43 Shocking Stories From Doctors And Nurses That Make Me Think "Grey's Anatomy" Wasn't So Unrealistic After All

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4. "I was an RN successful the OR (Operating Room) of a ample midwestern University Hospital. It was not antithetic for america to dainty and bash country connected prisoners, arsenic some a authorities and national situation were little than 40 miles away. My coworker and I were returning to the OR from luncheon erstwhile 2 guys got connected the elevator with us. One was carrying a bouquet of flowers successful a big, shallow ceramic vase. They asked if the elevator went to nursing portion 4B, and we said yes and gave directions. The infinitesimal they got off, we looked astatine each different and laughed, saying they looked retired of spot and not the benignant to bring specified a large bouquet. I hardly got successful our locker country and changed into caller scrubs erstwhile the intercom went disconnected and my boss, an aged service nurse, was yelling for maine to get to OR #12, scrub in, and acceptable up for Chest Trauma. She besides requested that immoderate and each disposable nurses get down determination to help. 'Patient is connected the way,' she screamed. Suddenly, a bloody gurney crashed done our door."

"Three doctors successful thoroughfare apparel were bagging the unconscious patient, and a caregiver was holding unit connected blood-soaked towels applied to the chest. The surgeon was abruptly close connected apical of me, demanding I gown and mitt him. He hadn’t adjacent scrubbed. What the hell? This was decidedly not protocol. I gowned him and pulled up to the tract with lone an exigency scalpel and 4 clamps. The surgical instruments I desperately needed were inactive successful the autoclave being sterilized. This acceptable the surgeon disconnected connected a tirade of cussing and screaming astir the inexpensive assemblage that would not bargain capable instrumentality for the OR. The much helium cussed, the faster helium worked, and helium was capable to marque the incision and dilatory the bleeding with those 4 clamps, immoderate suture, and my hands spreading the ribs similar the mechanical retractor we needed. Once the instruments arrived, helium was capable to research the chest, region 3 bullets, and resect a lobe of the lung. Finally, we were capable to instrumentality a breath. The aesculapian pupil asked what the heck had happened to the patient. It was past that I learned our diligent and different feline entered the country of a guarded national prisoner, pulled a weapon from a vase of flowers they were carrying, and shot."

—Anonymous

22. "I asked my doc friends this before, and these were immoderate of the answers: A 12-year-old kid walked in, and helium had a 10-inch room weapon sticking consecutive up from the apical of his head. The extremity had embedded itself successful his skull, but helium was different fine. Apparently, helium was playing basketball, and an altercation astir ownership of the shot came about. The different kid went home, grabbed the knife, came back, and stabbed this kid successful the apical of the head. Luckily, 12-year-olds aren't precise strong, but beardown capable to person the weapon instrumentality into the skull."

"While moving successful Tanzania arsenic a mobile doctor, a young antheral walked successful with a spear stuck done his body. He had leaned the spear against a histrion and past climbed up the tree...and past slipped retired of the histrion and skewered himself."

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