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Anyone else get queasy when typing - blood and gore

Posted: Mar 12, 2010

traumas and such? I had just sat down with a glass of V8 (no joke) and started to work and my first report is about a patient who slit a wrist. Now I'm queasy and nauseous and the V8 is going back in the fridge. This is how I know I'm in the right place in the medical field....no way I could be there and see this stuff firsthand. Blech.

Nah, doesnt bother me. I might say "Eeew!" once - in a while, but thats about it. nm

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It doesn't bother me, either. Seen too much of it, I guess. LOL - nm

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only 1 time - anon

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in over 10 years transcribing that I was truly grossed out. I had a patient with a bowel obstruction who vomited feces. Worst chart ever!

Only happened once to me.... - Old part-timer

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It was a patient who was high on drugs and used a knife to castrate himself. It was a LONG operation explaining in great detail how they were trying to put him back together and I was getting sicker by the minute.

I realized the same as you - I'm glad I don't have to deal with this stuff face-to-face.

Just one time due to coincidence - surprised me

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My sister had just had a traumatic accident, and I was coping OK, I thought; but then I went to work and started typing a report of someone with similar injuries and I freaked out and had to go home. My sister died of her injuries a couple days later.

Only once years ago when I was just a newbie. - Someone else had to finish the report.

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When I started working in a hospital years ago, a homeless man was found down by paramedics. They brought him to the hospital. Well this guy had a huge lesion on his arm along with a lot of other problems. Anyway the admitted him and needed to take him into surgery. During the surgery they started cutting into the really huge lesion on his arm and the dictator started describing that "hundreds" of maggots came out of the lesion and were actually jumping onto the OR table, the surgeon, the assistants and the floor.

Oh lordy! I was so young and never heard anything like that, I dropped my headphones and ran out of the office got really really physically sick in the bathroom. I came back in tears and went to the MR Director's office and begged her to let someone else finish the report.

Here's the kicker, she told me to take a break, take the reports to the floor (we had to do that periodically throughout the day back then) and go outside and breathe some fresh air, then come back and finish working. Well, wouldn't you know it, I had to pass this guy's room when taking the charts to the floor (I remembered he was in room 333 when I typed the report--it just stood out) and he was in there sitting up in the bed looking right at me as I passed the room. I don't know why, but I just felt all queasy inside. Man did I fly down that hallway! It took me a very long time before I got over that report. I still get queasy about it, so this is the last time I will ever talk about it again. Just a gross experience to share along with the others. Ewwwwwww . . .

We also had to pull charts for the ER and I won't even repeat some of the things I used to see in there.

My stomach became used to it after these almost 30 years of being in transcription. I think I have seen and typed it all -- then something else comes along.

Just the other night I had a report about a female with a perfume bottle stuck where a perfume bottle should never go -- if you get my drift. Not sure what the story was there, but I can only imagine!!! Maybe she had that "not so fresh feeling"? Dunno, but that one cracked me up.

We all could probably write a best seller with all the stories we have typed.

Wow, those are all some really hardcore stories!! - blood and gore

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thanks for sharing...I think...LOL

I always wish I could be there to see it. - deb

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I find operative notes fascinating. Used to love "The Operation" on TLC. I even tried to get the doctor to let me watch him operate on my foot, but he refused. :)

Anything with the eyes....nm - ncmt

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After all these years, not much, but occasionally.... - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach

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A while back I heard someone in the background hollering for a nurse: "My brother's colostomy bag just broke!"

Eeeeeewww!

And then there was the one a few months back about the gangrenous male anatomical part.... That one was a real appetite-suppressant, I assure you.

I'm with you about being in the right place in the medical field. I can type it and I can spell it--but NO FREAKIN' WAY do I ever want to SEE it!!

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