【閲覧注意】海外の医者「患者本人だけ気づいてない衝撃症例」がガチでエグすぎた件www

The 'Maggot Cast.' We had a patient come in with a leg cast he hadn't removed in nearly six months. He said he 'felt a little tickle.' When we finally sawed it off, the smell hit us before the visual did. The entire space between his skin and the plaster was a thriving, writhing ecosystem of maggots. The worst part? They had actually done such a good job eating the necrotic tissue that they likely saved him from sepsis. He looked down and just said, 'Oh, I wondered why it felt heavy.

A patient had such severe gangrenous necrosis in both legs below the knee. She had been crawling around her apartment. The smell permeated the whole unit. I had a nursing student with me to change the dressings. Doused a mask with peppermint oil and put another mask over the top. I was legit afraid that her leg would just come off in my hands while changing the dressing. She was so afraid of surgery that it still took several days to convince her it was necessary.

A very nice couple came in from a rural area for the wife to have a short elective procedure. The smell of them combined was enough to clear out our unit. Everyone was throwing on masks. They were from the middle of nowhere where and I think they must not have had (or at least regularly used) running water. They smelled like a giant, moist, yeasty, bacteria-infested groin. We had to have the curtains changed after they left because the smell was lingering.

While working in a nursing home we had a patient transferred with an absolutely huge pressure sore on his buttocks. He was meant to start a wound vac upon arrival but the wound nurse at that nursing home thought she was god and could heal anything so she made up her own order instead.

The order? Clean it, pack it with normal saline soaked gauze and then cover it with an abdominal pad. I worked weekends and I watched it deteriorate more and more. Brought it up to management- never addressed of course because it’s cheaper to do that shit order than it was to do the right thing— the wound vac. He would ask me every time if it was getting better and every time I would tell him no but for some reason the wound nurse and wound doctor were feeding him lies that he unfortunately believed.

I was super pregnant when he came so when I came back from maternity leave I was shocked 1) to still see him alive 2) to see just how bad his wound had gotten. It was the most rotten, foul smelling, super thick green/yellow discharge I’ve ever seen in my career thus far. By that point he was literally rotting and going septic. He lost his mind and will to live I had to fight to convince him to please let me change the dressing but by that point he was beyond saving or being able to be convinced. Still I had to try because it was so awful.

He died not too long after my return. That nurse was fired and reported by so many people but according to the state board of nursing still has a license. So long story short after typing all that out I think the most foul and disgusting thing I’ve ever encountered in my career is just how many nursing homes/healthcare professionals can be absolute pieces of shit who do not take care of patients and nothing happens to them even when reported.

Gentleman had a cut on his leg and went swimming in a polluted lake. He ignored the infection to the point where he was either gonna lose his leg or his life. Surgeons did multiple amputations, first at the ankle and then at the knee. It was gnarly.

Matted hair with severe lice infestation that I had to cut out, maggots in new amputation (patient discharged to nursing home & came back in as re-admit), wax buildup in ears so thick other nurses were documenting hearing aids, loads of patients coming in that were neglected with feces caked and dried in every crevice of their body, necrotic toes that the patient proceeded to pull off and hand to me, 12+ inch long fingernails that were curled up and dusty…. the list is truly never ending when you work bedside.

A majority of my medical career was spent working in plastic surgery at a level 1 trauma center. Ive seen lots of 'wtf' cases and everyone keeps mentioning maggots so heres my maggot story: We had a homeless patient that came to the ED for chest pain and had literally 10 layers of socks on. When the socks were removed all of his metatarsal bones were fully exposed, no flesh. He didnt even realize his foot was basically all bones because he had went years without taking off his socks. It probably started as a diabetic ulcer but the maggots did their job plus some.

We were treating a guy for late stage head & neck cancer and colon cancer. The chemo for his colon cancer made some crazy reaction in his bowels that released the most disgusting fowl smelly gas that any of us had ever smelled in our lives and he couldn’t stop releasing it while getting radiation treatment. Four of us including myself threw up (and gross smells never bother me) and the whole area had to be aired out because other patients started retching or leaving. Words cannot describe what was coming out of him

Another day, while his head & neck cancer was raging and his mouth was basically an open wound full of pus that smelled of death we walked outside to find him making out his with girlfriend who was also being treated for cancer (something must have been in their water). Think of someone not brushing their teeth for a year or two and having their mouth filled with mucus. Some areas were necrosed and smelled like a dead body and here they were making out 🤢

He also never stopped smoking. I can’t even imagine how bad the smoke had to hurt on his raw mouth and throat. Like smoking with strep throat x 1000.

The frail dementia patient that was being physically abused and raped by her "caregiver" husband. That was the worst for me.

A homeless man came in complaining that his foot has been hurting for some time. He was wearing some really old work boots and said he hasn’t taken them off in over a year. Took off the boot and a toe fell out. The smell almost cleared the room.