35 Doctors Share Some Of The Most Disturbing And Disgusting Things They’ve Witnessed At Work

- Patient capsicum sprayed by the cops, given a jug of water for her eyes, she throws it over the cop and starts masturbating with the jug.
- Patient brought in by ambulance with the presenting complaint of hair loss
- Comatose dog given a shot of calcium (no vet in town) and immediately starts running around the ward.
- deodorant can up the a**e
- CPR that was so effective that the guy woke up while his chest is being compressed and tells his wife he isn't ready to die

Just off the top of my head...

NAD but

Patient had been stabbed she was surprisingly calm about it and kept sticking her fingers in the wound I had to repeatedly tell her. Please stop. It's going to get infected. Surely enough it did.

Not a doctor. Was a paramedic student in an ER. Oncoming crew came to get me so I could see the patient. If that happened you knew it was a good one. On top of that the crew themselves kept talking about how f****d it was, which could only mean it was pretty bad.

Guy working at a dye factory got his hand caught in a mechanical dye press. It was exerting over 1000 lbs of force for over 5 minutes on his hand. By the time they got it out it was partially amputated and I cannot stress this enough, flat as a piece of paper. The 3 middle fingers were just cartoonish looking in how flat they were. The guy could still semi wiggle what was there and could still definitely move his index and thumb. The surgeons were discussing wtf they were going to do when I was in there. And the general consensus I was getting was nobody knew wtf to do. I saw one of them prepping the guys wife to see him. And they were just like idk how to say this other than be prepared it's not good. And be aware this may have changed his life forever. To this day I cannot get over how unreal it looked. Like I legitimately thought it was fake or I wasn't seeing it right.

Maggots all over a dude’s leg. I’m not talking about a few, like the amount you see on a decaying body. You can hear the noise and the waves of movement from all the maggots. Anyway, the guy codes after paramedics drop him off so we do CPR, except maggots are flying everywhere now. The smell, oh my goodness, I will never forget the smell… Housekeeping had to go in with biohazard suits to clean up that area of the emergency department and we couldn’t use it for a few days.

Had a guy come in after missing hemodialysis for a month and was eating a plate of imaginary food. He at least offered some.

A very obese woman not realizing she was pregnant. That's not unusual or weird really. The part that's weird was that she put it together that she must have gotten pregnant from her husband's birthday where she surprised him with sex. She had her neighbors prop her legs open with a board and she waited in bed like that for him to come home.

Honestly so many things that I wouldn't even bat an eye at anymore, but people in the general public always get a kick out of things like:

- Shaving cream can up a*s

- mechanical pencil up penis

- A metal ring stuck around penis, and the emergency department didn't actually have the equipment to cut it off, so a jeweler was called

- plastic baggy of drugs up a*s

- someone who had a fetish for self amputating their penis

- someone was stabbed with their guts hanging out by a friend, but the friend was there?? And they were cool with each other?? Said they just got into a heated argument. Dudes were from a rougher town. 

Actually I think I was exposed to quite a bit in my medical training nowthat I think about it..

Nurse here. Before I became a nurse I worked as a nurse aide on the ortho floor. Little old lady comes in with a broken tib/fib, bone sticking out of her leg. Goes to OR and they fix her up, she gets discharged home. About two-three months later I'm doing a rotation on the burn/wound unit and I recognize her name on the board. I go in with the doc to assist him and he unwraps her dressing. You can see her skin on about 60% of her leg and gray muscle on the rest. He gently presses on a part of the skin and what looks like cottage cheese comes pouring out. Basically her adipose tissue had somewhat liquefied and was coming out in clumps. That same day another patient came in for his dressing change on his leg. They unwrapped it and from midthigh down his legs was grayish green. Doc asked him if he's ready to have it amputated and the guy points to his overnight bag in the chair and says "already packed and ready to lose it."

As a resident I had a Naturopath with a ruptured brain aneurysm call a fellow Naturopath to help him heal it.

I kid you not it looked like what people call Voodoo in the movies (I've never seen actual Voodoo before).

The guy ended up declining and we took him to the OR. He ended up as an organ donor.

Nurse here: a guy who let his dog lick his diabetic ulcer on his foot because “the dog liked it”. He got a nasty infection, led to sepsis.

Not a doctor but used to work in the OR. Had a guy come in with stomach/bowel issues. He was pretty young so it was concerning. Opened him up and found a toothpick sideways in his bowel causing blockage. He had no idea when he ate something with a toothpick

Did an autopsy on an obese man found in a ditch in the middle of summer.
Fat turned to green liquid soap (saponification).
Abdomen, mouth and nostrils were crawling with maggots.
The smell of perfume and rotten flesh is unforgettable 30yrs later.

A friend of mine had a patient who had a domino shaped like MICKEY MOUSE imbedded in the shaft of his penis. I am also a nurse in the ED, have had people with potatoes, light bulbs, and drugs up their a*s but that story takes the cake .

450lbs woman bleeding from the belly button, which was obviously a very deep innie.
I resorted to a large speculum to visualize then cauterized the bleeding vessel.

Guy broke a spoon in half. Swallowed the handle. He was threatening to bear down and perforate his bowel if he was not given IV pain meds.