The Craziest Secrets You Should Know About Hospitals

Try Your Best To Be Patient In ER

Emergency rooms used to have just curtains between the patients, so they could hear the chaos. As a result, I think they were a lot more understanding about delays. Now most hospitals have individual ER rooms that are very isolated. When patients get upset that it took me 20 minutes to come back to their room, I often wish I could tell them that I wasn’t sitting out there doing nothing. I was comforting someone who just lost a family member.

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • Coca-Cola once bought all the website URLs that can be read as ahh, all the way up to 62 h’s.
  • Walt Jr. never encountered Jessie in all 62 episodes of Breaking Bad.
  • Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for less than $1 million in 1999, but Excite turned them down.
  • In 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
Next Page →