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Patients tell nurses the funniest things sometimes.
- If you're a nurse dealing with one patient after the next, you can usually find humor in some of the lighter scenarios.
- Whether they're waking up from anesthesia or being totally honest and frank, patients can say the funniest things.
- We asked nurses to let us in the most memorable things a patient has said to them.
If there's one person who's most likely to have seen and heard just about everything, it's a nurse. And we're not just talking bodily fluids and things stuck in places they shouldn't be.
"Some patients have absolutely no filter when they're talking to us," veteran nurse Gail told Business Insider. "People trust us and they open up to us, which can lead to them coming out with some really memorable lines."
To find the funniest things patients have said that have left their nurses in stitches, Business Insider spoke with four real nurses and scoured the depths of the internet for more tales.
Here are 12 of the funniest things nurses have heard patients say.