97 Medical Secrets So Dark You Might Be Scared Of Going There Ever Again

Two big ones:

1) insurance companies dictate everything. Your practice adheres not to evidence but to what will make an insurance company cover appropriate care

2) most people are not practicing evidence based medicine anyway. We develop our habits and stick to them, so even when landmark studies demonstrate we are doing actual harm the average doc doesn’t care and/or never even read the study to begin with. The urgent care mindset of having to give everyone a script overrides good medicine most of the time.

The reason you never see dead people being moved is its done very secretly. Hallways are closed down and everyone moved out of the way so the journey from bed to morgue doesn't involve any spectators at all.

Most hospitals also don't have an obvious signpost to the morgue so that people don't get freaked out. But also makes it difficult to find for a viewing.

My sister is a nurse and she’s told me that a lot of nurses and doctors are a******d to d***s (prescription and street d***s).. Some come into work high/drunk.

Lots and lots of mistakes. They had a nursing student give someone a drink before he went into surgery (which he was suppose to have an empty stomach). Also a nursing student accidentally k****d a patient on my sister ward (she wasn’t head nurse). Gave the guy too much pain killers or something like that and k****d him by accident.

When I was a teenager I was placed in the psych ward for a week, and two of the nurses were strangled by two patients.

We don't care what your d**k, v****a, b***s etc look like. I have seen literally thousands and can't remember any of them ( except for the one guy whose d**k tip was touching his knee)

Edit: my comment was not saying that people should be comfortable being naked in front of us or that we won't do our best to maintain your level of comfort and keep you as cover as possible.

If you come into the ER drunk there is guaranteed a pool of bets on your blood alcohol level, possibly with odds if there's a pharmacist available to do the math for us.

If you register in the ER and tell the triage nurse that your problem is “personal” we know you’re here because of something genital or a**l related.

Edit: a lot of we healthcare workers have seen a lot. If you’re not truthful at triage, your care might be less prompt when it’s a true medical emergency. It is possible to die of embarrassment.

There is s*x and drama, but not in a Grey’s Anatomy way…more of an overgrown high schoolers shoved together in really stressful situations way. And not as much s*x as Grey’s…though maybe I’m just ugly and not in on the scene.

THE NURSES HAVE NO CONTROL OVER YOUR FOOD TRAYS.

When the nurses are sitting at the computer " doing nothing " they're documenting. In health care, if it wasn't documented it didn't happen. That means every. Single patient interaction. Needs to be documented , as well as their interaction with the doctors, pharmacy, ect.. they are expected to be a walking transcript of every medical interaction. On top of delivering meds, catching and reporting doctors mistakes, communicating patients preferences to doctors, dietary aides, preforming life saving interventions and arranging pillows just so.....on top of expected to work mandatory overtime. We're talking 16 hr shifts for ...however long. If you see one laughing, or eating, or sitting, it doesn't mean they don't care. They're just not robots. So VOTE for safe patient ratios, and everything that comes with educational encouragement to staff our failing Healthcare system.


ETA: everything is documented, from the regularity of your bowel movements, the respiration(s) ( the amount of time you breathe in a minute) to the color of your p**s, your range of motion, if you're developing a red area, or rash, Anything and everything could be a clue to either a patients deteriorating health, or improvement of health. Multiply that by 3-7 patients depending on what type of unit you're on ( general medical floors versus ICU) and that's why your nurse us at the computer all the time, and if you're surviving, doesn't give a d**n if you're hungry or cold....not enough people for that, at least one of her patients is about to go from bad to worse any minute now.

As an x-ray tech, I can’t tell you what’s wrong if you ask me if I see anything on your x-rays because it’s not in our scope of practice, but yeah…we definitely know. And if it’s particularly gruesome, we like to show off how pretty our images came out to other techs lol.

Ghosts roam the units on night shift.

The updates you get from the OR while your family member is on the table are BS. The case could be going really bad and the OR nurse will still tell you “everything thing is going great”.

Everything falls on the direct care staff. No housekeeping, guess who's swinging a mop. Nutritional services are short, guess who's handing out trays. Security is short and a patient in psychological crisis is strangling their roommate, guess who has less help intervening. If we are short ancillary staff then it's just the RNs to pick up the slack.

Patients family need to understand that we don’t have the time or will to go and get you a cup of coffee or drink at the drop of a hat. There are vending machines and/or a kitchen, go help yourself.

The floors are a hotbed of disease. Always keep your feet covered. Patients walking around barefoot give me the barfs 🤢.

How much power MBAs have over MDs.

Joking about my parents hitting me and getting beat up/in fights to defend myself as a kid always drew looks of horror from my medical school classmates. I would always forget that most of them had physician parents and grew up relatively sheltered haha.

1) I was not expecting as much infidelity among doctors tbh.

2) Medical errors or blatant malpractice going uncorrected because of the doctor has the power to ruin the careers of other doctors who point it out

And honestly why are you moving like a cop talking about schools "isn't holding the students accountable for their actions". Not everyone who does d***s like c*ke (op specified in another comment) recreationally is a danger to themselves or patients (and I say this as someone who has never and will never touch it). Only be concerned if direct patient care is being affected.

Don’t get sick in July. That’s when new doctors start.

In a few teaching hospitals some patients are unaware of students practicing invasive examinations on them when they are under.

The hospital covers themselves with vague clauses in the paperwork people sign.

A f****d up practice to be sure.