being on the front lines of health care
doctors and nurses face tragedies and
intense situations every day giving them
plenty of disturbing er stories from
horrible accidents to psychotic patients
medical professionals deal with a lot in
their jobs they've seen stuff we
couldn't even imagine and probably don't
want to think about in many cases these
disturbing medical stories have pushed
them to the edge making it a struggle to
have faith in humanity I'm gonna warn
you right here and now many of these
stories are very troubling and contain
graphic information so don't say I
didn't warn you ready to see what it's
like to be a healthcare professional I'm
Mike with list twenty five and here are
25 most disturbing er stories 25 one
redditor explained that his dad was a
nursing student and had to bring in a
woman who acted out violently
she flailed everywhere and then started
attacking herself eventually she ripped
out her own eye it hung out of the
socket by the optic nerve as they were
trying to restrain her 24 an ER nurse
attended to a young man who came in
complaining of having flu-like symptoms
for three days he wasn't going to come
in let started getting a weird rash
tragically he was experiencing the end
of stages of bacterial meningitis before
long he was bleeding out of the eyes and
diminished quickly when he died he was
soaked in blood and had a purple and
swollen face
he was completely unrecognizable 23 one
man came into the ER complaining about
having a pain in his bottom and not
being able to sit down he said he had
some kind of foreign body in his anus
when they examined him they found he had
a stool leg up there he said he had
accidentally fallen on it and it had
gotten stuck he told the nurses not to
tell his wife 22 according to one
redditor a 500-pound man smelling like
rotten flesh was admitted into their er
they initially found him wasting away in
a car and had to cut him out when they
examined him they found rotten and
decayed flesh being eaten away by
maggots the wounds were so big his hip
bones were showing 21:1 doctor tells of
how a patient coming in with such bad
breath
his wife had forced him to come in under
the man's tongue was a small bump which
the patient said would come and go the
bump looked like a small white head and
told of an infection however when the
doctor went to make the incision to let
it drain no pus came out instead he was
met with something rock-hard he then
grabbed a small pair of forceps and
pulled on the small white bump and ended
up pulling out a 23 millimeter salivary
duct stone most salivary duct stones are
smaller than 10 millimeters 20 a woman
came into the ER complaining of pain in
her bottom so the doctor figuring it was
a lump or spot asked her to take down
her trousers so he could examine it when
he bent down to look at the object the
object looked right back it was a very
large worm he vomited and another doctor
ended up fainting 19 1 yard doctor tells
of a time a young woman who came in
clutching her eye she was followed in by
her friends who were covering their
mouths it turns out that she had stood
behind someone while they were fishing
the hook got caught in her eye luckily
for everyone involved
it was just hooked through her eyelid
and the doctor was able to numb her and
pull it through
18:1 redditor explained that they saw a
patient that had a cyst that was the
size of a jawbreaker they had to end up
lancing it and once they did it exploded
with pus and made a squeaking sound 17:1
redditor said that paramedics brought in
a 500-pound obese woman who had passed
out on her bed they had to bring her
linens with her to find a way to move
her unfortunately she died during a
cardiac workup in the cath lab and was
sent to the morgue
during her cleanup they found a dead cat
in one of her folds from then on the
cath lab was renamed cat lab until HR
found out about it 16:1 nurse was doing
chest compressions on a woman whose
heart had stopped unconscious and not
breathing they assumed the woman to be
dead but suddenly with more chest
compressions she reached up and grabbed
the nurse by the wrists before falling
back down and never coming back 15 when
it's raining or cold outside people
rarely like to get out of their cars to
run into the ER so one nurse explained
someone decided to just drive right
through the sliding double doors and
park in the hospital entryway they might
win the award for worst parking job ever
14 a man came into the ER claiming his
arm had come off in a farming accident
the nurses didn't believe him since the
man was only a little out of it and not
in terrible pain when he removed the
blanket covering up his arm the arm came
right with it he said told you so 13 1
ER staff member explained they once
received a pre alert that a patient had
had a bad auto accident and had collided
with a fence little did they know when
the patient was brought in the fence
would be coming with them a fence post
five inches across had gone through the
right side of the ribs fortunately he
survived the incident 12
diabetics need to be extra careful with
their diets so they don't spike their
blood sugar one patient was extremely
overweight and diabetic and no matter
what the doctors and nurses did
including watching her diet and giving
her insulin she would always have high
blood sugar then when they helped her
change her gown bits of fried rice and
chicken wings fell out they discovered
her son had been sneaking in food and
hiding it in her skin folds 11 an
emergency physician said he'd seen a lot
of crazy things
but the most disturbing thing was when a
woman torn apart by dogs was brought to
the ER apparently the woman's small dog
had gone outside to meet the wild dogs
and those dogs attack the small dog the
woman ran out to save her dog but the
wild ones turned on her and tore apart
the paramedic still brought her body to
the ER but they declared her dead on the
scene 10 1 redditor was a nurse working
in the dementia unit the first day on
the job they were helping an old lady
with dementia she pointed out the window
one time and said see those kids out
there aren't they beautiful there were
no kids out the window but they went
along with it
soon after the woman said I didn't mean
to burn them I didn't mean to kill my
children 9 1 redditor claiming to be a
safety and security officer at a public
hospital said one woman was regularly
treated for trying to chew her lips off
one night she had to have her stomach
pumped because she drank antifreeze with
her lip tissue 8 1 redditors boyfriend
was a paramedic who brought in a man who
drank himself unconscious however it
turns out the man was a landscaper too
poor to properly stores roundup so he
put the herbicide in his empty beer cans
and accidentally drank one of the cans
of roundup he died on the scene 7 a
nurse was having a patient signed
paperwork and everything was fine until
the patient looked out the window she
asked did you see that the nurse didn't
see anything and the patient said a man
just jumped out of a building then she
shook her head and said how her mind
wasn't right anymore 6 1 redditor
claimed while they were a medical
student on a psych rotation they met a
patient who was a chemical graduate
student who took too much ketamine he
never spoke a word but hid under his
covers like a mummy he chuckled any time
he tried to talk to him
it was the creepiest laugh they had ever
heard 5 according to one redditor they
were a tech in the psych department and
a mother brought her seven-year-old in
she was sobbing and didn't know what to
do with him he apparently would
violently hit her and threatened to kill
her he also had an obsession with knives
and she found many under his pillow on
occasion she'd find dead animals in her
backyard as well when they tried to
treat him the boy would speak to them
like a robot like he was just saying
things because that's what they wanted
for a dental hygienist had an
appointment for a boy to get a cleaning
but the mom said he hadn't ever been to
the dentist before that was an uncommon
but when hygienists looked at the boy's
teeth and gave him x-rays it was clear
he'd had extensive dental work done
including many fillings they asked the
parents again if he had seen a dentist
and they were adamant he hadn't the
mystery was never solved three a former
United States Army surgeon examined a
patient who was having terrible kidney
stones the pain was so excruciating he
didn't know what to do so he stuck a
glass tube of his urethra making matters
worse a sudden movement ended up
shattering the glass inside his urethra
- a physician working at a hospital in
Minnesota saw a girl who complained of
shoulder pain she had been playing with
her brother and they figured she might
have just bruised or broken something
instead they discovered she had an
arrowhead in her shoulder after pressing
further she admitted her brother shot
her with an arrowhead but didn't want to
get him in trouble fortunately it didn't
pierce her long and they were able to
remove it one while working in the
psychiatric intensive care unit one
redditor met a woman who came in for an
admissions interview she had bandages
all over her arms and scotch tape over
her mouth and ears when asked a question
the woman would peel the tape off answer
and put it back on they found out the
woman felt and saw tons of bugs crawling
all over her and was afraid they would
try to crawl inside of her so have you
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