Strange or Funny Stories from Your Past

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In nursing school, one of the things they taught us was to use the proper term for body parts. It's "breast", not "tit" or "boob" and so on.

I worked in a large county hospital in south Texas where many of our patients did not speak English or whose English was limited. In addition to that, most of our patients came from poor backgrounds and were very uneducated. I do not say this in a derogatory way.

Early on in my career, I had a young (19 yo ?) male patient, for whom the dr had ordered a urinary catheter be inserted. I do not remember the reason. I gathered up the needed supplies, went into the room and asked the patient if he had ever had one. No. What is it? I said, "It's a tube we insert into your p*n*s to drain your urine." He replied, "What's a p*n*s??" Seriously. I thought about it for a moment, cringed internally, and said, "It's your d*ck."

Healthcare can not be the only profession where things like this happen. Tell yours, please.
 

Children in my 3 year class had me draining my brain with the word "Boo Boo" to some it meant a hurt finger, knee, etc.
To others it meant their rear end. That got confusing and almost scary to make sure what part of the body it was they were
talking about before I grabbed dressings.
 
Bubba Joe goes to the doctor's office and says, "I gotta see the doc. There's something wrong with mah pen!s!"

"BUBBA JOE!" exclaims the nurse. "There are women and children here! You can't say that out loud like that!"

"Waal, what am Ah supposed to say then?"

"When you first come in," she explained, "Just say there's something wrong with...uh...your ear. And then we'll get it all figured out when we go back to the examining room. So, let's try this again. Why, hello, Bubba Joe, why are you here today?"

"I gotta see the doc. There's something wrong with mah ear!", he says.

"What's wrong with your ear?"

"AH CAIN'T PEE OUT OF IT!"
 

Body parts?
Wasn't there a book "Women are from Venus, Men are from Penus"?
Stop. "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" it was.
It doesn't matter anyway since I don't read such slimy literature :ROFLMAO:
 
My Great Granny used chewing Tabaco since, I don't know when. She carried a small 1 pound coffee can with lid in her
purse to spit in. She was at the doctors office and when she got called into the room she took out her can and spat her
snuff into the can.
The young nurse observed this and being shocked asked Granny "How long have you been doing this?"
Granny told her "Near all my life"
Nurse "Have you told the doctor, that is very abnormal, you should be tested"
Granny said she smiled, pulled out her can of snuff and replied "Oh sweetie, he told me which brand to buy"
 
Body parts, part 2:

A sentence in the German poem "Belsazar" (1819) by Heinrich Heine reads
"Doch kaum das grause Word verklang,
dem König ward's heimlich im Busen bang".
("But no sooner than the gruesome word had faded away, the king secretly felt a chill in his heart").

The German word 'Busen' means exactly the same as the English 'bosom'. But in the language of the poets it also means 'heart'.

A male student in high school read the whole poem and laughed as he spoke the word 'Busen'. The teacher for German got angry.

This little episode happened 50 years ago and I still remember it.
 
StarSong said:
Before my recent endoscopy, one of the nurses attempted to infantalize me by asking if I'd gone poo poo either that day or the day before.
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Maybe she was floating nurse from pediatrics? Otherwise, poor terminology

One male COPD patient I had could not figure out how to say ‘nebulizer’ for the compact machine. He kept calling it a ‘n!pplizer’
 

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