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By Carrie - 11/01/2009 03:52 - France

Today, I'm a medicine student, it's my sixth year, and I have spent the whole day in surgery. No one dared tell me that what I was wearing on my feet was actually supposed to be put over my hair. Which was embarrassing. FML

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By A troubled ex med school student - 06/02/2013 03:08 - United States - Dublin

Today, I attended my first surgery as part of my program at med school. I found out that when I see someone's intestines, I vomit. Even if I'm still wearing a surgical mask. There goes the thousands of dollars I spent on college. FML

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By Anonymous - 08/07/2011 15:46 - Belgium

Today, I went into hospital for knee surgery. When I awoke, I was surprised to find a bandage wrapped around my throbbing head. The nurse explained that a student observer had fainted in the operating room and his head had smashed against mine on the way down. FML

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By HairyBoobs - 05/11/2009 14:22 - United States

Today, I nearly sliced my nipple off while shaving my chest and had to go to the ER. Turns out it was a teaching hospital so I got to explain in front of two doctors and eight med students how, even though I'm a woman, my nipples are so hairy I have to shave them. FML

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By Patoose - 16/08/2016 20:54 - Canada - Montr?al

Today, I had surgery done to fix an ingrown toenail. When the doctor started cutting the nail, my toe wasn't entirely numb. FML

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By Shone - 15/04/2012 23:39 - Canada - Grand Forks

Today, I had to get stitches on my foot and was then forced to wear a plastic bag on my foot while showering. The plastic bag made me slip in the shower and had to go back and get stitches in my forehead. FML

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By sorethumb - 15/12/2015 23:39 - United Kingdom - Bookham

Today, while observing a surgery, I was asked to open a glass ampule of adrenaline. Not only did I break it and get it everywhere, I sliced open my thumb bad enough to need stitches. FML

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By High school senior - 31/08/2017 23:15

Today, I spent the first day of my senior year in the ER because my new ear piercing got so infected that the doctors had to cut the earring out. FML

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By Hot Pants - 01/12/2011 17:09 - United Kingdom

Today, I went into hospital and was being treated by a really cute doctor. Not knowing that I was going to end up here, I put on novelty underwear this morning. Well, at least he found the little green glow-in-the-dark skulls amusing. FML

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By WTFFAIL - 03/12/2012 05:06 - Canada - Montreal

Today, while getting a hernia exam, I accidentally ran my fingers through my doctor's hair. FML

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By picklebug - 26/07/2013 16:25 - United States - Minneapolis

Today, I was taken to the hospital after I fell down the stairs. The physician who saw me bit his lip and said he would have to amputate my foot, and I fainted in terror. One of the nurses later told me to "learn to take a damn joke." FML

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Bueller 0

Sunday 22 February 2009 6:49

Afraid to tell you? More like they were all laughing behind the mask.

anonigra 0

Monday 9 March 2009 2:37

I'm in nursing school, and during our OR rotations, some kids make the opposite mistake, they put the shoe covers on their heads.

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wehhh 0

Wednesday 23 March 2011 3:10

Actually that was what they made us do in one of the hospitals, when they ran out of theatre clogs.

IvyLee_fml 1

Wednesday 6 July 2011 15:30

meanwhile, somewhere else on FML: Today, I got surgery. The surgeon was wearing head caps on his feet. FML.

nb1234 8

Wednesday 12 September 2012 19:22

Lol!

StingRay_RZA 16

Monday 7 January 2013 1:11

Haha nice one!!

Epikouros 31

Thursday 22 September 2011 20:08

Yep, I've worn similar shoe covers when visiting a nuclear power plant.

Chuck94_fml 0

Saturday 24 September 2011 8:58

that's bairley an fml

monkeymegmo 4

Wednesday 22 February 2012 23:36

Whats even more embarrassing is u callin urself a medicine student and not a MEDICAL student stupid

iBiteRoses 22

Wednesday 7 March 2012 2:03

Hey 16, what's REALLY embarrassing is the fact that you're making fun of OP's English when they're from France... smh.

Link5794 18

Wednesday 5 December 2012 23:24

And this website is actually based on a French site.

imazaari 12

Saturday 26 January 2013 17:21

They let you in surgery without a cap on? I call big BS, I went to vet tech school and if we couldn't get away with that with animals why the f' would you get away with it in human surgery?? And a sixth year? You are lying friend.

hurley12 30

Saturday 18 May 2013 7:35

Poorly written but still a good fml.

Orchard 33

Friday 7 June 2013 2:27

Well, I work in the OR and I would have told you. If not me, then one of the nurses or other doctors would have because it's a safety issue, the floors are slippery. If they didn't tell you, then it was to see how long you could walk in those hair covers before slipping and busting your ass; I'm actually more surprised that you didn't slip and fall. Shoe covers come with little grips on them here in the US, so I'm sure they do over there too. Also, the hair covers are rather large and loose, so you would have had to tie or modify them to fit shoes...it's kind of sad that you are a doctor in training...