People’s Wild ER Stories That Give Us Newfound Appreciation for Doctors

The human body can withstand many unbelievable things. This storyteller used to work as a medical researcher in an ER and has encountered many odd things. One day, a man who was houseless came in and complained about foot pain. As they asked the man more questions, they learned that he hadn’t taken his shoes off in over a year.

It doesn’t take professional medical training to know that wearing shoes nonstop for 18 months is bad. Really bad. No wonder his feet were in pain. We wouldn’t be surprised if the material of the shoes had started meshing with the skin of his feet. Our storyteller witnessed his colleagues take the man’s shoes off, and it wasn’t pretty, to say the least.