What do you Hate???

Dr Galen

This is probably one for the hospital based among us....but what do you hate most? Poo? Urine? Vomit? Blood? Phlegm?

Personally I hate the yucky phlegmy stuff that you get in suction cannisters. You know what I mean, esp the stuff from the trachys of patients who have some nasty infection going on.

Other than that, i can deal with most things really, been vomited on many times, got blood all over me once when am artery went poppity once which was pretty gross but felt very ER.

Thoughts?

tallaght01

In paeds you get used to pretty much everything quickly.

I was at a neonatal resus a while ago in theatre. Took a while to get the little guy breathing again, but I did.

I was checking his femoral pulses just afterwards (trying to decide of there was a cardiac cause for his arrest) when he pissed like a racehorse. I mean right in my eyeball. I was too shocked to dodge it, so his ample stream just kept hammering into my eye.

It provided a lot of amusement for the theatre staff, though.
I have been pissed on more times than I can remember.

Another time I was seeing a kiddy in an A+E that caters for adults and kids, so they're not very good with paeds. I had a little baby who was very constipated. I asked the nurses to give him half an enema. They didn't know how/were nervous about doing it to a baby, so i said I'd show them how to do it.
I popped it in. As soon as it went in there was an explosive release from this baby's bottom....all over my face. I mean it literally looked like I'd been rolling around in it lol.

After those kinds of experiences, it takes a lot to turn your stomach :P

sam34

i'm a psychiatrist... i dont do body fluids :cool:

Dr Galen

sam34 wrote: »

i'm a psychiatrist... i dont do body fluids :cool:

yeah yeah........i've been reading about you on another thread :P

sam34

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

yeah yeah........i've been reading about you on another thread :P

i'm not sure which one you're referring to...?

Traumadoc

Can deal with nearly everthing, did nearly barf when I examined a patient who had been in denial about his facial carcinoma, the musca domestica had got to it- say no more.

Dr Galen

sam34 wrote: »

i'm not sure which one you're referring to...?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=58660380#post58660380

sam34

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=58660380#post58660380

lol!

Dr Galen

PM sent

sam34

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

PM sent

tallaght01

durrrtyyyy

Dr Galen

well you know me buddy

sam34

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

yeah yeah........i've been reading about you on another thread :P

that post got thanked twice already....
and then....

tallaght01 wrote: »

durrrtyyyy

me? paranoid??

DrIndy

nothing really gets me at all in work gore wise - but i literally can't watch any torture scene on a movie though. The gore afterwards is fine though.

Am i weird?

Maybe the smell from abscesses when i have a peaky stomach.

sillymoo

Used to work as a HCA and got to sample all bodily fluids Its funny how used to things you get when you have to wipe bottoms and clean pools of vomit everyday

One thing did freak me out, I was brought into A&E one night with suspected meningitis. I dont have good veins. One of the doctors hit an artery while trying to put a cannula in my arm. Blood flew up into the sky. My boyfriend fell to the floor.

Good times

DrIndy

sillymoo wrote: »

Used to work as a HCA and got to sample all bodily fluids Its funny how used to things you get when you have to wipe bottoms and clean pools of vomit everyday

One thing did freak me out, I was brought into A&E one night with suspected meningitis. I dont have good veins. One of the doctors hit an artery while trying to put a cannula in my arm. Blood flew up into the sky. My boyfriend fell to the floor.

Good times

oops

and he was probably using a large bore canula too in that circumstance.

sillymoo

DrIndy wrote: »

oops

and he was probably using a large bore canula too in that circumstance.

No idea, there was one trying veins in my foot, the other was trying my arm and there was another looking menancingly at my neck! Eventually they got it into my arm

AtomicHorror

I don't envy you guys. Most I see in my research work is buckets of human blood waste and the occasional sputum sample. I have no strong feelings about these, even with the occasional spillage. In teaching undergrads there's the wonderful mix of animal organs and smelly bacterial cultures. The only part of that whole thing which gets to me are one practical involving lugworms and another where the students get to dissect a big old locust (and of course I have to show them how). I'm not a fan of worms or insects, let along big ones. I like their insides even less. I feel squirmy just thinking about it.

sillymoo wrote: »

One thing did freak me out, I was brought into A&E one night with suspected meningitis. I dont have good veins. One of the doctors hit an artery while trying to put a cannula in my arm. Blood flew up into the sky.

I had a similar experience when giving blood once. The needle was being withdrawn. I don't like needles so I don't tend to look, but out of the corner of my eye saw an unexpected jet of blood. It only went a couple of inches, but it earned a surprised noise from the doctor and some expertly-handled rapid clean up.

cligereen

Oh, sputum really is the pits, especially when you get it on your arm and shoulder as you brush by the bed curtains because the patient has fired it up the curtain and your shoulder looks like snails have been crawling over it. Likewise, when you slip on the floor on a little pool of it. EEuch!

Trephining nails doesn't do a lot for me either.

Larianne

Vomit. Makes me want to vomit.

Chunky Monkey

Stoma bags...yuck

sillymoo wrote: »

No idea, there was one trying veins in my foot, the other was trying my arm and there was another looking menancingly at my neck! Eventually they got it into my arm

Oh god. :eek:

Vorsprung

A large diverticular bleed. It's not the sight, but the smell.

DrIndy

maelena and c. diff stink.

SomeDose

Agree on the C.Diff. But for me, faecal vomit wins it by a nose.

AmcD

I think you are all forgetting old lads and their socks. You know the sort. The socks have become part of their feet. They unpeel them with great difficulty due to generalised crusting and then the shower of skin flakes falls all over the floor. I don't know how chiropodists cope.

sam34

AmcD wrote: »

I think you are all forgetting old lads and their socks. You know the sort. The socks have become part of their feet. They unpeel them with great difficulty due to generalised crusting and then the shower of skin flakes falls all over the floor. I don't know how chiropodists cope.

i actually get these lads form time to time in old age psych... they get a bit mixed up and assume a doctor is a doctor and can deal with everything so start showing me their feet/lumps/bumps etc

i'm a psychiatrist for god's sake!!

i dont wanna know/see/hear/smell any body fluids!

missannik

I can pretty much tolerate all bodily fluids, really gruesome wounds and aggresive patients... it's the bullying by management that I hate the most.

Vorsprung

Actually having worked on a vascular ward and colorectal surgical ward for the first 6 months of my intern year, I think i'm immune to most bad smells.

charlieroot

Can handle most of the smells/sights I've come across in the hospitals (breathing through your mouth is a big help for bad smells - only found out this trick recently). However! I can *not* stand watching toenails being removed! For some reason it sends shivers up my spine.

taram

AmcD wrote: »

I think you are all forgetting old lads and their socks. You know the sort. The socks have become part of their feet. They unpeel them with great difficulty due to generalised crusting and then the shower of skin flakes falls all over the floor. I don't know how chiropodists cope.

We get these from the old ladies in the shop I work in, some shoes are soft lined with cotton or polyster for comfort or warmth, and I get the job of trying to clean about 2 months worth of dead skin out of them. The black lining goes grey, yum.

Worst in a medical context was holding a baby to get their vaccinations as the mother was phobic, child threw up down my top, it was squelching in my bra as I left the room. A smell that provokes fear in me is mould, used to have my samples wrecked by it, I get a shiver up my spine if even a slice of mouldy bread is near!

Sitric

Tallaght01, I nearly died laughing at your exploding baby story!

I'm a fourth yr med student, the worst thing i've ever smelt was the homeless lady with infected, frostbitten feet. Was just about keeping my lunch down when the consultant teaching us mentioned that quite a bit of the smell was from the patients genitals! Breathing through mouth? Was trying to help clean her while not breathing at all! I had seriously considered specialising in burns until this point!

Like this forum very much by the way, usually just read but generally enjoy the discussions, good stuff!