Hospital Staff Tell Their Most Upsetting Stories On The Job
If you work in a hospital, you're bound to see your share of gnarliness. In a world where blood and guts are an everyday occurrence, it takes a lot to shake a medical professional. We scoured the internet for true creepy stories from hospital workers. These scary, real stories will make your skin crawl and your heart race. These tales are not for the weak of stomach or the faint of heart.
A Man Is Eaten By Dogs
From Redditor /u/supertucci:
Surgeon here. Saw hardened trauma nurses leaving an operating room looking grim and a bit green. I went in to see what the fuss was.
A homeless man was attacked by Rottweilers, incapacitated, and they proceeded to eat all the flesh from both legs and one arm as he lay there helpless.
Don't ask me how he lived but he survived that and ultimately lived long enough to leave the hospital. I will be haunted by the look of just his leg bones, intact, with no flesh on them (arm was gone). He still had the interosseous tendon holding the tibia to the fibula but otherwise just intact leg bones completely free of flesh. Feet gone of course.
Mother Feeds Newborn Mashed Potatoes
From Redditor /u/ksocool1:
We had a mother who fed her newborn baby mashed potatoes two hours after he was born, he died a half hour later because he had aspirated (inhaled) the solid food and couldn't breathe.
Colostomy Bag Gets Infected
From Redditor /u/MurseSean:
This story will forever haunt me. I recently took care of a woman who was in her mid 40s, paraplegic, and had a colostomy. For those not familiar, a colostomy is a pouch that is attached to your colon from the outside of your body that catches your stool. These are for people that have serious issues with their gastrointestinal tract that require an alternative channel for feces to leave their body. Well this patient was a very sick lady to begin with, but she also had a strange infection originating from her colostomy site. She was to the point of sepsis, which again to simplify, is just not good.
Turns out, her husband was very seriously addicted to heroin and needed money in the worst way, so he rented his wife out... meaning that people would pay to come over to their house and have sex with his wife in her stoma... the hole from which the feces left her body.
A Cockroach Is Found Somewhere It Shouldn't Be
From Redditor /u/xoxosayounara:
My sister is a Registered Nurse in an ER. On one of her shifts, she got a patient who came in screaming in pain, this woman didn't have a bowel movement for two months.
My sister examined her and her rectum was wide open, there was a huge hole that you could look into. My sister gave her an enema but the feces stuck in this woman's rectum was rock hard and would not come out. Eventually my sister had to pull it out. After it all came out, my sister looked down and saw a cockroach crawling around in the feces.
Woman Claws Out Own Eyeball
From Redditor /u/czar_zach:
My dad is in nursing school, told me one story where they brought in a mentally disturbed woman who was behaving violently. She kept on flailing about and then started attacking herself. At one point he said she literally clawed out her eyeball.
It was dangling out of the socket by the optic nerve and everyone tried to restrain her so they could help but one of her arms broke free so she reached up, grabbed her eyeball, and squished it.
Man's Body Decays
From Redditor /u/The_Wil-E_Coyote:
A guy came into the ER. Apparently he had been found living in his car basically rotting away. The guy was at least 500 pounds, and had to be cut out of the car. He stunk so bad the whole ER and ambulance bay smelled like dead flesh.
There were maggots inside of his open wounds and the sores were so big that man's hip bone was visible.