Crazy, bizarre, and hilarious stories my cousin witnessed during her nursing clinicals in Vietnam
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My cousin is currently in her final year of nursing school (general nursing track) in Vietnam. During her clinical rotations across various hospital departments, she has collected some of the weirdest, funniest, and most absurd patient stories. I wanted to share 10 of them with you all: A high school girl came to the hospital with her parents, who insisted she was suffering from severe appendicitis. After a quick clinical examination, the doctor bluntly told them, "Appendicitis? She’s literally in active labor and about to give birth!" Outraged, the parents accused the doctor of lying and attacked him. Half an hour later, the two parents were holding their newborn grandson, completely stunned and speechless. An 85-year-old man was brought in by his son and son-in-law for a hemorrhoid checkup. The doctor diagnosed him with grade 3 external hemorrhoids that required surgery, but also casually noted lesions consistent with genital warts (HPV). Furious and embarrassed, the son and son-in-law abandoned him on the spot. The old man leaned on his cane, chased them down the hallway, and yelled, "I could die tomorrow! Can't I have a little fun while I'm still alive?!" A patient's gurney collided with a hospital kitchen food cart in the hallway. A heated argument broke out, and the patient's family member started clawing at the kitchen staff. The worker got fed up, grabbed a massive soup ladle, and started whacking the family member over the head. Seeing that their family was losing the fight, the patient jumped off the gurney and joined the brawl. A 35-year-old man was filling out admission paperwork outside the OR while his wife was undergoing an emergency C-section due to fetal distress. On the form, under the field "Relationship to patient," he wrote: "IT DEPENDS." A mother-in-law was taking care of her daughter-in-law after a C-section. She kept complaining about having to empty the catheter bag constantly because the daughter-in-law was "peeing too much." Driven by curi
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