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As a surgical nurse, what's the weirdest thing you've seen
It’s difficult
to say which is the weirdest as you see a lot of odd things! There was a Vicar
with a potato lodged in his bottom, a teenage boy with a glass tomato sauce
bottle stuck on his penis (which he had tried to smash off with a hammer), an
elderly gentleman with an umbrella handle stuck in his bottom… the best bit is
the stories of how said items became stuck!
The strangest thing I’ve seen was a well-educated
businesswoman who was absolutely convinced that she needed her ovary removed,
despite the fact that there was nothing wrong with it (she had CT scans,
Ultrasound scans, x-rays, blood tests). She was adamant, she screamed and
shouted and had about 5 different medical opinions. Threatened to sue the
hospital if-else didn’t comply… being the NHS we are not prone to giving
patients surgery just because they want it. She refused to have a Psychiatric
evaluation and discharged herself-to find a hospital that would comply with her
request.