Random Creepy Stories From People Who Work In Hospitals (18 items)

• (#18) Doctor Uncovers Family's Horrifying Secret

  From Redditor /u/bigskyandsunshine:

  Whenever you admit a patient you have to inquire about their [do not resuscitate] status in case of a code being called. I had one elderly patient (late 80s/early 90s) who was severely demented and chronically ill (in and out of the hospital every month barely holding onto life - basically a horrible miserable quality of life). I asked the patient's family (I think it was a granddaughter who had medical POA, but I'm not sure, it was a while ago) about their DNR status (you don't want to put someone through a brutal resuscitation that may not even work if it isn't something that they would want if they wanted to die naturally).

  She flat out stated that "Oh, we want everything done for him because we really need his check". I didn't understand at first, but apparently the family was living off of his social security and could not have cared less about his pain and suffering or his wishes. I'm pretty sure it was the creepiest thing I've seen. These people were supposed to be his loved ones taking care of him and they were using him like an inhuman object.
• (#16) Hospital Worker Honors Dying Woman's Peculiar Last Words

  From Redditor /u/RedheadDPT:

  I was sitting a patient up at the edge of the bed in ICU when she started getting all squirrelly. She didn't speak much English but kept saying "stand, stand" so I helped her stand up. After standing for a few seconds something told me to lay her back down. Before her head ever hit the pillow her eyes rolled back and she was gone. She had a massive stroke and was gone on the spot. She all but died in my arms. But, I like to think I honored her last wish of wanting to stand.
• (#3) Psych Tech Meets Scary 7-Year-Old

  From a former Redditor:

  As a tech in psych years ago, there was a 7 year old kid sent to the floor because the mom didnt know what to do with him. Sadly common thing to happen, even if the kids don't have paych issues. Anyway, the mom was shaking and crying, and they had to take the kid into another room. She was genuinely afraid of her own son. She had suspected something was wrong when she kept finding mutilated animals in the back yard, but never heard or saw coyotes or anything around. The neighbors smaller pets started disappearing. The boy had an obsession with knives, hiding them around the house. Denying anything when the mom confronted him. Then when the two started getting into arguments, he would get really violent and hit her, push her down and kick her, threaten to kill her. On multiple occasions she woke up in the middle of the night with him standing beside her bed, staring her in the face. She put extra locks on her bedroom door to feel safe while ahe slept. The last straw was when she lifted up his mattress and found 50+ knives of all shapes and sizes under there. So she brought him to us.

  I remember talking to him, treating him like he was just any other kid that came through. He seemed remarkably normal, until you spoke directly to him. He had this way of looking right through you, or maybe like he didn't see you at all while you were speaking. He would respond like a robot, like he was just saying words because thats what we wanted to hear. And be would always put on this creepy, dead-looking smile. Like all mouth and no eye involvement in the smile. Especially when he would get away with something, like taking another kid's markers and they couldn't figure it out. Still gives me chills laying here thinking about him. I had to get up and close my bedroom door.

  I believe I met a 7 year old psychopath.
• (#7) Med Student Delivers Baby From Dead Woman

  From Redditor /u/bluegraypurple:

  When I was on an ER rotation during med school we got a call about a 23 year old woman who was shot in the head, and who was already completely gone, but was reportedly 5 months pregnant so they were doing CPR until they got her to the hospital to see if the baby was viable. They got her to the ER and did an ultrasound and turned about baby was full term and they did a C-section in like under a minute and got the baby out.

  I don't think it's so incredibly uncommon but it was pretty surreal to see a baby delivered from a dead person with their brain exposed and she was pretty close to the same age I was at the time.
• (#14) Psych Patient Who Assaulted Woman Reveals He Only Pleaded Insanity Because Lawyers Told Him To

  From Redditor /u/furrrsurre:

  On a medical school rotation in psychiatry...

  I rotated at a hospital which is essentially a full time psych ward for folks who have pleaded insanity or ended up in an acute psych hospital and were eventually transferred here because they could not become well enough to get home. The place was actually very nice. It was nothing like you see on TV. It was essentially like a college dorm with 6 or 8 wings total. each wing had like 16 rooms and each wing was broken down by gender. Each wing also had a gated outdoor area and a gym area so the patients had a relatively good life considering.

  Met many patients with many crazy stories but one always will stand out.

  This young guy, about 25 years old was there. He had had these delusions just after college about some girl he had a crush on from his freshman year of college. She wrote for a popular magazine and he supposedly had these delusions that she was writing about him to make fun of him. He hunted her down in her home town, raped her, and tried to kill her but she escaped. He then [pleaded] insanity and was placed here.

  I went up and talked to him as a little 3rd year med student. I started asking about his delusions and what not. It turns out his father was high up in a international corporation and worth millions. The kid, who was hauntingly normal on the surface and incredibly creepy once you started digging, told me that he basically [pleaded] insanity only because his lawyers said to. He never had delusions. Never had hallucinations. Nothing. He basically thought the girl was hot in college, drove 400 miles to rape her, then freaked out. But his lawyers advised he plead insanity because as a soft upper class kid he'd do much better in the psych hospital than in prison.

  So there he was. Luckily, he'll likely spend longer in there than he would have in prison because generally that's how it works. But he seriously creeped me the f*ck out.
• (#11) Guy Takes So Much Ketamine He's High For 3 Weeks, Only Chuckles Creepily

  From Redditor /u/ScalpEm316:

  Medical student. While on my Psych rotation, came across an individual who was a chemistry graduate student. Apparently he had been taking astronomical amounts of ketamine, and he was just continuously disassociated. For the entire time I was on this portion of the rotation (3 weeks) I never heard him speak a word. 95% of the time [he] was wrapped up in his sheets like a mummy and he would just periodically laugh, a crazy soft chuckle, from under his covers if you tried to talk to him. The creepiest laugh I've ever heard, I'll never forget that.

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