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

Your mom came in with 4 double sided dildos up her arse one night. I don't know whether that falls under crazy or weird though.

Yep. It happens all the time. I had one man sit up and tell his daughter bye and that her grandma was waiting for him. Laid back down and flatlined. Had no bad heart history. 63 years old and was about to be transferred to a regular room after having his galbladder removed.

Guy came into the ER one afternoon shirtless with his hand over his left nipple and a little blood draining. His girlfriend was with him,pissed. She had a plastic cup with her. In the cup was ice and some blood and his nipple. He had drunkenly let a crawfish clamp down on it and when it didn't let go he pulled it. He wanted us to sew it back on. It didn't happen. I put some saline in a specimen cup and dated it for him and gave it to him.

I bet he was heard saying "hold my beer, watch this."

Should have gotten him some formalin.

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You still in school?

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Nope.

Early morning, paramedics brought in a young woman who was drunk. She passed out on railroad tracks and a train hit her. Apparently he didn't see her. It wasn't till later on that someone spotted her and she was still alive. The train rain over her leg and it was almost completely severed. The femoral was still intact. When she got to the trauma room she kept asking what's wrong??? Shock. It was 40 degrees outside. Only reason she was was still alive. She went to surgery and no clue if she made it.

My father-in-law did his residency at Charity. He said that on occasion he'd get a patient that might as well have been the missing link.

Most interesting: kid had an acute exacerbation of intermittent cerebellar ataxia. He went from a regular kid to essentially not having a cerebellum due to some weird channelopathy. Couldn't stand. Couldn't sit up without wobbling. Had scanning speech. About a week later he was back to being a normal kid.

Gruesome- several to choose from, but the aftermath of an AK-47 drive by was pretty bad. Exit wounds are big.

Funniest- older guy comes in drunk to the ED. Walks (escorted by police) to the bathroom. He's belligerent. He yells "frick you! frick you! frick you!" While pointing at each person he passes. Then he stops when he sees me. He says "I like you," and pulled his pants down and mooned the whole ED. He got sent off to a psych facility who shipped him back a day later along with an obese African American orderly who didn't enjoy the still-drunk-18 hours later-Guy's behavior. He often told the drunkard to shut up, etc. I went to check on him because I heard yelling. The old gentleman said, "he doesn't like me. I think it's because I called him a (nice person)."

My stories are fairly lame.