unfortunate vegetable/clergy story

Strikes me that "A & E nurse Trudi Watson, of Sheffield's Northern General Hospital" ought to be more careful about potentially breaching confidentiality. (How many male vicars in their 50s are there in Sheffield?)

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Why a potato ??

I will have to wipe this from my mind at midnite mass ! What a nitemare .........

I see your potato up the bum - and raise you: https://www.neenaw.co.uk/index.php/ambulances/264/foreign-bodies/ (Not for the faint hearted.)

What a silly statement given that nurse Trudi ovbiously just didn't!

Oh my, I just spat drink on the laptop ?

I'm with Zoay. I've seen many people with things where there shouldn't be things, but this is a flagrant breach of confidentiality, and if this nurse hasn't already been sacked and reported to the NMC she should be. To release potentially identifiable information to the newspapers is unforgivable IMO.

I read about this case in a book about doctoring, about ten years ago. So unless psychiatric patients routinely stick potatoes up their vaginas, this is cribbed from an American case.

The book was called The Real ER, and the one review on there even alludes to the potato story.

I did warn you ?

Hmmm... I dunno about you but if it were me... I'd be a wee bit coy about kicking up any more fuss about my anal legume-ry than was entirely necessary.

Me and some colleagues were discussing this a couple of weeks ago while in the car. What we didn't realise was that my colleague had sat on her phone and called her boyfriend who then heard the resulting 10 minutes discussion about embarrasing sexual accidents.

The best one I remember was on a program where a guy had heard that having sex with a melon was a really good substitute for sex with a woman. The guy cut a hole in the melon but thought it was a little cold so decided to warm it up in the miicrowave. Yup you've guessed it, third degree burns ? You'd think he would have stuck his finger in first???

My friend Ellie used to enjoy answering the crash phone for ambulance crews when working in A&E.

There was one where the paramedics were falling about laughing. She was given 20 questions, and got it in 5.

A "very seedy" (her words) guy had inserted a marrow into his rectum. In his words he said he had been "a bit of a silly boy". She concurred. They tried everything to get it out, and in the end they had to give him a GA which made the muscles relax and they 'delivered' it with forceps. He was minutes from having a perforated bowel.

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I knew without looking what you were referring to - I winced when I read this the first time. And then threw the bag of sprouting spuds from my cupboard in the bin!

Which reminds me: there was an interesting footnote to the Sam Mason case - while the sacking of said BBC Bristol radio host for making flagrantly racist requests to a taxi firm got maximum publicity, what got far less coverage was the story that the taxi firm employee who illegally recorded her conversation and leaked it to the Sun also got sacked.

I actually doubt it's true. It just sounds too contrived for the puerile carry-on type British sense of humour. Vicar? Check. Bum? Check. Root vegetable? Check.

If it is, then it's a total breach of confidentiality, obviously. Re the potato thing - I've heard different versions of it with different reasons for the potato(es) being up there so I think it's probably another urban myth.

? The entire basis of British humour in one sentence - you are spot on.

I think that most people who know a past or present A&E employee will have heard of similar stories. I have no doubt that these things do happen, but I believe that they tend to get Snopesified rather heavily. That said, an acquaintance of ours tells a funny (but grim) story about a gentleman who 'fell on' an oil can (ouch). As for the BBC presenter story - that is grim, grim, grim and I actually think that it is a great shame that the person who recorded the call was sacked. Isn't racial hatred a crime? I think that it was fair enough to record it.

Many years ago a friend of my Dad's was in a car accident and wasn't wearing a seatbelt. He ended up sitting on the gearstick. Ouch. Cue several weeks off work and colleagues insisting that he "get your ar$e in gear".

I hope my Dad wasn't lying to me. ?