Strange or Funny Stories from Your Past

[GoodEnuff]

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.

 

[IrishEyes]

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.

 

[jujube]

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!"