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Some junkie, high as a kite, ran into a truck. So the rescue guys were sent up to us, the xray department, straight away with a request form where basically every position was marked. Usually, we don't see the rescue people, as their job ends at the trauma department.

This guy was so gone, he had not really registered what had happened, and tried to kick people with broken legs and fight them off with broken arms.

Both the rescue guys, one xray specialist, and I had to wear lead and hold him down, while the other specialist was changing plates and shooting pictures for a whole album.

I later learned that this guy had broken about everything one can break without dropping dead on the spot.

Oh boy! ER Nurse at a busy urban trauma center

The one I'll never forget was self inflicted GSW to head. He pulled the trigger with the gun pointed to his temple. Bullet somehow immediately took a turn downward and exited through his jaw on his opposite side.

Came in by EMS alert and neuro totally intact. I heard he even walked out of the hospital on his own when he was discharged