There are so many crazy stories over the years that sometimes it is hard to pick. Being on the front lines of health care, doctors and nurses face tragedies and intense situations every day, giving them plenty of disturbing ER stories. From horrible accidents or psychotic patients to the ones where we find items in embarrassing places, medical professionals deal with a lot in their jobs. They’ve seen stuff we couldn’t even imagine and probably don’t want to think about. In many cases, these disturbing medical stories have pushed them to the edge, making it a struggle to have faith in humanity and in other ways makes the job a little easier. 

 

Different Strokes

Big shout out to everyone working today and tonight. I'm actually on shift tonight. Who knows maybe we will get someone like this guy who shoved 9 eggs in his rectum. These cases always make for an interesting shift. I remember this one time a guy comes in complaining of rectal pain. We did an x-ray which confirmed our assumptions of what was causing the pain.......a huge dildo/vibrator. Now I know there are tons of images and stories on the internet about these kind of cases but there is a portion of the story that makes it an unforgettable one......at least to me.

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This story actually occurred when I worked in the emergency room years ago. I've taken care of several patients with foreign bodies stuck up the rectum but this one was hilarious. At some point during the patient's examination by the ER team the foreign object which at this point was not foreign anymore, was "turned on" (no pun intended) accidentally. Meaning it was switched on to vibrator mode. 

 

The patient was given some pain meds prior, so he was in a good mood to say the least. They actually had to call a surgeon into the hospital. But it took a couple hours until the surgeon came in. So in the interim he was lying there with this constant humming vibration sound coming from his butt 🍑 It was definitely a little awkward when I had to reassess him or draw blood specimens for lab. 

 

That vibration can be heard outside the room as well. 

 

It was haunting the ER staff for weeks afterwards. The pt was actually very nice and a good sport about it, he did well after his surgery. The next couple shifts were definitely fun everytime a residents pager vibrated!

@TheTraumaGuy

 

- Got a call one night from the ED Doc, who said a gentleman had a vibrator somewhere it didn’t belong. And, it was still running. I asked him if he wanted it removed, or the batteries changed! I heard the phone hit the floor, and then in a whisper he said “Don’t make me laugh, him and his wife are staring right at me!” I went in, removed it easily in the OR, and 2 days later got the path report detailing the dimensions, and then under comment was the single word: dildo. I just about busted a guy laughing!

@whatsupdocbw

 

- Had a guy that had shoved a bottle of Tylenol up his rectum and every time you went in his room he would get up and jump around. Now any time I hear a pill clanging in a pill bottle this night comes back as clear as the day it happened 13yrs ago!

@nurse_ally

 

- OR nurse... last year we had to take a guy back to the OR to remove a sonicare toothbrush that had spent 2 weeks up there.... the guy started to get septic and finally sought medical care.... when it came out it was wrapped in a condom and had no toothbrush head, just a metal peg.... still vibrated when we hit the button!

@amandacapriotti

 

- Teenager peds patient, Samsung galaxy note 2. Said he woke up at 0200 and was bored and wanted to see if it fit. Still unsure of the physics there but if there’s a will there’s a way

@bradley_pierce

 

- We had a patient come into the ER for same reason, foreign body in the rectum, and it was still switched on, from the time it was placed at home until they were admitted. They waited nearly 8 hours to come in, so there was a complaint of pain/numbness due to the “setting” it was on. I was in the OR room assigned, so the Surgeon just gave them strong sedation and removed it with long Alice clamps and manual palpations on the lower abdomen. The surgeon switched it off, placed it in a personal articles bag and sent the patient off to post op. I was told the patient waited out the required time to stay after sedation, and then left with the personal articles bag.

@drea_milazzo_

 

. A few moons ago I used to be a HCA at my local acute hospital....whilst on shift on the surgical admissions ward we had a jolly chap who was admitted with a dildo stuck up is rectum !! Post op the nursing staff could barely keep a straight face for days afterwards.... remarkably the surgeon and his team always remained exceptionally composed on the ward round.... I'm guessing it wasn't his first 🤣

@stustu76

 

- I worked in pediatrics and a 15 year old boy came in with his Moms vibrator lodged in his rectum. When the physician tried to retrieve it, HE ACCIDENTALLY TURNED IT ON. Poor kid ended up having to go to surgery to have it removed.

@missmeganmerry

 

- Just a few. I saw a guy who “slipped and fell” on a Christmas handbell (in July). There’s was a lot of blood by my standards, and Im an ed doc. Second one that stands out was after I moved from Ohio to Florida. Sure, I knew what a fishing bobber looked like....in Ohio. But a DEEP SEA fishing bobber, well that’s huge. And coming punt of an anus with the help of a colorectal surgeon. Wow🔔🎣

@cljohnstone

 

- We had a couple come into the ER, 1 via ambulance and 1 via police car. When we asked what the police car was for, we were told it was a domestic situation, of sorts. Individually, the situation didn't make sense. He had multiple penile bite marks and lacerations and she had sustained rather extensive head trauma. After about 20 minutes of suture work on the both of them, they both asked to see each other. Rather odd in a domestic, but the officer agreed and the hospital added a few security officers in case there were fireworks. They were the epitome of a living and caring couple despite the wounds they had inflicted on each other. Then we got the whole story. They had booked a hotel room for their anniversary night to enjoy some adult activities without the kids. She was providing oral pleasure on him when she suffered a seizure. During the height of the seizure, she uncontrollably clenched her jaws and bit down on the man. In his panic and pain, he grabbed the closest thing he could find to try to get her to loosen her bite which was sadly an old rotary style telephone and hit her in the head with it. Needless to say, no charges were pressed.

Mike L.

 

Do you have any stories from your E.R?