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Dr Orrange received her BA in Biology at the University of California San Diego and a Masters Degree in Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health She received her MD from the USC Keck School of…
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Things that weird me out and shouldn't...because I'm a Doctor
During my years in the ICU, emergency rooms and in clinics I have been bathed in blood, vomit, urine, respiratory secretions, stool, and every fluid you can think of. I have removed toenails, drained abscesses in all locations and never once felt "grossed out." In my regular life, however, there are times I am grossed out. People always say to me: "you're a doctor, how can that weird you out?". It must be something about being in my regular life or is it just that there are SOME things that gross me out, despite the fact that I have literally seen it all.
1) Sweat dripping on me (usually from a man) during an exercise class (spinning, gym, etc). Gross.
2) Picking up warm dog poop with a plastic bag, and then carrying it around looking for a trashcan.
3) Drinking the milk from the cereal bowl after you've eaten the cereal.
4) Picking up worms, salamanders, or lizards. My daughter can do this with ease, not me.
5) Patients with very, very, very sore, red, inflamed, exudative (usually strep or mono) sore throats. This is one of the ONLY things that make me weak in the knees...strange huh.
6) People putting eye drops or ear drops in at restaurants. I don't know why but that's a little gross.
7) Clipping your toenails and letting the pieces fly across the room. My husband does this.
8) Bringing a newspaper in with you to the bathroom to take a bowel movement, then bringing the newspaper back out and putting it in the "common areas."
9) Putting socks then shoes on your feet when they are wet and sandy.
10) People gnawing on really, really short fingernails.
What are yours?
Dr O.
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*anytime someone uses the kitchen sink to finish brushing their teeth
*ice cubes (I know it's weird)
*I'm with you on the picking up warm dog poo with a plastic bag
*walking on the kitchen floor - or any hard floor- barefooted and stepping on something crunchy
*people chewing ice
*bad breath and b.o
*putting on damp jeans
*cockroaches
*someone who has a really bad, congested cough
*pee on the toilet (not the seat, but everywhere else!!!!!)
*food on someone's face
*crusty & slimy snot on a child's face
*Dairy milk
*lengua
*dirty dishes left in someone's room
*expressing a dog's anal glands (I was a groomer for several years)
*sweaty people (except for my man, for some reason I love it when he's all sweaty...weird?)
*excessive acne
*public restroom door handles - I have to use a paper towel or my shirt or something!
*spitting in public
People talking with their mouths full and sounding like hogs at a trough.
People picking their nose while cooking, more common than you think. Ugh and barf!
Discolored finger/toe nails.
Wound packing being pulled out of a gaping hole in someone's body.
The smell of vomit. The sight and sound not so bad, but the smell makes me want to puke!
Not washing my hands after being in public, you have NO idea what you're touching.
Excessively large tumors or growths.
The sucking sound of a passage being cleared.
2. When people soil themselves
3. Vomit
4. Candidiasis
5. Osteomyelitis
6. People who pick their zits (especially when they do it in public)
7. People picking at their scalp
8. People playing with their feet
9. When people brush their tongue all the way back until they elicit their gag reflex (the gagging noise is what really bothers me)
10. People who don't brush their teeth in the morning
1. Lactulose, when it comes back out and smells JUST like the food you ate 15 minutes ago.
2. taking huge white pills.. something about them just makes me want to gag before even putting it in my mouth.
3. anything i have to drink that tastes bad. (barium, contrast, alcohol included)
4. cleaning up anything my cats have left behind. vomit. poop. pee. hairballs. thank god for my mom.
5. spiders. i will leave my house and wait for someone else to get them.
6. the sound of your roommate coughing/sneezing/gurgling/pooping when you are admitted into the hospital. its even worse when you are in there for extended periods of time and have a few different roommates, thus, hearing all different sounds.
greeahhhh this is grossing me out just thinking of it! lol good post though!
1. Body odor: especially Female private part and Feet. Don't they know people can smell them! Disgusting
2. People wearing sneakers/tennis shoes without socks: hense the bad foot smell, duh!!!
3. dishes in the sink ,, yuk
4. people who don't clean their toilets:just eww
5. a dirty bathtub
6. getting blood drawn
I just saw this family on wife-swap that eats everything raw, including raw chicken and beef. shudders!
2. the smell of a lot of old cigarette smoke in a vehicle. I feel green just thinking about it.
3. dirty fingernails.
4. thinking about all the germs and bug guts on an old flyswatter.
5. cleaning the bottom of toilet area.
6. cleaning old spider webs that have pieces of old bugs stuck in them
7. fungus-y fingernails that grow upward.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
soggy bread eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww
sometimes swallowing or anything to do with fluid and flesh rubbing together
getting my period. i get really grossed out when i think about the blood in the uterus and the squeezing
i have a fear of infinity. living forever......aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
eating yoghurt when i am full is sometimes nauseating and makes eating repulsive
stitches
swallowing anything sharp-ish(like partially chewed lettuce)and thinking about how it's going to scrape down your throat and your stomach. omg!
1) When people eat only half of something and then put it back on a serving tray.
2) When people use a public rest room and don't flush.
3) When people pick their teeth or nose in public.
4) People scratching themselves in public, (it makes me suspicious of why they are scratching in the first place) and then offering you their hand to shake.
5) It grosses me out when people just don't brush their teeth regularly and smile at you. Especially if you can tell what they have been eating when they smile.
6) I can't stand the sight of blood. Especially when it is my own.
7) Fish flies totally gross me out. Both their appearance and scent.
Be VERY, VERY glad you are not ME...... You dont want to see blood or have injections.... I go every month for an infusion of Tysabri so there is some blood & at least one needle each time.
Plus next month I will be going in for my 10th surgery (back - this time) so I will have more needles & more blood loss I would imagine..
I am sure you have done these things also.. Just had to respond to that one.
Lots of stuff you guys have thought of grosses me out....... Yikes
2.Guys who chew tobacco and carry around a plastic pop bottle to spit in.
One of my son's friends picked up the wrong can of soda and had a drink, and surprise..chew spit
3. Speaking of spiders, someone stomping on a spider and hearing the crunch
4.Letting children wander between the dips at a potluck and stick their fingers in and used chips or crackers...
5.Using the same cloth wipe to wipe the kid, the counter, the table, the kid again, and then hang it up for the next round
6.The urine smells in a nursing home.