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A trick I do is pull out the lower lid gently and drop the drops on the little pouch between the lid and the eyeball, then I tell the pt to blink rapidly so the medicine distributes on their eye.

You never see agonal breathing when someone is dying of an injury or heart attack. People dying of terminal illnesses are always conscious and lucid up to the moment they die. Closed mouths on coma patients. You never see people in a minimally consci...

Yeah, you gotta watch out for those kiddos. They're short order poop factories!

A couple weeks ago I had an elderly pt hang their bare butt off the side of the gurney and spray me with diarrhea. They had a nasty case of salmonella. I threw that pair of pants away. The next day I gave everybody who attended that pt a pudding cup ...

Utterly sweet patients with their whole lives ahead of them walk in with a stomachache and leave with a stage IV pancreatic cancer diagnosis. ? Nasty insufferable patients who waste their lives on drugs walk in with a stomachache and leave with ...

This is still the most disturbing story in the thread for me.

There's never any agonal breathing.

Oh honey I'm so sorry. You gave him the best chance by knowing CPR and him surviving wasn't in the cards this time. The boy knew you tried to help and I am sure he was grateful even though he slipped away anyway.

Pus. Gimme anything else, but I can't handle pus. Instant gag every time.

Hi there. I don't work in hospice, but a friend of mine does and she's seen this happen several times. A patient will be circling the drain, the family stays and stays and stays, and the minute they leave for two minutes, the patient dies. The family...

Pts who ring the call light two seconds after I leave the room when I asked them if they needed anything else before I left.

Tonight, I had a pt with most of the skin on his right arm and side scraped off. Lots of muscle exposed. Moral of the story: don't motorcycle shirtless. At least he had a helmet on. He'll live. A few weeks ago I had a kid with a suspected hot appy pu...

I'll never forget the Christmas I coded a 100-something year old Alzheimer's patient because his family wouldn't sign the f***ing DNR. His sternum and ribs pretty much disintegrated and his torso looked swollen and bruised. His family was screaming a...

I had to handle a homeless man with necrotizing fasciitis. It literally ate his testicles and his penis was infected too. Rolled him over and it was all over his thighs, butt and probably up into his rectum too. Yes, there were maggots everywhere, to...

Holy mother of all things blood and guts! EEEEEW!

Man, oh man, I remember the time I ALMOST quit because of a jerkface patient lacking in compassion. A person(Patient A) came into the ER complaining of chest pain, saying he didn't want to call an ambulance and take up somebody else's emergency spot....

Funniest: A man came in with a small dumbbell weight stuck in his rectum. He wanted to make his butthole stronger. Worst: Had a patient literally rip his face off in a motorcycle accident. He didn't make it. Best: I took care of a lady who nursed sol...

Don't forget about endorphins

Oh God the above made me gag. Mucus is my weakness.

Ah, memorable pts are the best! My Tday patient was the night before Tday. I had a meth addict come in with a drumstick lodged in his anus, screaming about how it kept Satan from fisting him. He presented the baster as Satan's male organ and claimed ...

Document, document, document. This kind of crap escalates if you don't make it known that you won't put up with it. Good luck!

They use beer to sterilize everything!

^ Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!!! Couple nights ago I had something in my ER that I've never seen before and I've seen a lot. Guy on a motorcycle without a helmet somehow ripped his entire face off on gravel when he crashed. Eyeball hanging down on his che...

Surgeons with big egos who think everyone worships the ground they walk on. ****.

I know this post is old, but it made me cry. That's just terrible. Nobody even checked on her?!