Healthcare Workers Share 23 TikTok Patient Stories, From a 10th C-Section to 41/26 Blood Pressure
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Updated · BuzzFeed · Aug 14
Healthcare Workers Share 23 TikTok Patient Stories, From a 10th C-Section to 41/26 Blood Pressure
3 articles · Updated · BuzzFeed · Aug 14
Summary
Twenty-three healthcare workers posted "HIPAA-compliant" patient stories on TikTok after creator @peyt_wheels asked for their wildest cases and photos.
The responses mixed medical extremes with dark humor, including a patient who walked in with blood pressure at 41/26, a woman arriving for her 10th C-section, and a labor patient who learned Plan B had failed for one twin.
Other stories centered on bizarre injuries and misunderstandings: a snow globe lodged inside a patient for two months, a NuvaRing inserted into a urethra, and a father who thought he could hear his unborn baby crying from the womb.
The roundup, published by BuzzFeed, framed the anecdotes as anonymized snapshots of the chaos healthcare workers say they routinely encounter.