    If you’re a racist, I have one thing to say to you... 'Grow the f**k up.'"

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    Foxxy
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand asking for someone who is more fluent in your language due to misunderstandings and language barriers but definitely not because of race. That’s just ignorant. My regular GP is an Indian and there are rare occasions where he says something that I need him to repeat and he is happy to do so. He is one of the best GP’s I have come across in a very long time.

    Lucas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I must admit I saw my psychiatrist on Monday, he's Indian, and we got into a disagreement about NHS funding (as you do) and unfortunately I couldn't understand most of what he was saying as he started talking more quickly and he has a strong accent which I struggle with already. Other than that one small issue I couldn't care where, what or who they are as long as they know what they are doing.

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    Pittsburgh rare
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like when some people ask "Where are you from?" and once replied they go further with "but where are you from ORIGINALLY?" From your very same birth place, f****r.

    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate that s**t. Just ask my ethnicity or STFU with “where are you from”

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    ADHORTATOR
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know a german doctor working in London, at a time he was the only white doctor at the hospital there, all the others were African or Indian. So some of the (white) english patients, especially the older generation, were happy to see him, they considered him to be a "true" doctor because he was white...until he started to talk with his strong german accent... one of the patients said "the only white doctor is a f*cking nazi!"

    Lucas
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FFS people - let it go. The war has been over for 74 years.

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    Louise B
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to work in the NHS. It never ceased to amaze me that people were concerned with the race of the person treating them, often saving their lives. They should be grateful that The NHS runs on the dedication and selflessness of the staff

    Marcellus the Third
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it works both ways.... My NHS GP speaks slowly in simple sentences to me & my partner (but not our kids!). Thanks, we both have science PhDs, both speak 5+ languages, lived and worked in English for two decades; and yes we've established weird accents --- to maximize understandability for non-native speakers... Natives can figure it out anyway, but to say a Spanish, Russian or Indian colleague it can help a lot if you basically pronounce most letters that are written; like not pronounce "car" and "call" the same as in some accents.

    Foxxy
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course the language barrier can work both ways, unfortunately many GP’s can’t just change patients. But if they are able to swap patients with another Dr because of the language barrier, then I don’t see an issue with them doing so.

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    Blue Cicada
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, you want a white nurse? Well, I told my supervisor I didn't wanna deal with any a******s on this shift. I guess neither one of us gets what we want today.

    Full Name
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the patient meant "I want someone from the culture I grew up in and who speaks the language I do perfectly". It was just worded poorly. I don't think the actual skin colour was the issue.

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    Daniel Mason
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want whoever does the job best!

    Rebekah
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy.... I generally try not to p**s off the people that could hold my life in their hands.

    deanna woods
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My aunt urologist is an Indian guy and he is one of the best doctors that our family has ever come across.

    Ben Steinberg
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know, sounds like the kinda guy who really takes the p**s outta your aunt... /s

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    Nea
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was returning from New York to Bombay with my father-in-law (a neurologist) and on the flight a guy had some seizure. The pilot asked if there was any doctor on board. When my father-in-law came back from seeing the guy, he told there were 11 indian doctors on that one flight. It ws funny as health sector in India continues to be very poor.

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    #8

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "We end up giving them an IV instead since they were adamant they didn’t want a suppository."

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    A B C
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's funny (and a little sad at the same time) how many men still believe that anything touching their a**s means being gay.

    Dr.Scott
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Criticism is exactly why I never tell people about my alien abduction.

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    Ryo Bakura
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "This is a special suppository. Yes, it has to go in your a*s, but once it's in, it'll never be followed by a d**k. The downside is you have to tell every guy you meet that you shove suppositories up your a*s, but if you also let them know they stop you from being gay, you'll never be hit on by a dude for the rest of your life."

    Christy Smith
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    6 years ago

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    You're just being funny, right? I mean surely you're not that r******d. I get that you're homophobic, because you're actually gay, but you also believe a magic wizard is in the sky who gives a f**k about you & what you do ... which is completely narcissistic. Rest assured that this so called god wouldn't care about you, you're not remotely important so free yourself & just come out of the closet. Your existence isn't even the tiniest blip on Earth's timeline, you'll be forgotten soon after so just live your life, graduate from dildos up your a*s to an actual d**k. Free yourself, heaven / hell is man made & used to control people to act how they see fit. It's a big scam, get out of the closet!

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    Cindy Snow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell him "it's ok it's a female supossitoty"

    Vicky Zar
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow how stupid can you get?

    SkyTheImaginer
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well you've already got your head up your a*s so I don't see your problem.

    L McN
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Irony here is that in the past, when homosexuality was highly frowned upon (to the point of death sentences) there were medical practices that were entirely useless, but involved blowing smoke up a** (literally, not figuratively) or feeding someone through the a**s due to a sore tooth. So, this tells me that the entire a**s thing is fairly recent despite the fear/ban of homosexuality being prevalent.

    Blue Cicada
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the best lines from Futurama. "I can't swallow a pill that big!" Professor, "good news! It's a suppository!"

    bee pot
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    jesus. I wish I was surprised but I've actually met a guy who didn't wipe because it was gay. guy's, are ya'll ok? because im starting to think hell no. none of ya'll are ok. just super insecure all the time and it's sad. genuinely, I worry about men.

    Lu
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The main point for every man with this fear, is that any kind of a**l invasion is terrifying. I wonder where in our evolution, this fear came about haha.

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    #9

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "After much deliberation and a look through their medical records, we realised they meant “Sickle Cell” as in anemia."

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    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm Wilford Brimley, and I have diabeetus."

    Tyra Gordon
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, that's what it feels like

    Jane W.
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, sick in hell probably describes better how they feel.

    Madonna Rose
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least they didn’t mean they were gonna be sick in a cell!

    Sharon Nicoll
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have to deal with ignorance/stupidity. Sad!

    Analyn Lahr
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought British people were smarter than this.

    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're really not. Drinking lots of tea, moaning about the rain, and insisting that you have to be white to be British, has made some of us dumb. Others are just average enough to muddle through life, and those who are left are the real smart ones, like Stephen Hawking was.

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    Arguing with patients is also never the answer because it doesn’t lead to anything other than more arguments: it’s far better to be respectful; the ER is not the place for a screaming match over whose opinion is correct. That being said, you have to set concrete limits on how a patient can treat you. If a person is being disrespectful, say that this is the wrong way to treat you and walk away. At the end of the day, if you’re feeling exhausted and emotionally sapped, just remember, that you’re doing this job for a reason and that the temporary inconvenience is worth it in the long run.

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    #10

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "This was truly one of the most bizarre excuses I’ve ever heard for a dildo stuck up the butt. This patient insisted that he was minding his own business, running as he normally does in the morning when a dildo wielding assailant appeared and started chasing after him. He claimed he tripped and that’s when our mysterious dildo man inserted the toy... Did we believe him... No... and they never caught the dildo wielding man."

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    Dr.Scott
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While you're making jokes we have a dildo wielder running around unabated.

    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I've seen her on here. She hides them in her cleavage.

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    Wil Vanderheijden
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's the difference between “orifice" and “orifice"?

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    John L
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom was a nurse and told me that it happens more often than you think...

    Simon Murray
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend of mine dated a nurse who told us that they were so sick of guys coming in with vacuum cleaner poles stuck on their d***s that they would make them sit in the waiting room with an ice pack around the pole to get the swelling to go down

    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, dude. Man up and admit you were experimenting. Next time remember lots of lube.

    TheExtremeSmell
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If there’s a hole someone’s gunna get bored and put stuff in it. It’s why me and cousin couldn’t have sleep overs anymore

    Άρης Παπαδόπουλος
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They caught him! Here is the article: https://floridaman.com/florida-man-swings-dildo-at-cops/

    April Simnel
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A little "what, what," huh? O-KAY.

    Ben Steinberg
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if he works in a orifice building...

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    #11

    Nurse-Shares-Insane

    "These types end up in the ED often and often they just need to go home and sleep it off. Discharge is often queried with “How am I supposed to get home?!” Why is that my problem? The Ambulance Service is not your personal taxi service."

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    tuzdayschild
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if you sit awhile over there in that waiting room, you can take yourself home in the morning.

    Ryo Bakura
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Yeah, my compassion left when you puked on my shoes. My apathy, however, is going to tell you that I no longer give a f**k."

    Lainie Campey
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bring back the drunk tank. Cold hosepipe by an angry copper should quickly have them wanting to leave of their own accord. Shouldn’t be in A&E in the first place. Annoys be so much these tv docs like ‘Ambulance’ that show the amount of 999 resources wasted on tanked up idiots. Either refuse the ambulance or charge them for it if ‘drunkenness’ is their only diagnosis.

    Jon Lisle-Summers
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How? The same way you left your home when you were sober. Next.

    Karen Klinck
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a client who was arrested for misusing an ambulance--he lived across the street from the hospital, got drunk,and called them claiming he had a heart attack. Upon reaching the emergency room, he announced he felt fine and didn't even go inside. Bad move...

    backatya
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they weren't stupid to get that drunk they wouldn't be in that situation

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Crawling...you need to start crawling....

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