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

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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.

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No, but went to school there. Not gonna say where I am.

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No, but went to school there. Not gonna say where I am.

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Probably a smart move

I'm neither but I usually see things first... I've seen 3 children under 6 burned to death. Seen numerous suicides with guns. Seen a hammer through someone's skull. Probably over a hundred gunshots in the head. Seen a dick split in half. Seen a glass bottle broke off in an arse. I've seen roaches crawling out of a girls vagina.
And as recently as Thursday night I was on scene of what turned out to be my friend ejected from his truck and his brains all over the road.
At this point I'm emotionally removed from everything but kids always get me. And I didn't recognize my friend the other night. The swelling from the trauma made it impossible. (Thank God, because it would of kept me from focusing on my job, which was compressions at that moment)
I probably can go on all night but I'll stop. No body sees more disturbing things than people who work the streets. Except maybe active military war personnel.
All though my crew and I have saved people before the nurses and doctors are the real heroes.

Another one last night in fact. A guy who spoke zero English came in drunk. He had 7 lacerations to his face, abdomen, and both thighs. Apparently he got into it with another guy over his woman. A box cutter did the damage. Luckily his cuts to his abdomen weren't clean through to his intestines. Each one of those was over 12" long. When the doctor went to stitch and staple him he said no to lidocaine. Tough sob

Ink pen in a guys urethra. Urologist removed it and wrote post op orders with the pen.

Apple stuck in a guys rectum.

Tons of blood all over the OR floor from a gsw

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No body sees more disturbing things than people who work the streets. Except maybe active military war personnel.

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I was a hospital corpsman with a marine infantry platoon in the Nam. Not even going to tell any of those stories because you won't believe them. BUT, while working a dirty surgery ward in Oakland, many years ago, we had a sailor that survived his aorta being severed. At the time he was only the 2nd person in history to do that. I believe his story was in Life magazine. The doctors did a hell of a job patching this guy up. His aorta was fine but the problem was his small intestine was leaking on the outside of his body on his stomach. He kept going into surgery to try and remedy the problem but there was always a leak because the small intestine couldn't heal. What was cool was we used placenta therapy on the wound. I wound walk over to the maternity ward a get a fresh placenta every few days and keep it in the refer in the treatment room. We would cut the placenta in the shape of the wound and bandage him up and that would keep the intestine from leaking on his stomach and keep the surrounding tissue protected. OH, forgot to tell you he was stabbed by his girlfriend's husband. I remember him getting his first liberty after he was somewhat recovered. You guessed right if you guessed he went back to see that same girlfriend. I'm guessing her husband was not at home.

You can't make stories like this up.

Dated a girl who was an ER nurse. She said one night a lady came running into the ER. She said help! help! A nurse came to her quickly and asked what is wrong? She said she was having sex with her dog and the dog came inside of her. She kept saying "what do I do" "What do I do!"

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I've been working in a psychiatric crisis center for 5+ years. I've got stories for days. Sad, funny, and bizarre....

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i work in psyc also. 6 yrs in may

A man thrown from a horse and impaled on a metal t-post. Survived.