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10 Funky Hospital Smells
Steve Berman | NursingLink
9. Doctors’ bad breath
Some doctors like to drink coffee all day and night; some are smokers, and some do both. Regardless, the ones who indulge in those habits are not too fun to talk to, especially if they’re talking to you from a short distance. If you can, try subtley offering up a breath mint the next time you start chatting it up with the doc.
10. Gastrointestinal bleeding
Gross to look at, gross to smell, there’s no winning with a GI bleed. The smell of bloody stools caused by a GI bleed might rank as the worst smell a nurse has to face in the hospital. Think of a rotten egg that has been left in a warm place with no ventilation for about two weeks. Then think of something that smells worse. Now you know what a GI bleed smells like.
nicolae
12 months ago
2 comments
In the hospital you can find many strange smells. You`ll think it`s funny but I like how it smells in the dentists medical cabinets. I take care of my teeth health and I searched a lot for dentists New Hampshire cabinets until I found one good enough.
reggis
over 1 year ago
28 comments
I just hate hospital smells and the garbage smell, in fact I don't know which one I hate the most. Thank God that our local rubbish removal NJ service is functioning properly and we don't have to deal with old garbage disposed improperly. As for the hospital smells, they always give me shivers, they make hospitals even more unpleasant.
rajkumarjonnala
over 1 year ago
100 comments
Good One... dental implants
afterwop
almost 2 years ago
58 comments
I remember the day when I took in the air of a hospital as a medical student for the first time, it turned my stomach. It was routine to admit medical students in the ICU for all purposes, as the wards were too grubby. Within a minute of entering the ICU I felt sick. Smells have a way of bringing back memories associated with them in an extremely vivid fashion. My mind got flooded with images of various times when my mother was hospitalized for Phentermine abuse. I felt so giddy, I had to step out and leave without visiting. Over the years I have got accustomed to ‘Hospital smells’ of all sorts. No issues there.
studentJoe
over 2 years ago
2 comments
obviously when this article reffers to morbid obesity its not the little chart in the doctors office obese, its the "i need a cattle scale to way myself" obese
kandice101010
over 2 years ago
2 comments
This little article seems a bit harsh.
shaunabphillips
over 2 years ago
6 comments
I am considered "morbidly obese" and I don't stink! :(