Emergency room doctors are used to seeing all kinds of bizarre things — and in a recent Reddit post on the r/emergency room subreddit, they share the weirdest items patients have brought into the hospital.
R/EmergencyRoom is described as “a subreddit for all of us involved in EMS. Anyone who works in or with EMS is welcome. We understand your twisted sense of humor!”
That humor was on full display as they shared the weirdest, craziest – and sometimes unsafe – things that patients brought with them.
It was prompted by a post by Separate_Mechanic758, who asked, “What’s the weirdest thing a patient has brought with them to the ER? I’ll be the first: today I had a patient who brought me a live turtle.”
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It turns out that many patients bring animals — and chickens are surprisingly at the top of the list.
“Chickens for pets. It was summer and too hot to leave it in the car,” Redditor llsaatzer wrote. “He sat on her lap most of the time. He had a bit of a bite during the EKG.”
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Roccmyworld added: “If only it happened once. We told her she couldn’t come in. He decided to leave. There’s no way we’re letting the chicken into the ER.”
And when Key-Radio1090 chimed in, “Pet fucking chicken, she said she couldn’t leave it in the car. Why did you even bring him?”
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Another patient brought “helper monkeys.”
“They didn’t really do much, just sit on or near her looking cute,” Redditor Halome wrote. “Honestly, they just looked like shaggy little dolls, she painted their nails and dressed them up like that. It was bizarre.”
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The patient brought a trunk full of toast.
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Another bizarre response: “emotional support duck”, while “a young boy…snuck in wearing a jacket with garter snakes. Grandpa was with him and he was angry!”
Other patients brought their favorite snacks – often in large quantities – in suitcases.
“Not an emergency, but we admitted a patient for a bowel prep (because he’d failed so many times before) and he brought in a case full of Mountain Dew 2L,” wrote RevolutionaryYak4843.
Another patient also brought luggage, but it was filled with toast.
“Without syrup or butter, it looked a little dry to me. But it honestly didn’t smell like anything,” wrote Diligent-Law-4275, who said the patient “wouldn’t have agreed to any treatment without her trunk.”
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If you’re going to the emergency department, you need to take some things with you—and they’re not pets or suitcases full of snacks.
Come prepared with a list of your medications, medical conditions, surgery history, allergies and the names of your doctors, according to New York-Presbyterian, which adds, “If possible, leave valuables and other items at home.”
And that certainly includes pets.
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