Ugh. It's easy man. Just go left down the hall from the main entrance. Turn right when you see the cafeteria. Not the main cafeteria though, the snack shop. The one with the Starbucks. You go down that hall until you see a bank of elevators. Ignore it. Keep going and you will see another elevator. Take that one up to the 2nd floor. Go right again past the offices until you see a sign for 2 west. Cross over past the nurses station in 2 west and hang a slight left (not a full left) at the patient pantry. At the end of that hall you should see someone from facilities management named Mickey. If you give him a snickers bar he will unlock the door to the stairway. Take those stairs up 3 and 3/4s flights and you will find the OR waiting room. Answer the riddles three of the receptionist and she will open the door into the OR. ORs 1, 2 and 4 are right there. No one has been able to find OR 3. We think it might be in its own pocket dimension.
Nursing student My first day of doing practice in a hospital ward I forgot my uniform pants in my dorm meaning I had to leave the hospital , run uphill to my dorm and return back , get dressed and somehow find my group . I managed to find my way after asking for directions from : 3 different ward secretary's , 2 nurses , 1 doctor , 3 cleaning ladies and a group of students . my whole search felt surreal , I litteraly felt as if I was in a movie . after that I vowed to always check if I had everything I needed before going to the ward , and the next morning I forgot my pair of " hospital shoes"
This was me last week. Arrived 2 mins late at the OR, trying to play it cool, while suppressing a professional flag panic attack. Plot twist, surgeon arrives after and *apologizes* to me. Anesthesia saw the whole thing and didn't say anything. Our eyes locked (just for a second), a thank you without words. Anesthesia, I will tell tales of your compassion.
When you locked eyes with anesthesia, did you feel an overwhelming sensation of comfort as if everything was going to be fine? Did anesthesia give you a firm nod of reassurance? If so, I think that anesthesia might be a Johnathan
This was quite realistic! As a med student, especially early on, we often don’t have access or key cards. We also don’t know our way around the hospital, or bits of info like the little shortcuts and impossible room numbers and which stairwells will keep you prisoner. It can get pretty stressful, especially if you start running late! Nice one!
When I was on medschool, I'd stand near the doors with pin combinations and pretend to be on my phone. Then I'd see what the key was and note it down. Hospitals usually have a few for the entire building.
This happened to me before and it still boggles my mind to this day. Is it not a legal requirement for fire safety reasons that the stairs on the lowest level be unlockable from inside the stairwell so that people can escape in case of an emergency? I remember vividly being stuck in a hospital stairwell once and told myself, "don't panic, don't panic". Went to the ground floor and there was this huge ass metal bar barricading the entire door. It was a ten-floor building too, and I was too afraid of causing a ruckus to be shouting for help, so I spent the next fifteen minutes running up and down the stairs like a mad human every time I heard footsteps. Eventually found a nurse who heard me running and was kind enough to realize it's another trapped medical student and held the door open for me
In most buildings I've been in that have this problem, you can theoretically get out by tripping the fire alarm which unlocks (at least some of) the doors, but most people don't do that when they're stuck because it causes a ruckus.
Wow, that's incredibly bad. What a great way to kill lots of sick people, doctors and nurses if there's no emergency exit that's working (even in a stampede/crushing). Why on earth would it be locked? (Consider reporting it to health & safety)
I worked at shopping malls for a few years. Plenty of them had emergency doors locked either from the inside or the outside. It was like a weird puzzle, does this door open from the inside or the outside? Sometimes I heard someone screaming for help because they wanted to go up or down a floor but either the stairwell only let you go all the way down or all the way up. So I called security or maintenance and they would release the unfortunate souls. According to the guards, the idea behind it was to control movement so unauthorized people couldn't go through those unguarded areas, some even added a padlocked grate to the ones leading to the street. That way thieves couldn't steal something and run all the way out. I always wondered what would happen in a real emergency, I doubt security would remember to unlock these doors. It was potentially because of the banks and jewelry stores' safety being higher than human lives.
On my very first rotation (in patient family medicine), I got trapped between two doors I couldn’t badge out of and had no idea where I was. I called my resident freaking out, and this literal saint of a person searched for me and found me within the depths of the hospital between the laundry and peds ER.
This happened to me once as a medical student. I went up and down the stairwell trying to find an exit. Eventually I just decided to go for it on a random floor that wasn’t locked. As soon as I entered I heard this loud alarm, turns out it was the psych floor and they thought someone had escaped. I casually walked away as the staff all rushed towards the stairwell…
Because you DEFINITELY didn’t just need to cause a distraction so patients could escape a different way. I wonder why the psych ward was the only door unlocked. Sounds ludicrous.
No lie, the paramedics picked the lock on my apartment building's front door because it needed a buzzer code from a landline to unlock or someone to open it from the inside... and I was stuck three floors up, unable to get down the stairs, and don't have a landline because who does? It took them exactly three seconds. I was still trying to call a neighbour (it was 3am) when they showed up. Lockpicking: absolutely an essential skill for first responders, lol. I am slightly concerned about how easy it is to break into buildings with a pair of medical shears, though. (As a bonus, I counted the number of bicycles parked in the hallway from the ambulance bay to the ER -- there were 5. At 3am. Emergency Medicine is 100% accurate.) The paramedics watch Dr G, we talked about our favourite videos on the ride to the hospital. I would have been a bit more worried that the driver was looking at us more than the road, but the street is empty at 3am. A+ ambulancing, 5 stars, would ride again.
I once worked in a hospital that started out as a tiny country hospital and as the population grew, it morphed into a large building by having wings stuck on to it REALLY badly. This resulted in stairways going nowhere, and corridors ending in blank walls. I was on call one night, there was an arrest and I ran, took a wrong turn and ended up face first into a wall at the bottom of a stairwell. Nearly broke my nose. That place was hell.
This would make quite the interesting psychological horror film (and with the fear being in the setting and anxiety rather than something like a monster or ghost)
I remembered this one time when a new urologist ran late to a surgery. So my town has two separate regional hospitals that go by the same name. They're basically one hospital split into two to reach more coverage, and every doctors work at both. One time I was shadowing the anesthesiologist and we have an uro patient waiting for surgery, but the doc hadn't shown up for about half an hour. I was instructed to call him and it turned out he was walking around in confusion at the other half of the hospital. He rushed into the one where the surgery will be held, then he called me again saying he's already at the OR but no one is there. Turned out he was at the emergency OR right above the ER (usually for midnight SCs), and we have another building only for scheduled ORs separate from the main building. Again he ran to the OR, and I can see him running in the corridor before he ran facefirst into a locked backdoor of our resting rooms. I had to fetch him there because he seemed so dizzy and confused 😅 our first meeting was so funny but admittedly he's one of the best teachers I had, and he kept on laughing everytime we met probably because of the memory lmao
I literally got stuck in a stairwell while on my away rotation at Bascom Palmer as a med student. Finally tripped the emergency alarm to escape. I did not Match there 💩
Your comment helped me confirm that people can leave the stairwell. So, thanks. The thought that people could actually be trapped in a stairwell was worrying.
Felt this. Can't stand hospital layouts, the keycard access especially. For EMS, we would have to drop our ambulance keys with security if we were transferring to a specific floor instead of just using the ER floor. Combined with working in NYC, the amount of different hospitals and layouts -- only being able to get to a certain half of the 8th floor through a specific elevator, having a patient thinking you're incompetent because you can't find shit. Best advice? Don't ask doctors or nurses for directions, ask custodial staff -- they know the building better than anyone.
"Cut suture in a way that seemed okay but was apparently completely wrong" is so true. You'd think it can't be that difficult to just cut it, but most of the time someone had something to say about it. Too short, too long, use the tip of the scissors, it's okay if you cut the knot but cut it really short, be careful to not cut the knot 🙃
Its the same in diagnostics. I've failed xray competencies on the same body part for being too collimated, too uncollimated, using more technique than one preceptor wants and less than another wants... Being a student in healthcare is a nightmare. You are always wrong. Get used to it.
I thought I solved that problem by asking "ok?" everytime just before cutting. It worked quite well until the surgeon complained that I was asking too often. Then I went back to the guessing game and sure enough - I cut it wrong. And that surgeon was one of the "nice ones." 😆
You can't do ANYTHING right as an intern in the OR. You do (or don't do) the EXACT same thing you've been told in surgery A in surgery B and get yelled at. You can't win. In a hospital shit is always falling down, and there is A LOT of it.
When I was chief neurosurgery resident for a newly opened trauma hospital, I did an emergent case in the middle of the night. My attending got trapped in one of these stairwells with a medical student, neither who had a keycard, until a kindly anesthesia resident was able to free them both. I had already finished the case and the patient did well. The attending was so happy to finally find the OR
I remember going to a paediatric ward to fix their Blood Gas machine. You have to get manually buzzed through three sets of doors to get to the machine. On the way out, door number 2 managed to lock itself and wouldn't unlock. We had doctors and nurses on each side of the door fiddling with the handle, trying to open it. I just sat back and played with my deionised water and flush unit for ten minutes until they got it open.
The longer ago medschool gets the more forgiving I get. Then I watch your videos and the deja vu makes my palms sweaty and mouth dry. Keeps me humble I tell you
This happened to me once while on a night shift. I banged every single door, but it was night time and I was the only person there. I finally found a door which lead to weird elevators and finally found my way out. I'm terrified of stairs nowm
This is so true. My preceptor at my first rotation told me where his office was, but the entrance closest to his office was locked until 8 am. I called him and he said oh just go to the main entrance (on the other side of the hospital) and me not knowing how to get to his office after using the main entrance. Made it a few minutes before he showed up gasping. I had arrived 5 am that day and I was scheduled to go on rounds with him at 6 am btw. Great rotation just very stressed that first day.
@@ivanovosixx The original post is from someone with the username Hank Hill. It's a character in the show, King of the Hill. This is a reference to a quote by that character.
Phew crisis averted. When I was an intern my attending gave me the wrong room and the wrong hospital to meet at. When I finally figured it out and made it and told him his response? "Yea you have to be careful". That day was a fine line between surgery intern and serial killer
Bilingual bonus: “Trappe” means “stairs” in Danish. So our poor med student was trapped by trapperne. (Edit: “trappe” in singular, “trapper” in plural)
I am a field service engineer. For those that don’t know I install and take care of the medical equipment at hospitals. I ran into this very situation at a site because they moved our servers to a basement closet that to access you had to go through the Dr lounge then a hall way and down to a secure locked door in the basement. My badge opened all the doors to go down but to come back up it didn’t open the one to open the door to the lounge to leave. Thankfully I had cell service because the only other way would have been fire alarm protocol of hold the door until the alarms started. Their security quickly fixed that issue.
Having gotten trapped in one of those stairwells in the past...I still have a phobia of them. Also got trapped in a series of underground tunnels that ran between two hospitals... Should have a nightmare tonight reliving those past traumas Thanks
This one was one of the funniest to me. Like actually filming in a hospital and I just wondered if he interacted with anyone at any point (maybe why this was voice over, but I love it), and at some point he had to ask someone to hold his phone because at 1:40 it’s on the outside of the door. Also I just love this skit, not a doctor but just the perpetual fear of being lost
oh maaan how painfully real this is!! Reminds me of my time as a medstudent on a surgical away rotation in an unfamiliar city. Had to depend on a complex public transportation system to get me to the hospital each day. One day I must have incorrectly planned the route, and ended up completely lost, running around the city, showing up in sweaty clothes, LATE to rounds. I was so mortified 🤣 Took a cab every day from then on.
I thought when you showed up and the OR was empty that the first case for the day was canceled or similar and the entire team just forgot to notify the med student. It's happened.. more than once
Every...damn...time! Happens to me even as a grown-ass attending, most recently at a national conference, had to call security to come fish me out of there. Gotta say not my proudest moment 😂
Dear sir, my father is a world renowned surgeon and you nail it every single time!!! I’ve needed years of treatment due to his narcissism, your videos heal me!😂 I binged every single video.
Sir, please keep up the great work. I always wait for your videos even though i don't really know much about medicine, but with your videos, I learn a lot about that world♥️
I have literally SPRAINED MY ANKLE on my first day of co-op running down an escalator because my contact's last name was "Hall" so I thought I was looking for a literal fucking hall like FirstName Hall in this building and I asked EVERYONE I ran into where said hall was and NOBODY could tell me. So that's when I started running around frantically trying to search the entire building and twisted my ankle. Literally limped around for the first 2 weeks. UGH.
Best advice is to walk around everywhere for like an hour a day if you can. If you can't memorize locations/shortcuts carry a memo pad. Ask those who have been there for a long time they know everything. Put aside your ego and let people know that you are still learning and you will succeed in the goals you want. Remember regardless of title as new information is discovered therefore everyone is still a student. Do not be afraid of not knowing be afraid of not wanting to know.
Good advice. my first thought would be to contact security or the front desk and ask for assistance. Tell them I'm new to this hospital and need directions to X room and also that they haven't given me a badge to unlock the doors to the room. A good hospital would be able to walk me through the process of getting to X room and also making sure I have access to the room.
The locked in the stairwell thing happened to me. I wasn't a med student, I wasn't an anything, nor was I in a hospital. I just happened to be locked in a stairwell for 7 hours.
The other 3 students in your cohort, and the five in the year behind you cowering in the corner, would have provided sufficient cover for a late entrance. The surgeons would never have noticed, and the scrub nurse would have reduced you to a pile of Ash, then handed you a cookie for surviving the stairwell evolution. Nobody has a pass to the stairwell. NOBODY. You cannot even reach my floor. Or the ones above and below. We guard the younglings. Next time sleep over in the broom closet.
Once as a med student, I left the OR, down the stairs to get lunch on the first floor. I opened the door and it led outside into the landscaping. So I went back up the stairs and all the doors were locked. So I had to go back down into the 30 degree outdoors, wearing only my scrubs, and walk around to the front entrance of the hospital.
What about when they tell you to come to the OR but they don't tell you which one? I've gone to OR's in entirely different buildings to realize they meant somewhere else. Or ended up walking into the wrong OR suite and the entire team, that was focused on the operation, simultaneously turn around to give me the stink eye. Still gives me nightmares...
Senior was screwing with him from the start. No planned procedure starts at 7 am, unless you are a surgeon with tightly packed schedule with support of very agreeable and supporting anesthetic team.
I volunteer in the Surgical care unit and I had a keycard that would open any door, but dumb little me forgot it on the desk when I needed to go downstairs but didn't want to wait for the elevator. I was stuck in this exact scenario until I called the front desk to let me back in.
Oh god, this is me every time an attending gives a specific time. Recently I had a minor panic when an unexpected change in my bus route and the sky-high prices for Ubers/Lyfts in my area resulted in me arriving only 15 minutes early for the pre-round didactic session (which was mostly pitched at the senior residents and fellows, so I was kind of confused). I mean, I was fine once I knew I was still early, but boy howdy the tachycardia when that was still up in the air…
This is relatable for any workplace that requires secure access where they don't give new employees (+ apprentices/contractors) a means of access so you have to rely on the employees who do have them.
Omg this brings back traumatic memories of me being trapped in the stairwell at URMC, banging on the doors and yelling HELLLLP repeatedly for what seemed like hours. All these years I repressed those memories....until now! 🤣🤪😱
I've actually had the stairwell thing happen to me at a hospital I was working agency for. Didn't know that you needed a swipe card after 6pm! Luckily someone came by within 10 minutes.
During my entire surgical rotation the hospital was building a new wing which involved new pre and post-op units, through which was the main way to get to the OR from the rest of the hospital. If you think getting lost in a normal hospital is bad, try getting lost in a construction site with plastic sheet and temporary paneling instead of walls.
My passion for surgery died at the hands of terrible surgical rotations where nobody was nice. Being a foreign med student, I didn't know about the culture of abuse in surgery here. Today I am a GI fellow. Best decision of my life.
First day of psych rotation the residents let us in and then went to round on their patients. When we left the floor into the air lock room between the ward and the main hospital, our key cards didn't work. We sat there in this tiny room for 20 minutes waiting before the residents to returned
2 years ago as a student I got stuck in a stairwell the same way (every door locked, alarmed, or needed keycard). I finally had to call on my cell phone for security to come rescue me.
Wonderful video! I am not a med student or doctor, however I can really relate to the strange stairwells in hospitals. One time I had a job that involved taking elderly residents to their appointments and runs to the hospital pharmacy. I was up on the third floor waiting for the pharmacy when I realized I needed paperwork from my vehicle. I *thought* I was taking a stairwell that would take me close by the main entrance... instead I ended up in the physcian lounge and changing area, by a totally unfamiliar door controlled by a keycard. Luckily, I could retreat back the way I came and get back to the Pharmacy.
Had an almost identical experience in my second rotation. Had to grab something from the floor below me, only to find that all the doors locked like this. Thankfully, one of the lower floors wasn’t locked down, but the area was so unfamiliar to me I wandered for a good half hour before I finally worked my way back up to where I started.
My first day of my first rotation I was so nervous I got there in the wee hours of the morning. It was a 30 minute drive away. I get there, burst an aneurysm when I realize I forgot my white coat. Drove back, got it, drove there again.... and was still early.
I once worked in an office where I continued to find new rooms after 3yrs. My favorite spot was an abandoned staircase. It’s where I took all my mental health breaks, but I would’ve been screwed if I ever got locked in there 😅
That is hilarious! I got locked in a bathroom once at a hospital. I closed the door and realized after there was no door handle on the door hence no way to open the door. I panicked for a little bit but then was pounding on the door. No answer. I decided to just call the hospital and try to reach someone to open the door. That was the best solution bc that is what I did and it took like 30 mins for a maintenance person to get the door open with like a screw driver. What was bad was I really had to use the bathroom but after calling I wasn't sure how long it would take to open so I was afraid to go in case he might open it unexpectedly. That would be hilarious! "Excuse me! Can you close the door? Can't you see it is occupied???"
I've been trapped in a locked stairwell before, so memories came back!!! 🤣 Another reason to keep a cell phone with you at all times which is on the Verizon system. ☺️ (They normally work inside of buildings.) LOVE the ending!!! ❤️😃
Hah! I'm lucky if I get wifi in hospitals, let alone cell service, if I'm anywhere but under a router or next to a window. I swear that all the hospitals around me are designed to be Faraday cages or something in case there's ever a doomsday EMP
That's the best title/video combination, on youtube with short videos it's very easy to spoil all the sketch with an explicit title. It is just an awesome choice you've made
Something similar happened when I got locked out the hospital on a overnight after I went to get food on break... The only way back in was the emergency department
I love the monologue of him feeling abandoned and Lost! Glad he was Extremely Early! 👏😆👍 This reminds me of a time when I thought I was supposed to be at a meeting for a Church calling because I assumed it was Thursday. Just as My Mom and I were heading out of the neighborhood, my Mom mentioned that it was Wednesday. I realized that I was actually a day early and we were able to make a quick turn around! We both had a good laugh and my Mom said that she's done this a few times herself! 😆 Good times! 😊👍
Why you giving me war flashbacks. I'm sweating cold icey droplets from all the times I got lost in a hospital. The ever repeating, seemingly never ending floors, extending towards what seems like a spatial loop of purgatory. The screams and cries of lost patients and students, hoping in vain for enlightenment of where the hell they were. And the dooming. Ticking. Of. The. Clock. And more than half of the staffs weren't there because of a state-wide strike. I'm scared to go to sleep for if I have to relife these moments even only in my mind, I will cry like a toddler.
I have also been trapped in a stairwell before. No one came for me. I accepted that I would also join the dead pigeon on the 5th floor. I kept trying the doors, just because. Eventually one worked (after not working the previous 5+ times I had tried it, and I escaped.
Too relatable. Hospitals are mean maze-like structures with way too little guidance... When you're down in the culvert with a patient and the signs suddenly stop appearing, it's really cold and you really don't want to admit to the increasingly doubtful patient that you are in fact lost and why yes you could've used that coordinator phone you accidentally brought with you if it WASN'T for the fact that there's zero coverage in the culvert. There's a point in time where you start running after sounds to get lucky and ask someone for directions but all you can find are other trying-not-to-look-lost med students taking you along for a ride or straight up lying about having to go into the "coat room" that's actually the laundry room because they're as lost as you are but too stressed out to admit it.
That reminds me of that one time I showed up 2 hours early for an exam just because I have never been to that specific building before nor did I know where the room was. Stood up at about 4 am. One thing I hate about different faculties of my uni being scattered all over the city... Its also funny when you unsuspectingly take the stairs and one corridor is pitched black, no ligth, and someone put some lines from harry potter at the door, saying something about a forbidden floor. Kind of funny but given that it was from the cemistry department it crept me out quite a bit 😂
There used to be a shortcut the night doctors would take that cut across the admin offices. At night, it's totally dark and the floor after that is lit like in some ghost movie, it's usually quiet. Totally the most creepy experience available above ground. Especially when you start hearing voices or footsteps echo, only to realise it's someone else on the other end as there's a bend into an elevator that cannot be seen on the corridor. Most doctors hate it but the shortcut was way too useful NOT to use.... Staircases can't beat underground though. No idea how IT does it :)
lol a nightmare. I once had a meeting in the psych hospital building and got stuck between two locked doors like this. I had my keycard but because I didn't normally work in that building it didn't work. Psych hospital docs are pretty skeptical when they find you stuck like that, have never seen you before, and you claim to need to be let out/in. 😅
I've been trapped in a stairwell like that once. My phone ran out of power, and it was late on a Friday. Luckily, there was a window on 4th floor, where I stood in the "Help me!"-position for 35 minutes, till another student noticed me and came to the rescue.
I remember finding a visitor lost in a hall who was in tears. I had complete sympathy because it had not been too long before I felt like crying myself beng lost .
The staircases with random blocked access to random floors (even though you can get to that same area with a different staircase or elevator) and some requiring ID access
Bro, the office I worked in also had the same problem with the doors. You could legitimately have been locked in the stairwell. Scary to think about if you are new to the place.
I've been working in hospitals for years, usually different every week (Implementation Engineer). I try to take the stairs as often as possible, even with my 30lb backpack. Sometimes you run into one of those stairwells...so you wait to be let out, or sometimes go outside and walk around the building. The Elevator Mazes in some hospitals are fun too. That is a whole video in itself. Shoutout to Cony Island Hospital for an excellent example of that!
Well depicts the anxiety felt. Used them often though never been stuck in a stairwell I do recall some years ago while rotating at Bellevue Hospital, NYC some stairwells being off limits due to feral dogs in them.
Omg that happened to me once when i was a student! It was one of these doors that when they're closed you can't open it from the inside! I tried EVERYTHING, i even tried calling my team leader but i couldn't get a signal!! In the end i just stood near the glass staring like a maniac until a janitor noticed me and let me out! Hahaha good times indeed! XD
There is nothing quite as surreal as the experience of being late in an unfamiliar hospital
I feel this sentence on a deep level
Ugh. It's easy man. Just go left down the hall from the main entrance. Turn right when you see the cafeteria. Not the main cafeteria though, the snack shop. The one with the Starbucks. You go down that hall until you see a bank of elevators. Ignore it. Keep going and you will see another elevator. Take that one up to the 2nd floor. Go right again past the offices until you see a sign for 2 west. Cross over past the nurses station in 2 west and hang a slight left (not a full left) at the patient pantry. At the end of that hall you should see someone from facilities management named Mickey. If you give him a snickers bar he will unlock the door to the stairway. Take those stairs up 3 and 3/4s flights and you will find the OR waiting room. Answer the riddles three of the receptionist and she will open the door into the OR. ORs 1, 2 and 4 are right there. No one has been able to find OR 3. We think it might be in its own pocket dimension.
Nursing student
My first day of doing practice in a hospital ward I forgot my uniform pants in my dorm meaning I had to leave the hospital , run uphill to my dorm and return back , get dressed and somehow find my group .
I managed to find my way after asking for directions from : 3 different ward secretary's , 2 nurses , 1 doctor , 3 cleaning ladies and a group of students . my whole search felt surreal , I litteraly felt as if I was in a movie . after that I vowed to always check if I had everything I needed before going to the ward , and the next morning I forgot my pair of " hospital shoes"
Surreal? 🧐
@@kyle857 😂😂👏
This was me last week. Arrived 2 mins late at the OR, trying to play it cool, while suppressing a professional flag panic attack. Plot twist, surgeon arrives after and *apologizes* to me. Anesthesia saw the whole thing and didn't say anything. Our eyes locked (just for a second), a thank you without words.
Anesthesia, I will tell tales of your compassion.
Anaesthesia: can you help me with this cryptic crossword while we're allies?
Haha that's awesome!
well, maybe you could start by not calling a fellow professional "anesthesia"
@@lisas1441 chill, they're probably using a cell phone.
When you locked eyes with anesthesia, did you feel an overwhelming sensation of comfort as if everything was going to be fine? Did anesthesia give you a firm nod of reassurance? If so, I think that anesthesia might be a Johnathan
This was quite realistic! As a med student, especially early on, we often don’t have access or key cards. We also don’t know our way around the hospital, or bits of info like the little shortcuts and impossible room numbers and which stairwells will keep you prisoner. It can get pretty stressful, especially if you start running late!
Nice one!
I even had this experience getting stuck in a stairwell working as a hospital cleaner
@Kali Shaffer This already exists for some buildings
Well said Yitzchok :)
When I was on medschool, I'd stand near the doors with pin combinations and pretend to be on my phone. Then I'd see what the key was and note it down.
Hospitals usually have a few for the entire building.
@@youtubeusername1239 hey brother!!!
This happened to me before and it still boggles my mind to this day. Is it not a legal requirement for fire safety reasons that the stairs on the lowest level be unlockable from inside the stairwell so that people can escape in case of an emergency? I remember vividly being stuck in a hospital stairwell once and told myself, "don't panic, don't panic". Went to the ground floor and there was this huge ass metal bar barricading the entire door. It was a ten-floor building too, and I was too afraid of causing a ruckus to be shouting for help, so I spent the next fifteen minutes running up and down the stairs like a mad human every time I heard footsteps. Eventually found a nurse who heard me running and was kind enough to realize it's another trapped medical student and held the door open for me
In most buildings I've been in that have this problem, you can theoretically get out by tripping the fire alarm which unlocks (at least some of) the doors, but most people don't do that when they're stuck because it causes a ruckus.
@@rayvnekieron8587 another commenter said this literally happened to them and they did end up tripping the fire alarm lol
Wow, that's incredibly bad. What a great way to kill lots of sick people, doctors and nurses if there's no emergency exit that's working (even in a stampede/crushing). Why on earth would it be locked? (Consider reporting it to health & safety)
Which hospital was that?
I worked at shopping malls for a few years. Plenty of them had emergency doors locked either from the inside or the outside. It was like a weird puzzle, does this door open from the inside or the outside? Sometimes I heard someone screaming for help because they wanted to go up or down a floor but either the stairwell only let you go all the way down or all the way up. So I called security or maintenance and they would release the unfortunate souls.
According to the guards, the idea behind it was to control movement so unauthorized people couldn't go through those unguarded areas, some even added a padlocked grate to the ones leading to the street. That way thieves couldn't steal something and run all the way out. I always wondered what would happen in a real emergency, I doubt security would remember to unlock these doors. It was potentially because of the banks and jewelry stores' safety being higher than human lives.
On my very first rotation (in patient family medicine), I got trapped between two doors I couldn’t badge out of and had no idea where I was. I called my resident freaking out, and this literal saint of a person searched for me and found me within the depths of the hospital between the laundry and peds ER.
That’s painfully hilarious 😂 🤣🤣🤣
That sounds stressful! I'm glad you had someone who could help you out!
Happy that you had your phone on you
This happened to me once as a medical student. I went up and down the stairwell trying to find an exit. Eventually I just decided to go for it on a random floor that wasn’t locked. As soon as I entered I heard this loud alarm, turns out it was the psych floor and they thought someone had escaped. I casually walked away as the staff all rushed towards the stairwell…
Because you DEFINITELY didn’t just need to cause a distraction so patients could escape a different way.
I wonder why the psych ward was the only door unlocked. Sounds ludicrous.
lmao op was hired by psych pts to be the distraction sounds like a movie
@@SugarandSarcasm Why, you ask? so that patients can find their way back to the psych ward on their own, of course!
@@SugarandSarcasm might be a door that needs to be opened with a key from the inside but doesnt need one from the outside
@@leobastian_ you make a good point
So what I'm taking from this is is that lockpicking is an essential skill for a med student to have.
No lie, the paramedics picked the lock on my apartment building's front door because it needed a buzzer code from a landline to unlock or someone to open it from the inside... and I was stuck three floors up, unable to get down the stairs, and don't have a landline because who does?
It took them exactly three seconds. I was still trying to call a neighbour (it was 3am) when they showed up.
Lockpicking: absolutely an essential skill for first responders, lol. I am slightly concerned about how easy it is to break into buildings with a pair of medical shears, though.
(As a bonus, I counted the number of bicycles parked in the hallway from the ambulance bay to the ER -- there were 5. At 3am. Emergency Medicine is 100% accurate.)
The paramedics watch Dr G, we talked about our favourite videos on the ride to the hospital. I would have been a bit more worried that the driver was looking at us more than the road, but the street is empty at 3am.
A+ ambulancing, 5 stars, would ride again.
Sequel to the LockPickingLawyer, the LockPickingMedStudent
I know a lawyer they could consult...
@@suzannepottsshorts
“Nothing on 1”
Bribery is better
I once worked in a hospital that started out as a tiny country hospital and as the population grew, it morphed into a large building by having wings stuck on to it REALLY badly. This resulted in stairways going nowhere, and corridors ending in blank walls. I was on call one night, there was an arrest and I ran, took a wrong turn and ended up face first into a wall at the bottom of a stairwell. Nearly broke my nose. That place was hell.
This would make quite the interesting psychological horror film (and with the fear being in the setting and anxiety rather than something like a monster or ghost)
@@gokucrazy22 Shall I interest you in a genre known as "The Backrooms" and "Liminal Spaces" or "Liminal horror"?
Sounds like they retrofitted your building with fun house mirrors.
the backrooms, liminal spaces, and the haunted Winchester mansion? PFFFT. try a hospital expanded in fits and starts over several decades.
That’s why I stuck to the paperwork, no patience for the patients. I truly do not envy your profession.
I remembered this one time when a new urologist ran late to a surgery.
So my town has two separate regional hospitals that go by the same name. They're basically one hospital split into two to reach more coverage, and every doctors work at both. One time I was shadowing the anesthesiologist and we have an uro patient waiting for surgery, but the doc hadn't shown up for about half an hour. I was instructed to call him and it turned out he was walking around in confusion at the other half of the hospital. He rushed into the one where the surgery will be held, then he called me again saying he's already at the OR but no one is there. Turned out he was at the emergency OR right above the ER (usually for midnight SCs), and we have another building only for scheduled ORs separate from the main building. Again he ran to the OR, and I can see him running in the corridor before he ran facefirst into a locked backdoor of our resting rooms. I had to fetch him there because he seemed so dizzy and confused 😅 our first meeting was so funny but admittedly he's one of the best teachers I had, and he kept on laughing everytime we met probably because of the memory lmao
I literally got stuck in a stairwell while on my away rotation at Bascom Palmer as a med student. Finally tripped the emergency alarm to escape. I did not Match there 💩
I never had to trip the emergency alarm but have definitely been trapped in my fair share of stairwells!
Lmao
Bascom of all places! Terrible luck, hope you’re happy with your match.
Your comment helped me confirm that people can leave the stairwell. So, thanks. The thought that people could actually be trapped in a stairwell was worrying.
Did you match at all?
Felt this. Can't stand hospital layouts, the keycard access especially. For EMS, we would have to drop our ambulance keys with security if we were transferring to a specific floor instead of just using the ER floor. Combined with working in NYC, the amount of different hospitals and layouts -- only being able to get to a certain half of the 8th floor through a specific elevator, having a patient thinking you're incompetent because you can't find shit. Best advice? Don't ask doctors or nurses for directions, ask custodial staff -- they know the building better than anyone.
Support services always knows the way.. and we have all the bathroom codes
@@dr6091 bathroom codes are elite, where else can I hit my vape while my partner gets the signatures
Thanks for this video, Doc. It keeps me alive.
-sent from a random hospital stairwell
"Cut suture in a way that seemed okay but was apparently completely wrong" is so true. You'd think it can't be that difficult to just cut it, but most of the time someone had something to say about it. Too short, too long, use the tip of the scissors, it's okay if you cut the knot but cut it really short, be careful to not cut the knot 🙃
Its the same in diagnostics. I've failed xray competencies on the same body part for being too collimated, too uncollimated, using more technique than one preceptor wants and less than another wants...
Being a student in healthcare is a nightmare. You are always wrong. Get used to it.
It is a universal truth that the suture will never be cut "just right".
I thought I solved that problem by asking "ok?" everytime just before cutting. It worked quite well until the surgeon complained that I was asking too often. Then I went back to the guessing game and sure enough - I cut it wrong. And that surgeon was one of the "nice ones." 😆
Goldilocks length. Not too short, not too long, juuuuust right.
You can't do ANYTHING right as an intern in the OR. You do (or don't do) the EXACT same thing you've been told in surgery A in surgery B and get yelled at. You can't win. In a hospital shit is always falling down, and there is A LOT of it.
“That the entire surgical team would think I just didn’t show up for work today” I don’t know why this is so funny and relatable lmao
When I was chief neurosurgery resident for a newly opened trauma hospital, I did an emergent case in the middle of the night. My attending got trapped in one of these stairwells with a medical student, neither who had a keycard, until a kindly anesthesia resident was able to free them both. I had already finished the case and the patient did well. The attending was so happy to finally find the OR
Once again pure gold my man. I have been the staircase student, finally a staircase attending.
staircase attending lmao
As someone who woke up at 3 am every day during their surgery rotation because i was so afraid of being late, this was painfully hilarious
When did you go to sleep then?
@@ntity95 Sleep?
In Medschool?
wait, so people don't actually have to wake up that early???
Yeah its brutal :(@@erinnorwood6124
The scrub tech in me shouted "don't use the stairs!". The locks are real. Brilliant vid!
I remember going to a paediatric ward to fix their Blood Gas machine. You have to get manually buzzed through three sets of doors to get to the machine. On the way out, door number 2 managed to lock itself and wouldn't unlock. We had doctors and nurses on each side of the door fiddling with the handle, trying to open it. I just sat back and played with my deionised water and flush unit for ten minutes until they got it open.
Is a "blood gas machine" as hardcore as it sounds?
The longer ago medschool gets the more forgiving I get. Then I watch your videos and the deja vu makes my palms sweaty and mouth dry. Keeps me humble I tell you
literally lmao im on holiday and this threw me back to placement
This happened to me once while on a night shift. I banged every single door, but it was night time and I was the only person there. I finally found a door which lead to weird elevators and finally found my way out. I'm terrified of stairs nowm
This is so true. My preceptor at my first rotation told me where his office was, but the entrance closest to his office was locked until 8 am. I called him and he said oh just go to the main entrance (on the other side of the hospital) and me not knowing how to get to his office after using the main entrance. Made it a few minutes before he showed up gasping. I had arrived 5 am that day and I was scheduled to go on rounds with him at 6 am btw. Great rotation just very stressed that first day.
How many rotations does one need to do before they can sell propane and propane accessories?
@@kevinklassen4328 a man only needs to have a love of Propane, God, and America to be a a propane salesman.
@@kevinklassen4328 what ?
@@ivanovosixx The original post is from someone with the username Hank Hill. It's a character in the show, King of the Hill. This is a reference to a quote by that character.
Phew crisis averted. When I was an intern my attending gave me the wrong room and the wrong hospital to meet at. When I finally figured it out and made it and told him his response? "Yea you have to be careful". That day was a fine line between surgery intern and serial killer
And when you get no phone service while trapped in the stairwell, THIS is when all the anxiety is induced
Bilingual bonus: “Trappe” means “stairs” in Danish. So our poor med student was trapped by trapperne.
(Edit: “trappe” in singular, “trapper” in plural)
"Treppe" means "stairway" in German. Haha
Oh, my, first double punch and then triple Wham! Poor intern xD
It's trap in Dutch lol
Trappa in Swedish
I am a field service engineer. For those that don’t know I install and take care of the medical equipment at hospitals. I ran into this very situation at a site because they moved our servers to a basement closet that to access you had to go through the Dr lounge then a hall way and down to a secure locked door in the basement. My badge opened all the doors to go down but to come back up it didn’t open the one to open the door to the lounge to leave. Thankfully I had cell service because the only other way would have been fire alarm protocol of hold the door until the alarms started. Their security quickly fixed that issue.
To be young and trapped in random hospital spaces. Brings me back
Having gotten trapped in one of those stairwells in the past...I still have a phobia of them.
Also got trapped in a series of underground tunnels that ran between two hospitals...
Should have a nightmare tonight reliving those past traumas
Thanks
This is why I'm afraid to go anywhere without a buddy
use the buddy system kids
But what if there's not enough saltines for the both of you!
Then you can both be trapped together!
"Oh right, just use your keycard to get us out"
"What keycard?"
XD
That way you have someone to eat to survive the cold winters in the stairwell
@@Natalie-101 That's when your buddy starts to become a potential meal.
This one was one of the funniest to me. Like actually filming in a hospital and I just wondered if he interacted with anyone at any point (maybe why this was voice over, but I love it), and at some point he had to ask someone to hold his phone because at 1:40 it’s on the outside of the door. Also I just love this skit, not a doctor but just the perpetual fear of being lost
He's probably holding it around the edge of the door lol
Jonathan is everywhere. And available for your disposure at any time of the day or night!
This is the most surreal yet relatable experience shared by anyone who ever had a surgery rotation, ever.
oh maaan how painfully real this is!! Reminds me of my time as a medstudent on a surgical away rotation in an unfamiliar city. Had to depend on a complex public transportation system to get me to the hospital each day. One day I must have incorrectly planned the route, and ended up completely lost, running around the city, showing up in sweaty clothes, LATE to rounds. I was so mortified 🤣 Took a cab every day from then on.
I thought when you showed up and the OR was empty that the first case for the day was canceled or similar and the entire team just forgot to notify the med student. It's happened.. more than once
Every...damn...time! Happens to me even as a grown-ass attending, most recently at a national conference, had to call security to come fish me out of there. Gotta say not my proudest moment 😂
You are so darn good at this comedy, I swear you are perfecting your craft by each segment.
I've been addicted to your videos! Can't wait to see more!
Dear sir, my father is a world renowned surgeon and you nail it every single time!!! I’ve needed years of treatment due to his narcissism, your videos heal me!😂 I binged every single video.
Your timing is impeccable; I'm the med student starting my surgery rotation on Monday!
I totally got locked in a stairwell as a med student... and I think it was indeed my surgery rotation. Good times!! 😅
Sir, please keep up the great work. I always wait for your videos even though i don't really know much about medicine, but with your videos, I learn a lot about that world♥️
Glad I'm not the only one haha.
@anon we are here to lear and found the best teacher ever
And you too sir keep up being who you are because you sound like a wonderful person
@@Drsilmi thank you hope you have a grear day too
I have literally SPRAINED MY ANKLE on my first day of co-op running down an escalator because my contact's last name was "Hall" so I thought I was looking for a literal fucking hall like FirstName Hall in this building and I asked EVERYONE I ran into where said hall was and NOBODY could tell me. So that's when I started running around frantically trying to search the entire building and twisted my ankle. Literally limped around for the first 2 weeks. UGH.
As a nurse in a large urban hospital, this, THIS is one of my greatest fears… 😱
I watched this 4 hours after it was posted, hope the surgery is going well!
Best advice is to walk around everywhere for like an hour a day if you can. If you can't memorize locations/shortcuts carry a memo pad. Ask those who have been there for a long time they know everything. Put aside your ego and let people know that you are still learning and you will succeed in the goals you want. Remember regardless of title as new information is discovered therefore everyone is still a student. Do not be afraid of not knowing be afraid of not wanting to know.
Good advice. my first thought would be to contact security or the front desk and ask for assistance. Tell them I'm new to this hospital and need directions to X room and also that they haven't given me a badge to unlock the doors to the room. A good hospital would be able to walk me through the process of getting to X room and also making sure I have access to the room.
Even if he had been there at 7, surgery probably wouldn't have started until about
8:30.
The locked in the stairwell thing happened to me. I wasn't a med student, I wasn't an anything, nor was I in a hospital. I just happened to be locked in a stairwell for 7 hours.
That's terrifying. I'm glad you got out.😬
I'm not in medicine, but this whole scenario feels eerily familiar to me.
It's a bit like finding your way around a convention center.
The other 3 students in your cohort, and the five in the year behind you cowering in the corner, would have provided sufficient cover for a late entrance. The surgeons would never have noticed, and the scrub nurse would have reduced you to a pile of Ash, then handed you a cookie for surviving the stairwell evolution.
Nobody has a pass to the stairwell. NOBODY.
You cannot even reach my floor. Or the ones above and below. We guard the younglings.
Next time sleep over in the broom closet.
we guard the younglings 😂 i'd love to work with you
Love your work! Always entertaining and very spot on 😂 This is coming from an FM who desperately needs a Jonathan 🙏
Having just finished my surgery rotation a few weeks ago, this spoke to my soul in a way that few things do
This was me yesterday. No saltines, but a kind nurse saw me waving after 10 min or so and saved me. 💟
This is the most accurate summary of my entire clinical experience as a med student
Once as a med student, I left the OR, down the stairs to get lunch on the first floor. I opened the door and it led outside into the landscaping. So I went back up the stairs and all the doors were locked. So I had to go back down into the 30 degree outdoors, wearing only my scrubs, and walk around to the front entrance of the hospital.
What about when they tell you to come to the OR but they don't tell you which one? I've gone to OR's in entirely different buildings to realize they meant somewhere else. Or ended up walking into the wrong OR suite and the entire team, that was focused on the operation, simultaneously turn around to give me the stink eye. Still gives me nightmares...
Senior was screwing with him from the start.
No planned procedure starts at 7 am, unless you are a surgeon with tightly packed schedule with support of very agreeable and supporting anesthetic team.
I volunteer in the Surgical care unit and I had a keycard that would open any door, but dumb little me forgot it on the desk when I needed to go downstairs but didn't want to wait for the elevator. I was stuck in this exact scenario until I called the front desk to let me back in.
Oh god, this is me every time an attending gives a specific time. Recently I had a minor panic when an unexpected change in my bus route and the sky-high prices for Ubers/Lyfts in my area resulted in me arriving only 15 minutes early for the pre-round didactic session (which was mostly pitched at the senior residents and fellows, so I was kind of confused).
I mean, I was fine once I knew I was still early, but boy howdy the tachycardia when that was still up in the air…
We at least have doorbells / camera next to the stairwell doors, but it just goes to the desk. Hope someone is there.
This is relatable for any workplace that requires secure access where they don't give new employees (+ apprentices/contractors) a means of access so you have to rely on the employees who do have them.
Omg this brings back traumatic memories of me being trapped in the stairwell at URMC, banging on the doors and yelling HELLLLP repeatedly for what seemed like hours. All these years I repressed those memories....until now! 🤣🤪😱
I've actually had the stairwell thing happen to me at a hospital I was working agency for. Didn't know that you needed a swipe card after 6pm! Luckily someone came by within 10 minutes.
During my entire surgical rotation the hospital was building a new wing which involved new pre and post-op units, through which was the main way to get to the OR from the rest of the hospital. If you think getting lost in a normal hospital is bad, try getting lost in a construction site with plastic sheet and temporary paneling instead of walls.
In normal times, the main issue is finding the mythical floor 2 1/2 on which the OR lockers are located.
All the while as a technician I just waltz in any OR without any ID, since there is always a kind soul to let me in
My passion for surgery died at the hands of terrible surgical rotations where nobody was nice. Being a foreign med student, I didn't know about the culture of abuse in surgery here. Today I am a GI fellow. Best decision of my life.
First day of psych rotation the residents let us in and then went to round on their patients. When we left the floor into the air lock room between the ward and the main hospital, our key cards didn't work. We sat there in this tiny room for 20 minutes waiting before the residents to returned
Being locked in the stairwell is a real thing. We would often have to fetch people locked in there. Good times.
I love watching this guy, EVERYTHING he does and say is so spot on!
2 years ago as a student I got stuck in a stairwell the same way (every door locked, alarmed, or needed keycard). I finally had to call on my cell phone for security to come rescue me.
the OR access being locked from the stair is 110% accurate. Props. So glad it’s an universal hospital law 😂😂
Wonderful video! I am not a med student or doctor, however I can really relate to the strange stairwells in hospitals. One time I had a job that involved taking elderly residents to their appointments and runs to the hospital pharmacy. I was up on the third floor waiting for the pharmacy when I realized I needed paperwork from my vehicle. I *thought* I was taking a stairwell that would take me close by the main entrance... instead I ended up in the physcian lounge and changing area, by a totally unfamiliar door controlled by a keycard. Luckily, I could retreat back the way I came and get back to the Pharmacy.
Had an almost identical experience in my second rotation. Had to grab something from the floor below me, only to find that all the doors locked like this.
Thankfully, one of the lower floors wasn’t locked down, but the area was so unfamiliar to me I wandered for a good half hour before I finally worked my way back up to where I started.
My first day of my first rotation I was so nervous I got there in the wee hours of the morning. It was a 30 minute drive away. I get there, burst an aneurysm when I realize I forgot my white coat. Drove back, got it, drove there again.... and was still early.
That eloquent inner monologue was quite something...just as I remember back in my days
I once worked in an office where I continued to find new rooms after 3yrs. My favorite spot was an abandoned staircase. It’s where I took all my mental health breaks, but I would’ve been screwed if I ever got locked in there 😅
The moment I saw the stairs, I already knew what was going to happen. Because it happened to me.
That is hilarious! I got locked in a bathroom once at a hospital. I closed the door and realized after there was no door handle on the door hence no way to open the door. I panicked for a little bit but then was pounding on the door. No answer. I decided to just call the hospital and try to reach someone to open the door. That was the best solution bc that is what I did and it took like 30 mins for a maintenance person to get the door open with like a screw driver. What was bad was I really had to use the bathroom but after calling I wasn't sure how long it would take to open so I was afraid to go in case he might open it unexpectedly. That would be hilarious! "Excuse me! Can you close the door? Can't you see it is occupied???"
I've been trapped in a locked stairwell before, so memories came back!!! 🤣 Another reason to keep a cell phone with you at all times which is on the Verizon system. ☺️ (They normally work inside of buildings.) LOVE the ending!!! ❤️😃
Hah! I'm lucky if I get wifi in hospitals, let alone cell service, if I'm anywhere but under a router or next to a window. I swear that all the hospitals around me are designed to be Faraday cages or something in case there's ever a doomsday EMP
That's the best title/video combination, on youtube with short videos it's very easy to spoil all the sketch with an explicit title. It is just an awesome choice you've made
OMG! This brings back memories of my time has a rad student. So much anguish, so much doubt, so much embarrassment.😥😂😂
Something similar happened when I got locked out the hospital on a overnight after I went to get food on break... The only way back in was the emergency department
I was relieved when he said 4 hours earlier😂 never be late for surgery!
I love the monologue of him feeling abandoned and Lost! Glad he was Extremely Early! 👏😆👍
This reminds me of a time when I thought I was supposed to be at a meeting for a Church calling because I assumed it was Thursday. Just as My Mom and I were heading out of the neighborhood, my Mom mentioned that it was Wednesday. I realized that I was actually a day early and we were able to make a quick turn around!
We both had a good laugh and my Mom said that she's done this a few times herself! 😆
Good times! 😊👍
Why you giving me war flashbacks.
I'm sweating cold icey droplets from all the times I got lost in a hospital.
The ever repeating, seemingly never ending floors, extending towards what seems like a spatial loop of purgatory.
The screams and cries of lost patients and students, hoping in vain for enlightenment of where the hell they were.
And the dooming. Ticking.
Of.
The.
Clock.
And more than half of the staffs weren't there because of a state-wide strike.
I'm scared to go to sleep for if I have to relife these moments even only in my mind, I will cry like a toddler.
I have also been trapped in a stairwell before. No one came for me. I accepted that I would also join the dead pigeon on the 5th floor. I kept trying the doors, just because. Eventually one worked (after not working the previous 5+ times I had tried it, and I escaped.
Can we just appreciate how well this is written?
Too relatable. Hospitals are mean maze-like structures with way too little guidance... When you're down in the culvert with a patient and the signs suddenly stop appearing, it's really cold and you really don't want to admit to the increasingly doubtful patient that you are in fact lost and why yes you could've used that coordinator phone you accidentally brought with you if it WASN'T for the fact that there's zero coverage in the culvert.
There's a point in time where you start running after sounds to get lucky and ask someone for directions but all you can find are other trying-not-to-look-lost med students taking you along for a ride or straight up lying about having to go into the "coat room" that's actually the laundry room because they're as lost as you are but too stressed out to admit it.
I was watching this with my husband and when he reached for the stairwell door I found myself screaming, “NOOOOOO! DON’T DO IT!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yep. I've gotten stuck in the stairwell once as a nursing student..
That reminds me of that one time I showed up 2 hours early for an exam just because I have never been to that specific building before nor did I know where the room was. Stood up at about 4 am. One thing I hate about different faculties of my uni being scattered all over the city...
Its also funny when you unsuspectingly take the stairs and one corridor is pitched black, no ligth, and someone put some lines from harry potter at the door, saying something about a forbidden floor. Kind of funny but given that it was from the cemistry department it crept me out quite a bit 😂
There used to be a shortcut the night doctors would take that cut across the admin offices. At night, it's totally dark and the floor after that is lit like in some ghost movie, it's usually quiet. Totally the most creepy experience available above ground. Especially when you start hearing voices or footsteps echo, only to realise it's someone else on the other end as there's a bend into an elevator that cannot be seen on the corridor. Most doctors hate it but the shortcut was way too useful NOT to use....
Staircases can't beat underground though. No idea how IT does it :)
I was laughing sooo hard. This is so true, poor med students - the hospital is like a maze
I’ve done this. The hospital I was in had zero reception for my cell. Feels frightening.
lol a nightmare. I once had a meeting in the psych hospital building and got stuck between two locked doors like this. I had my keycard but because I didn't normally work in that building it didn't work. Psych hospital docs are pretty skeptical when they find you stuck like that, have never seen you before, and you claim to need to be let out/in. 😅
The part about cutting sutures “wrong” had me dying of laughter 🤣 too relatable!
I've been trapped in a stairwell like that once. My phone ran out of power, and it was late on a Friday. Luckily, there was a window on 4th floor, where I stood in the "Help me!"-position for 35 minutes, till another student noticed me and came to the rescue.
I remember finding a visitor lost in a hall who was in tears. I had complete sympathy because it had not been too long before I felt like crying myself beng lost .
The staircases with random blocked access to random floors (even though you can get to that same area with a different staircase or elevator) and some requiring ID access
Bro, the office I worked in also had the same problem with the doors. You could legitimately have been locked in the stairwell. Scary to think about if you are new to the place.
I've been working in hospitals for years, usually different every week (Implementation Engineer). I try to take the stairs as often as possible, even with my 30lb backpack. Sometimes you run into one of those stairwells...so you wait to be let out, or sometimes go outside and walk around the building.
The Elevator Mazes in some hospitals are fun too. That is a whole video in itself. Shoutout to Cony Island Hospital for an excellent example of that!
Well depicts the anxiety felt. Used them often though never been stuck in a stairwell I do recall some years ago while rotating at Bellevue Hospital, NYC some stairwells being off limits due to feral dogs in them.
Omg that happened to me once when i was a student! It was one of these doors that when they're closed you can't open it from the inside! I tried EVERYTHING, i even tried calling my team leader but i couldn't get a signal!! In the end i just stood near the glass staring like a maniac until a janitor noticed me and let me out! Hahaha good times indeed! XD
I got locked in the stairwell outside a psych ward as a med student, and its troubling to see how many other people this has happened to...