“The Hardest I’ve Tried To Not Laugh”: 30 ER Employees Share The Most Comical Moments Of Their Jobs

Not a human nurse, but a vet nurse-
A hysterical man came in carrying his dog, and we prepared for an emergency situation, except he then tells us the following: that the dog went over the fence in his yard and into his neighbor’s house (a neighbor who doesn’t like them very much to begin with), climbed on top of his desk and ate the code-device for his bank. Now he would like to get it out and replace it before the neighbor took notice 😂.

Not a doctor, but I was at the hospital for a check-up and the guy behind the curtain next to me had a broken ankle because "Some guy was hitting on 'mah girl so I threw him down and kicked him so hard my foot snapped." Class act, that one.

You've gone to the hospital multiple times for cutting your thumb with a butter knife while trying to cut an ice cube? Was one time not enough for you to learn your lesson?

Someone had an allergic reaction, and for some reason brought in live mussel for us, which hr thought he had reacted to. In a little jar full of water. Like a goldfish or something. We kept our little mussel friend for most of a day in the charting space. He did not contribute meaningfully to the workup or treatment plan.

I went to the ER to get stitches once.
The guy next to me was drunk, and was dared to shove 20--some tictacs up his nose. He did. He just sat there, cussing, crying and being drunk.

I was working in Triage where we check patients in when a mid-30’s woman came up trying to explain her symptoms. She kind of leaned over and whispers, “I got dem skittles down there. You know?”

As I’m trying to see if she’s serious, trying not to laugh, she says she has to go to the bathroom. I’m boggled and just more or less like, ‘What does that even mean? Skittles in her... never mind.’

My coworker came up to me to relay something while skittles lady came back from the bathroom and said, “Never mind, don’t have to worry about dem skittles, they gone.” And she walked out of the ER, leaving me there while I’m trying not to bust out laughing.

My coworker looked horrified. Another day in Triage.

I had a manic guy on a psych hold who eloped. Ran like a gazelle out to triage barefoot in only his underwear Once there, he stopped and weighed himself. Then, faced with his choice of two convenient doors out to the lobby, he instead climbed up onto the counter and thru the little triage window, ran outside (still barefoot) and stole a police car.

Not a nurse but i’m pretty sure a nurse and some paramedics told this story.
i walked in w a tampon lodged in my nose.
she ripped it out and laughed at me and the paramedics were laughing in the background
QUICK TIP TAMPONS EXPAND SO MUCH
i had a nose bleed and that had to be 10x worse than just waiting it out.

My ex was a nurse and she once attended an emergency surgery of a guy who had been stabbed with a spork- the spoon-terminus, mind you- and the instrument was still stuck in his chest when he arrived at the hospital. For some reason, on the fork-side of the spork there was a little piece of Wiener Wurst attached. The surgeon's hand trembled from laughter during the whole operation. When asked during recovery about what happened, the guy said he'd slipped while eating dinner and fell on the spork but the authorities suspect there was something more sinister going on.

This happened to me... Not very WTF but I'll post it anyway.
I came into the hospital and told them that I had gotten hit by a spotlight weighing several hundred pounds. They gave me a huge 'how the hell did you manage that?' look. Got 14 stitches and a Harry potter scar for that.