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re: For the nurses/docs, what's the craziest things you've ever seen at work?
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:43 pm to John88
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:43 pm to John88
While in med school, stuff in the ED usually does not gross me out (gyno-exams, necrotic diabetic toes, car wrecks)...
Only one time that I wuss-out and had to leave to exam room: a truck driver checked in with shortness of breath. In the exam room, the nurses began to remove the dudes boots, he was not wearing socks, and I don't know how long he had those boots on... he said that he would sleep in his boots.
but his freaking entire low leg from where his boots started were covered with a combination of fungus, sheets of dead skin, and opened sores. The sight didn't affect me, but the smell was unimaginable... Feet + sweat + fungus + shoe bacteria + open wound all marinated for days!!!
I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
Only one time that I wuss-out and had to leave to exam room: a truck driver checked in with shortness of breath. In the exam room, the nurses began to remove the dudes boots, he was not wearing socks, and I don't know how long he had those boots on... he said that he would sleep in his boots.
but his freaking entire low leg from where his boots started were covered with a combination of fungus, sheets of dead skin, and opened sores. The sight didn't affect me, but the smell was unimaginable... Feet + sweat + fungus + shoe bacteria + open wound all marinated for days!!!
I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
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Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:45 pm to Lokistale
Did he live?
Posted on 2/9/16 at 11:07 am to Lokistale
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I lasted about 10 seconds in the room, a mask didn't help... I could still smell that odor in my nose for days.
I know that smell. Lady came in an ambulance with severe pain. She was really large and had her own med bed so they put that in the ambulance. Turns out she had not been out of bed for any reason whatsoever in roughly a month. Her kids kept brining her food and water and she would just go on herself. When we finally rolled her over it was the grossest thing I've ever seen in my life and the smell was more than I could bare. Her open wounds went all the way to bone on her lower back and pelvis. There was no flesh remaining in some parts of her backside.
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