generally speaking, i work in environment that caters mostly to male patients at least 96% of our patients are men. having said that, last summer one of my regular patients, you know the type i'm referring to, came in with a trench-coat in the middle of summer!. needless to say, after he closed the door behind him, he open his trench-coat to reveal a condition known as priapism! that he has sustained for over 6 hours!!! however, he was so embarrassed about it, he was praying that it would go away own it's own. therefore, my question to all of you is, have you encountered any embarrassing illnesses that you had to addressed knowing; that the patient was totally ashamed having to discuss this with you?
The depths of depravity that humans will sink to never ceases to astound me.
I can usually find "black humor" in just about anything we medical professionals encounter, but animal abuse, and abuse of other people I can find absolutely no humor in.
Just read a story of a poor dog that some man tried to "teach a lesson to" by the above method...poor girl-doggie almost died from internal injuries.
Either this is something that happens often, or my instructor was working at the same hospital as FlyingScot. Apparently a guy came in with a Trenchcoat on and the dog was stuck, and I think already dead at that point. Some people have serious problems.
When we were asking her to tell stories we were hoping for something "funny" and that definitely wasn't what we had in mind.
I just feel sorry for her having to see that, I don't think it is something you can easily "un-see".
Okay, I swear this one happened. Heard it from a friend of mine who was an EMT in Midtown Atlanta.
They pick up a guy who's in excruciating pain, his partner is with him. The patient has burns all around his orifice.
They were letting a gerbil/hamster/some little critter run around "inside" for the thrill, via a habitrail tube. Well, the critter gets busy going way too far in the other direction, stops moving, presumably suffocated. Partner can't see him or feel him, so he flicks his Bic.
The poor dead hamster goes flying out as a little furry cannonball of fire. The guy had serious burns and had to go to Augusta.
And yes, my EMT friend reported them for cruelty to animals.
Specializes in Trauma, ER, ICU, CCU, PACU, GI, Cardiology, OR.
okay, i swear this one happened. heard it from a friend of mine who was an emt in midtown atlanta.
they pick up a guy who's in excruciating pain, his partner is with him. the patient has burns all around his orifice.
they were letting a gerbil/hamster/some little critter run around "inside" for the thrill, via a habitrail tube. well, the critter gets busy going way too far in the other direction, stops moving, presumably suffocated. partner can't see him or feel him, so he flicks his bic.
the poor dead hamster goes flying out as a little furry cannonball of fire. the guy had serious burns and had to go to augusta.
and yes, my emt friend reported them for cruelty to animals.
as i'm reading this i can't stop lol...however, i'm glad that your emt friend contacted the incident to the proper authorities.
"neither do little blue pills and red bull as a group of teenage males found out the hard way. "
the .....hard way? mmmmmmppphhhh...::hands over mouth::
i think i've told this story before, but here it is again. i lived in a city where there was a great public fountain shaped like a half-sphere, studded all over with pipes that randomly shot out water in sync with classical music. the whole thing was surrounded by a sort of sloping enclosure, so you could sit there on a hot day and listen to music and get cooling mist all over. it really was nice.
then one day the icu i was in got an admission from a woman who, under the influence of something that makes you do stupid things, had squatted over one of them and waited for her note. alas, the force of the water went right past her cervix, through her abdominal contents, and tore her diaphragm (the one she breathed with). that was one heckuva repair.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
In my former life as a rad tech, I had seen several bizarre things. My two favorites were having to x-ray a guys member because he had stuck a fishhook in his urethra. He never did explain why he did it.
The other was an elderly lady who had dementia. She was having abdominal pain, a foul odor, presumably from her urine. I did a KUB and we were rather shocked when the film showed her dentures safely tucked in her lady parts.
Had a patient come in to the ER years ago with an acute abdomen and after a KUB was found to have Barbie doll heads all the way through his small and large intestines he had been swallowing and defecating for a thrill. When asked if that was quite expensive as Barbies were about 20 bucks a piece at the time, he replied "not really..I just wash them off and swallow the same ones over and over again". (sorry..hope you were not eating breakfast while reading this).
Also had a female patient come in with a seriously damaged, inflamed colosotmy stoma who reported her husband had been "doing his business in there". Talk about a patient education need!
The depths of depravity that humans will sink to never ceases to astound me.
I can usually find "black humor" in just about anything we medical professionals encounter, but animal abuse, and abuse of other people I can find absolutely no humor in.
yep, totally agree, gc.
my eyes are filling up when reading about these sick idiots and their sacrificial animals.
you can be as perverted as you want...
just don't cause pain/suffering/death to other living beings.
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Guttercat, ASN, RN
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Dear God. Serious?
The depths of depravity that humans will sink to never ceases to astound me.
I can usually find "black humor" in just about anything we medical professionals encounter, but animal abuse, and abuse of other people I can find absolutely no humor in.
Just read a story of a poor dog that some man tried to "teach a lesson to" by the above method...poor girl-doggie almost died from internal injuries.
Some things are just not funny.