“Meat Crayon”: 57 Things Medical Workers Won’t Do Because They Know Exactly How Bad Things Can Get

My EMT friends told me enough about the base jumping accidents they responded to that you will never get me to test gravity like that.

My wife is an ER nurse vet of about 12 years in a really busy ED. She would never allow me to own a motorcycle.

Lost-Boysenberry-302:

Motorcycles for adults. Dirt/motor biking for kids. We have a fancy phrase of “injuries incompatible with life” applied to many motorcycle accident victims. Often have not just limbs missing, but entire body cavities.

Downhill mountain biking - some of the craziest injuries.

I do ski but very carefully. Every time I pick up too much speed, a montage of all the gruesome ski injuries I’ve seen starts playing in my head….

My pediatrician neighbor told me his rules for his kids were
1) no motorcycles
2) no trampolines
3) if you go to a house and the other kid tells there is a gun in the house, get out and come home. they may have had a code word for a phone call on that one.

Always wear protective gear. Whether that be helmets, seat belts, or whatever. People invent these things for a reason.

I'm an EMT, and I will never try detoxing by myself. I've had several cardiac arrest calls where the only medical history the patient has is "was an alcoholic getting sober." These people are young, 20s-30s, just trying to get a better life for themselves. And they literally just drop d**d. Please consult your doctor about a healthy taper-off plan before just quitting.

Psych and detox Nurse. No hard d***s. Not even once. And be careful with alcohol.

Oh boy where do I begin? Don’t shower in a bathroom with aaaany objects whatsoever on the floor you can fall on, seatbelt less driving while wondering how long you can drive safely with your eyes closed, getting on a sidecar motorcycle without full protection for the first time and underestimating the distance to a pole, carrying firearms without proper holsters and having it drop down your pants and discharging upwards and striking right where you can expect it to hit, deciding to become a participant in a rodeo when you have no experience whatsoever but tho ugh the it would be cool, deciding self defense is ever a better idea if escaping is a good idea when the other person has a knife and is approaching you while they are in a wheelchair and drunk, being drunk next to rail tracks while having your hoodie on and headphones blasting music in the middle of the night, thinking that throwing anything at law enforcement is a good idea because you thought they were off to no good when they were in fact just doing a homicide investigation, amateur hang gliding after being taught it just once, deciding spelunking in a cave with a diy harness, playing chicken with a live Roman candle held in your mouth trying to be like Godzilla, trying to place an angled PVC pipe smaller then your member and once stuck and painful leaving it there for 9 days before coming to the ER to have it be removed with an orthopedic bone saw…. After having exactly the same thing happen the previous year.

I’m sure I’ve missed a few but being a trauma surgeon is a wild ride for sure.

Not a doctor but a former hospital Social Worker and worked for 3 years in acquired brain injury unit.

Dirt biking (off road motorbikes). We had so many young men with severe brain injuries as a result of dirt bike riding. My nephew has lost 4 friends over the past 3 years to dirt bike accidents. It’s a dangerous hobby.

Giving up on my body in my geriatric years. Stay active. The cycle of hospital-home-rehab-hospital kills more than any other hobby here.

Kinda late here but one I haven't seen listed people don't think about is changing a tire at the side of a highway. Too many people who did everything right but still lost life or limb because someone clipped their car or even themselves. Just pull off at the next exit. I would rather pay for a completely new wheel than be struck by a vehicle.

Not really a hobby, but I will never get under a jacked up car without jack stands and wheel chocks.

Roller Derby.

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Fair. I've only been doing it for 8 months, but I've already broken my tailbone and witnessed 2 leg fractures, both of which required surgery. Almost everyone in my league has broken at least one bone while playing. The love for the sport is just bigger than the fear of injury, I suppose.

Squats within a 1 mile radius of any cylindrical object without a flared base.

Contact sports. I’m not a super strict parent but one of my biggest rules is no football.

I’m not a medical professional but I knew two young, healthy men in their 20s who died in separate climbing accidents. I will never climb outside a gym.

I’m a social worker, but I’ve worked a lot in healthcare.

For me it’s not taking care of your diabetes. If you catch it early, it’s simple to keep it in check. So many people just ignore it.

Advanced diabetes is maybe one of the worst ways to d*e imo.

Son of a neurosurgeon here adding boats. Specifically, boating while drunk, which is often.

We had no trampolines, motorcycles, mopeds, ATVs, or guns in the house. I can’t tell you how many times I heard about these accidents. And wear a seatbelt.

Drinking soda instead of water. Ive taken care of too many people who had every chronic condition under the sun: Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, copd, type 2 diabetes, artery and venous disease, kidney stones, all one person mind you. Theirs a certain type of people like that who will still request pepsi as their onlyyy drink. A soda every once in a while, or maybe once per day, no biggie. But when you literally have every health problem, and your still gonna choose to drink the thing that caused half of the problems, i dont think i can trust you to take care of yourself. I'll take care of these people for days or weeks on end, and every time its "Could you get me a pepsi?" Sometimes ill get to ask first and be like "Can i get you something to drink, like a water?" But then its "A pepsi would be nice right now." And im sitting there like, i know you havent had any actual water to drink since you came in. Its a small thing, but i give out a lot of drinks as a nurse and it bugs me.

After four knee surgeries, including a replacement, I asked my doctor how soon I could get back to playing racquetball. He said if I picked up a racket, he would never help me again.