Doctor, What's Something You've Never Expected to See? | Professionals Stories #48

medical professionals have read it when did you have to tell a patient i've seen it all before to comfort them but really you had never seen something so bad or of that nature i used to do psychiatric evaluations in an emergency room setting one time i'm evaluating this 60 year old woman who is lying in the hospital bed i'm asking her questions and she stops me and says excuse me did i need to pass some gas i let her know that this is a medical setting and that is a completely normal body function and not to be embarrassed people pass gas all the time i was not prepared for what came next she let it rip and out came the loudest wettest and longest sounding fart i have ever heard it was bubbly and juicy hitting all the deep notes while ending on a squeaker i don't think satan could have made a noise like that with his anus it sounded so relieving but then the smell hit me it was bad enough that i started to gag and had to excuse myself from the room when i came back i politely asked if she needed a nurse for anything in case she needed to be cleaned up after that but she declined obviously i've witnessed people farting before but i've never heard or smelled anything like that before but that was something else fourth year med student here on my rotation a couple months back i walked into the ed and was immediately asked to help a nursing resident put a catheter in a patient and now a catheter placement is usually a one-person job so i was pretty confused as to why they needed my help i walk into the patient room and i'm immediately greeted by a disgusting rotting flesh smell worst thing i've smelled in my life the patient has to be pushing 400 pounds and has the worst edema soft tissue swelling from congestive heart failure i've ever seen his scrotum and penis foreskin are about the size of a small watermelon and the foreskin had swollen completely over the tip of his penis the nurse had a speculum two obgyns used to look inside vaginas inserted into the man's foreskin while the resident took the catheter in a hemostat pliers type thing and jammed it into the man's pee hole for 20 minutes they finally got the catheter in and took the speculum out it was covered in a thick brown discharge that looked like fermented pea crab i still don't know how he let his scrotum and penis well that much welp that's enough for did for today not a doctor but had one that defiantly lied to me so i have an extreme reaction to poison oak after a day my skin literally starts slugging off exposing the fatty tissue it then starts growing away from the contact point doubling in size every day until i get treatment or die of infection day one man this poison oak is itchy attempt not to scratch but you do day two this is bad i must have an infection but i did everything i could to keep it clean call the doctor make appointment for monday day three wake up saturday stuck to my sheets because the gauze is too saturated to contain my body fluids make an urgent care appointment but make it for the afternoon cause i got to see the kids soccer game upside it doesn't itch today no pain at all doctor sees me makes a phone call tells me to sit there and don't move an hour later another doctor comes in wearing some kind of hazard suit i start freaking out he tells me he's a specialist dermatologist and has seen it all also comforts me by saying worst case scenario it's flesh-eating bacteria the fact that you're not dead by now might mean you have superpowers he starts to remove the gauze the previous doctor wrapped me in and as soon as the affected area was revealed he threw up his hands and jumped back then says he's not seen this before and wants me to describe everything in detail he takes swabs sends to lab prescribes me steroids and antibiotics brings me the prescriptions and after sitting in the little room for a total of eight hours lets me go because i've stopped leaking i saw him again on monday and the labs had nothing terrible and i was completely scabbed over he had me finish all the pills saw me two more times and i didn't even get any scarring just my body getting rid of the poison oak by getting rid of all the skin sounds like stevens johnson syndrome for god's sake be careful other plants and drugs can do that to not only your skin but also your eyes and certain internal organs obligatory not a medical professional but a first aider i was doing a duty at the finish line of the london marathon as i have done for many years i've seen enough chafing dehydration and blisters galore someone always has the worst of the day but it happened so fast that you can hardly mentally tally whose nipples were the most raw until i had a runner come in covered in blood complaining that her nipples had completely gone she had chafe so bad that her nipples and arrears were rubbed to nothing and the worst part was that she had her nipples pierced and the piercings had embedded themselves in her exposed breast tissue i had to talk her through sterilizing the wounds while trying to assure her that it happens to everyone the image of a nipple bar peeking out of red raw breast tissue will haunt me i was a fat little 10 year old with a slide on a float in the middle of the lake we had a bucket on a rope to pour water on the slide before you went down i missed a spot my right nipple very literally was burned off by the hot plastic it took years before became somewhat normal again doc here currently working with accident victims i had a patient once hobble in walking in his key later a week after being hit by a car he'd been to the air they discharged him and said just the usual bumps and bruises i did my round-off x-rays and his femoral heads were broken on both sides think of the leg bone as a capital l with the bottom of the l hooking into the hippies were cleanly broken through the bottom sections on both sides turns out it had occult fractures on both sides the x-rays didn't initially see and walking on them collapsed them never seen that before another was a patient with shoulder injury both sides got an mri and both shoulders were basically destroyed complete failure of the rotator cuff on both sides with the humerus being drawn up and back on each side instant surgery i'm a medical secretary for a podiatrist i obviously didn't treat the patient myself but i discussed his case with his doctor the patient had severe anxiety and therefore hadn't been to a doctor of any kind in approximately 20 years he ended up in our office because his wife had called the day before and expressed that he needed to be seen due to a foot infection when he arrived he approached the window and told the receptionist that he was sorry because his socks were dirty as he hadn't made it to the laundromat recently which was a bit weird in and of itself but we work for a podiatrist we've seen it all before as it were he then sat in the waiting room and it was mere moments before the smell seeped into the administration office the receptionist put him in an exam room as quickly as possible and upon her return she informed me that the infection was literally using out of his sneaker all we could do was open the widows and apologize to other patients as they arrived it was foul and when i entered the room after his appointment to clean it the medical assistant was out that day i immediately began gagging and had to forcefully push my manager out of the way as to avoid vomiting on her on my way to the restroom as it turned out the dude had had the infection for approximately three months and had been showering with his sock on since he'd discovered it he literally hadn't removed his sock from his infected foot in three months and his wife had somehow been living with the overwhelming smell the doctor said it was the worst infection he'd ever seen but the patient was so incredibly anxious that he got the standard i've seen it all before throughout his appointment i was working as a cna in a nursing home there was a lady who had been neglected before she came in so she had stage four bed sores all the way to the bone and the treatment nurse wanted me because i am calming and really good with the residents that needed a little support she has me roll her on her side and then carefully peels back the bandage i'm staring down in half horror half fascination as i can clearly see the bone ligaments muscle layers of skin i'm gawking hard and the nurse is showing me some neat procedure when i hear a small frail voice is it getting better i turn on my biggest friendliest smile and reply it does it looks so much better does it feel better she smiles and nods i change the subject to grandkids she had a picture of them i haven't seen anything like it before or since but she was such a lovely lady and i started looking forward to helping because she was such a nice lady to talk to thank frick there's nurses like you not the doctor but the patient in sixth grade i contracted so many different forms of dysentery that i was placed into cdc quarantine while they tried to figure out where i got it i was barely conscious throughout the whole time but all i remember is my doctor in my room with me having hooked up my wee and playing brawl as i recovered i had no clue that my parents were being investigated for child abuse or that i was in quarantine until a few months later or that i had passed out and had been covered in vomit and crap for hours before my mom found me and took me to the hospital i ended up getting it from someone not washing their hands after handling a snake and then cooking dinner at my science camp wash your dang hands people the dang oregon trail over here i'm an rn who specializes in wound care we see a lot of crazy things in my clinic a common occurrence is a pilonidal cyst which is an abnormal growth in you gluteal cleft aka butt crack that contains hair it usually happens with younger ppl say 1320s and is obviously very embarrassing to the patient when we get them they've already had the surgery to open and extract the cyst so there's a few holes left that we have to heal one poor soul that came in had the worst post-surgical hole i've ever seen it was so big it extended from the top of her crack to the top of her anus then now on either side about 12 centimeters it was like the surgeon carved out most of her butt the patient was devastated and i tried to comfort her by telling her she's not the worst i've ever seen poor girl not a medical professional and the dentist didn't even try to play it off as if he'd seen it before but my sister had bad problems with her teeth so many of her teeth were pulled and one was sword in half while it was still in her mouth so that they could pull half of it as a dentist held before he said i've been telling all my dentist friends about you i've never done this before that was probably the wrong thing to say before you saw someone's tooth in half years ago my then 11 year old shattered both femurs and her hip at the time her orthopedic specialist was so reassuring and confident that we had no doubt about her recovery a year later we went back for a review and he asked me if i'd like to see her trauma x-rays not having any idea of the reality i said yes what i saw looked like her leg bones had exploded after my freaked out reaction i commented on how cool and calm he was and how certain that she'd be fine he said he'd actually had to go for a short walk around the hospital to collect his thoughts since he had no idea how he would put this child back together he also told me had used the films as a teaching aide he's one of my heroes you're going to have to explain how one shatters both femurs and a hip and if she's walking now yep had a patient who was 62 and he had never seen a dentist before i am a dentist had literally everything going on orally especially the smell omg the smell me and the assistant were like don't worry we see this kind of stuff all the time not a lie just never all at once oh rn here so so many one vaginal discharge the color and consistency of guacamole stuck on a speculum post pelvic exam the patient's husband had recently been released from a period of federal incarceration two the first time you smell a really funky long-term gi bleed bleeding into the intestines usually the colon who and blood equals murder most foul and the patient is sometimes a sweet incredibly sick little granny watching us gag as we clean her up apologizing for the smell and we have to just say from behind the peppermint oil soaked mask oh sweetie it's okay we do this all the time three dead sluffed intestinal lining another smell that will haunt your gamers but the winner winner chicken dinner and the no number it's not that bad i've seen worse category was the homeless dude who came in complaining of blood in his urine he wasn't able to pee more than a few drops at a time so we used a little ultrasound machine to see how much urine was in his bladder more than 1 000 milliliters you just bought a catheter sir i tossed one of our male patient caretakes with the job and had barely gotten back to the desk when he came running out yelling i need some help grab gloves i lifted the gown covering this guy's junk and grabbed the penis to help maggots in the urethra and he was p off that we removed them because in the core numb they teach you to eat your maggots that's free protein damn it just eating some coleslaw and chicken while reading this no big deal not a medical professional but i have impressed a couple it's not super weird but just uncommon i guess i was overweight but active when i was younger and broke my lowest rib while snowboarding long story short i did not know it was broken honestly so i never got it checked by a doctor the rib traveled up over the next two ribs and has since fused to them i now have a permanent tilt on my spine where this rib attaches to it and now that i have lost some weight a bump you can see feel on my chest it is kinda weird when you tell a doctor about something on your body and their face lights up like a kid on christmas and they ask for permission to feel it some people really do love their jobs nursing corrections here had an inmate patient coming with complaints about severe lower abdominal pain he told me that he had something stuck in his prison pocket before i could ask him what he stuck up his anus he bends over and shows me a cord sticking out i told him don't trip i'm sure the doctor can help you out with that you'll be all right come to find out the prong of the phone charger got caught up into something and it was stuck as i was trying to comfort him i started to hear this vibrating sound so i asked him if he heard it do he said it's the phone inside me that stuck with the charger it wasn't just a regular flip phone it was one of those samsung smartphones i sure hope it wasn't a record note 7. had a patient who had a melanoma the size of a cauliflower head on the back of her ankle melanoma doesn't generally grow like that maybe it was the ozone injection she'd gone to another country for had a guy that shot himself under the chin with a shotgun he had actually done it like 16 hours prior to family finding him he was still alive conscious and alert to what was going on his jaw looked like predator i had family freaking out of course had to tell them we see worse often which may be true but they are usually dead he lived for almost a day after shooting himself then died in the back of my ambulance i had to drop my first nasogastric tube on a rather hysterical older team i was actually a very experienced nurse but just had never had the opportunity to insert one but i checked the procedure manual watch a youtube video and walk in the room i'm not worried this usually isn't that difficult and i'm in general a skilled nurse girl is sobbing mom has to leave the room she's so upset and angry dad tells me he's a paramedic and that i better know my crap but dad says aggressively have you done this before i say i can't even count the number of times i've done this girl says will this damage my vocal chords curious question but i'll laugh a little and say with a smile not if you stay calm and follow my instructions dad says because she has studied under name i didn't recognize for years and has a full ride to fancy art school that i did recognize that ng tube slid in like butter no problem girl did just fine i'm not going to lie i was sweating just a bit also one time some young 30 something crap out the most blood i've ever seen someone crap out and live he was lying passed out on the floor of the bathroom while our rapid response team assembled trying to figure out how to get this massive young man out of a rather small space he came to saw all the blood and just calmly looked at me and said that's a lot of blood am i dying i said nah i used to work labor and delivery i know it looks like a lot of blood but i've seen way worse you're going to be just fine that was a lie i had never seen so much freaking blood even in l d and i wasn't sure he was going to make it he lived i'm a surgeon a couple of years ago they sent us this guy 52 years old that had shown up in the year because he allegedly hadn't pooped in a week or so but to make a long story short x-ray showed he had something lodge in his rectum and sigma and descending colon so way up there that was a little over a foot long he denied having put anything up there yeah right we try to go from the bottom up and nothing we see something but we can't clamp onto it so what now operating room ended up opening him up and inside the colon we see a hand i just about crap myself ended up being a mannequin's arm like storm anakin it was stuck up there up to the elbow that was an odd one i'm a pediatric nurse and trigged a young girl with a rash mom had been to several doctors and they didn't know what it was i recognized it right away called stephen johnson syndrome i remained calm patient was flown to a burn center but died i had only seen it once before and it was fatal for that patient too we had a patient in the uh who was sick of her visual hallucinations so she scooped her eyeballs out she looked like something out of hellraiser and unfortunately did not fix her hallucinations another patient came in with a colostomy and ran out of his equipment so he duct-taped a trash bag to it it had several pounds of fesses in it holy frick that poor woman i am so sorry you had to see that not even close to a medical professional but my aunt is a nurse and told me about a guy who came in coughing up blood and maggots and it turned out to be some worms he got from eating something that ate through his stomach lining into his esophagus and were in his throat paramedic here had a homeless guy call saying he stepped on a nail about a year ago i could smell it from the door so i expected it to be bad but when i went to pick up the leg by his heel there was just nothing there his foot just evaporated into pus and maggots and his metatarsals clinked through my fingers while i'm standing there trying to comprehend what happened he just signed and asked me to pick up his foot what foot buddy put it back on he said it falls off a lot these days but it still hurts so that's good right i had no clue what to tell him the nurses thought it was hilarious that the baby medic that's me btw got grossed out not a medical professional my husband was born with a pretty insane heart defect that all the doctors were in agreement shouldn't have worked and he certainly shouldn't have lived as long as he did one called it a ticking time bomb his heart had two chambers instead of the normal four he didn't have the big arteries that led from the heart to the lungs but a series of smaller ones i will never forget the first time i saw him take his shirt off and you could literally see his heart beating in his skinny chest literally every beat at the age of 25 three years after we were married the time bomb blew seven years later i very vividly remember his chest moving as his freaked up heartbeat i am so terribly sorry for your loss and hope your time together was precious sex a dog bit my little sister in the face ripping through her mouth and cheek it was at a soccer game she crawled on top of a big dog called a bull zoy which startled it it rolled over and bit her in the face this was the late 80s smaller town there were no pediatric surgeons available no plastic surgeons she was in the air with her face ripped open anyways our general pediatrician who is now my kids pediatrician 30 years later who had only graduated maybe 10 years prior sewed her face back together it was 30 stitches on the inside of her mouth and 30 or so on the outside she had a massive scar down the whole side of her face and way fast forward 15 years she grew normally her face is fine her smile is fine no long-term damage apparently a face is full of nerves and muscles and that's why only plastic surgeons work on faces particularly with children having nerve and muscle damage can make their face grow crooked as they age it is a highly specialized field but in this case there was nobody else just a general pediatrician and he managed to save her face with no long-term nerve or muscle damage or even scarring now that's an adult we found out 25 years later from our pediatrician's wife that he spent an hour or so crunching his old med school books in the seat of his plymouth reliant in the hospital parking lot studying facial anatomy nerves and cheek structure etc he walked into the hospital and performed a multiple hour surgery on her face sewed it back together perfectly you would think a plastic surgeon did it his wife told us he came home that night just flopped down on the couch and sat that there amazed that he'd done it proud but cautious a new general pediatrician sews a toddler's face back together and it worked now you would never know it happened and he has never ever done another surgery like that again lol saw a surgeon one time seriously screw up what i can only assume was intended to be a hernia surgery using abdominal mesh by the time the guy came to clinic his stomach looked like a shuttle [ __ ] not on the inside and he was just walking around like that freaking hernia mesh years later it feels like a spook is stabbing me in the groin i saw a patient with a history of crippling depression who attempted suicide by firing a bullet through his chin and out the top of his head with surgery he survived i followed his psychiatric neuro care over the next month and the dude was cured of his depression his subsequent mood was like a chill hippie with an endless supply of weed and no negative effects whatever the bullet did on its way through his brain cured his depression and left everything else intact i'm the patient here and the nurses didn't even try to say they had seen it before but it still fits when i was getting treated for cancer i got a really bad case of pneumonia and had to be intubated and put into like a semi coma type deal i don't remember anything that happened in those six days but i was apparently made sober enough to open my eyes for visitors every day so i don't know if that counts as a coma it was some pretty serious pneumonia because it was like less than two days between my first cough and then making the call that i would need to be intubated to stop me from drowning in my own fluids so they didn't mess around and gave me a ton of antibiotics you know how some hospital beds have a track along the ceiling that they can hang iv bags from i had enough antibiotics hanging from mine that it broke and fell to the floor again no memory of this but the thing that was truly unprecedented occurred when they were changing out my boot bag i don't fully understand what it was but they had something on or under my butt that collected all my bowel movements they put it on after i was heavily sedated and removed it before i was totally awake so i don't really remember it for anyone who doesn't know antibiotics can cause a lot of diarrhea apparently when they rolled me on my side that day i let loose a fire hose of liquid crap that arched through the air across the room and splattered all over the door and window which were about 12 feet away from my bed i think it's super cool and funny so they didn't have to pretend like it was normal to comfort me there are two options here a bum bag which is a bag that is attached to your bottom via a very sticky waterproof seal that collects all your feces or a flexi seal which is essential a tube that goes into your anus and allows liquid feces to drain down a tube into a bag so you either had a tape stuck to your bum or a butt plug poop tube both are fantastic devices if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 26min 7sec (1567 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 19 2021