My wife was a nurse, and she told me a story about how an abdominal xray was taken of a patient who had abdominal pain, and there was an, er, “foreign object” in the abodmen. It was “unusual” and there were a group of nurses looking at it on the lightbox.
A resident walked in and said “How did that patient eat that?”
All the nurses just turned and stared at her...
My first wife worked in the emergency room of San Jose hospital. She told me about a guy who came in with a plastic banana stuck up his ass.
He had no idea how it got there.
From a friend with an ER doctor friend in SF, light bulbs used to be popular.
Here’s a friend’s story:
His sister was a nurse at the local hospital emergency room.
Paramedics called and said they were bringing in several people who had been injured in a brawl at a local pool hall.
They had to take x-rays of one of the victims and a large, round object was seen in his rectum.
When the doctors were finally able to remove it the object turned out to be a cue ball.
Guess that guy lost the fight.
A long time ago, I shared an apartment with some medical residents.
They had ER tales to tell ...