65 Creepy Things That Happen In Hospitals Every Day But Sound Like Something From A Horror Movie

Doing pelvic exams on unconscious women during unrelated medical procedures without needing consent.

Monitoring cardiac screens for the entire hospital. Especially when they place monitors on a DNR patient just to charge insurance!

Doctors lying to patients.

Several hospitals have been sued for neglecting to save organ donors.

Writing notes on paper, violating GDPR by having patient notes on whiteboards or lying around on Wards. It's not the 1950s any more, this needs to stop.

Emergency c section-surgeon literally tore open that women’s uterus with his hands (after initial incisions)

Edited to add: manual revision of uterus after delivery to treat hemorrhage…f*****g barbaric.

If you d*e in a nursing home and no one is your POA and you have no family and no funeral arrangements and no one clocks this before you d*e they have to wheel your bed into whatever room has the lowest temperature while someone runs to probate court to petition for authority to have your body cremated.

Endometrial biopsy with zero pain management is the standard practice.

Bone marrow donation. My daughter got ~80 needle sticks to extract a liter of bone marrow. We heard from providers who were watching that it was the worst thing they had ever seen. A huge amount of force to twist and drill into the bone. She's still in pain 2.5 years later...

When I worked in the emergency department, sometimes when EMS called in a cardiac arrest with a prolonged downtime in the field, the nurses would put the body bag on the stretcher before the patient arrived.

Even CPR on someone who has had 20 hospital admissions this year and is in terrible health in their 70s. I just had a 20 minute code for a guy who I had on my floor every other month all year. Dude never should have been a full code.

Some of the conversations that occur in an operating theatre during surgery.

Australia I am not sure how it works in other countries

Palliative care in hospital. Medication, food, water ceased. Just mo****ne. You have 5 days max.

It's basically a d***h sentence.

Hospitals tolerating 007s.

That's a doctor widely known to be so bad he has "a license to k**l.".

Eating minutes after doing cpr like it's nothing.
So many foreign body removals. Barely noticing when there is body fluid on your clothes.

Calling a patient who is deceased - "Expired" first time I read that I was in shock. Still makes me feel icky.

Deciding who to bother helping in a mass casualty event, you are going to be leaving people to d*e.

Nurses skipping pain relief for children getting injections to save on time.

The cure to compartment syndrome.

When you know why, it makes sense, but if you've ever seen it, it looks barbaric.

As a firefighter paramedic, I’ve gone to PNB calls where a family member witnessed the d***h of an individual. That individual then calls the whole family to start dividing their positions before they are pronounced d**d.