Achieving success as a medical professional requires more than being a hardworking, compassionate, and knowledgeable individual eager to help those in need. It also helps to have a high tolerance for anything that can make the average person feel nauseous.
Check out these stories to see what I mean. These are anecdotes from doctors, dental hygienists, and EMTs who have discovered some of the most bizarre items lodged inside a human body. We’re talking about parasites, plastic toys, eating utensils, and entire wine bottles.
If that has drawn up enough curiosity, go ahead and scroll through. Hopefully, you’re not having a meal while doing so.
#21
Ophthalmologist here. I saw a schizophrenic patient who was smearing feces into his eye. He had a really bad corneal ulcer.
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30points
#22
Not a doctor but I have to look at X-rays in my role in patient treatment. Dude had a bit of a run-in with a tree stump grinder. There was a straight-up small branch embedded in his calf (that said, most of the calf was hanging off his lower limb) and he had to go in for surgical debridements of the leg almost daily because trees are not very sterile and have a lot of splinters.
28points
#23
While working in the ER, I had a patient come in with a screwdriver for eyeglasses stuck in his urethra. He claims to have picked up a girl at a bar, brought her back to his place, and he must have blacked out from the alcohol during the “activities.” Apparently she didn’t like that, so she grabbed the screwdriver off his nightstand, shoved it in there, and left. He woke up the next morning and it had gotten sucked all the way in to his perineum. You couldn’t even see it anymore, but you could feel its outline during the physical exam.
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27points
#25
My uncle is a doctor, he told me about the time he found a fork and knife inside a patient. How it got there or through which orifice it came in through I was never told nor do I want to think about it BUT. I know that he doesn’t like to tell the story.
19points
#26
Ohh, my dental hygienist told me a couple one made her laugh while telling. So we’re limited to the mouth. One was a small grown up vegetable of sort, so probably a seed ended around the teeth and grown. The other made her curious about an abscess she was working over, since the patient was described as clean and no other big problems, so cleaning and cleaning, the cause came out. A hair. By the shape, and the reaction from the patient, which attributed it to the natural toothbrush, it was evidently a pubic hair.
15points
#27
Cutaneous diphtheria eating away at the pts leg 😭.
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15points
#28
Couch cushion, a single connect four piece, and half a roll of pennies (different patients).
15points
#30
It wasn’t a doctor, but I got my flared b******g stuck in my a*****e and was so embarrassed I called my best friend over to help me get it out.
She’s big into a**l stuff with her hubby so I knew if anyone was able to help me it would be her.
My husband got home a few hours later and I said “while you were at work bestie had to come pull my b******g out of my a*****e.”
He was very grateful because at the time his BIL was the ER doctor here lol.
She’s big into a**l stuff with her hubby so I knew if anyone was able to help me it would be her.
My husband got home a few hours later and I said “while you were at work bestie had to come pull my b******g out of my a*****e.”
He was very grateful because at the time his BIL was the ER doctor here lol.
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10points