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

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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.

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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.