25 Most DISTURBING ER Stories

You won’t believe these most disturbing ER stories! In this list, nurses and doctors share their emergency room horror stories. These stories from the ER are scary, gross, and downright unbelievable! These true ER stories will have you thanking your doctor and nurses. Ready to be surprised? Watch these 25 most disturbing ER stories!
The ER is a place that no one ever wants to be, but for the brave nurses and doctors who work there, everyday brings new surprises. These real medical stories will shock you and make you wonder what is wrong with people. From an unexpected surgery to some extreme hallucinations, these top 25ER stories will give you a little bit of everything. Can’t wait to watch these amazing medical stories? Then dive right in! Check out these real ED stories and leave us a comment letting us know what is the strangest reason you’ve ever been to the emergency room.
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The ER is a crazy place, filled with amazing stories. In this list, you’ll hear about some crazy ER where a woman ripping out her own eye and another woman with a fish hook through her eyelid really happened. You’ll hear the amazing true story of rescuing a 500 pound man and the horrible medical issues they found. Of course, no crazy ER list is complete without a story of a hidden worm and an army of cockroaches. Feeling grossed out? This list is also full of some of the worst injuries you can imagine - including one man who walked into the ER with his own arm torn off! From patients who chew their own lips off to strange objects getting into places they should not be, this list has every scary true story. Curious to hear more crazy ER stories? Watch this video to the end and find out which disturbing emergency room story ranks number one!
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[@whitetransgirlwithdreads]

My scary ER story: I read the Bill

[@list25]

OH NO!!!

[@oobaka1967]

It's good to be Canadian. 50 years old and have never received a bill from a hospital or a doctor.

[@Esoeso933]

That's why u come to Canada poor American

[@sharqueesha6957]

oobaka1967 Is it good healthcare though I’m actually curious.

[@slayawde2]

"This is America"

[@lifetweakexperiments]

Medical professional here. Years ago I was asked to assess a patient's leg wound. 25 feet away from entering his room I noted a very foul. odor. The patient's diagnosis was wet gangrene to one of his lower legs. He was a long established diabetic and had vascular disease and diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage) to his feet. His leg was wrapped up in a gauze. As I was inspecting the (stained) dressing I noted a maggot crawl out between the dressing layers. When we took off the dressing the leg had hundreds of maggots on it with many burrowing out the skin surface. I could see the movement of more maggots under the skin. The emergency staff had initially immersed the leg in a metal bucket filled with saline to drown as many maggots as possible but they kept coming. We eventually isolated the leg in a plastic bag to prevent more escapees. The patient shortly had surgery to have a bka (below knee amputation). What I remember the most was the patient's apparent indifference of what was happening. On the plus side those maggots probably helped the patient from going septic since the maggots were eating the dead flesh. SIde note: we use medical maggots on occasion to help clean up dead tissue in wounds.

[@jaydedjen110]

As a diabetic with neuropathy this scares the shit out of me O.o

[@jaydedjen110]

As a diabetic with neuropathy this concept scares the shit out of me O.o

[@mandie8007]

Um

[@pinayladyoz8044]

As a renal chronic haemodialysis nurse, I see maggots on diabetic patients with neuropathy with chronic wounds quite often in our unit. It's very common.

[@floridaed91]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@RickSanchez-pz1gf]

‘He vomited and the other doctor fainted’ killed me! 😂😂

[@aubreyirah0413]

Me too😂🤣

[@lolabigcups7121]

I screeched!

[@RobertEWaters]

I heard about a man who inserted small toy horses where the moon don't shine. The nurse listed his condition as "stable."

[@pandapearl385]

Omg! I'm dying laughing!

[@christinagarcia3789]

💀💀💀

[@Elbaz8]

@Just Jo Aww hell no!

[@tastx3142]

When I was 13 I had repeated episodes of painful swelling under my jaw. Since I was a military minor, the ER or AMIC clinic was where I was taken. Nobody ever diagnosed me until the day that I had something hard sticking under my tongue. The doctor grabbed it with forceps and forcefully jerked out an object, accusing me of shoving a toothpick down my salivary gland. When I kept insisting that I hadn't done that and had been there multiple times without any object, he stated that he was going to have it biopsied to prove me wrong. It turned out to be a calcium oxalate stone. I am 61 and still remember how disrespectfully I was treated and how painful it was.

[@spaceball123456]

Okay. I new someone who worked in an ER. On a very busy day, when she arrived she had noticed a women sleeping in a waiting chair (one of dozens) (Big hospital, big city) when she got to the woman. She found her dead. Turns out the woman had been suicidal, and mentally ill. Due to her history of hypochondria, they didn't give her priority, and she could not get into a psycho ward immediately. In her suicide letter, she stated that she had been waiting for almost 10 hours and could stand the pain of her depression any more. She was diabetic, walked into the bathroom, injected all of her insulin into her body, and then went out there to die. She stated in her message, that they needed to revise the policies....they did.

[@razztazz1982]

Wow, that's very sad.

[@jamssnana4084]

During my senior year in high school, I worked in the Admitting office of our hospital, right down the hall from the ER. By far the worst thing I saw was when a little 6-year-old boy shot his 3-year-old sister with his father's gun. The waiting room and hall were filled with wailing, hysterical family members. The little girl died shortly after she got there; it was horrible. The boy said he was just trying to get his sister to give him the remote, and that was how his dad made his mom "behave." So sad. You better be tough if you want to work in the medical field. I am not tough.

[@copieiermenschen8350]

I love this comment section saying "medical professional" more than doctor or nurse or anything like that. As a paramedic, I feel super included!! Thanks, KZbin comments section!! My worst stories include an eyeball that extruded out into goo after being hit with a football, plenty of squishy-feeling broken skulls, and the unfortunate cases of those that we don't bring to the ER because they're DOA. Those are some pretty sad stories, but I'm glad to be there ready to help whenever my help is going to make a difference.

[@afroforeskin]

Still gonna eat my breakfast.

[@magicman9084]

Afro Foreskin LoL

[@danfletcher71]

I believe number 15, the patient who drove their car into the hospital, probably had better car insurance than health insurance.

[@jaydedjen110]

That hospital now has a drive thru ER. :P

[@Kamifox1]

I'm pretty sure that's not what they mean by "a stool sample".

[@deztiny005]

LMAO!

[@kimberlyquintanilla5493]

Hahahaa!

[@startingbark0356]

XD

[@shane-oshaunason7590]

Boom!!!!!

[@angelmorningstarr9504]

😂

[@xxsoulpunkedxx]

I was an intern in the Neurology unit and we had a bed alarm set for one of the patients so we would be notified if he tried to get up. He was 92 or 93 and he was incredibly sick so none of us expected he would even make an attempt. All of a sudden his alarm goes off and since they were thinking it was faulty, they sent me to check first. I walk into the room and this man is standing on his bed, naked, dancing. I just stood there in total shock for a moment before getting a nurse to help get him down.. that was a strange day.

[@marioncneal2149]

Once worked as a volunteer in an ER when I was a firefighter ... This guy with dreds came in complaining of headaches and a burning feeling. We took a look, he had a bee hive under his scalp.

[@Elbaz8]

Ok, now THAT grosses me the hell out! "Shivers"

[@weatherboy2965]

NO WAY- HOW-

[@loriethayermorse162]

About 6 years ago, I had been fighting a upper respiratory infection for a couple weeks. I kept slowly getting worse to the point I couldn't lay down to sleep. Then I had a hallucination ( I saw zombies coming out of my TV that wasn't turned on 😨) so I went to the ER. They said I had mild pneumonia & kept me overnight. The next day the doc was saying I could go home and I passed out. My oxygen level dropped all of the sudden. They did a CAT Scan & found 4 blood clots in Both of my lungs! The doc said he had no idea how I was still breathing on my own. That was very scary.

[@dudeonbike800]

Did you survive?

[@waskelweewabbit1453]

I met a woman who said that her body was terrified of the bugs crawling all over her. She wore sandals in winter, so they couldn't hide in there. She dug into her skin with her nails trying to pull them out as they "burrowed into her skin" in her mind. I always hoped she'd gotten help.

[@mommadragon3732]

Medical professionals are amazing people to deal with happenings like these and keep their sanity. My hats off to all of them!!❤❤

[@rickslingerland1155]

Who says we keep our sanity? :-}

[@deztiny005]

I am a medical professional .. working in a trauma unit and a lot of morgues. So, yeeaah .. I've seen my fair share of some seriously messed up things! But these?? These are way more messed up! Here's one of my stories (not as bad as any of thse but still ....) ~ One patient that I remember was an elderly man had come in with severe stomach pains. His stomach was very distended. I was trying to get an I'V started on him .. Every time he moaned in pain I would smell an extremely foul odor of human excrement on his breath! Apparently he had an obstructed bowel and his feces had gotten sooo backed up that it filled up his stomach and all the way to his esophagus. So any exhalation from him would emit the stinky poo odor. It was awful!!!!!! That's just one story. I have hundreds more!!

[@anemari5809]

Tell us one more HAHA

[@yani4349]

Do you know if the guy recovered?

[@deztiny005]

I don't know if he recovered or not. He was in pretty bad shape. According to his lab results, he had a raging blood infection (Sepsis) which most likely meant he had a perforated bowel somewhere and his waste was oozing out into his body cavity and infecting everything in his body. It was a serious case .. I don't think he could have survived :(

[@deztiny005]

Ane Mari ~ Ok :) I had just started my evening shift when an ambulance brought in a 5 year old girl who had been trampled on by a cow (her father was feeding the cows and his daughter got into the pen without her dad noticing) .. The little girl was knocked down by all the cows jogging to their feeding troths. One cow stepped on the right side of her face! Her forehead down to her little lips was torn apart . like a big flap of skin. The injury exposed her eye socket, her nasal cavity and a broken cheek bone. Her father was extremely distraught and was blaming herself. (Naturally!) It was horrific to see such a tiny little angel like she was so severely injured and her face mutilated. She was wheeled to surgery STAT and a plastic surgeon fixed the injuries on the inside and stitched her up. Towards the end of my shift I did ask how she was doing and was shocked to hear that after her surgery and a few hours in recovery, she was discharged!!!! I could NOT believe she was sent home after several hours .. reconstructive surgery and a broken cheek bone!?? I would have wanted my child to stay .. at least until the next day!!! My guess is they didn't have insurance and the hospital did what they needed to do and booted them out shortly after. Pisses me off that some hospitals are all about the money and not about the welfare of the patients!

[@KimBlaQue]

Desaree Bourdon wow....that is shocking and sad

[@itsmackenzie]

#16- I think that is pretty common when you die. When my mom was on hopice the nurse gave us a book about how people may act when they are dying. One of the things it said was patients will reach for something or someone when they are close to dying, or talk to people who isn't there. The last thing my mom ever said, after we kept asking her if she wanted to get into bed because she kept falling asleep in a chair was "if I lay down and go to sleep I won't ever wake up," and that is exactly what happened. She spent the next three days just sleeping, or basically in a coma. The morning she died, we were all around her bed, because we just knew it would be any minute, and that book was right. She had stopped breathing, and then took one more big breath, started reaching up, and even pulled herself up a little, opened her eyes once, but there was nothing in those eyes, and then she was gone. I was holding her hand, with my fingers on her wrist feeling her pulse, and then it stopped. I can still remember that look on her face when she opened her eyes. The last thing she ever said to me, after I told her she needed swallow, because she had been chewing the same bite of food for five minutes "yes Mackenzie, I know" with all the attitude of a teenager who is told what to do. My husband was taking the kids back to our house, so me and my siblings could stay there, and not a minute after calling me by my name, she looked right at me and said "are you sleeping at mackenzie's house too?" I said "I am Mackenzie" and she just said "oh." Sorry this was long.

[@Elbaz8]

You have my condolences.

[@tracylalonde4972]

I'm so sorry I know going through that was very hard. ❤ I went through the same thing and it still hurts even though it's 10 years later.

[@jackiedepas2857]

I can assure you #3 was not because of " kidney stones". I was an ENT and we seen plenty of people with foreign objects stuck in places that dont get sunshine. Some people shouldnt be left alone.

[@devodootie]

Between my physician husband & myself, we can top all of these just during one dinner. We met in an ER while putting a man's thumb back together. Here we are 27yrs later, with 25yrs of marriage, 3 grown children & a grandchild. They don't enjoy our stories at dinner......or at any other time. 🤔

[@list25]

That's kind of awesome!

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

devodootie - when will you invite me to the dinner table?!?!?

[@nativequeen208johnsonleah6]

Happy fro you all! Stay blessed sis!😊❤️😇

[@nativequeen208johnsonleah6]

For not fro

[@pinayladyoz8044]

When I was 15 years old, my younger brother was cutting a piece of dried bamboo and he cut his left second finger, he was screaming and I saw bloods all over the pavement. I picked up the piece of finger that landed on the pavement and put it back to his finger, then tied it with fresh abaca fibers. My other sister went to the farm and called my parents. When I parents came home, my father took my brother to the hospital. The doctor opened the finger and said I did a good job by putting it back. It was bit crocked a little bit, but the doctor didn't want to do anything, except the nurse cleaned it with bitadine and the doctor given my father a script for oral antibiotics. Every time we have a family reunion I always reminded my younger brother to be thankful of my quick actions ha ha ha

[@sandrataylor2323]

My co-worker had a patient come into the ER via EMS. They found him laying in a ditch. It was summer and the man had been released from the hospital 1 week prior and went on a drinking binge. The nurse went to put a foley catheter into his bladder and found maggots coming out of his urethra. The flies had laid their eggs in his gallbladder incisions and the maggots had worked their way into his bladder.

[@TheMVShooter]

In EMS we call that, "Tuesday"...

[@justahilltopguy5418]

Then there's the full moon nights...!

[@dodoubleg2356]

Haha 😂...

[@hannahgriggs9095]

LMAO

[@robdumond2634]

I have been an ER nurse for 21 years (with a bit of psych experience, as well) and, with one exception, NONE of the stories surprised me. The cat story, however, made me a little sad. By the way, we get the "I accidentally fell on it." response a lot when presented with a patient that has something in an orifice.

[@debbiewhite9162]

Yes, way too often with the "I fell on it" stories

[@SpruceSculptures]

As a retired EMT-P, these were not surprising, common to me. I still remember the lima bean that we couldn't find in a little boy. Came back 2 weeks later with terrible breath, and, don't puke, a grean bean growing out of his nostril. Thought we would die laughing after we all got in the break room.

[@davidhardcore704]

SpruceSculptures Lol that’s not nice to laugh at! But wow

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

David Hardcore - Gotta deal with the bad somehow!

[@dudeonbike800]

I “fell on it repeatedly for about an hour!”

[@trinity7938]

Me: *oh this will be fine* Also me: *Why did I click on this*

[@CherryRedBanshee]

Nothing but respect for medical professionals in all practices, thank you for keeping us healthy.

[@demonqueen881]

I work in my county ER. I think the worst I've ever seen was a mother and daughter who had been living in a cheap roadside motel for several months. The police had been called because the owners of the motel had started smelling a god-awful odor from the room. Both were extremely overweight and in exceptionally poor health. The daughter was supposedly "taking care of her mother", but the mother had been lying in the bed for so long that the skin on her back, buttocks and legs was almost glued to the mattress. The daughter had maggoty wounds on her legs. When they were bought to our ER, we had to clear out the main floor and move the patients to the minor care area because of the smell (thank heaven we were not busy at the time). Both were admitted, but the daughter died overnight. Last I heard, though, the mother lived long enough to be transferred to a nursing home.

[@ShaOryDow]

Now let nobody dare to delete this video again. It's awesome!

[@mikaylabansie9512]

ShaOriDow Ikr

[@gazman2626]

Agreed :)

[@micheletravis9057]

My husband works in the ER, and it is getting even stranger. A second video is needed!

[@dianethedinosaur3228]

I once worked in a sort of half-way home for long-term psychiatric patients from mental hospitals. We helped them learn to do simple jobs & try to get them to a level to where they could start to live in society. There was once a young man that came in with severe schizophrenia. At night he would hit himself & scream obscenities in a deep voice at himself & in his own voice he would cry pitifully & beg the first voice to please stop hitting him.The first voice would laugh at him & continue to berate & hit him. It was so incredibly sad to hear, & would go on most of the night. Needless to say, he had to go back to the mental hospital. His family had pushed to have him transferred to the half-way home before he was able to deal with the stress which ended up causing his flare-ups. There is nothing scarier than the human mind.

[@brandtjustensen4379]

" there is nothing scarier than the human mind". Soooooo true!

[@chrisbetts7431]

Thank you for all you do for us!

[@debbiewhite9162]

So true, I experienced almost the exact same thing at a Psych ward I worked, 2 voices one guy. Creepy

[@neen42]

Hearing voices is very common with schizophrenia.

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

Diane the Dinosaur - Amen 🙏

[@exoticbuttersflavored]

My story isn't as graphic but last summer I had accidentally cut myself while shaving.. Down there. Cuts during shaving, normal right? Except mine turned into cellulitis. A nasty skin infection. The morning I went to my doctor I woke up to the odor of rotting meat and thanks to vids like this, I knew something bad was going on. Also I had a fever. So I went to my doctor and she sent me straight to the ER. As I was being examined by the doctor I made the bad joke of asking if he was going to have to cut anything off down there. He looked dead serious at me and said "Maybe. You might have a flesh eating disease." Moral of the story? Never shave with cheap razors and NEVER joke with an ER doctor.

[@nicholas8476]

Amanda T Seen that (necrotizing fasciitis).. Down there.. In a super severe case. One of the worst cases I’ve ever worked on, through my entire career. If a wound smells, you get yourself to a doctor! It can progress rapidly.

[@neuroticgurl0295]

Amanda T I feel you should sue. Cutting urself while shaving can happen to anyone: hell I can’t even remember how many times I’ve done it and I’m not even 18. But that much damage caused by something that could’ve happened to anybody?? I hope ur getting along alright 😪😪

[@nurse7559]

😂😂😂

[@Trishcooper27]

Best story

[@SanDmaNTheFreakTrucker]

I do a tough job (OTR trucker) but I don’t have the stomach to deal with what medical professionals do on the daily. These stories are crazy! The boy who went in for dental work with no previous work on file, was probably being seen illegally by someone with the skill but not the license to practice anymore. That explains the parents denying he’d had work done.

[@susannesahakian8727]

Worked ER for 20 yrs.One of the worst was a guy who c/o neck pain but was walking said he was in a car accident earlier.CT scan indicated his spinal cord was detached,internal decapitation Also bedbugs and scabies are NO FUN to treat.

[@derekvasquez6485]

I think I got scabies a while ago from a hotel/vacation. Hard to diagnose and not fun to have them at all. I had itchy red rash all over my body.

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

Here's another one: I had an 54 alcoholic female, in ICU, who was a "train wreck"....but her family finally made her a DNR (do not resuscitate). Her liver was so badly damaged from alcohol abuse, she kept getting more jaundiced, ascites filling her beer gut belly. She was ORANGE. When she died, that orange turned BLACK. She was not recognizable to her family. Instead of burying her, family has her cremated. If idiots only knew how bad alcohol is to the body, they'd never abuse alcohol, again.

[@mk1864]

My Mom used to work in the ER in admissions (secretary work basically). The one story I will never forget is when a woman came in with a pool ball stuck up her fun fun zone. Never got that image out of my head. Thanks for sharing Mom!

[@Cydonia2020]

I had a friend in the 1980s who, back in the 1960s at the age of about 12 fell down a flight of stairs in his basement and impaled himself on a 1 inch thick iron rod. It went from his right under arm up through his neck and came out just under his left ear. It was four hours before they were able to remove the spike from him. Somehow, it did not hit any vital organs but he had a very long recovery time because it cause blood clots that went into his brain and partially paralyzed one side of his body. The man still was able to live a very full and rich life, he drove graduated from college held a job even though he talked with a slur and walked with a very deep limp. He lived to the age of 50 before the complications of his injury caught up with him and took his life. He was a really great guy.

[@derekneilson6505]

I am a nurse in an ICU unit. Once I had a surgical patient come up from OR. They like to give report at the bedside in the room so I was expecting an appendectomy or something similar. Story goes, this woman had an ingrown hair on her private area. She pulled it out with no worries. Shortly after that she went swimming in the lake she was vacationing at. She developed cellulitis and reluctance to have it looked at, it progressed to necrotizing fasciitis, flesh eating disease. By the time she finally cane to the ER, it had eaten her privates, her right thigh, around to her back. It was a 3 hour dressing change twice a day!!

[@anngillespie8007]

Medical professionals don't get paid enough

[@saagisharon8595]

That's why they're importing them from india

[@danahorton6662]

Nooo. And, I always thought it was work conditions that my coworkers were complaining about.

[@justahilltopguy5418]

No we don't. Thanks for the vote of confidence.

[@TamaraAii]

Neither do care workers 😢

[@melindat.1259]

So true... I dont get paid enough to get punched in the face and then save a life from coding...

[@chrisbetts7431]

I’ve witnessed so much death and doing CPR that this doesn’t even bother me anymore. I’ve seen hips out of place, blood everywhere, anything you can think of. I love helping people at my job. 💕

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

Chris Betts - MY GOD BLESS YOU!

[@marissabones]

Working as an EMT I have seen worse but, I am very fortunate to say that none involved worms. I would silently freak out.

[@AresLeviathan]

Some years ago, I was cooking steak for my girlfriend on Valentine's day. I failed to tenderize it and chew it and it got stuck in my esophagus. I could breathe and talk, but would cough up saliva every few minutes because there was nowhere for it to drain. 8 hours later, the GI unit was able to remove it. This has happened 3 more times since from chicken and steak. The GI unit has unofficially nicknamed me as Mr. Valentine.

[@list25]

Wait...three more times all on Valentine's Days?

[@meghanmcneal6859]

Whaaaaa..?

[@AresLeviathan]

Lol three more incidents xD not on valentines day

[@meghanmcneal6859]

AresLeviathan Either way, that still sucks!

[@lynthorn1327]

You need to see a speech therapist to check your swallowing. Sounds like something isn't right :(

[@JTdarkstarr105]

“Seen stuff we couldn’t imagine” is the most accurate thing ever. Seen it all and now nothing phases me lol

[@marymckee2100]

I saw a woman in labor drive herself to the E.R.

[@list25]

Oh man. I wonder what the story was behind this. Why was no one able to? Where was the ambulance? So many questions.

[@jamie91995]

Probably no money or no time.

[@marymckee2100]

list25 as I understand it her husband was at work and they lived in a rural area with no ambulance service.

[@OrderOfTwisted]

I drove myself to the ER after my water broke and contractions were every 3 mins.... The reason why was because it was 3 weeks before my due date and we didn’t have a sitter for my other 2 children, so husband had to stay with them... luckily it was 3am on Halloween morning and nobody was out, so traffic was light. It was an unforgettable Halloween in 2016! Lol

[@sonyakitzmiller1250]

I dove myself in labor with my first. Husband was at work it was after 11 pm his parents were in bed. My parents and or brother lived 40 minutes away. The hospital was only about five minutes away so I got in the car had a contraction then started to drive. I knew I had ten minutes before the next pain. Boy did I get yelled at by everyone.

[@NotJoaquinPhoenix]

This is scarier than any horror movie ever

[@list25]

That's cause it's real. Real life is always more scary.

[@fredworthmn]

Their 25 worst ways to die was far worse. I could not go on and I have always watched through to the end on you tube (unless it was real boring)

[@theladyisabelle]

~15 yrs ago in an er... I am try to insert a urinary catheter into a very obese female. I had to call others to help me. She had abdominal folds of fat. So i set up my sterile field, the guys had a sheet wrapper around her stomach. The plan was when they would lift the stomach and skin I would have access to the area so i could then clean and insert her catheter. They lifted up and a partially eaten piece of old fried chicken and a tv remote control fell onto my sterile field.

[@the_timinator77]

My father is a podiatrist, but he also specializes in wound care. One time he was cleaning the folds of a fat man at his home and he found a chicken bone.

[@nurse7559]

Timinator my coworker and I found pills and a chicken leg in our patients pannus. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@MinnesotaExpat]

And this is why I clean my fat rolls.

[@gypsydust]

I was waiting to be seen for a migraine. A patient who had been stabbed came in. He was bleeding everywhere. Stopped responding and “died” in the waiting room. I was told they did get him back while his wife prayed over him. She was the one that stabbed him.

[@reneecook2972]

I'm a nurse with 20 years experience. One night I was doing a head to toe assessment on a new admission. Patient was being admitted for a neurotic tumor which presented on the outside of his left foot. When I letter the foot to assess the posterior area the tumor ruptured and tell off. Along with three toes...

[@margaretbriefs7347]

I'm assuming you meant necrotic not neurotic why don't people correct their proofread their voice-recogs before they post them?

[@margaretbriefs7347]

See? I went and did it myself!

[@gabeevans10]

I recommend to not watch this video while eating....

[@list25]

Probably a good idea.

[@darklord0878]

Not at a human hospital but a Veterinary clinic story. So I was working when all of a sudden I heard this wail. It was so heartbreaking. Almost like what you'd imagine when a mother lost her child. Soon after, one of our techs came running into the back of the clinic carrying a dog with blood pouring out of his mouth and nose. We tried reviving him but it was declared that he got hit by a car and passed away just before getting to our clinic

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

A good friend of mine used to work in the ER of a prominent Chicagoland hospital and he has experienced first-hand some of the items on this list. One such situation involved moving a bed-ridden patient from a bed to a gurney, and her (the patient) suddenly projectile-vomiting blood everywhere and dying on the spot. I could NEVER do that job.

[@amandahess6636]

I’ve worked in Plastic surgery for 12 years and OB/GYN for 5. I think I’ve probably got most of these beat. People are crazy/stupid!!

[@purpletactics6969]

I worked nighshifts at a nursing home. One night one of the female elderly dementia patients pushed the panic button. I found her crying in her bed. When i asked her why she was crying she said "There are two men behind you that are hanging from the cieling and they wont stop smiling at me". I did not dare to turn around to see if it was true.

[@razztazz1982]

Your comment cracked me up. Sad, but true.

[@NileBakura]

NUMBER 17. Just....Holy shit. NUMBER 12... NOPE NOPE NOPE THAT image is too much Most scariest ER story I have is a few years ago I had to go to the hospital because I am prone to strep. Being a Diabetic, they wanted to measure my heart rate and pulse and all that for a bit, just to make sure I was alright. So I was lying in a hospital bed when suddenly I heard the monitors going off. The person in the bed next to me had flat-lined. I had never been more scared in my life. The person was able to be revived, but holy crap it was scary...seeing all the doctors rush in, hearing them do chest compressions, and such.

[@amondempsey1114]

As a career medic I have seen enough of the nasty/crazy stuff to write a novel on it, but the one I will never forget was a 19 y/o military personnel found on scene bleeding heavily from his back side. Upon questioning the individual as to what happened they just pointed to a gym bag. Inside was the broken end of a black-light flourescent tube. He was rushed to the ER, and later found out that 14" worth of shattered tubing in the patients rectum, colon which ripped into the abdominal cavity.

[@rhondabradshaw7787]

About 4 years ago I was living in the country and I left Florida and went to Iowa to b with my husband. I was at a motel and got really cold, I piled on every blanket I could find, went to sleep and after about 4 days my husband kept saying let's go to the ER. I wouldn't agree to go he put me in a headlock and drug me to the car. When I went inside at the ER, they admitted me immediately, when the doc came in he lifted my shirt and there were 3 ticks on my side. Not long after that I went into sepsis. God bless the medical field I think I died and they got me back.

[@hollybruneau7999]

I work in the ER and one night we had a woman come in with "bizarre behaviour". She repeatedly hit her head on the desk while bring triaged and sprayed blood all over the place. It was terrifying.

[@nathanmcclung4258]

I had a training nurse draw blood once and leave it sitting there in the counter. After awhile doc came in and said I have some bad news and told my wife to sit down. He then advised us that I had H.I.V. . I pointed at my blood and said how do you know my blood is right there. He said your name is Adam right. I said no Nathan. Long story short he apologized I had a cold I complained nurse was fired.

[@jamesmarconi7502]

I went to an ER in Pennsylvania with severe stomach pains two days in a row they told me they don't give drugs to drug addicts if I wanted drugs go somewhere else 3 days later went to a different er and I had internal bleeding from ulcers and passing blood

[@annasherosky]

My dad was in and out the hospital cuz he would eat like crazy me and my ex step mother would always sneak him food now that I think of it we're the reason he died at 42 people don't sneak food in the er your not doing them any favors

[@itsus8172]

I find this very comforting, so many terrible things that COULD be happening to me rn but AREN'T.

[@wholeNwon]

I've worked in 19 hospitals all told in my career and in a lot of ERs. I've never even heard of a doctor fainting or vomiting, as you described. And there is very little in life that I haven't seen. ERs are good pathways to entering the trauma and trauma surgery systems of major hospitals but not good places to obtain sophisticated diagnostics or medical care. Small ERs are generally worst. In large hospitals, at least the ER docs have access to the best physicians and surgeons to call upon. The stool leg story will undoubtedly spark amusement and interest among commentators. Actually, such thing are so common that there is an abbreviation for it used in ERs and on OR schedules. It's "FBR" for foreign body in rectum. I always thought lightbulbs were the trickiest.

[@donnanoe6736]

Poor cat. That is horrific. I have lupus and type II diabetes, so I am in hospital quite often. Just sitting in my room I have seen things that I, well, it makes my stomach rumble just thinking about it. Drugs are bad kids. I have seen some scary stuff with the druggies. A heroin addict came in and was put into the room next to mine. She was hysterical due to being drug sick. Her hair looked as if it had not been washed or combed in years. As they were walking her the washroom I could see bugs flying around her head. Her skin looked like it was hardened wax. It was one of the creepiest things that I have ever seen. Eewww.

[@pika23]

that dementia one...it's believable. My mom mom had dementia with luey bodies(fast acting and the kind robin williams had when he decided to off himself) So she kept telling nurses I was having an affair on my husband with a BLACK MAN and was carrying his baby (I'm not racist...she wasn't either ...she was from that time when it was like forbidden and you could beat the hell out of for being white and being with a POC so ...just for background info) My mom told me what she was saying and I was like...oh cool. Then she would say there was a rabbi on the chair not to sit on him(she was not jewish) she would think her nurse was my uncle;s dead fiance from the 70's and threaten to call her mom and tell her she was being bad.

[@MinnesotaExpat]

Been through good ol' Alzheimers with my grandma and dad and yep, that stuff happens all the time. Hugs to you for being there for your mom.

[@Eveningkiss]

Working in a hospital (only rarely in the ER) you get some REALLY messed up (but some times funny) stories.

[@sombergirl2886]

One of my friends was working in the ER one night a guy came in complaining bout having hemroid problems they done an X-RAY & he had a flashlight stuck up his butt. When my friend got off work that night she called me to tell me bout it

[@mikebatty9632]

I worked as an ER Tech at my local hospital. One night a woman came in that had slipped, and fallen onto a zucchini that ended up "lodged inside" her. No word if it was organic.

[@Dumb_Killjoy]

"Fallen" Sure

[@lisaborum3566]

Spent a week in a psych ward, as a patient, not a doctor. Met a very old woman with Lupus who had slit her wrists and survived her suicide attempt because someone found her unconscious almost having bled to death. Her lupus was so advanced that doctors couldn't even pretend to ease her pain, which was debilitating and chronic. Every day for her was endless suffering, a torture that I couldn't even imagine. Now, I have been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease in my spine. Neither my nor her condition is curable, or really even treatable. I realized after my diagnosis that this woman was a peek into my own future. I have reevaluated my entire life, and my stance on assisted suicide. I have hope. I'm still relatively young and there might me treatments and future medical discoveries that can help me. This women had no such hope. I think that they should have let her die. FYI, The USA has a strict stance against assisted suicide in most contexts. This poor woman should have been able to end her pain. They wouldn't let her. :( Knowing her changed my life. I'm not sure how much for the better or worse though.....

[@amiedyer2890]

I was about to finish my associates degree for medical assisting and was on my internship. A 19 year old girl came in complaining of vaginal pain. When the doctor inserted the speculum, it filled completely up and overran and started to drip to the floor with green pus. It smelled putrid. It took everything I have not to vomit. I finished college, but never sat for the state exam to get licensed. I am now a counselor.

[@samanthastuessel7986]

My sister is in school to be an RN and when she did a psych rotation. She had to evaluate this young man that would only talk in Hashtags. He would begin everything with # and then say what he wanted. He was really into computers. My sister said "sorry but I don't know much about computers" and he said "#Don'tKnowShit" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@yourchannel2567]

Mr. Mike, since I had put off going to the doctor because I was sick, I finally had to have a friend call an ambulance for me to take me to the hospital. It turned out I had pneumonia very, very badly. I had to be put in a coma for 2 weeks, during the surgery, the morning after I had been admitted, my left lung had collapsed, I had a sack of fluid in between my heart and my lung, I needed three chest tubes to drain everything, I had to have a tracheotomy done, have 2 different pick lines put in. (Kind of like an I.V. line but with two lines coming out of each.) One in my main artery inside my bicep, the other in my jugular vein in my neck leading down to my heart. (I was awake when they did that one - fun times). Two other I.V. lines for drips. A catheter in the front AND the rear. A feeding tube down my nose and wasn't allowed to have any food or fluids for almost 3 months because the fluid went straight to my lungs and was drowning me more. I lost 40 pounds. Put into a coma two other times because my lungs got so week and needed to "rest" and wasn't able to talk because of the tube in my throat for 3 months. Had kidney dialysis for about a month every other day and had to learn how to walk again because I was bedridden for 3 months and lost all of the muscles in my legs. Other than that, probably not as bad as some on your list there, Mr. Mike but very interesting. The best thing about coming out of the two week coma was seeing the little pink mice walking around on the ceiling and seeing the purple and green colored cob webs moving up and down. I didn't write down on my white board (to communicate with them) about it to the nurses because I knew they were hallucinations and was having too much fun with them and I didn't want to be taken off the medication they had me on that was doing it. I was having too much fun. Other than that, it wasn't all that bad. =D (And yes, pics to prove it.)

[@tamarasauls8855]

Your Channel ~ It wasn't all that bad? Sounds like you could have died. And your first sentence... guess what? You go to the doctor *BECAUSE YOU ARE SICK!* I'm a mom, I'm allowed to yell! You silly thing, that's not the best way to make yourself hallucinate either.

[@kimw8056]

Your Channel Liking your comment because of the very last part. LOL

[@yourchannel2567]

LOL Yes, Mom and thank you. =D

[@list25]

WOW! I am glad you're okay now!!! That sounds like a horrible experience!

[@warhawk638]

Damn, that’s a story, alright. More reasons to be glad I’ve never been admitted to a hospital before.

[@clarissa.a8975]

ME: this okay to watch ME LATER: why did I watch that?!!

[@jumbojumbo7195]

One of my most nonsense experience is when a car park in front of the er door..the family came out of the car and claimed his father was having a high fever and non-stop coughing..well I asked them where's the father..and they opened the backseat door..I was shooked because a pale oldman sitting at the backseat with his mouth open..I quickly grabbed the old man armwrist and feel for the pulses..but I felt none..the family member insisted to ask us to bring their father to get into the unit and get assessed..I brought him in..and I asked my senior nurse..they were shooked too..we put on ECG and spo2 machine on him and it showed arrhythmia 0 oxygen level..well we called the doctor to confirm that the old man was gone..yes doctor told the family member that their father has passed away about 20 minute ago..they started to crying..I was thinking ..how could they bring a corps in their car to the ER without noticing his death...

[@dumac6557]

Shock and grief can cloud the mind.

[@jumbojumbo7195]

Dumac I agree..thank you

[@shababull]

Hi List25, great video today, very interesting. this video can turn into a many part series, as there are ER'S all over with plenty more stories. maybe you guys could look into doing that. have a great week, and love your channel!!!

[@trentbailey0yiaytokens]

I was doing ER time for my EMT class. EMS got a call for chest pain. When they arrived at the hospital the man was in VTAK. Yet still alert oriented and talking to us about his daughter. He continued to talk to us even tho we gave him meds to go to sleep so we could shock him. He never went to sleep and we were forced to shock him awake and both times we shocked him he grunted and continued talking about us daughter. He gave less then a fuck about what was going on. After we got a normal heart rhythm he look at us and said he was tired and went to sleep for 8 hours while waiting on a transfer to a different hospital

[@list25]

Wow

[@Elbaz8]

@@list25 For real, wow! That's crazy!

[@rickslingerland1155]

We had a diabetic patient, who was a "frequent flyer", that would eat an entire box of Cherry Mash candy, give himself 100 units of regular insulin, and call EMS. He would come in with a very high glucose and then drop to less than almost 0. He did this every few weeks. Even after he lost both legs from it.

[@thanrose]

Okay, now that's an ER story worth hearing.

[@kerryevans7283]

I worked in a cardio department. A lady came in complaining of a pain under her breast. She'd had it for weeks. On examination a remote control was found under her breast.

[@sonyakitzmiller1250]

As I am on the waiting list for a kidney I was told by a nurse who coordinates your file, the meds they flood in the body after surgery can make you go crazy. It’s temporary but they had one person who keep trying to jump out the window. He wanted to kill himself. Any other keep seeing thing on the wall and she thought people were in the room. It’s scary what medicine can do

[@bananaattack7636]

I mean there was the time that I had a uterine cyst rupture and the doctors thought I was a drug seeker but I got nothing else

[@Flamsterette]

I love this content - thank you!

[@timothyhirman4928]

I am an RN. I currently work in Psychiatry but have worked in Emergency Dept. These types of things actually happen. I've seen my share.

[@amandaphillips8400]

When I went to the hospital for a back injury me and my sis heard an elderly lady screaming about how the cops can't make her stay, they're idiots and they're racist. Her dialogue, which we could hear very clearly, was laced with so many expletives. Felt bad for her later when we found out she had Altzhiemers and was upset cuz she was brought in while unconscious.

[@Hollz811]

Great vid! Loved it

[@rafanifischer3152]

In my first year of college I was in pre-med. Then they showed a video of an open heart surgery. I almost fainted. Needless to say that was the end of my medical career.

[@jaydedjen110]

I had my first panic attack next to a dying cancer patient in a hospital once. The scariest moment I've ever had in a hospital.

[@kevinmoore2501]

I remember when I was recovering from brain surgery for cancer, and I had a PICC line in (line just under the left axillary region). I accidentally pulled it out one day by rolling the wrong way when in the bed.

[@mikloowl4899]

Being in medicine these stories mostly make me chuckle and shrug my shoulders. I guess I am just desensitized to the point of not being impressed by much. I do get a kick out of the comments with people being grossed out or vomiting, if anything this list was pretty tame.

[@jackiedorman2188]

My son had to clean up a homeless man's legs. He started to clean it and big chunks of gangrene flesh fell off. The man had tied his legs with rope and they had to amputate his legs. Yuck

[@vapeck42]

I am not a medical professional but I have spent time in psych units for other reasons. Some of those stories can get a really strange.

[@kimw8056]

Anne Peck Oh, do tell. I used to work in a psych unit, and you're right, those stories can get really strange.

[@vapeck42]

Oh yeah. There was one guy in there that ate like a pig, refused to talk to anyone and wandered around when not eating. He smelled bad too. He would also sit by the phone and refuse to let anyone use it.

[@list25]

How odd

[@jamie91995]

Anne Peck I was in a mental hospital and my roommate killed himself, I can’t forget the way the blood seethed out of the hanging flabs of skin

[@whome4851]

This is why hate the hospital let alone work in there.

[@jeffmartyn6743]

I got to number 19, fish-hook in the eye. I didn't stick around for the rest. "Nope, I'm done with the internet for one night"

[@gnome5051]

I got a sharp end of a snapped cello string in my eyelid once. Not sure how, I was tuning my cello while barely awake but the metal in my eye woke me up fast.

[@legneil]

My ER story 18 hours waiting with a broken wrist.

[@amandas.6500]

Great stories, thanks!

[@mohamedwali8986]

As a man... Number 3 got me...

[@caseyferrell2152]

As a healthcare worker it's interesting to hear these stories from other areas of the world.

[@iced_coffeelvr1069]

She had a dead cat in her fat folds?? Poor kitty.

[@miamercado5168]

My craziest ER story: when I saw my final grade and passed out

[@candiceperry7916]

Anything can happen in the emergency room

[@galememeeof6688]

I'm an RN that's worked everywhere except the E.R. but I've seen a lot of disturbing things. We had to call an exterminator once after E.R. sent a wheelchair patient up to our floor. He had a big cockroach nest in his wheelchair cushion and they came out of a hole and went everywhere. My personal most disturbing happened when I was working in Labor and Delivery. I was never the same after that and if I hadn't become disabled and unable to work I probably would have had to switch floors after that.

[@ChloeVilar]

If you don't mind me asking-- what happened in labor and delivery that would have made you switch if you hadn't become disabled?

[@alysonsylva]

I'm wondering too. Can you share, or is it too painful?

[@jamie91995]

My friends works in a hospital and she said she saw a man who was killed by a drug cartel, slit his throat down to the bone, severed most his tendons and ligaments, stuck needles under his nails, cut off his ears and genitals, and pulled out his eyes and teeth, very gruesome.

[@deztiny005]

That doesn't sound right .. They wouldn't bring him to a hospital. They bring people, who are already dead, to the county coroners (the morgue) ..

[@jamie91995]

Desaree Bourdon no his family found him in the morning on their doorstep and they called 911 hoping he could live, they brought him to the hospital to see if there was some slight chance even though there clearly wasn’t

[@DianeHasHopeInChrist]

As an ER/ICU/OR/Flight Trauma RN....I have seen some things that would make people NEVER go to an ER, again. Heck....a funny one, although embarrassing. I worked with an ER Physician who went to a neighboring hospital (for anonymity), who got a live then dead Gerbil, stuck up his rectum. He got Septicemia from the perforations, the Gerbil caused as it tried to find it's way out. (Poor gerbil suffocated). Major surgery repair. And that doctor moved away, to another state, as everyone in a 200 mile radius, knew about it.

[@demonfan1234]

I went to the ER for severe chest pain and I thought was a heart attack(my mom side has a lot of heart disease and my uncle pasted away from one earlier that year.) they told my to wait. And started to have a hard time breathing about 5 minutes in. I waited almost 2 hours and no one ever checked on me. I asked how much longer several times. They always told me to wait. I had to wait another hour before they even started to do any tests. I found out that there was only one patient there the entire time. That hospital has over 20 rooms in the ER. The good news I didn't have a heart attack but a seriously pulled shoulder and they didn't even give me anything for the pain. They told me to take Advil. I TOOK ADVIL OVER AN HOUR BEFORE EVEN GOING TO THE HOSPITAL. WTF. They charged me over 5 grand for the visit alone. The bill was maybe 8 grand. It's been a few years. I went another hospital later because the pain was horrible and getting worse. I didn't believe the first hospital because I remembered that missed diagnosed my friend for when she had a tumor on her kidney, they said it was an infection. Two weeks later she went back they said that she didn't even take the meds right. WTF!she ended up going to another hospital and found out it was a cancerous tumor. She pasted away two months later, the second hospital said that it grew really fast and if she came it a couple weeks earlier she could have been saved! The second hospital said that it was a severely pulled shoulder but it was causing my heart and lungs a lot of stress. I almost had a heart attack not because I waited so long to get help but according to my doctor my heart rhythm I should of gone into cardiac arrest several hours prior to coming in. The Advil and me staying somehow calm I didn't have a heart attack. They kept me there for a few days. I was only charged around like 9 grand or something. That hospital treated right and like an actual HUMAN BEING.