Doctors, nurses, and hospital staff of Reddit.

What are your experiences, funny, sad, horrible, with people waking from anesthesia, not safe

for work?

A patient woke up from his wisdom tooth removal begging the doctor to let him be David Bowie.

The doctor actually asked how that was supposed to happen, and the answer was that

it would be fantastic.

Had a patient in for an endoscopy.

As a matter of course, we place a speculum, think ball gag, but a metal ring instead of a

ball, in the mouth through which to pass the scope so the patient doesn't bite the scope

once they're under.

We typically place it right at induction of anesthesia.

This patient had the presence of mind to ask us what the safe word was before he lost

consciousness as we placed the

speculum. One of the rare times the whole OR erupted in laughter. I once had a patient start

totally trashing her sister, telling me how she has always been the black sheep of the family,

is a scumbag and wants to bang her husband. She's just going off, and sitting in the doorway was the

sister, the only one there to support

her after surgery.

You could tell it was crushing for her.

This was probably an hour after the patient left Pac-Ew, conscious but still pretty

whacked out.

I had a patient, pet, an invisible kitty that was named after me.

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