A hospital worker has revealed the ‘craziest’ case she ever witnessed while working in A&E.
British-Sudanese comic Ola Labib, who previously worked as a pharmacist in the NHS for seven years, said the emergency room can be ‘absolute chaos’.
Speaking with Russell Kane on his podcast Evil Genius, Labib shared numerous ‘bizarre’ and ‘crazy’ stories from her time in the healthcare service.
She said that the chaotic nature of A&E tends to ramp up around Christmas time – and this is when workers are most likely to see cases that are out of the ordinary.
She also told an eye-watering anecdote about a man who had a terrible incident with a glass bottle – then lied to his parents about having cancer to cover his tracks.
The pharmacist said the man had a glass beer bottle ‘shatter’ in his rectum when he inserted it for self-pleasure.
‘The first one that comes to mind is the patient who stuck a beer bottle up his bum,’ she answered when asked about the wildest things she’s seen on the job.
She then revealed the man hadn’t come in because of the bottle itself but because it had smashed while still inside, much to the shock of the podcast host and fellow guests.
Clinical pharmacist and comedian Ola Labib (pictured) has revealed her craziest stories from her time working in A&E
‘He pleasured himself and he underestimated the power of his rectum so when he finished the beer bottle shattered,’ Labib explained.
‘It was really bad because when his parents came in, he didn’t want them to know that that’s what he did so we couldn’t get involved but he told his parents that he had cancer.’
Another ‘crazy’ case was when she saw a woman coming into A&E to get her hair extensions removed because she couldn’t get an appointment at her hairdresser during the busy festive period.
Labib said the woman lied about the extensions causing her pain and was shocked to see medical professionals have their time taken up by removing her weave.
‘The craziest thing I saw was a woman who couldn’t get an appointment to get her hair extensions taken out so she came into A&E pretending that her hair extensions were causing her real pain,’ she recalled.
She said the consultant suggested shaving the patient’s head but staff were unable to do so for ‘ethical reasons’.
‘You literally had health care assistants and nurses taking out this woman’s weave because she couldn’t get an appointment,’ Labib said.
‘You see really, really crazy stuff in A&E…It’s a good thing I’m not in charge, put it that way.’
She was shocked when a woman has nurses remove her hair extensions when she couldn’t get an appointment at her hairdresser (stock image)
Medical workers are exposed to an endless source of shocking, hilarious, haunting, or bizarre stories in their line of work and many have chosen to share their experiences.
Palliative care nurse Julie McFadden – who’s known as Hospice Nurse Julie across social media – previously revealed the three most common regrets patients share on their death beds.
Speaking to NHS surgeon Dr Karan Rajan on his podcast, she said these final discussions tend to centre around what they’ve taken for granted.
Most common, she said, is regretting not appreciating the years they spent in good health.
‘The first one I hear all the time is that they regret not appreciating their health while they had it,’ McFadden, who has more than 15 years’ experience of caring for the dying and is from Los Angeles.
‘That’s the number one thing people say to me, I wish I would have understood how amazing it is to have a working body,’ she added.
The second regret she often hears is people admitting they ‘worked too much’ and wish they hadn’t worked their life away.
Finally, she revealed in the clip shared to Instagram, that many dying patients have regrets about relationships.
Palliative care nurse Julie McFadden (pictured) — who’s known as Hospice Nurse Julie across social media — has revealed the three most common regrets patients share on their death beds
The nurse explained people either wish they had maintained certain relationships and friendships, or regret holding grudges.
Many patients also reveal they ‘cared too much’ about what other people thought.
Rajan responded to McFadden’s insight with a story of a young patient that made him realise we are not ‘immortal’ and we should not take our life ‘for granted’.
In the clip shared with his 1.5million followers he said: ‘A few years ago when I saw a young woman come in with pancreatitis in her 20s, within three hours this young woman is in the intensive care unit, she’s intubated, ventilated, and the next day, she had passed away.
‘That just made me think wow, I’m in my 30s now, I’m 34, life can just go in a flash.
‘So yes, truly don’t take it for granted, we sometimes have this tendency to walk around like we’re immortal.’
