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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I work as a nurse in the emergency, I’ve seen some crazy things. But on a lighter note, while security was busy doing two separate take downs an old guy dressed up like Santa unzipped his backpack and started handing out beers to everyone in the waiting room

Best_Lead_632 , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

219points

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Barbra E. Nyberg 1 year ago

And all had a Merry Christmas, indeed.

73points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER moose. my dad got wheeled back to get xrays so i went to the vending machines to get me and my brother drinks, and when i turned around it was just. staring at the poor nurse behind the desk. somebody called security but the three guys who turned up had no idea what the hell to do, nobody else in the lobby knew what to do, and eventually it just left on it’s own

ashy-slashy_ , Providence Alaska Report

Final score:

212points

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Kristiina 1 year ago

Canada?

97points

I was doing an IT job in a hospital when I saw a dude who’d put the front tyre of his motorcycle into a pot hole and gone over the handlebars. He’d hit the ground hands first and both of his arms had compound fractures with bones sticking out. He was doing that scream, inhale, scream again thing. It was super intense. The ER doctor pumped intramuscular ketamine into both arms and he calmed RIGHT down. They put a loop of rope around his wrist, and one person held his shoulder and the other person pulled the rope to get his bones back on the inside. The dude looked at his bones going back into his skin super calmly and said in a spacey tone “wow! That’s really interesting.”

This was maybe 2001. I still remember it vividly.

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Final score:

204points

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

That's the kind of medication I want if I'm in serious pain

147points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I took my (young adult) son to ER because he was having a repeated issue with heart palpitations. It wasn't that serious, but his doctor wanted him to get a scan if it happened again. We were walking to the door of the ER and saw a minivan pull up with the people around it helping a woman into the hospital. She was sobbing, so we slowed down so she and her family could get in first. It became obvious that she was in labor, and when they got in the door, she let out a heart curding scream, paused, and then a lump fell down her pants. A bunch of workers ran out, got the baby out of her pants...there was just complete silence for a few seconds. Then the baby cried and the whole waiting room erupted in applause! It was amazing

delta-TL , Isaac Taylor Report

Final score:

201points

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Tobias Reaper 1 year ago

the moment you use the line everybody clapped it immediately sounds fake even if it actually happend

93points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER A doctor going from patient to patient asking them health questions, symptoms and so on. She did this for an hour until there was a code white announcement. 2 orderly's and a 2 security guards surrounded her and hauled her off. She was not a doctor after all..

NotBadSinger514 , RF._.studio Report

Final score:

194points

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ADHORTATOR 1 year ago

a doctor with enought time to talk to a patient for an hour - very suspicious

166points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER A panicked guy sitting with his girlfriend, holding a ziplock bag with the tip of one of his fingers inside.

Her: “What are you going to do?”

Him: “Well I’m NOT going to be a chef.”

thickening_agent , Robert Nyman Report

Final score:

185points

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Barbra E. Nyberg 1 year ago

😂🤣

55points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I watched a robot filing cabinet press the elevator button and guide itself to a different area of the hospital.

jessieisokay , zredditz Report

Final score:

165points

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Zedrapazia 1 year ago

In the meantime at home: Roomba got stuck on a cliff!

125points

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER This just happened a couple of weeks ago. I was in the ER waiting room and there seem to be a lot of commotion over an elderly Asian woman who was sitting there with a large suitcase. Apparently her family just dropped her off there and she had no where to go. She was not ill and did not need medical attention. They abandoned her.They just left her like an unwanted puppy at the shelter. One of the saddest things I’ve seen.

trauma_kween , Jim Burnett Report

Final score:

160points

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Barbra E. Nyberg 1 year ago

Damn, that's harsh.

105points

Silent_Push_1413 , RDNE Stock project Report

#10

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I was sitting in the ER waiting room and this young couple comes in. The man pushing his girlfriend in a wheel chair. She’s barely conscious, slumped over and pale. As the boyfriend is checking her in, she wakes ups and Exorcist-style projectile vomits onto the floor. Nurses rush her back. The boyfriend then sits down and not a minute passes before out of nowhere he does the same! Everyone waiting slapped masks on real quick once that happened.

Final score:

150points

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Anna Ekberg 1 year ago

People still don't quite know how masks work, really?

63points

#11

When I was roughly 11 years old, my parents and I ended up in the emergency room of one of the larger hospitals in the city due to a family emergency. This was my first experience in a city emergency room and it was much more chaotic than the country ERs (obviously).

However, mom and dad needed to speak with the medical professionals without a precocious 11-year-old listening, so my dad instructed me to sit in the waiting/triage area and he vaguely gestured behind me.

I sat down in the red triage area, trying to stay in view of the hallway so my parents could find me, and then looked up to observe my surroundings.

Across from me was a 30-something man, his swollen face is bloodied as well as his clothing and his entire head is bandaged – wrapped tightly around his forehead to the back, and over and under his chin. A rather large butcher knife is protruding from the left side of his head, with the handle pointed straight to the ceiling and the blade edge facing away from me. The knife is firmly wrapped to the side of his head, and I’m guessing, keeping his ear in place. I can also see fresh blood slowly wicking through the bandages.

The man is sitting with his legs crossed and is casually reading a magazine. The knife wobbled slightly as he turned his face from page to page and he seemed particularly unconcerned there is a knife stuck in his head. I don’t recall much thought processes regarding this situation, other than a flood of questions that I was holding back.

Dad came around the corner to collect me and followed my fascinated stare, jumped slightly at the sight of the stabbed man and hauled me out of there pretty quick.

Thus, my first introduction to a city ER in a sketchy part of town.

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Final score:

148points

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Epsilon 1 year ago

Nah, dont worry. Greg does this every tuesday.

62points

#12

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Once upon a time i was waiting on news of a friend who'd been in an accident.

I saw a guy (about early twenties) come in with him mom because he'd fallen off of his roof and dislocated his shoulder. After about an hour of waiting his mom just says "f**k it! this is taking too long!" and legit began to google how to reset a shoulder.

After about 5 mins of research, she took off her belt, folded it up and told him to bite down on it. She then proceeded to violently shove her son's shoulder back into the socket while he naturally screamed in agony.

Security and nurses rush over to see what the commotion is and more or less need to pull her off of him. Security sits her down and the nurses take the poor kid and get him treated.

August-Dawn , Ryutaro Tsukata Report

Final score:

146points

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JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

That certainly is a way to get their attention.

140points

#13

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER When I was a kid, waiting in casualty with my mum because I got in some scrape. The guy say opposite us had a real life broadsword stuck in his foot. He’d been working in some old stately home and a suit of armour toppled over and the sword impaled his foot. It was all bandaged up and not obviously bleeding. So he was just sat there, cool as, waiting for his turn, holding this massive sword lodged in his foot.

Broccoliholic , Amuse_douche_ Report

Final score:

136points

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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago

Who ever pulls the sword out of his feet shall become the king of the hospital

199points

#14

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I was in Alice Springs hospital years ago with my baby daughter and we were sitting next to an indigenous lady who I thought was holding a spear. When I remarked in the lovely dot dot artwork on it she proudly showed me how it was actually through her ankle, in one side and out the other.

Cheezel62 , Steve Evans Report

Final score:

133points

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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago (edited)

That is NOT an Australian Aborigine!

78points

PewpyDewpdyPantz , Pavel Danilyuk Report

#15

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I’ll never forget it. I went to the ER with a kidney stone and there was an old couple sitting across from me probably in their 60’s or 70’s. The lady was bickering to the man complaining about how long they’ve been there. The only thing is that this woman was completely purple. Like all of her face and head was this dark purple. She didn’t appear to be in any pain but my f**k was she ever purple.

Final score:

116points

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Sleepy Panda 1 year ago

Violet, you’re turning…violet!

111points

Tuesday 1 year ago

Medically trained Pandas... what does that mean?

14points

Zedrapazia 1 year ago

Lead positioning, called cerulism. In addition to the blue discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes, symptoms of cerulism include headaches, fatigue, loss of appetite and weight loss. In severe cases, cerulism can cause irreversible damage to the nerves and brain.

23points

Nadine Bamberger 1 year ago

Argyria could also be a possibility, the skin turns blueish because of exposure to silver, sometimes it's used in dietary supplements or medications. It's not lethal but irreversible.

14points

Linda van A. 1 year ago

She ate too many blueberries.

12points

Mr. Nurse Man 1 year ago

Lots of potential reasons. Low blood oxygen saturation, unusually high blood pressure, blood poisoning from some of the other things people mentioned.

10points

SCamp 1 year ago (edited)

Violet Beauregard emerges as an older woman

9points

Fussy1 1 year ago

Whenever my grandma who had Parkinson's decided she couldn't wait for one of us to help her colour her hair, she'd show up at our house with ombre purple hair, purple streaks on her face, forehead, neck, ears, clothes. Her hands were the worst bc she "can't get those damn gloves on!" Ironically her name was Violet and her favourite colour was purple. Lol Damn I miss that ol' gal!!

7points

ILoveMySon 1 year ago

What an interesting and determined Grandma. I am sorry for your loss.

1point

Robin Roper 1 year ago

"Old couple" in their 60's or 70's? My father will soon turn 97. 60's & 70's is not old.

3points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago

Purple or blue? Sometimes if you take colloidal silver, and take too much, your skin turns a silverish blue. It doesn't turn back...

3points

Mara Was… A Surgeon 1 year ago

William Afton genderbend

3points

Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago

I ALWAYS COME BACK-

1point

Dr Robert Neville 1 year ago

A touch of Beauregarditis.

1point

Crybabyartist 1 year ago

Silver overdose Colloidal silver some old people are betting their money on in supplements to make them younger again... I so wish I could stave off aging... but God help me to realize i can't

1point

WIERD QUEEN RAYSUN<3 1 year ago

well is it dye or something??

1point

Amanda Hunter 1 year ago

I think if I were in that situation I'd complain too!

0points

H.J. carlson 1 year ago

😱😳 Damn. Anybody that color ought to get quick service in ER!

0points

Beanz' Mum 1 year ago

Too many blueberries....

0points

HollywoodHalo560 , MIKI Yoshihito Report

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Fell off my bike and fractured both bones in my wrist, while at camp. While in the waiting room a boy and girl both in Wendy’s outfits, boy holding a very bloody towel around his hand and her holding a bag full of ice and something bloody. I kid you not his line was, “so after they reattach my finger, do you wanna grab a bite to eat?” Then a bunch of cops come in escorting a man in full prison jumpsuit with the arm and leg cuffs bleeding profusely from his head. Quite the crazy experience!

Final score:

112points

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Josh Dorsett 1 year ago

As you do. It's baffling how cruel Hospitality workers are treated and the conditions they work in. I've worked in hospitality and I'm never going back. I make it a policy to be extra kind, easy and patient with hospitality and retail workers.

36points

#17

When I was in my early 20's I had a nasty staph infection I caught at work. Eventually I ended up having surgery because I was *this* close to losing part of my ankle tendon due to several pockets being right on it and the doctor basically rushing me into surgery unexpectedly. Before all of this though, the Air Force in its infinite wisdom decided they couldn't treat me on base and would just send me to the ER downtown however many times it would take to have them give me antibiotics to clear it up. Why, I don't know, but tax dollars at work right?

Anyway one day I'm in there waiting to be seen when this older farmer looking guy walks right up to the front desk holding a small yeti style cup. This was before Yeti became big but that's what it looked like.

"Hey Ron" said the nurse

"Hey Pearl" said the farmer

"Brought your lunch today?" asked the nurse

"Nope, it's just my fingers" replied the farmer as he then held up his other hand that he had previously tucked away in his coat, wrapped in bloody rags. "Damn machine got me again"

And that's when I realized that 1) There are some really tough dudes out there who can lose multiple fingers and drive themselves to the hospital in the same calm manner they would have going through the McDonalds drive thru and 2) Whatever machines he was operating, I would like to never be closer than 100' to them in my life.

itsnotchristv Report

Final score:

110points

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Farming

49points

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#18

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Like 20 years ago waiting in the ER I see a guy dressed up as a full Monkey being wheeled on a stretcher past a large doorway and then 3 other monkeys following him. They were performers from the Live Lion King Show at Animal Kingdom.

FLcitizen , Gwydion M. Williams Report

Final score:

100points

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Zedrapazia 1 year ago

Why's the picture Hanuman or Wu Kong tho?

40points

#19

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Girl trying to get admitted to the mental health unit, turns out her boyfriend was a patient. She didn't get admitted, she wasn't happy about it but she left. Next thing we know there's a car doing donuts just outside of the ER entrance, she was throwing things out the window and screaming "am I crazy enough now?" She ends up driving around to the other side of the hospital and driving right through some sliding glass doors. She's lucky she didn't [unalive] someone, another 10 feet and she would have crashed over a railing and into the cafeteria below, where staff was napping on a couch. Definitely got carted away, but not to where she wanted to go.

beachmonkeysmom , Rene Asmussen Report

Final score:

97points

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Jaime de Lancey 1 year ago

Really hate this "UNALIVE" word. are we too precious to say it as it is?

168points

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER My moms favorite ER story (she spent a lot of time there with my dad as he fought drug and alcohol addiction on top of health issues) is when they were in an ER that was kind of an open concept, with just curtains for visual privacy. A couple beds in, there was a woman just moaning and screaming in pain. When the doctors went to see her and tell her what was wrong, the woman was moaning so loudly they had to yell “YOU ARE LITERALLY FULL OF POOP!” loud enough for the whole department to hear. The woman promptly quieted down.

sassygoat17 , tahaalomari Report

Final score:

94points

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Katrina Nixon 1 year ago

So how do you get it out? Like a pinata or what?

52points

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I was like??? 13? I think? I forget why I was in the ER but I remember not feeling good at all. My hometown is a small rural Ohio town, great hospital but long wait times in the ER. So I had been there for about an hour and a half. My mom went to the bathroom and right after she left a lady was wheeled in in a wheelchair. Rather obese woman with a very thick leg (looking back now I know it was Lymphedema) and I remember her leg looked like it was leaking fluid? The person who wheeled her in went to window to start the check in process and the woman was grumbling about her leg itching. She bent over in the wheelchair, reached down, and her leg split. Liquid and what looked like fat busted out of her thigh and she screamed. And like she had every right to that s**t looked like it was agonizing. Immediately some nurses came out and whipped her into the back. When my mom came back asking what had happened I didn't even tell her just, "I think we might be waiting a bit longer mom." I guess it's very rare, but apparently if you're not taking care of your lymphedema properly it can happen.

Trumpet6789 , gibbspaulus Report

Final score:

86points

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Amanda Rose 1 year ago

I also have lymphedema. The leaking lymph fluid was part of what got me hospitalized in the first place. Mine came about due to complications from my gallbladder removal surgery (infection and whatnot). It's a condition that can get really serious really quickly.

47points

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I was in the ER waiting room for a possible broken hand when I was in high school. There were a group of frat guys from the local college that were drunk off their a**es trying to get their buddy seen for a really bad cut in the meat between his thumb and index fingers. I was in the waiting room for at least half an hour before I got seen and the whole time I was there the guy with the cut was squeezing the sides of his cut to make it open and close like a mouth and he did a whole comedy routine for his buddies in the waiting room like it was a ventriloquists dummy. Really gross but f*****g hilarious.

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Final score:

85points

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LinkTheHylian 1 year ago

"Taco flavoured kisses for my Ben."

4points

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER From my last visit it is a three way tie. I was in said waiting room for 12 hours. I saw a lot but these stick out.

First the lady who kept intentionally sticking her finger down her throat to throw up. Over and over you'd hear her retch. Finally after a couple hours, she exhausted herself but then laid down in the puke. She had to be picked up and put in a wheelchair as she refused to get up and move.

Second was the really huge guy coming in for a blood clot per his loud phone conversation. Fell asleep mid eating and had sleep apnea. The best was his tweaker girlfriend would try to wake him up by giving him a handjob. When that was unsuccessful, she went through his wallet.

Third was the obvious frequent flyer homeless man who created a small nest in a corner and went to sleep. After about 2 hours, security came over to wake him up by his name and tell him it's time to go. He promptly stood up, farted very loudly and left a huge mess as he left.

lil_adk_bird , Pavel Danilyuk Report

Final score:

83points

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NapQueen 1 year ago

Left a huge mess from his fart or his stuff?

50points

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#24

I see this one kid, a teenager of maybe 17, come in with his parents. He’s looking pretty bad, with a black eye and a split lip and suffering at least some degree of concussion. He refuses to tell his parents what happened, just saying “I can explain later” or “I don’t want to talk about it”.

A few minutes later a guy a little older, maybe 18 or 19, comes in limping heavily and having to be supported by his friend as he enters. Looks around for a seat, sees the first guy, and yells “That’s the m**********r right there!”

His friend sprints at the younger kid, gets tackled by security and zip-tied, it takes nearly every security guard on the floor keeping them separated because apparently already being in the ER wasn’t enough they wanted to go another round.

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Final score:

83points

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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago

Fight, fight, fight!

25points

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#25

my appendix burst, and this was during covid so all the beds were full. I ended up in the waiting room with an IV drip and was gown’d up waiting for surgery. A guy comes in, absolutely smacked out of his mind and immediately starts pissing on the chairs. A nurse tells him to stop and he horks a loogie in her face. He then turns to me and starts speedbagging my IV like Rocky lol Security rushed in, scooped me up and tackled the guy. Ngl I’ve always wanted to punch an IV bag I was jealous

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Final score:

82points

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Josh Dorsett 1 year ago

The last sentence cracked me up HAHAHAHA

47points

SheZowRaisedByWolves , DiagaAstralStar Report

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Old man decided to take his pants off in the lobby before heading to the bathroom. Ended up spraying s**t in a path on his way there. From what I understand, he was just there with a family member; not even needing to be seen.

Final score:

69points

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Colt Winkler 1 year ago

OH NAW

32points

#27

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER Watched a guy fake passing out so he didn’t have to wait, since there were a lot of people waiting. A*****e winked at me as he was wheeled back on a gurney.

Tangboy50000 , Erik Report

Final score:

67points

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Kat 1 year ago

Did an internship in an ER once... There was a guy who faked an overdose of something and being unconscious. Very obvious awake, but refused to open his eyes or say what he took (some ibuprofen). The ER doc had enough of him taking up too much time and resources , took a handful of gauzes and pressed them over his nose and mouth. The guy was miraculously cured in just a few seconds and was transferred to psychiatry for assessment

8points

#28

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I took an employee with kidney stones to the ER one time. While sitting in the waiting room, a guy came in with chest pains. He was taken back for immediate treatment. And then came the rest of his crew. He had been at a potluck picnic when it happened. And they brought the whole dang thing to the hospital. Like 40 people with casserole dishes and meat trays and such. Only disappointing thing was they didn’t invite me to eat.

graptemys , Nati Report

Final score:

63points

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Rob(erta) Roy (They/Them) 1 year ago

Rude!

39points

#29

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER All at the same time: family come pouring in following a stretcher being rushed through, all screaming and yelling that someone shot their baby, a grandmother (guess) holding a toddler horizontally so she could pee into an open trash can, and a dog tied to an ashtray outside snapping and wailing every time the door opened, spilling ashes everywhere. I was just there for 4 stitches in my head. I just took them out myself at a bar rather than go back there. It was Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn in 2002. Good times…

bullybullybully , Laura James Report

Final score:

57points

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Kariali 1 year ago

Took me a few reads to realise that it was the toddler peeing, not the grandmother...

49points

Shamanofthealike1 , Amanda Slater Report

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30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER I once saw a guy cut himself with a piece of broken glass to be seen sooner by the nurses during triage.

Final score:

54points

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xxx 1 year ago

For those, like me, who didn't know what triage means: ''the preliminary assessment of patients or casualties in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required.''

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#31

30 People Share The Wildest Things They've Witnessed While Waiting To Be Treated By The ER not as a patient, but my job was in the emergency room. one day a man with an OPEN HEAD WOUND (his head was literally crushed) got up from the couch, wandered to the toilet, locked himself in there, and then started smoking, because the smell of cigarettes was throughout the entire department. there were blood trails on his way... me and my friend, realizing the f****d up situation, first tried to peacefully persuade him to leave, but it didn’t work. they called the security. there was a lot of screaming and stuff. I literally had to break down the door. when the door was broken down, we found him sitting on the toilet with a cigarette in his mouth. absolutely everything was in the blood and his feces

Padmaa , Quinn Dombrowski Report

Final score:

11points

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Debby Keir 1 year ago

Hospital toilet doors can easily be opened from the outside (with a special tool) for obvious safety reasons, so doubt they broke the door down.

6points

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talliloo 1 year ago

not a medical issue but it happened at a military hospital e.r. and it was one of the best things i witnessed while being on base. my son was very ill (turned out to be pneumonia) & like all e.r. practices, there is triage. but for non life threatening it was first come, first served. lots of people waiting a very long time. a woman comes in, checks in & sits. after about 15-20 minutes she marches up to the desk & starts making a scene: "why am i not next? i shouldn't have to wait! I am captain so & so's wife & should be seen first" the room went dead silent. then this really young woman w/a baby in her arms walks up to her and tells her "just shut the hell up. you make your 'living' same as the rest of us - you sleep with a sailor." after a moment everyone there started laughing. she eventually stomped out.

22points

Sophie Knight 1 year ago

About 15 years ago: I've got a dialysis graft in my thigh, muscle around it gets infection which starts attacking the artery. Put a dressing over it and went to ER. Dr took the dressing off, top layer of skin comes off, artery busts, blood shoots out and hits the ceiling. All I remember after that is lying flat on a trolley with a nurse kneeling over me pressing on the wound, us being run down the corridor to the operating room. My other main memory of it was the lights on the ceiling flashing past as we were sped down the hallway like in a film.

15points

Holly McRell 1 year ago

How scary! I'm glad you're ok!

1point

Korrie Broos 1 year ago

2009 in the Czech republic. a summer heat wave and the Gypseys goes for a swim in a local pond. Their Prince dives into the pond and nearly drowns. He gets taken to the local hospital and into ICU. The gypsy clan takes over the parking lot and lawns, camping to be near their Prince. Some even sleeps in the hospital on the floor and in the ICU room. The prince did die eventually, The funeral was another major gypsy gathering.

14points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

Don't know why you got downvoted. It's a really interesting story.

4points

Libstak 1 year ago (edited)

An ambulance arrives, nurses run out to meet it. As soon as the gurney is out a petite young nurse jumps on it, straddling the old male patient. She is compressing his chest with all her soul, entire body weight thrown into the effort, very calm but full on pounding his chest. The paramedics and another nurse push that gurney at full speed into the hospital. A car pulls up, 4 people get out, elderly lady is sobbing and shaking. Another nurse waves them through. It's quiet for a while, then suddenly an inhuman screaming wail followed by loud angry and screaming male voices, from the men who were with the lady. A few of us waiting also started crying. That nurse who did the compressions though, what a freaking star she was. I hope she knows she did all she could.

8points

Sunny Day 1 year ago

My boss ended up in the ER one Saturday afternoon because "he thought the table saw had stopped completely". He said he was sitting there with a bloody kitchen towel wrapped around his slightly mangled fingertips, watching all these other victims of the Honey-Do lists come wandering through. They would look from their kitchen towel to his, their eyes would meet, and they'd do a chin lift in acknowledgement of their solidarity before finding a seat.

3points

Robin DJW 1 year ago

I used to work in an ER and two cases linger strongest in my memory. One was a little kid with his tongue stuck in his trumpet. The other was a woman who had shot herself in her belly, saying to her cheating husband -"you can't choose between me and her - I'll help you choose." He was eaten up with guilt, but if I had been him, I'd have dropped her on a gurney and walked out, saying "You're an idiot. Thanks for making the choice easier."

2points

Holly McRell 1 year ago

I bet the kid stopped playing the trumped after that!

1point

Princess 1 year ago

A black bear cub walked into the ER through an automatic opening door at a hospital I use to work at in Alaska.

2points

DarkViolet 1 year ago

😳

0points

TheBlueBitterfly 1 year ago

A few.. one was a woman loudly hacking and coughing (pre-covid) while she recounted multiple times to medical personnel how she "fell asleep" eating ice cream and aspirated a peanut chunk, which then festered in her lung I guess. Sounded very high on an opiate drug, which explained the "falling asleep while eating" part. Another was being at a big city hospital ER with my ex for a minor foot injury he was trying to over exaggerate (because it happened in a movie theater and he had "BiG pLaNs To SuE"). I guess a shoot-out happened, they were trying to keep the victims' "people" in separate areas so it didn't escalate. Guy in the room beside us must've been losing a lot of blood because it was running under the curtain divider into our room.

1point

DarkViolet 1 year ago

😲

0points

Holly McRell 1 year ago

My first time in the ER was when I was about 7. I tried dancing like Michael Jackson in my socks on the kitchen floor, slipping and cracking my head open on the counter. My Mom took me in and I was really scared. While we were waiting, there was a woman who worked in admitting on the phone who snorted when she laughed. That was funny enough but mid-laugh, she was reaching for something and the phone cord yanked the phone out of her hand and the phone hit the angry-looking woman in the admissions seat next to hers. She started laughing and snorting even louder, which got everyone laughing, including the man waiting next to us. He laughed so hard he smacked his head on the glass behind him and cut his head open too. It was a great way to fix my nervousness!

1point

Dan St John 1 year ago

When I was 8, my family went to Disney in CA, We were at a motel with a pool and slide. I went down the slide with my arms over the side and at the end, was flipped into the pool when my left arm caught on something and tore it open. I was rushed to the ER and while the doctor was looking at my arm to see what needed to happen, another kid about my age was wheeled in. The doctor looked at me and then the other child. He went over to the other kid and then came back and said, you are going to have to wait until I can sew this child's hand back on. Next to the kid on a tray was his hand. I forgot all about my arm and watched in amazement as he reattached his hand. Apparently he had somehow gotten under a ride at Disney and it cut his hand off. When the doctor was done, he came and did my arm. 56 stitches and two tendons tied back together and off I went. It did ruin Disney land though.

0points

Asmaa Ahmed 1 year ago

You mustn't have seen the ER in Gazza yet

-1point

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talliloo 1 year ago

22points

Sophie Knight 1 year ago

15points

Holly McRell 1 year ago

How scary! I'm glad you're ok!

1point

Korrie Broos 1 year ago

14points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

Don't know why you got downvoted. It's a really interesting story.

4points

Libstak 1 year ago (edited)

8points

Sunny Day 1 year ago

3points

Robin DJW 1 year ago

2points

Holly McRell 1 year ago

I bet the kid stopped playing the trumped after that!

1point

Princess 1 year ago

A black bear cub walked into the ER through an automatic opening door at a hospital I use to work at in Alaska.

2points

DarkViolet 1 year ago

😳

0points

TheBlueBitterfly 1 year ago

1point

DarkViolet 1 year ago

😲

0points