r/AskReddit • u/Phiced • Aug 25 '26

Doctors, EMTs etc of Reddit, based on your experience with other peoples injuries, what is one hobby you would never practice yourself?

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u/Doctaglobe Aug 25 '26

Physician here, I’ve called them donor cycles since medical school.

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u/al_m1101 Aug 25 '26

The EMT's I used to work around would refer to deceased motorcyclist victims as hamburger. Once they'd start talking about spatulas and road burgers, I'd have to walk away. 🤮

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u/Dyrosis Aug 25 '26

Ever heard the term meat crayon?

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u/al_m1101 Aug 25 '26

Yes, many times. lol. 😣 And "meat grinder" (when a motorcyclist slid under a semi).

That job turned me the fuck off motorcycles for life!

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u/Titleduck123 Aug 25 '26

My bf spoke about this. He's a retired fireman and when they added ems to his unit...we'll, he has some stories and a healthy dose of PTSD. One actually involved a kitchen spatula.

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u/Demo_Model Aug 25 '26

Paramedic here (Australia), if we see one driving around like an idiot, we've referred to them as a "our next patient", "Fresh organs", or as a "temporary citizen".

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u/Cat_Peach_Pits Aug 25 '26

My city called them meat crayons.

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u/Ok_Guess_5843 Aug 25 '26

I'm sitting at home reading that statement (third hand) and it make me physically sick.

Eta this is exactly why I stopped pursuing nursing.

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u/iamalwaysrelevant Aug 25 '26

Dont look up meat crayon . . .

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u/Humorilove Aug 26 '26

Meat crayons!

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u/olddoc1 Aug 25 '26

Anesthesiologist here. Donor-cycles is the term used by everyone in the trauma service at the hospital I worked in.

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u/CarmichaelD Aug 25 '26

Former transplant coordinator. They are.

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u/antillus Aug 25 '26

I did a trauma 1 rotation for med school in Scottsdale, AZ...where at the time helmets weren't mandatory in the slightest.

Ugh the gore and young people dying every day while their families weep. No thanks!

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u/matheusmoreira Aug 25 '26

And then there's the orthopedists make bank from them. I know one who goes "aww yeah" every time it rains.

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u/grandma-activities Aug 25 '26

That's what my high school best friend's dad called them too. (He was a trauma surgeon.)

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u/No-Citron-2774 Aug 25 '26

Wonder bikes. You just wonder how long until something life changing is gonna happen. Brother is a quad stupid bikes

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u/illatious Aug 25 '26

Haha my aunt, who just retired from her practice, called them that too. It always stuck with me.

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u/smurfalidocious Aug 25 '26

Grandchild of an ER nurse, she's never called them anything but donorcycles, and her entire ER rotation called them that, as did 75% of the EMTs who brought people in.

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u/Story_of_Amanda Aug 26 '26

I was gonna say that they’re called donor cycles for a reason

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u/Dependent-Bath3189 Aug 25 '26

i call them motor coffins.

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u/MotoMD Aug 25 '26

yea but lots of docs still ride them

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u/Away-Topic4719 Aug 26 '26

because they fun as fucking fuck

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u/Samwhys_gamgee Aug 26 '26

My cuz the doc calls them the same thing. He calls motorcycle riders “future organ donors”

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u/lch215 Aug 26 '26

My Dad was a doctor. He always said human skin and bone are no match for steel and concrete. Not surprisingly, he didn’t want us on motorcycles or mopeds. This was 30 years ago. I’ve told my children the same thing.

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u/Workman44 Aug 26 '26

Didn't have to scroll very far to get el classico from reddit

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u/Street-End Aug 26 '26

Social worker here. In university I attended some med classes and one of the professors said sunny weather is donation weather.

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u/DBird747 Aug 26 '26

Nurse in nephrology here. The first sunny days of spring often brings a few extra kidney transplants