re: For the nurses/docs, what's the craziest things you've ever seen at work?

1. A booger the size of an average fist.

2. Old Mexican grandpaw (67) with a rectal foreign body. Piece of pipe. On xray it looked about the size of a can of hairspray. Old days with actaul film xray and a lightbox. Had about 10 people standing around the pic/x-ray with jaws agape.

3. Resident had a psychotic break while in the ER suturing a childs hand. Dad came out to get us because "shes not right". We walk in and she is arguing with herself. We just thought she was being a weird Asian and had a bluetooth in her ear.... There was no Bluetooth. She had run the suture needle through the girls wound but kept pulling it through. Never tied the knot.

4. Girl (20-22) vs. F-150. She may have jumped in front of it last minute while walking down an FM road. She was thrown about 40 feet on impact. Her chest cage was no longer a cage. And she had a laceration about 4-5" on either side of her head just above the ear. Best we could figure was the impact whipped her head so hard that it nearly scalped her by sheer force.

Got more. But I'll leave these here for now. Others may have better.

Lol at firearm.

We had a guy 2 weeks ago come in with a perfume bottle up his arse. I guess his a-hole was rotten.

That's actually very good. My kind of humor.

My wife is a PA and did a ER rotation at the end of her schooling. Says this woman brought her husband in non responsive....said he had been acting really crazy all day....literally taking drinks of gasoline from the can and then running in circles around the yard. He did this 4 or 5 times and then all the sudden. Dropped and became unresponsive...woman asked doctor if he was going to die....doc said no....he's just ran out of gas.

You in Shreveport?

I only ask because I'm in med school there and thought I remembered you saying on here you were in Shreveport.

I once had a female patient whose left breast was infected. She probably weighed 110 pounds but her left breast was roughly the size of a fully inflated basketball compared to relatively small right breast. Over 3 liters of pus was drained off her left breast and it ultimately had to be removed entirely. I can still remember the smell to this day.

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Curious how long it takes you medical people to get used to seeing stuff like this.

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It varies person to person and depends a lot on what they're doing. A month of psychiatry gets you significantly less used to this than a month (or maybe a week) of trauma surgery.

And I'm out.

guy drove to a northshore ER from Texas with his thing stuck in a 2 liter Coke bottle. Didn't want anyone from home to know what he had done. On his way out after being "freed", he promised the staff they would never see him again.

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I was called to a guy who's left arm was soaked with gas, his arm caught fire and he drove down Hwy 190 with his arm hanging out the window. We were right down the road and when we met up with him, a trooper had him pulled over. The trooper made us wait while he wrote the guy a ticket for illegal use of a firearm.

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