Funniest thing you've ever seen happen to a doctor

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It's Pick on Doctor Day! :)

I have a high regard for physicians, well, most of them, but it sure can be fun to poke fun at them.

Our hospital had a notorious, frequent flyer patient with multiple medical issues, and as we found out, this patient's problems were compounded in that they had some rather bizarre psych issues.

Everyone ended up liking this person very much, but the "episodes" we were to discover, were sudden. The patient during these episodes looked and acted possessed by the minions of hell itself.

There also was a doc at this time, who walked the halls with his chin in the air. You know the type I'm talking about...the flowing coat, perfect hair, and the airs of superiority waft out from them in billows as they make their rounds.

One day, the patient was being pushed out of a room in the bed. The patient looked for all intent, comatose. Sleeping like a baby.

As the patient was being pushed by the juncture of the nurses' station... the busiest place on the unit during the busiest time of the day, the doc in question happened to be flowing regally down the hall in usual fashion with his colleagues. He decided to ignore the fact there was a patient in a bed in his way, and tried to push past.

It was at that moment in front of God and everyone: ancillary staff, change of shift RN's, multiple phsyicians, secretaries...everyone...that the patient all in one motion shot bolt upright, grabbed a fistful of the docs jewels, and screamed in his face, nose to nose, "GET A JOB!!!"

The patient then fell back in bed like nothing happened.

The whole scene went dead silent, everyone's jaw hit the tarmac, and several people had to remove themselves from the area to find an empty room and burst out in uncontrollable laughter.

That was a good day. :)

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This type of stuff is funny?

When they are rude or arrogant toward you, when they embarrass you in front of other people, when they are anything but nice to you or other staff, YES!!!!!!!

A very nice and very good doctor once went to sit down but fell onto the floor instead. He started smiling.

It's not that he was mean or deserving of the pain or embarrassment, it just looked so funny. We helped him

up then tried not to let him see us laughing.

Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Trauma.

While assisting with the excision of a HUGE sebaceous cyst. (You can guess what's coming...) The patient was lying on his stomach. The doc was injecting the lidocaine when it popped and squirted a very large amount of cyst material onto the docs face, glasses, forehead...ALL OVER HIS FACE! The patient didn't know what happened. At that point, the doc excused himself and said to the patient, "We'll just let that take effect and Ill be right back.".

The funny part of this for me was that this doc always used to tell the patients that the lidocaine takes effect immediately, before the needle is even out of the skin and there is no need to wait as is the case at the dentist, for example. I was standing at his side silently heaving in laughter and trying not to make a noise...you know, bending at the waist, stomping my foot on the floor....It was more like an "Oh My God" laughter and embarrassment for him, but The doc wasn't laughing. ������. I couldnt help it to save my life!������

Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Trauma.
Worked at one time with a doc who had a bad case of "small man syndrome". (He was about my height - 5'3") I informed him that his PIH pt. had 4+ DTRs. Of course not believing me he walked over to the bed, standing at the side of the foot of the bed, in FRONT of the patient and gave a sharp rap to her patella. Naturally the foot flew straight out, striking him squarely in the expected location. Hardest time I've had keeping a straight face!

Now THAT's a good one!

Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Trauma.
Had a neurosurgeon who was consistently a jerk. Think I've only ever heard him speak civilly to the nurses one time. So, there he was, out in the hallway, yelling at this poor little GN, when the patient he'd just been in to see yells from their bed. "$#@! up and leave that poor girl alone, you ***hole!"

Doc just stood there blinking for a second, then turned and walked away. Nobody BREATHED until we saw him get on the elevator. Then we all DIED laughing.

Love love love this one! Too cool.

As a ER nurse you see these new med students who come in thinking they know it all. We had one intern that came in and started ordering the nurses around like they were his own personal servants (actually demanding coffee, meals, and drinks). One day we had a homeless guy come in passed out drunk. I went in to change him into a gown and noticed he had a very bad case of gonorrhea. I thought I would have some fun with this new "doctor". I waited until he came in to evaluate him to put in the urinary catheter. As I pulled back the sheets and grabbed the member thick green discharge shot up into the air. The doctor turned white, ran out of the room, and threw up right in front of the room. At the end of our shift the other nurses took me out to eat to say thank you.

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