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

*as staff*

"protect yourself before helping anyone.".

Sanitation is suspect and is usually done by people who are in a hurry to clean other rooms. Lots of spots get missed between patients.

I dunno if this counts as a dark secret but I've had a few ghost experiences in the hospital I used to work at and the staff would try to avoid talking about super natural things happening around the hospital.

I help patients to the bathroom nonstop all day. The amount of patients that just leave the bathroom without washing their hands is disgusting. If I didn’t hear the sink or soap dispenser your a*s is getting led right to an alcohol hand station.

The hospital I work at has these big square covers. When I first started, I would see transport staff pushing these things around the halls. I thought they were food trays, or large boxes of hospital equipment. Turns out it’s a structured bed cover, so when they are transporting a deceased patient to the morgue, it doesn’t look like a person under a sheet.

I haven't seen it on here yet, may have missed it but I'll add.

You, as a patient, have every right to refuse any test or treatment or even leave. At any time. For any reason. (Unless a harm to self or others- that's different, at least in the US)
Added bonus you should know: leaving against medical advice DOES NOT mean insurance will not pay for the care you've received. Your insurance will still be billed the same as anyone else who stayed the whole time till discharge.

But if you leave with an IV in your arm we will call the police to find you and bring you back to remove it, because of d**g a***e..

Most don’t judge as much as you you may think. As for myself, a (former) medical professional, I don’t care what d***s you take or how much you drink—I just want the truth so I can provide the best plan of care for you. For example, if you’re an alcoholic or a******d to benzos, I need to know to prepare for possible withdrawals that can become deadly.

Imagine being stuck in a windowless white environment with bright florescent lights, beeping machines, pained moaning, and p**p smells for 12 hours. Now do it with less staff than what’s required to manage the volume of people. Now throw in 3 years of burnout from the pandemic.

Now consider how grumpy and frustrated you would be, and consider what would make you stay in the job.

Dead bodies are moved to the morgue in special stretchers. You can't see the person at all. It just looks like an empty stretcher.

Most hospitals are dangerously understaffed and cut from very important areas, such as cleaners. So take that information and do with it as you will.

If you’re in a hospital with shared rooms you might have to listen to someone die on the other side of the curtain. Especially if it’s an ICU room. This isn’t as uncommon as you might think it is.

How often we have to hide how we are made to feel.

Patients blame staff for systemic issues. It’s not your nurses fault the wait time is long, it’s not the individual staff that created the big picture issue. Most of us are trying our best in an unappreciated field and are here trying to help.

Oh the amount of plastic that enters the world from one hospital.

We have mice in the lab, and they're not for experimentation.

We medical version of google stuff then come and tell you.

Best guess is at least 25% of any/all equipment is not in good functioning order.

Executives are money/power hogs, operated by a sicophantic clique, and people who are driven by service to human welfare turn over quickly.