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Surgeons And Nurses Are Sharing The Most Horrifying Things They've Encountered During A Procedure
July 20, 2025
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“I’m a medical student going into surgery; I get my MD in a year. I haven’t been at this long enough to have the wealth of stories that an actual surgeon would have, but I have a few that stand out from my time in the OR. Most recently, I assisted…
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“IDK if it’s a conspiracy theory, but aliens are definitely out there. There are billions of planets that could sustain life out there, so that’s billions of opportunities for life to evolve. It happened on Earth, why can’t it happen somewhere else…
If you know me, you’re probably tired of hearing me rattle on about my running, walking, and strength training adventures (sorry, loved ones).
That’s partly because I’m insufferable. But it’s also because I never imagined I’d get into sports – before the age…
“When I was in RN school, one of my classmates was assigned a female patient who had a stage 4 pressure ulcer on her coccyx — this was down to the bone and really awful looking. The wound care team had taken a photo of it, and that photo was in the patient’s…





