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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I ended up in a rabbit hole yesterday and
some of the stuff I read, I was like, holy crap.
Medical professionals are revealing the scariest experiences they've.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Had while on the job.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Okay, can I tell you the first one that I read?
This was out the gate?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is what you used?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This was the first one that I read got through.
I once worked at a hospital. He had a very
old man turn up at the emergency room and an
equally old pickup truck driven by what looked like a
twelve year old. The old man opened his door, stepped out,
(00:43):
and stood up. There were V shaped cuts in his
jeans that were absolutely blood soaked from the knees down.
He asked for a wheelchair. I ran and got him one.
As he was sitting down. He explained that he had
been working on his lawnmower and it had started somehow
and fell across his knees. He said he needed his
(01:06):
kneecaps put back in and reached into his pants pocket
and showed them to me.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One your turn.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay. This was actually before I became an X ray tech.
I was working as a nursing aide and during my
rounds I had this really cool old guy down the
end of the hall and he was like this old,
like army retiree guy, really cool dude. But he apparently
hit seedff and I that is Oh do you know
(01:49):
what it is, Eliot. You'll never forget it, man. It is.
It creates like bright orange poove that literally smelled like
it came from a course. It is horrible. And when
I got down to this this young man's room, he
had this old Jerry chair that he would sit in
and he would watch TV. And he had gone to
(02:09):
the bathroom and I don't know if it was with
such force that it took him out of the chair,
but he had plized out of the chair. It's like
the area like where the sink is. And Telliot, this
orange who was everywhere. It was on the chair, it
(02:30):
was in a line to the sink. It was all
over him. He was flipping around in it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Left my body for a second and I just remember
I looked down the hall and just yell for help.
I didn't even know what to view.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I just said, hell, that's awesome, that's awesome, all right,
very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My friend Line one.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Hi Elliot in the morning, Heliott, Hi, are you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In the medical field.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, I'm a Draveners.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'll go and then you go. So here's the second
one I read.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Had a nice, older gentleman patient who was TACKI kartik.
I don't know what that means, it doesn't matter, but oh,
he had a very thank you. I had a nice,
older gentleman patient who had a very fast heart rate,
but all his labs looked normal. He seemed like he
took fairly good care of himself. He was a little disheveled,
(03:37):
but he was dressed nicely and had on nice shoes.
We initially couldn't find anything wrong with him, but he
had a very peculiar odor that even seasoned nurses would
be suspicious of. I asked him if he had any
infections on his body that he knew of, and he
said no. But I wanted to do a thorough check,
(03:59):
so we took all off all of his clothes and
he was fine until I got down to his feet.
He was wearing an old pair of socks, and as
I peeled them down, literally the skin around his foot
came off with the sock. I was essentially degloving his foot.
It was so vile. I couldn't even get down more
(04:21):
than a couple of inches. It was raw flesh under
those socks. The wound odor was so strong. I knew
that his feet were the sores. He hadn't changed his
socks in several months. He ended up being admitted and
given lots of antibiotics in wound care.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Your turn, that's the one's daily for us.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh my god, what do you do?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What is your job?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'm registeringer?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wait, it's daily to see someone's off.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, I work in a place that has a lot
of homeless population, so especially around this time, they don't
they don't chance or socks, and they get wet all
the time.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh you know what, I get that. I get that,
all right, then I understand that. How about something a
little different, But what do you got?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh what do I have?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I had recently a guy come in and put his
own throat with a machete.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, all right, you know what we were all laughing
about the kneecaps, and oh you.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Wanted to be funny.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I'm sorry. I thought we were like trying to outdo
each other here.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I win, Yeah you did?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You did?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
They?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thank you, ma'am, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I don't know how many of these I can do?
How many do you have left? Elliott? Oh, I got
a whole laundry list. Oh great?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What is what is an exit X oxygenator on an ECHMO?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What is that? I don't know? Is echmo? Or is
it all capital is?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yes, echo cardiogram mote. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So, now that that's settled, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But when the oxygenator on the ECHMO circuit blew off,
its sprayed blood all over everyone and everything in the
room like it was a hose. It was horrible. I
could not do this for a living.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are you are you skipping some? Yes? Have we decided
to cut this short? I'm skipping some.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
This one isn't as so much on the funny side
as it is on the oh my god side.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Remember, it's the scariest things you've seen. Fingers crossed, machete
to the neck.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I was friends, no, but I will tell you this.
I'll spare you the story. There was a guy that
one of them writes about. There was a guy who
was working in the er and somebody had tried to
take their own life with a gun, and they brought
him in and he was wrapped up in like blankets
and stuff. He survived, but when they unwrapped the blankets,
the gun was still in there loaded.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, And they were like everybody like flipped out because
they opened the blanket up to start treating the guy
and the guns right there right. In a related story,
I was friends with a guy who was an er
nurse in a neighborhood with a lot of gang violence.
One night, they got a gang member who was shot
and in pretty bad shape but still alive. My friend
(08:00):
the room to go grab something, and when he came back,
there was a guy dressed in a full clown suit
with a shotgun up his sleeve.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They arrested him. They ended up how about that? How
about that? Yeah? These are all pretty good. And when
I say pretty good, at me an awful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
We had a guy come into the er. According to
the report, he asked staff where he lived for a
glass of water. When he did, it was a nursing home.
When he didn't receive it quickly enough, his rational response
was he started to eat his own fingers.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
By the time he.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Got to us, he had eaten all ten of his
fingertips away.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Now it's hard to breathe the oh.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Because you've got fingertips in your throat. Could you imagine
that's your job? That's your job.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I always say teachers and nurses never paid enough. The No,
that's true. And disc jockeys. Hi Elliott the morning. I've
never heard that one. Hello.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Is this me?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
So I am, Well, I'm not gonna give my name.
I'm currently I'm an ear nurse practitioner, but I've been
doing radical stuff since I was fourteen, So I have
quite a bit of collection of things. In fact, I
want to retire writing a book one day about everything
I've seen. And let's let's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Keep it on the shocking yet funny side, like I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Okay, okay, what you got?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So I actually have two. One was I was candy
striper back in the day when you're actually a candy striper, striper,
not stripper. And uh I was fourteen or fifteen and
I had to take a patient upstairs that was part
of her job.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And they didn't tell me that it was the psych
floor that I.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Was taking him to, and to get the elevator and
the elevator stopped and I'm just standing there like, and
all of a sudden, this guy gets out of the wheelchair,
runs to the corner the elevator, sticks.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
His finger in the corner and.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Start screaming, I will not do this. I will not
do this. I will not kill her. You cannot make
me kill her.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh God.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
To I'm like, I've never seen anything. I'm sheltered Life's
a little girl standing there, and I'm like.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
What do I do in this situation? So I started
talking to the corner too.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I literally was like, sir, you need to listen to him.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Worth it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
God, I'm nobody. It's not you know, save this for fun.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You won't make the news for this.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I mean, I'm I.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, Look.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's smart. That's no, that's quick thinking. That is quick thinking.
Good for you, Good for you, Thank you, ma'am. That
was a good one. And you didn't think it was
gonna go that way.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I didn't love the start. Now that it ended,
I guess, well, hopefully he got the help he needed.
Can I do like six? And two? Am I doing six?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Hey, it's Aaron and Barlow. How are y'all?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We Earl.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No, I happen to just tune out at that time.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Hi Aeron and Barlow.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
So years ago I had to go to the e
er myself for a shellfish allergy and all of a sudden,
this is Fridday at VCU, so this is like the
crazy time when everything comes in and they were gonna
need the room, and I told this nurse, I said,
you can have my room. Like all you guys are
doing her pushing ivy beds right now, but I need
you to tell me the grossest story you've seen in
a while. He's like okay, and he goes This man
(12:07):
came in the er, not homeless, mentally fully there and
they went to take off his shoe and the foot
fell off with the shoe and the stinch cleared the
whole r It was mismanaged diabetes. She had to die.
Betos wait, I have one more so I was a
(12:31):
farmer rep for a long time and called him obg
Wyan and they had the greatest stories. And one was
a girl. Unfortunately she did have some mental health issues
and during the exam they found a polaroid in her
vagean I can say the gene and they pulled it
out and she says she likes to keep her family
(12:51):
close and tried to fight the doctor to put.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It back in there. You should have stopped with the diabetes.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Is the worry hobbies man. People kept Doritos under their booz.
There's a whole mess out there.
So I ended up in a rabbit hole yesterday and
some of the stuff I read, I was like, holy crap.
Medical professionals are revealing the scariest experiences they've.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Had while on the job.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Okay, can I tell you the first one that I read?
This was out the gate?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is what you used?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
This was the first one that I read got through.
I once worked at a hospital. He had a very
old man turn up at the emergency room and an
equally old pickup truck driven by what looked like a
twelve year old. The old man opened his door, stepped out,
(00:43):
and stood up. There were V shaped cuts in his
jeans that were absolutely blood soaked from the knees down.
He asked for a wheelchair. I ran and got him one.
As he was sitting down. He explained that he had
been working on his lawnmower and it had started somehow
and fell across his knees. He said he needed his
(01:06):
kneecaps put back in and reached into his pants pocket
and showed them to me.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
One your turn.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Okay. This was actually before I became an X ray tech.
I was working as a nursing aide and during my
rounds I had this really cool old guy down the
end of the hall and he was like this old,
like army retiree guy, really cool dude. But he apparently
hit seedff and I that is Oh do you know
(01:49):
what it is, Eliot. You'll never forget it, man. It is.
It creates like bright orange poove that literally smelled like
it came from a course. It is horrible. And when
I got down to this this young man's room, he
had this old Jerry chair that he would sit in
and he would watch TV. And he had gone to
(02:09):
the bathroom and I don't know if it was with
such force that it took him out of the chair,
but he had plized out of the chair. It's like
the area like where the sink is. And Telliot, this
orange who was everywhere. It was on the chair, it
(02:30):
was in a line to the sink. It was all
over him. He was flipping around in it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh God, I.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Left my body for a second and I just remember
I looked down the hall and just yell for help.
I didn't even know what to view.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I just said, hell, that's awesome, that's awesome, all right,
very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
My friend Line one.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Hi Elliot in the morning, Heliott, Hi, are you.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In the medical field.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, I'm a Draveners.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I'll go and then you go. So here's the second
one I read.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Had a nice, older gentleman patient who was TACKI kartik.
I don't know what that means, it doesn't matter, but oh,
he had a very thank you. I had a nice,
older gentleman patient who had a very fast heart rate,
but all his labs looked normal. He seemed like he
took fairly good care of himself. He was a little disheveled,
(03:37):
but he was dressed nicely and had on nice shoes.
We initially couldn't find anything wrong with him, but he
had a very peculiar odor that even seasoned nurses would
be suspicious of. I asked him if he had any
infections on his body that he knew of, and he
said no. But I wanted to do a thorough check,
(03:59):
so we took all off all of his clothes and
he was fine until I got down to his feet.
He was wearing an old pair of socks, and as
I peeled them down, literally the skin around his foot
came off with the sock. I was essentially degloving his foot.
It was so vile. I couldn't even get down more
(04:21):
than a couple of inches. It was raw flesh under
those socks. The wound odor was so strong. I knew
that his feet were the sores. He hadn't changed his
socks in several months. He ended up being admitted and
given lots of antibiotics in wound care.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Your turn, that's the one's daily for us.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh my god, what do you do?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What is your job?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I'm registeringer?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Wait, it's daily to see someone's off.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, I work in a place that has a lot
of homeless population, so especially around this time, they don't
they don't chance or socks, and they get wet all
the time.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh you know what, I get that. I get that,
all right, then I understand that. How about something a
little different, But what do you got?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh what do I have?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I had recently a guy come in and put his
own throat with a machete.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, all right, you know what we were all laughing
about the kneecaps, and oh you.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Wanted to be funny.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I'm sorry. I thought we were like trying to outdo
each other here.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I win, Yeah you did?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You did?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
They?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Thank you, ma'am, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I don't know how many of these I can do?
How many do you have left? Elliott? Oh, I got
a whole laundry list. Oh great?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
What is what is an exit X oxygenator on an ECHMO?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
What is that? I don't know? Is echmo? Or is
it all capital is?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yes, echo cardiogram mote. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
So, now that that's settled, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But when the oxygenator on the ECHMO circuit blew off,
its sprayed blood all over everyone and everything in the
room like it was a hose. It was horrible. I
could not do this for a living.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Are you are you skipping some? Yes? Have we decided
to cut this short? I'm skipping some.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
This one isn't as so much on the funny side
as it is on the oh my god side.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Remember, it's the scariest things you've seen. Fingers crossed, machete
to the neck.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I was friends, no, but I will tell you this.
I'll spare you the story. There was a guy that
one of them writes about. There was a guy who
was working in the er and somebody had tried to
take their own life with a gun, and they brought
him in and he was wrapped up in like blankets
and stuff. He survived, but when they unwrapped the blankets,
the gun was still in there loaded.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, And they were like everybody like flipped out because
they opened the blanket up to start treating the guy
and the guns right there right. In a related story,
I was friends with a guy who was an er
nurse in a neighborhood with a lot of gang violence.
One night, they got a gang member who was shot
and in pretty bad shape but still alive. My friend
(08:00):
the room to go grab something, and when he came back,
there was a guy dressed in a full clown suit
with a shotgun up his sleeve.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They arrested him. They ended up how about that? How
about that? Yeah? These are all pretty good. And when
I say pretty good, at me an awful.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
We had a guy come into the er. According to
the report, he asked staff where he lived for a
glass of water. When he did, it was a nursing home.
When he didn't receive it quickly enough, his rational response
was he started to eat his own fingers.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
By the time he.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Got to us, he had eaten all ten of his
fingertips away.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Now it's hard to breathe the oh.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Because you've got fingertips in your throat. Could you imagine
that's your job? That's your job.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I always say teachers and nurses never paid enough. The No,
that's true. And disc jockeys. Hi Elliott the morning. I've
never heard that one. Hello.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Is this me?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
So I am, Well, I'm not gonna give my name.
I'm currently I'm an ear nurse practitioner, but I've been
doing radical stuff since I was fourteen, So I have
quite a bit of collection of things. In fact, I
want to retire writing a book one day about everything
I've seen. And let's let's.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Keep it on the shocking yet funny side, like I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Okay, okay, what you got?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (09:46):
So I actually have two. One was I was candy
striper back in the day when you're actually a candy striper, striper,
not stripper. And uh I was fourteen or fifteen and
I had to take a patient upstairs that was part
of her job.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And they didn't tell me that it was the psych
floor that I.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Was taking him to, and to get the elevator and
the elevator stopped and I'm just standing there like, and
all of a sudden, this guy gets out of the wheelchair,
runs to the corner the elevator, sticks.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
His finger in the corner and.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Start screaming, I will not do this. I will not
do this. I will not kill her. You cannot make
me kill her.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh God.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
To I'm like, I've never seen anything. I'm sheltered Life's
a little girl standing there, and I'm like.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
What do I do in this situation? So I started
talking to the corner too.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I literally was like, sir, you need to listen to him.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Worth it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
God, I'm nobody. It's not you know, save this for fun.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You won't make the news for this.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I mean, I'm I.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Wow, Look.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's smart. That's no, that's quick thinking. That is quick thinking.
Good for you, Good for you, Thank you, ma'am. That
was a good one. And you didn't think it was
gonna go that way.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yeah. I didn't love the start. Now that it ended,
I guess, well, hopefully he got the help he needed.
Can I do like six? And two? Am I doing six?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Hey, it's Aaron and Barlow. How are y'all?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We Earl.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No, I happen to just tune out at that time.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Hi Aeron and Barlow.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
So years ago I had to go to the e
er myself for a shellfish allergy and all of a sudden,
this is Fridday at VCU, so this is like the
crazy time when everything comes in and they were gonna
need the room, and I told this nurse, I said,
you can have my room. Like all you guys are
doing her pushing ivy beds right now, but I need
you to tell me the grossest story you've seen in
a while. He's like okay, and he goes This man
(12:07):
came in the er, not homeless, mentally fully there and
they went to take off his shoe and the foot
fell off with the shoe and the stinch cleared the
whole r It was mismanaged diabetes. She had to die.
Betos wait, I have one more so I was a
(12:31):
farmer rep for a long time and called him obg
Wyan and they had the greatest stories. And one was
a girl. Unfortunately she did have some mental health issues
and during the exam they found a polaroid in her
vagean I can say the gene and they pulled it
out and she says she likes to keep her family
(12:51):
close and tried to fight the doctor to put.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It back in there. You should have stopped with the diabetes.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Is the worry hobbies man. People kept Doritos under their booz.
There's a whole mess out there.
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