Health

<p>The human body can survive a crazy amount of sh*t. People can keep trudging on despite injuries on traumas that according to all known laws of science should have been &quot;Game Over.&quot;</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="360" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-4-YvUWCc.gif" width="640" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6x20mn/doctors_of_reddit_what_made_you_say_how_are_you/dmd0rmx/">Doctors on Reddit</a> shared stories of the crazy medical mysteries who managed to defy death, whose survival begged the question, &quot;How are you still alive?&quot;</p><h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xGiaMariex">xGiaMariex</a>&#39;s patient could face the car.</h2><blockquote> <p>A patient I took care of had a car fall on his face. He was underneath it working when it slid off of the jack. The only reason he survived was because he broke every bone in his face (he had a Lefort III) which allowed for his brain to swell (he also needed an additional surgery to relieve the pressure of cerebral edema, but the facial fractures did allow for a great deal of &quot;give&quot; in his skull). I was rotating through ICU so I first saw him just a day after the accident. His head was so swollen, he didn&#39;t even look human. Fast forward a few weeks later...I was rotating through a different unit in the hospital and came across the same patient. He was quickly recovering and had minimal neuro deficits.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Elhehir">Elhehir</a>&#39;s guy was a total drama queen.</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy had an argument with his girlfriend, wanted to leave the apartment. Instead of taking the door, was real angry and jumped off the balcony, fell down 40 feet directly on his heels on cement.</p> <p>He ended up having an ankle sprain. I wondered how he managed previous issues in his life.</p> </blockquote><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="180" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-1-bJ7fjx.gif" width="245" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gettheread">gettheread</a>&#39;s medical miracle provided his own instruments.</h2><blockquote> <p>Patient stabbed himself in the neck with a thermometer that pierced his trachea. Missed all the important arteries (carotids, vertebrals); just hit some minor nerves.</p> <p>Good guy patient provided his own temperature reads until they removed the thermometer.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/regalternative">regalternative</a> gets to the point.</h2><blockquote> <p>Simply meeting someone who was 110 years old</p> </blockquote><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="216" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-2-tHKceM.gif" width="260" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jackapple89">jackapple89</a> did his own bypass, putting doctors out of work.</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy comes in with a bit of chest pain. tells me the big coronary artery on the front of the heart was 100% blocked. I tell him &quot;who told you that?&quot; he says his doctor did about 10 years ago. I don&#39;t believe him since patients never ever get any of the stuff their doctor tells them right. I let the cardiac surgeon know what this guy said and he too goes &quot;haha 100%? so he&#39;s dead?&quot;</p> <p>If the biggest coronary artery is totally occluded and for 10 years no less, you are a dead man. Lo and behold...we get an angiogram and it was fucking 100% occluded. The artery on the back of the heart made a connection with the front of the heart to pick up the slack. It was some lucky shit.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mac785">mac785</a>&#39;s dad saw the power of sinuses.</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad&#39;s a doctor, so I asked him. When he was an intern in the ER, someone walked in the front door with a kitchen knife sticking out between his eyes to the handle. The knife went through his sinus cavity and ended with the tip in his throat, millimeters from his brain stem. He goes into surgery and walks out of the ICU the next day. My dad says he is the luckiest man he ever saw.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="204" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-3-68KbqD.gif" width="480" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Asks_for_no_reason">Asks_for_no_reason</a>&#39;s patient was more alcohol than blood.</h2><blockquote> <p>Blood alcohol of .730</p> </blockquote><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ShowerPig">ShowerPig</a>&#39;s patient invented a new heartbeat monitor.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a guy with a Bowie knife sticking out of his chest. The knife was pulsating. I could literally count his pulse from across the room.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/street_smartz">street_smartz</a> nailed it with an X-ray image.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not a Doctor, but my father is a dentist who found a framing nail in a guys head in his brain.... (6 days after it happened)</p> <p>So the guys wife worked for my dad and worked construction.</p> <p>He fell one day and landed hard face first into his nail gun. He didn&#39;t realize it went off firing a nail through his mouth into his brain. Due to lack of insurance he never went to the hospital. After a week and the swelling still hadn&#39;t gone down his wife brought him into the dental office to get a panoramic X-ray done (usually used to see the whole set of teeth) and low and behold...</p> <p> </p> <figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Street_Smartz via Reddit" data-attribution-url="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6x20mn/doctors_of_reddit_what_made_you_say_how_are_you/" height="374" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/n5kris2-ldQdMP.jpg" width="474" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6x20mn/doctors_of_reddit_what_made_you_say_how_are_you/">Street_Smartz via Reddit</a></div></figure> <p> </p> <p>He just thought it was a lot bruising and swelling from hitting his face.</p> <p> </p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Doctors reveal death-defying cases that made them ask 'how are you still alive?'

The human body can survive a crazy amount of sh*t. People can keep trudging on despite injuries on traumas that according to all known laws of science should have been &quot;Game Over.&quot;giphyDoctors on Reddit shared stories of the crazy medical mysteries who managed to defy death, whose survival begged the question, &quot;How are you still alive?&quot;1. xGiaMariex&#39;s patient could face the car. A patient I took care of had a car fall on his face. He was underneath it working when it slid off of the jack. The only reason he survived was because he broke every bone in his face (he had a Lefort III) which allowed for his brain to swell (he also needed an additional surgery to relieve the pressure of cerebral edema, but the facial fractures did allow for a great deal of &quot;give&quot; in his skull). I was rotating through ICU so I first saw him just a day after the accident. His head was so swollen, he didn&#39;t even look human. Fast forward a few weeks later...I was rotating through a different unit in the hospital and came across the same patient. He was quickly recovering and had minimal neuro deficits. 2. Elhehir&#39;s guy was a total drama queen. Guy had an argument with his girlfriend, wanted to leave the apartment. Instead of taking the door, was real angry and jumped off the balcony, fell down 40 feet directly on his heels on cement. He ended up having an ankle sprain. I wondered how he managed previous issues in his life. giphy3. gettheread&#39;s medical miracle provided his own instruments. Patient stabbed himself in the neck with a thermometer that pierced his trachea. Missed all the important arteries (carotids, vertebrals); just hit some minor nerves. Good guy patient provided his own temperature reads until they removed the thermometer. 4. regalternative gets to the point. Simply meeting someone who was 110 years old giphy5. jackapple89 did his own bypass, putting doctors out of work. Guy comes in with a bit of chest pain. tells me the big coronary artery on the front of the heart was 100% blocked. I tell him &quot;who told you that?&quot; he says his doctor did about 10 years ago. I don&#39;t believe him since patients never ever get any of the stuff their doctor tells them right. I let the cardiac surgeon know what this guy said and he too goes &quot;haha 100%? so he&#39;s dead?&quot; If the biggest coronary artery is totally occluded and for 10 years no less, you are a dead man. Lo and behold...we get an angiogram and it was fucking 100% occluded. The artery on the back of the heart made a connection with the front of the heart to pick up the slack. It was some lucky shit. 6. mac785&#39;s dad saw the power of sinuses. My dad&#39;s a doctor, so I asked him. When he was an intern in the ER, someone walked in the front door with a kitchen knife sticking out between his eyes to the handle. The knife went through his sinus cavity and ended with the tip in his throat, millimeters from his brain stem. He goes into surgery and walks out of the ICU the next day. My dad says he is the luckiest man he ever saw. giphy7. Asks_for_no_reason&#39;s patient was more alcohol than blood. Blood alcohol of .730 8. ShowerPig&#39;s patient invented a new heartbeat monitor. I had a guy with a Bowie knife sticking out of his chest. The knife was pulsating. I could literally count his pulse from across the room. 9. street_smartz nailed it with an X-ray image. Not a Doctor, but my father is a dentist who found a framing nail in a guys head in his brain.... (6 days after it happened) So the guys wife worked for my dad and worked construction. He fell one day and landed hard face first into his nail gun. He didn&#39;t realize it went off firing a nail through his mouth into his brain. Due to lack of insurance he never went to the hospital. After a week and the swelling still hadn&#39;t gone down his wife brought him into the dental office to get a panoramic X-ray done (usually used to see the whole set of teeth) and low and behold...   Street_Smartz via Reddit   He just thought it was a lot bruising and swelling from hitting his face.   