ER Doctors Are Opening Up About The Most Startling Cases They’ve Seen, And I'm Honestly Speechless

It goes without saying that aesculapian attraction professionals person the toughest occupation determination is. I mean, precise fewer things tin beryllium arsenic important arsenic having the quality to prevention someone's life. I've been reasoning a batch astir this ever since I binge watched The Pitt, truthful I wanted to perceive much astir the real-life experiences of ER doctors and nurses. I headed to Reddit and went down a rabbit hole, and I was not disappointed I came retired with renewed respect for the profession.

I recovered 20 of the many bizarre and perfectly chaotic cases ER doctors and nurses person witnessed, and present they are.

Content warning: The pursuing stories see graphic aesculapian details and references to abuse, self-harm, suicide, and violence. Reader discretion is advised.

1. "Had a feline travel successful with a weapon sticking retired the backmost of his head. The idiosyncratic who stabbed him did it astatine specified a cleanable space that the leaf slid into the abstraction betwixt the 2 hemispheres of the guy’s brain. No damage, discharged a mates hours later."

— Future-Regret1553

2. "Had a feline travel successful that got struck by lightning. We stripped him down looking for the exit people from the burst of energy. We couldn’t find 1 and were disquieted his organs were heating up from the vigor of the lightning onslaught and astatine hazard of failing. About an hr aboriginal his person showed up to cheque connected the feline and fto him cognize his canine was good and helium got the canine home. He past proceeds to say, “Did you spot the dog's collar detonate disconnected its neck?! That was crazy.” Turns retired the feline was holding the dog's leash erstwhile helium got struck, and the vigor from the onslaught traveled down the leash and exited done the dogs collar. I deliberation astir this often and this happened astir 15 years ago."

— That-Guy2021

3. "Had a diligent past period travel successful due to the fact that the glue connected their toed stopped working. They didn't travel successful 2 days agone erstwhile their diabetic toed fell off, but came successful erstwhile the glue stopped holding it on."

4. "I enactment successful a children's hospital. I person seen a batch and it ever seems worse with kids. One was a suicidal teen I met successful emergency. She had been beaten up by her parent with a intelligence disorder, decided beingness wasn't worthy it and tried to swallow her mum's pills. Her mum was detained, her member arsenic good for warring the parent to halt her from sidesplitting the teen. She was retired of it from the meds, but kept begging maine to halt helping her. She wanted to dice and pleaded that if I cared astir her I would 'let her go.' It was emotionally jarring, threw up aft (it was 1 of my archetypal days connected the job)."

— DuskAndSummer

5. "Agoraphobic antheral came successful and hadn't taken his socks disconnected successful 2 years. Feet were gangrenous. X-ray showed small bony left. I removed his socks and what small of his feet were near crumbled into my hands."

— Anonymous

6. "Not a doc but a CNA. We had a idiosyncratic travel successful complaining astir limb pains and, erstwhile we got her pants off, the pains were revealed to beryllium a darkened (rotting) leg. Apparently she had noticed it but decided not to get it checked owed excessively costs (this is America, aft all). She ended up getting the limb amputated successful what could person been a elemental lawsuit of triple antibiotics and a band-aid."

7. "A kid came to the infirmary with cigaret burns dotting his torso. Almost each spot of tegument that could beryllium covered with a T- garment was scarred. Some of the marks were old, immoderate were precise fresh. His parents said it was a tegument condition."

— woodchuck_vomit

8. "One of the astir horrifying things I person ever seen successful the infirmary was a feline who OD'd connected 1 of his medicine medications. One of the side-effects was priapism (erection lasting much than 4 hours). Once the doctors got his cardiac and respiratory systems comparatively stable, they tried to get escaped of this mediocre dude's erection (which was starting to crook purple/black/blue). After respective non-invasive methods, they did what they had to do. They had to inject drugs straight into the caput of his penis. Not 1 shot. Not two, oregon three, oregon four. NINETEEN. NINETEEN injections into the caput of his penis. It was inactive swollen, bruised and reddish 2 weeks later."

— lornad

9. "I was assisting successful a clang C-section once. The parent was eclamptic (sky precocious humor pressure), and the lone cure is to present the baby. But she was lone 25 weeks. It was truthful accelerated that determination was nary clip to get an epidural, truthful we had to enactment her nether wide anaesthesia. The babe had a beardown and steadfast heartbeat, but of course, erstwhile you present astatine 25 weeks, that doesn't matter. The begetter sat successful recovery, beside his wife's stretcher, holding their dying baby. The full clip tears and tears conscionable moving down his face. He ne'er said anything. He conscionable sat, without talking, holding a tiny bundle of blankets, looking down astatine a perfectly formed tiny look struggling to breathe."

10. "Stories from doc friends: A feline was scratching his hemorrhoids with a 50 mm slug and it got stuck up there. Since it was a unrecorded round, the weaponry squad was called and held their blast shields oregon immoderate astir the patients butt arsenic it was removed."

"Also: A mates wanted to marque perfect/custom dildo for guys butt truthful they enactment a condom successful and capable the condom with cement. Condom breaks and astir a ft of his intestines has to beryllium removed." — Anonymous

11. "I was doing my residency astatine navigator region infirmary successful Chicago astir 25 years ago. My person and I had a abbreviated interruption successful betwixt surgeries, and helium went to the bathroom. I headed down the hallway to get a snack. After I got immoderate chips, I went backmost and waited extracurricular the bath for him. I waited 10 minutes and past went in. I recovered my friend's assemblage connected the level with a ample weapon buried successful his throat. A cause addict came successful to the bath and killed my person to instrumentality his medicine pad to get much drugs."

— That_One_Zombie

12. "Was waiting to prime up a person aft a country and a woman pulled up covered successful blood. Like pouring disconnected her look and arms. She goes moving inside. A 2nd woman pulls up besides covered successful humor and goes inside. A mates minutes aboriginal a 3rd woman covered successful humor walks up, sees the 2 cars sitting there, tosses her machete into the bushes, and walks inside. At that constituent I went and talked to information and they got the machete and separated the 3 ladies. Turns retired the archetypal woman had been sleeping with the 3rd lady’s son, the 2nd woman was joined to the archetypal 1 and she was the 3rd lady’s sister, and they’d each gotten into a weapon combat due to the fact that the lad had posted pictures of him kissing his aunt successful instrumentality to Snapchat accidentally."

13. "Had a guy, possibly astir 20-22 travel successful and had the ligament of a brace aged schoolhouse wired pome earphones stuck up his johnson. All the mode to wherever the azygous ligament divided disconnected into the 2 wires, truthful possibly 1-2 feet of ligament up there. Claimed helium passed retired astatine a friend's enactment and his friends did it to him. Had to X- ray to spot what each was going on. The ligament made it each the mode to his bladder. What happens erstwhile you had those headphones successful your pocket? Yeah immoderate happening happened successful his bladder, truthful it couldn't conscionable beryllium pulled out, had to person it surgically removed."

"Also had a pistillate someway marque it past cheque in, past triage to the exigency bay and erstwhile a doc asked what was going on, she said she sneezed and popped her stitches and showed america her hands. She was holding similar 2 feet of intestines successful her hands. She had a c-section and popped the stitches and it came spilling out. I inactive don't cognize however she made each the mode backmost there." — txharleyrider

14. "Saw a dude bring successful his ain limb aft a motorcycle wreck. It was wholly severed and dude inactive disquieted astir his boot."

— Tightlipped3

15. "I was booking successful 1 of my patients astatine reception successful the aboriginal '00s. I could odor fume and burned nutrient for a fewer minutes earlier a antheral walked successful looking similar an other from the walking dead. He mumbled to the receptionist that helium needed to spot a doctor. It took maine a 2nd oregon truthful to get up and drawback stretcher for him. The doc was royally pissed with maine for not pre-alerting the department. The diligent had been burning rubbish successful his plot and had managed to pain much of himself than the rubbish. Full thickness burns implicit each of his assemblage and successful nary existent symptom whatsoever. Needless to say, helium died."

16. "We had a diligent who was stabbed successful the rectum with a butcher knife. Husband walked successful connected his woman and different man, helium tried to tally distant bare and crawled nether a array and his butthole was successful the air, and that's wherever helium got stabbed. Directly successful the butthole...with a butcher knife."

— foxtrotRN

17. "Dude with gauged ears got his favored snake caught successful the gaping spread successful his earlobe. Came successful by ambulance. The snake wiggled retired of the spread successful the ambulance bay. Female doc who was precise acrophobic of snakes screamed and told the EMTs to enactment everyone backmost successful the ambulance and spell home."

— Playcrackersthesky

18. "Some feline got cactus thorns stuck successful his pharynx due to the fact that helium was "practicing". I was truthful blessed to lone beryllium connected registrar that night. Their caregiver was not amused."

19. "Hospital security/ Hospital bid serviceman for years. I astir delivered a babe 1 time. Husband came moving into ER saying his woman was successful labour successful their car. So I went moving retired with a wheelchair. She was refusing to get out. He went moving disconnected for nurses. She pulls down her pants and says, "Baby is coming now". So I gloved up and was fundamentally begging her to conscionable get successful the seat to get inside. She yet said yes and I dragged her out. Got met halfway successful with a stretcher and nurses. She gave commencement portion getting wheeled up to delivery."

— LordCaptain

20. "We had a diligent travel into the ER, aft her lad recovered her unconscious with an bare vessel of Xanax, that was prescribed 2 days before. She was unresponsive for days. When she woke up, I was connected displacement and sent to the ICU to speech to her astir the OD. She told maine she thought if she took 30 mg of benzos, she would slumber for a week and suffer 10 pounds."

— Tasty-Bee-8339

These stories person lone re-instated my respect for aesculapian attraction professionals. It's wide that the worst time of my enactment beingness would inactive beryllium a half-decent time for them.

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