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20 Gross Medical Pictures for Nurses to Gross Out Their Friends | NURSING.com

  • November 5, 2015
Nursing can be a super rewarding career, it can also have plenty of gross experiences so for those of you who love the gross stuff on the job check it out.

Nurses are weird right?  Often times at dinner with my family I’ll get going on (what I think is) a great story . . . only to have my family start screaming . .  “Stop! We’re eating”.

  • Call it desensitization.
  • Call it morbid curiosity.
  • Call it . . . just being a nurse.

But we seem to thrive and enjoy seeing or hearing morbid pictures/stories.  As an ICU nurse I love seeing the pictures . . . my mind automatically switches into trauma mode.  I start thinking about how I would treat the patient, what meds, bandages, etc is this patient going to need to improve.

I just thrive in the trauma setting, the business, the life-or-death situations.  Call me crazy . . . I don’t think you will though . . . because you’re a nurse too . . . and we are all a bit crazy!

Are you like me?  If so here are a few pictures you can use to gross your family out.

1.  Please Hire a Professional

 
 
 
 
 
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2.  Work of Art

 
 
 
 
 
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3.  If you smell gas…leave!

 
 
 
 
 
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4.  Medication can be harmful

 
 
 
 
 
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5.  Wow

 
 
 
 
 
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6.  The miracle of life…

 
 
 
 
 
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7.  Ouch!

8.  Surgeons can do amazing

 
 
 
 
 
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8.  Surgeons can do amazing things

 
 
 
 
 
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9.  Lucky to be alive

 
 
 
 
 
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10.  Start seeing motorcycles

 
 
 
 
 
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11.  A Machete…really…

 
 
 
 
 
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12.  His after pictures are pretty amazing

 
 
 
 
 
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13.  Electric Shock Injury

 
 
 
 
 
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14.  Fixation

 
 
 
 
 
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15.  Always wear your seatbelt

 
 
 
 
 
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16.  EEK

 
 
 
 
 
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17.  How do they put that back together

 
 
 
 
 
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 18.  How did this happen?!

 
 
 
 
 
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19. ahhhhhhhhhhh

 
 
 
 
 
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20.  Hope you weren’t hungry

 
 
 
 
 
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Ok, maybe just a few more….

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Make sure to share with your friends….

May we suggest over lunch or dinner….

Bwahahahahahaha (that’s our evil laugh…)

Photo Credits: Phalinn Ooi

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