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Not every hospital horror story involves a medical chart. This Halloween, we're reading ghost stories from nurses and first responders, including mysterious patient labels, kids seeing people nobody else can, eerie ICU moments, and a nurse named Sylvia who may not have been there at all. We also get into why some deaths stay with us, why certain rooms feel off, and the ER moments that are somehow stranger than anything paranormal.

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00:00 The Hospital Ghost Story That Starts With a Printer

01:09 A Dying Patient's Message and a Psychic Encounter

05:25 Dark Energy in Patient Rooms

07:11 Children, Papa Jim, and Unseen Visitors

09:14 Deathbed Predictions and Flashing ICU Lights

11:39 Why Some Patient Deaths Feel Different

14:45 The Hat Man on an EMS Call

16:47 A Mother's Premonition Before Delivery

18:44 The Mysterious Nurse Named Sylvia

20:58 The Care Home Visitors Nobody Could Find

21:58 Would You Buy a House Where Someone Died?

25:32 A Grandmother Appears During Surgery

27:00 Halloween Costumes, Googly Eyes, and ER Chaos

29:41 Hospital Horror Stories Without Ghosts

34:53 Halloween Would You Rather

Garnett Spears entered the hospital with a normal sodium level. During that admission, it climbed to 182, and days later the five year old was dead. This week we’re breaking down the Garnett Spears case, the years of unexplained illness and medical care that came before it, and the evidence that eventually turned a medical mystery into a criminal investigation.

We also get into factitious disorder imposed on another, previously known as Munchausen by proxy, fragmented medical records, mandated reporting questions, circumstantial evidence, and why nurses and healthcare workers have to pay attention when the clinical picture just does not add up.

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00:00 His Sodium Went From Normal to 182
01:08 What FDIA Actually Means
02:45 The Case of Garnett Spears
04:29 Twenty Medical Offices and Fragmented Care
06:08 Doctors Had Already Suspected It
09:28 Garnett’s Final Hospitalization
11:00 The Video EEG and Sodium Spike
15:37 When the Medical Mystery Became Criminal
16:43 What the Hospital Video Showed
19:32 The Evidence Found at Home
21:06 How Much Should Internet Searches Matter?
27:12 Previous Concerns and Isolation
29:15 Trial, Conviction and Sentencing
40:25 The Gypsy Rose Comparison
48:24 Healthcare Workers as the Last Line

Christa Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital during Tennessee's September 30, 2026 execution attempt. We go through the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, the sentences that followed, and the questions the case raises about childhood trauma and the death penalty. Then we get into the ER nurse side of it: IV access, possible infiltration, execution protocols, and the ethical mess of caring for someone who has survived a lethal injection.

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00:00 The Execution That Didn't End in Death

01:16 Christa Pike and the 1995 Case

03:37 What Happened to Colleen Slemmer

05:00 The Evidence Investigators Found

05:57 Three People, Very Different Sentences

08:10 Age, Trauma, and Death Row Appeals

11:38 Life as Tennessee's Only Woman on Death Row

16:25 Pentobarbital and the Lethal Injection Process

20:05 A Last Minute Stay Reaches the Supreme Court

21:09 What Witnesses Saw and Heard

22:14 Two Doses and Still Alive

23:44 Could the IV Have Infiltrated?

29:11 When the Protocol Runs Out

37:19 Remembering Colleen and Her Family

41:19 Who Should Take Part in an Execution?

“What’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen?” is one of those questions ER nurses hear constantly, but the answer is usually a lot heavier than people expect.

This week we’re talking about the cases healthcare workers cannot forget, including devastating family moments, pediatric codes, end of life care, ethical gray areas, unexpected deaths, freak accidents, and the strange way you can walk out of something traumatic and immediately have to keep doing your job. We also get into the Grey’s Anatomy cases that stayed with us and why emergency medicine can permanently change the way you see the world.

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00:00 What’s the Worst Thing You’ve Ever Seen?
04:05 The Sounds Nurses Never Forget
05:05 The Gunshot Patient Who Waited in Line
07:03 Cases That Still Haunt Healthcare Workers
09:15 When Doing Everything Can Hurt
12:22 Giving a Family the Worst News
16:32 What Happens After a Patient Dies
18:14 From Death Straight to the Next Code
19:28 The Seven Week Old Baby
23:07 Blood Refusal and Patient Autonomy
25:43 The Routine Procedure With No Answer
27:51 Freak Accidents Change Your Brain
31:39 The Drowning Case That Never Left
33:51 Grey’s Anatomy Cases We Still Remember
43:48 Why Healthcare Workers Carry These Stories

This week we’re getting into medical mysteries that sound completely made up but somehow aren’t. From anti NMDA receptor encephalitis and human hibernation to auto brewery syndrome, cannabinoid hyperemesis, bizarre neurological symptoms, MRI safety, and conditions medicine still does not completely understand, the human body keeps finding new ways to terrify us.

We also get into the part ER nurses know too well: sometimes the tests rule out the emergency without actually explaining what is wrong. Medicine changes, experts disagree, and sometimes getting the real answer takes a lot longer than one ER visit.

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00:00 Medical Mysteries We Cannot Leave Alone
01:54 The Girl Who Never Aged
04:00 When “Psychosis” Is Something Else
08:52 The Voices That Found a Brain Tumor
12:22 Surviving 24 Days in the Cold
18:14 Frozen for Two Hours and Survived
19:08 Auto Brewery Syndrome Is Real
22:14 When the Brain Changes the Person
24:22 The MRI and the Hidden BB
29:22 Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
33:39 When the Boat Feeling Never Stops
35:59 The Mystery of Morgellons Disease
37:15 When Medical Experts Disagree
40:01 What the ER Can and Cannot Solve
41:25 Why These Cases Stay With Us

Four joint replacement patients in Nashville received potassium phosphate instead of the intended spinal anesthetic, mepivacaine, and the investigation shows just how many opportunities there were for someone or something to catch the mistake. We break down the pharmacy workflow and medication safety failures, then bring back some of the wildest medication error stories we have heard before ending with a truly chaotic round of Whisper Line submissions.

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00:00 The Nashville Potassium Phosphate Mixup
01:02 How Spinal Anesthesia Usually Works
03:39 How Did the Wrong Syringes Get There?
05:30 Potassium Phosphate Reaches the Spine
06:36 Four Patients Are Seriously Harmed
08:47 Inside the 80 Page Investigation
09:04 How the Pharmacy Error Started
11:33 Five Syringes Get the Wrong Medication
13:45 The 29 Second Verification
15:38 Why We Want to See the Vial
16:01 What Happened After the Error
18:22 The Wild Medication Errors Begin
21:25 Tap Water in a Central Line
24:28 Medication Errors We Cannot Explain
27:41 The Whisper Line Gets Wild

Niels Högel was an ICU nurse who deliberately created medical emergencies in patients and then jumped into their resuscitations, reportedly chasing the recognition that came with saving them. We break down the healthcare serial killer case, the staggering number of deaths surrounding his shifts, how another nurse finally caught him, the hospitals' response, and the uncomfortable question every healthcare worker is left with: how would you actually recognize something like this happening on your own unit?

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00:00 A Nurse Who Created His Own Emergencies

00:31 Another Healthcare True Crime Case

01:08 Who Was Niels Högel?

02:37 Coworkers Notice a Terrifying Pattern

03:45 The Hospital Lets Him Leave

04:26 321 Deaths Around His Shifts

06:44 Why They Called Him Resuscitation Rambo

08:33 How Did He Choose His Patients?

13:18 A Nurse Finally Catches Him

15:10 Families Start Asking Questions

17:54 How Did the Hospitals Miss This?

21:16 Hospital Accountability vs Nurse Responsibility

26:48 His Motive Was Recognition

28:43 Sociopath vs Psychopath

36:20 How Healthcare Serial Killers Can Hide

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We are reading some of the wildest things nurses and doctors have actually put in patient charts, from unhinged triage notes and direct patient quotes to dictation disasters, copy and paste mistakes, questionable physician comments, and truly chaotic documentation. Then it gets a little too real when we start questioning our own charting, how much nurses should actually document, and what happens when that medical record becomes legal evidence.

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00:00 Why Nurses Love a Good Triage Note

01:47 This Is Definitely Not a Charting Lesson

03:16 The Wildest Notes From Medical Charts

04:21 When Physician Dictation Goes Very Wrong

05:39 Dark Humor Somehow Made the Chart

08:11 Heroic Notes and Questionable Follow Ups

11:22 Direct Patient Quotes Are Forever

14:00 Gen Z Has Entered Triage

15:27 How Much Should Nurses Actually Free Text?

16:40 When Documentation Becomes Legal Evidence

20:30 The Patient Quotes Nurses Never Forget

21:39 When Patients Make It Personal

24:13 The Blue Eyed Devil Story

28:02 Copy and Paste Charting Nightmares

31:15 Doctors Say the Wildest Things

Recorded as the Lindsay Clancy jury began deliberating, we break down the final days of the trial and the question at the center of everything: criminal responsibility. We get into the defense experts, the claimed command voice, postpartum psychosis, the prosecution rebuttal, the chaplain testimony, questions about the investigation, and closing arguments from both sides. We started this trial looking for answers and somehow ended up with even more questions.

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00:00 The Jury Has the Lindsay Clancy Case

01:12 Day 14 and the Commonwealth Rests

05:25 The Defense Begins

10:18 Susan Clancy and the Mental Health Timeline

12:10 Defense Experts on Mental Illness and Psychosis

16:58 Dr. Paul Zeizel and the Claimed Command Voice

21:34 Emily Thorndike Enters the Courtroom

23:13 The Chaplain and the Persistent Male Voice

27:10 Dr. Phillip Resnick and Filicide

32:42 The Prosecution Rebuttal Begins

38:02 Intrusive Thoughts Versus Hallucinations

41:42 The Residue That Wasn't Confirmed

44:32 Religion, the Mistrial Request and Bowden

48:01 Defense and Prosecution Closing Arguments

55:00 Our Biggest Questions and Jury Predictions

We’re revisiting some of the ER stories we still cannot believe actually happened. A toe in a sock, a full urinal to the body, nurse intuition that proved right, career ending mistakes that thankfully were not career ending, bizarre injuries, hospital hookups, and one Christmas Eve code we will never forget. Basically, nursing in all its chaotic, gross, funny, and occasionally terrifying glory.

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00:00 Wait... Where’s His Toe?

02:13 A Full Send Urinal

05:29 But Why Is It Full?!

06:30 The Call Light From Hell

08:16 Should’ve Called the Rapid

11:10 Jalapeño Business

12:44 Welp, There Goes My License

17:00 Blood Bag: Full Send

20:19 That’s Not How You Grip It

21:39 The Murderer Vibe Check

23:17 Family Drama, ICU Edition

24:19 Sex, Then Dissection

26:00 The Christmas Eve Code

28:56 Pound Town, Room 204

We’re breaking down the Lindsay Clancy trial through the lens we actually know: ER nursing, trauma care, and mental health. We get into the GCS of three, 82 degree core temperature, spinal cord injury, reported thyroid crush injury, medication history, witness testimony, postpartum psychosis, continuity of care, and the medical questions that kept stopping us in our tracks. This case is ultimately about criminal responsibility, but the testimony also opens a much bigger conversation about postpartum mental health care and what happens when a patient keeps asking for help inside a fragmented system.

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00:00 Why This Trial Has Nurses Talking

05:39 Breaking Down Lindsay’s Injuries

07:28 The 82 Degree Core Temperature

10:47 Questions About the Suicide Attempt

12:42 Can a Critically Injured Patient Speak?

14:49 What a GCS of Three Means

18:49 The ICU Nurse Testimony

21:19 Spinal Injury and Thermoregulation

26:16 The Thyroid Crush Injury

34:10 Empathy, Accountability, and Justice

36:35 Where They Believe Care Failed

43:06 Patrick Clancy’s Testimony

46:23 Digital Evidence and Timeline Questions

53:07 Medication Safety Plans and Care Gaps

59:06 Postpartum Mental Health at the Center

This week, the Whisper Line takes over the entire episode. We read your anonymous submissions cold, including a hospital parking lot affair, a necrotic foot that fell off inside a shoe, a baby nurse’s terrifying first code, pediatric emergencies, hospice confusion, preventable medical errors, unsafe staffing, and a clinical instructor who allegedly made two medication errors in one shift. Some stories are devastating, some are completely unhinged, and all of them give us plenty to dissect.

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00:00 Her Foot Fell Off

00:40 The Whisper Line Takes Over

01:04 The Hospital Parking Lot Affair

03:01 The Traveler Who Could Not Name a Murmur

06:50 A Necrotic Foot Falls Off

08:03 A Baby Nurse’s First Code

12:38 Code Blue Embarrassment Stories

14:02 Pediatric Harm and Central Line Tampering

18:03 Hospice Without a DNR

21:09 “I Don’t Feel Right”

23:27 The Commando Workday Story

26:24 A Preventable Oxygen Error

30:38 Fentanyl, Comfort Care, and Accountability

32:25 The Nursing Home Shift That Broke Her

35:03 Two Medication Errors in One Clinical

We go deep into two healthcare true crime cases that raise completely different questions about trust, evidence, and the systems surrounding patient care. First, Caitlin breaks down Michael Swango, the physician linked to as many as 60 deaths who repeatedly returned to medicine through forged records and new identities. Then Karlie revisits the Lucy Letby conviction from a nurse’s perspective, including the circumstantial evidence, journal entries, Facebook searches, missing expert witnesses, and whether the case was truly proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

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00:00 The Doctor Linked to 60 Deaths

00:25 True Crime Is Back

01:11 Michael Swango’s Path Into Medicine

03:51 Early Red Flags and Faked Clinical Work

06:42 Patients Start Dying at Ohio State

09:05 Coworkers Poisoned With Arsenic

11:15 Convicted, Released, and Still Practicing

12:36 A New Name and Forged Credentials

15:15 More Deaths, Zimbabwe, and the Final Arrest

18:54 How Did He Keep Getting Away With It?

26:58 Reexamining the Lucy Letby Case

31:21 Circumstantial Evidence and the Shift Grid

34:17 Journal Entries, Facebook Searches, and Context

38:24 The Verdict and the Reasonable Doubt Problem

46:06 Defense Failures, Appeals, and What Justice Means

An 18 month old boy was pronounced dead after a drowning and reportedly found breathing in the hospital morgue nearly five and a half hours later. We break down what pediatric codes, agonal breathing, time of death decisions, morgue procedures, and nurse advocacy actually look like in the ER, while also confronting the grief, anger, pool safety concerns, and unanswered questions surrounding this case.

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00:00 A Body Bag Is Breathing

01:02 The Toddler Drowning Case

02:25 What Happens Before a Pediatric Code Arrives

04:15 Why Pediatric Codes Hit Differently

08:16 The Child Is Pronounced Dead

10:15 Multiple People Report Signs of Life

14:05 Body Camera Questions and Staff Pushback

17:36 Agonal Breathing Versus Signs of Life

19:30 Challenging a Physician to Protect a Patient

22:06 What Happens After Time of Death

25:47 Found Breathing Five and a Half Hours Later

29:24 Back to the ER and the Family Gets the Call

33:15 Accountability, Speculation, and Unanswered Questions

40:02 Drowning Prevention and Parent Judgment

45:04 Why This Case Hit So Hard

Nurse intuition is real, and this week we are talking about the gut feeling nurses get when something is wrong before the numbers catch up. We get into rapid responses, triage, patient advocacy, home health stories, pediatric cardiac ICU, charting, shift superstitions, and the moments that teach you to trust yourself at the bedside.

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00:00 The Hair On Your Neck Feeling

00:18 Is Nurse Intuition Real?

01:33 The Assessment Skills Behind It

02:13 Why Triage Needs Strong Nurses

03:37 The First Gut Feeling Story

06:44 The Patient Coded After Shift

09:39 Rapid Responses Outside The ER

11:12 What It Feels Like When Your Patient Codes

13:30 Trusting Triage Nurses Immediately

15:57 Reddit Stories About Nurse Intuition

16:43 The Home Health Nurse Who Knew

20:46 When Patients Know Too

22:06 Pediatric Cardiac ICU Intuition

25:01 Doctors Need To Trust Nurses

29:14 Charting The Change You Feel

35:01 Shift Intuition And ER Superstitions

36:21 Dark Eyes And Unsafe Rooms

42:02 Why Nurse Intuition Is Learned

Do nurses really eat their young? This week we are talking about nurse bullying, new grad anxiety, preceptors, ER orientation, and the difference between being challenged because someone wants you to grow and being humiliated because someone wants to feel powerful. We get into real stories, ER culture, burnout, toxic workplace dynamics, and why asking questions should never make a nurse feel unsafe.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Cold Open and the Big Question

01:08 What Makes a Nurse Bully

03:11 Tough Preceptor or Unsafe Preceptor?

06:17 A New Grad Set Up to Fail

08:42 Why Bullying Hurts New Nurses

11:35 Caitlin's New Grad Mean Girl Experience

18:13 Belittled During a Cath Lab Code

22:31 A Toxic Workplace Affair Story

26:16 The Small Behaviors That Add Up

27:44 Burnout, Covid, and Bad Preceptors

29:25 Switching Preceptors When It Is Not Working

33:08 Asking For More Time on Orientation

35:31 Screaming Does Not Teach

42:21 Guarded ER Nurses Versus Real Bullies

47:20 Gen Z Nurses Are Changing the Culture

We’re breaking down the Taylor Parker case and Maternal Instinct from the ER nurse side of the story. We talk fake pregnancy, the hospital exam that changed everything, HIPAA, Code Pink, body cam footage, nurse intuition, and the awful reality of trying to do your job while a true crime case is unfolding in real time.

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00:00 Taylor Parker and Maternal Instinct

01:20 The Fake Pregnancy Timeline

03:45 The Red Flags Around OB Appointments

08:15 Wade, Money Lies, and the Long Con

11:46 The Traffic Stop and the Baby

14:48 The ER Exam That Changed the Case

15:57 HIPAA, Privacy, and Warning Signs

19:43 Police in the Trauma Bay

22:33 When ER Staff Know Something Is Wrong

25:21 Reagan Simmons Hancock and the Human Cost

27:13 Why People Did Not Stop It Sooner

30:00 Holds, Mental Health, and Legal Limits

33:02 Other Fetal Abduction Cases

39:07 Code Pink and Newborn Safety

41:25 Pregnancy Online, Body Cams, and True Crime Ethics

This week, we’re talking medical malpractice lawsuits, nurse depositions, charting, and the legal fear that lives in the back of every nurse’s brain.

Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley go through reported malpractice cases involving misdiagnosis, surgical complications, pediatric emergencies, medication questions, and hospital systems trying to protect themselves. Then we bring it back to the floor: document what happened, ask questions when something feels off, advocate for the patient, and remember that your license is yours.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Cold Open: CPR and ALS Questions

00:30 Summer Mom Chaos

02:12 The Bedtime TikTok Spiral

04:22 Why Malpractice Scares Nurses

05:28 Getting Deposed Over an IV

06:33 The Largest Verdict They Found

09:27 What Counts as Medical Malpractice?

10:18 When Hospitals Protect Themselves

13:33 The Missed Stroke Case

17:15 The Scoliosis Surgery Case

20:00 The Mommy Makeover Lawsuit

25:18 A Pediatric Anaphylaxis Case

28:19 A Month in a Coma

32:19 How Lawsuits Value a Life

36:21 Documentation, Depositions, and Advocacy

This week, we are getting into medical true crime and the cases that make nurses ask a thousand follow up questions. Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley talk through Lucy Letby, Charles Cullen, Harold Shipman, a German nurse who triggered cardiac arrests to look heroic, and Linda Hazzard, all through the lens of ER nurses who cannot stop thinking about access, medications, charting, leadership, and patient safety.

We also read new Whisper Line submissions, including hospital parking lot chaos, an urgent care call that still haunts someone, nursing school workplace tension, and a scary pediatric medication mix up involving a vented patient. True crime, ER culture, nurse brain, and a little bit of absolute hospital mess.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 Medical murder cases and ER nurse reactions

00:34 Sick kids, mom life, and neighborhood chaos

02:23 The Whisper Line is fully anonymous now

03:08 True crime documentaries and family fallout

05:31 Lucy Letby and the NICU murder case

09:37 Newborn nursery anxiety as a nurse mom

11:02 The German nurse who wanted to look heroic

14:02 Harold Shipman and suspicious patient wills

18:14 Private investigation, medical malpractice, and hospital charts

22:36 Charles Cullen and The Good Nurse case

24:33 The insulin case that still feels suspicious

26:11 Linda Hazzard and the starvation doctor

28:20 Whisper Line hospital parking lot affair

29:07 Urgent care call that still haunts someone

30:41 Feeling invisible as a tech in nursing school

32:13 The missing condom college story

34:06 Pediatric vent medication mix up

36:37 More crime episodes and medical lawsuits next

This week on The ER Edit, Caitlin and Karlie talk about the sex injuries that end up in the emergency room, from cock rings and foreign objects to retained tampons, penile fractures, priapism, and the ER stories patients are usually way too embarrassed to explain.

It is chaotic, uncomfortable, very nurse coded, and somehow still practical. If there is one message underneath all the horror and laughing, it is this: just tell us what happened. The CT scan is going to tell on you anyway.

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The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of Caitlin Armstrong and Karlie Tooley and do not represent the views, policies, or positions of their current or former employers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, or any affiliated institutions. This podcast is for entertainment and general discussion purposes only and should not be considered medical advice.

00:00 The ER call nobody wants

02:19 When sex sends you to the ER

03:28 Sex injury quiz time

04:06 Cock rings and fire department backup

05:30 When foreign objects require hospitalization

06:47 Who ends up with genital foreign body injuries

08:00 Why the base matters

09:06 Reddit sex injury stories begin

10:15 Retained tampons and ER removals

11:39 Jalapeños and terrible timing

14:08 The Halloween bathroom injury

15:02 Penile fractures and the loud pop

18:05 When sex becomes a real emergency

24:00 Priapism treatment is gnarly

31:13 Why honesty matters in the ER