in 2010 a 29 year old British
construction worker was hard at work at
the construction site he followed all
the necessary safety rules and was
wearing a hard hat and a pair of sturdy
steel toe cap boots but then he made the
bad decision of jumping six feet from
the scaffold to the floor he looked down
and to his horror a six-inch nail had
penetrated his boot and gone right
through his foot
the poor guy howled in pain and he was
rushed to the emergency room it was
unbearable and so he was given a pain
reliever
that didn't do anything to stop the
agony and the doctors then gave him the
strongest pain medication they had
fentanyl after this they carefully cut
off the man's boot but guess what the
nail had gone between his toes
what was all that screaming about then
number 10 the nocebo patients so coming
in at number 10 is one of the strangest
things that have happened in the
emergency room that's people coming in
screaming and shouting and pleading with
the doctors to stop the intense pain
except as with the case of that
construction worker they shouldn't be in
any pain what's the reason you're
wondering and the answer is something
called the nocebo effect you've all
heard the placebo effect such as when
someone is given a pill that's a dud but
it seems to work for them the nocebo
effect is kind of like a negative
version of that nothing has happened to
them but the brain tells them something
is wrong that construction worker just
saw a nail that looked as though it had
gone through his foot so he believed he
was in great pain the pain of course was
kind of real even though that nail had
just gone through a gap in his toes it
was all in his head the nocebo effect is
actually quite common when people take
certain kinds of drugs they complain of
side effects that just couldn't happen
it's all in their head and in the world
of health care such imaginings cost
money and time we found another case of
a man that had a fight with his
girlfriend and so he took an overdose of
pills he was rushed to the hospital and
things were looking bad his blood
pressure was very low and the man seemed
to be about to pass out it turned out
that the drugs he had taken were
actually placebo drugs but the man's
doctor hadn't told him that once the guy
was told this he suddenly started
getting a lot better and his blood
pressure went back to normal this is no
doubt a weird kind of situation at the
emergency room but as you'll see things
can get really messy in there too number
9 a man's worst nightmare
we will apologize to you guys in advance
for telling you this tale it's not
something you'll easily forget the story
comes from a former United States Army
surgical nurse and she was once asked
what the strangest things she'd seen in
regard to accidents she said one day she
got a visit from a middle-aged guy who
had decided to perform a bit of surgery
on himself you see this guy had been in
terrible pain due to having kidney
stones in some cases a person might have
very small kidney stones and just pee
them out without much discomfort but if
those stones are big well they can cause
a lot of pain this guy had been in
extreme pain and for some reason he
thought he could perform a little
operation himself to get them out
he basically inserted a glass tube into
his urethra you know that bit of your
manhood that carries the urine thing is
his muscle contracted and that tube got
stuck inside and if that wasn't bad
enough it then shattered inside him
removing those tiny shards of glass was
quite the job for doctors who treated
him and all will say is kids don't try
that at home number 8 the desperate
drinker this was the case of a homeless
man who had been taken to a hospital
after being found a little bit too drunk
he was in a bad way
and it's not that uncommon for people to
die from drinking too much his blood was
checked to see just how much was in his
system
and he was then left in the bed a bit
later and another test would performed
but the results shocked the nurses the
level of alcohol in his blood had spiked
the staff then thoroughly checked the
room and they couldn't find a source of
alcohol so where was this guy getting
his fix from one of the nurses then went
to a computer to see if anything like
this had happened in other hospitals
indeed it had and the reason was there'd
been other cases when people had drunk
the alcohol in hand sanitizer in the
room he went back to that man's room and
found this guy had done the same he
drunk the entire contents we found cases
of teenagers doing this and in New
Zealand prisoners had been doing it
while incarcerated it's really not a
good thing to do and can be dangerous in
2012 in California six teens ended up in
the ER after deciding they try and get
drunk on hand sanitizer after that a
medical toxicology consultant from the
Children's Hospital in Los Angeles said
the teens had been looking on the
internet to find the method to best
extract the booze this is another case
of when weakens
kids don't try this at home or anywhere
number seven the foreign object problem
it's well known that a lot of people
have been sent to the emergency room to
have something removed from the place
that our food waste comes out of in fact
there are hundreds of stories of this
happening and there's even a book called
stuck up which is a collection of x-rays
and stories about people who have got
something stuck up in their rear end the
list of weird objects is a long one and
in these strange cases were happening a
long time before guys in those Jackass
movies we're doing it for fun so what's
the weirdest thing doctors have ever had
to remove we can't say what the number
one spot is but when doctors found a man
who had a Buzz Lightyear doll stuffed
inside him we guess even for them it was
somewhat unique the foreign object
problem seems to happen mostly to people
aged 20 to 40 by the way so maybe some
of you are in danger right now number
six the Lego eaters so a handful of
adults might display some strange
behavior and get things stuck in them
but some young kids can hardly be blamed
for putting things inside their mouths
many news reports tell us that the snack
of choice for kids all over the world is
Lego a problem is choking of course but
many times the small pieces do come out
the other end
we found one account of a kid who ate 60
pieces so he really must have liked the
stuff a major problem though is the
possibility of harmful substances in the
Lego bricks a British study said that
some Lego bricks they tested contained
cadmium and selenium or chromium and
antimony the worst culprits were yellow
and red Lego bricks found in older sets
since so many kids end up swallowing
Lego a bunch of doctors at the Royal
London Hospital in England swallowed
some themselves to see what harm it
could cause thankfully all the doctors
were fine they didn't get sick and just
dropped off their piece at the pool now
things will get blood here number five
the calmest patient ever
when ER staff were asked on one form to
talk about the strangest days they had
one British nurse said he was once in an
apartment and a man just walked in
casually looking a bit lost the staff
asked him can we help you the man then
looked down at his side where his arm
was covered with a blanket he then told
them I seem to have lost my arm off the
staff didn't believe him because the guy
was so calm about it all they asked him
to remove the blank
to their shock when he pulled the
blanket away a detached arm went with it
he then looked at them and said told you
number for life and death you can find
quite a few cases of when a pregnant
woman died but the baby inside her was
delivered one particularly sad story
happened in 2019 in London a pregnant
woman was stabbed and rushed to the
emergency room she was eight months
pregnant at the time unfortunately the
doctors couldn't save her but they did
deliver her baby we found a similar case
in the USA which also happened not too
long ago in this case three people were
shot and one of them was a woman who was
35 weeks pregnant she was rushed to the
hospital but died the baby survived but
was in critical condition such a thing
must be heartbreaking for the emergency
room workers but at least they could
save one life that might be sad but now
we have something wonderful to tell you
number three coming back to life you
might not have heard about something
called Lazarus syndrome it's when the
resuscitation efforts on a patient have
failed and the person has been declared
dead that's it they did everything they
could
sometimes the machines are turned off
and it's just another loss of life on
another hectic day in the emergency room
but then doctors and nurses are shocked
when the person comes back to life this
happened to a 27 year old man in the UK
he had overdosed but was given a shout
of something to help bring him out of
his unconscious state they got the man
to the hospital but he went into cardiac
arrest and died all efforts to revive
him failed and he was pronounced dead
about a minute later and something
unbelievable happened his heart started
beating again this time he was revived
in the man survived in 2013 the US media
reported a miracle happened to a man
named Anthony Holley an ambulance was
called for this 37 year old man when his
family couldn't wake him up they
administered CPR and got his heart going
again but at the emergency room he
couldn't be resuscitated and was
declared dead his son was called and he
went into the hospital and didn't expect
to find a living father one of the
doctors then noticed something strange
the heart monitor seemed to show a tiny
sign of a heartbeat but that was just
like a little blip that blip happened
again and then turned into a trickle the
doctors were astonished and got to work
on him again eventually the man's heart
started working the doctors later told
the media that this kind of thing in
clinical terms just doesn't happen one
doctor said I'm
calling in a miracle because I've never
seen anything like it the National
Institutes of Health said the Lazarus
syndrome is very rare and often can't be
easily explained in some cases the
bodies weren't even near staff when the
person came back to life and in at least
one case the person was in the mortuary
number two the survivors sometimes in
the emergency room people shock the
doctors by not succumbing to what looked
like fatal injuries one doctor wrote
that he was very surprised when one man
he attended to had been shot three times
in the head the doctor said he looked
dead and could see that he'd been shot
in the temple and twice in the face he
believed the guy's life was over but it
turned out that all those bullets had
exited and somehow not damaged the man's
brain this is what the doctor wrote on a
forum I go to examine him and tilt his
head back and he says yo be gentle I
jump back and scream like a little boy
as did everyone in the room literally
the bullets missed his brain in every
single shot stranger things have
happened in 1995 a man in North Carolina
named Kenny Vaughn was shot 20 times and
he lived to tell the tale in 2006 a guy
named Joseph Guzman survives 19 gunshot
wounds the rapper you all know named 50
cent survived after being shot nine
times a surgeon told the New York Times
that being shot multiple times
especially 20 times and nothing hitting
a vital organ is very rare indeed for
the finale we'll tell you a story that's
from the darkest recesses of ER history
number one man's best friend this was
posted on a forum where ER workers
compared their horror stories the man
said he worked as a surgeon and he got
used to seeing some gory things so did
the nurses too and they don't usually go
pale at the sight of blood since fixing
people is their job but one day the
surgeon said he saw some nurses come out
of the emergency room and their
expressions were unusual they seemed in
shock it turns out the patient was a
homeless man who had been attacked by
dogs but those dogs had basically taken
big pieces of this guy the surgeon said
this is what he saw the arm was totally
gone he still had the interosseous
tendon holding the tibia to the fibula
hard to eat a guess but otherwise just
intact leg bones completely free of
flesh his feet were also mostly gone the
guy actually survived albeit with bits
of
missing this just shows how hard it can
be to work in the emergency room but
also what great job those people do if
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