Ouch!
A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
( , Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
( , Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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Never unwind a spring
My brother took it upon himself one day to dismantle a pencil which had a small plastic woodpecker on a spring on the side. He sat there thoughtfully unwinding the spring and with a shriek it re-wound itself straight into his thumb. Various efforts by my parents to gently remove the impromptu corkscrew from his finger failed and he was removed to A&E with a small cheery plastic woodpecker bobbing on the end of his thumb.
The doctor in A&E applied an anesthetic cream and did the old 'removing a plaster is better done faster' trick and just yanked it out. A tetanus injection later and a downcast brother returned home with a bandage and no woodpecker...
( , Fri 30 Jul 2010, 23:27, 1 reply)
My brother took it upon himself one day to dismantle a pencil which had a small plastic woodpecker on a spring on the side. He sat there thoughtfully unwinding the spring and with a shriek it re-wound itself straight into his thumb. Various efforts by my parents to gently remove the impromptu corkscrew from his finger failed and he was removed to A&E with a small cheery plastic woodpecker bobbing on the end of his thumb.
The doctor in A&E applied an anesthetic cream and did the old 'removing a plaster is better done faster' trick and just yanked it out. A tetanus injection later and a downcast brother returned home with a bandage and no woodpecker...
( , Fri 30 Jul 2010, 23:27, 1 reply)
...a downcast brother returned home with a bandage and no woodpecker...
that sounds pretty grim
( , Sat 31 Jul 2010, 10:05, closed)
that sounds pretty grim
( , Sat 31 Jul 2010, 10:05, closed)
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