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Let me hear (or read) the best Hepatits C associated skin hyperpigmentation aka tattoos you have seen on patients>>> Ill start

Male, 41, Tattoo above his genitals that read "Love lifted me"
 
Prison inmate with TNT tatooed [sp?] on the dorsal side of his penis.

Quite large as well. The tatoo that is😱

-Mike
 
white guy with 2 tattoos...
#1 prominent on shoulder "blackjack"
#2 while not really a tattoo per se having ones entire penis inked in black probably counts
 
Got you all beat i think

73 yo grandma - tat on inner thigh reads "slippery when wet"

25 yo prisoner - tat on penis of lollipop and above pubis says "tastes like candy"

20ish guy that was pushing 400lbs - when i lifted his shirt to examen abdomen he had HUGE tat across lower abdomen (6 inch high letters) that said "FAT BASTARD"

Joe
 
I had a pt once who had a little nose and two eyes with eyebrows tattooed on the glans of this penis. It was done with the urethral opening serving as the mouth.

I noticed this once the foley was placed. I thought about adding some pressure support but we couldn't get the vent to fit properly to the foley bag.🙄
 
20 something y/0 gangbanger brought in for a GSW to the back. He had a very large tat of Tupacs face on his back. The 9mm entrance wound was right between Tupacs eyes.

Ironic? 😱
 
One memorable tattoo was the snarling demon face that I saw on a woman's shaved pudendum. The demon's "mouth" was the woman's vagina. 😱
 
I assume you have all heard about the guys with a fish on their penis.
it's for fridays.....
 
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28 y/o F diabetic that has lots of lows, unfortunately when altered her legs default to the open position.

Tattoo is right above her vagina and reads, "Property of Mr.Tyler," in cursive writing. her husband's name was not Mr.Tyler.

As a side note: Has anyone ever seen a "DNR" tattoo? I always hear the legends but have yet to see one for myself.
 
21y/o F I had to do a pelvic on. Had a W on one thigh and a W on the other so when she opened her legs it said WOW. 😱
 
Has anyone ever seen a "DNR" tattoo? I always hear the legends but have yet to see one for myself.
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One of the ICU nurses I used to work with had it tattooed on her shoulder right after she was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer. When I asked her about it, she responded with "Well, if I can't laugh at my own mortality, then I would have to start to worry about myself wouldn't I?" Luckily she survived her cancer. 👍
 
wook said:
I'm waiting for a patient to come to the ED after being run over by a tractor trailer that sports a tatoo saying "Don't tread on me"


Wook
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The closest to this I've ever seen was a guy who was brought into the ER after being hit by a car. The medics go "You have to see his shirt"....the held it up and it very prominently read "PLAYING IN TRAFFIC ALMOST GOT ME KILLED".
 
Guy comes in with acute pancreatitis. My attending starts pimping me about causes. I reply "Alcohol, gall-stones, familial hypertriglyceridemia, medications, and, most importantly, scorpion stings" (being a smart-ass). My attending does not laugh.

I pull up the guy's shirt for an abdominal exam and he's got a 10 inch scorpion tattooed on his belly. Brilliant! Now, my attending laughs.
 
On a 35 year-old male's arm, after an unsuccessful code in the ED: "Existence is punishment".
 
Tatoo of a screaming devil in the middle of a very scary dude's forehead. Dude was also holding a knife with intent on slicing his arms up.

Story has a nice ending. Pt tx to ED, inpatient pysch actually helps his PTSD from vietnam, he gets off drugs etc, and he ends up being a nice, productive member of society....but he still has that devil on his head!
 
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Not a tattoo, but close: Young woman with fancy painted long nails which on closer inspection are actually decorated with little stick figures in coitus.
The detail was quite astounding!
 
I have seen this one several times. Seen only in people with history of incarceration... "13 1/2"

It stands for 12 jurors+1 judge+ one half ass chance.
 
I saw one where Pooh bear was sprawled across a woman's pubic symphysis with a pot of honey and licking his fingers. Kind of traumatizing!
 
I saw one where Pooh bear was sprawled across a woman's pubic symphysis with a pot of honey and licking his fingers. Kind of traumatizing!
 
70 something with "sweet" above one nipple and "sour" above the other.

I used to hang out at a friend's coffee shop next door to a tattoo parlor. One of the artists came out and said he just had a guy come in say he was going to prison and needed a tattoo of Pam Anderson upside down on his thigh. Ponder that one for a second.
 
While I was working as a volunteer at an outdoor event's First Aid booth, we got a young lady in who had sat on a bee. While removing the stinger, we found she had a bar code tatooed on her right buttock. Unfortunately, we had no bar code reader to check out the price and SKU.
 
GSW to back through abdominal aorta, after expiring on OR table realized had tatoo on one arm that said "S&^t" and on the other that said "happens"

Irony at its best
 
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20 something YO trauma code who's been shot. Again. And Again. 4 inch tall "F*ck You" across his chest, flanked with a hand on each side giving the C-7 salute.

He's the one we rolled to find 2 fresh bullet wounds, 3 3-4 day old bullet wounds, and had old bilateral thoracostomy tube scars. A true loss to productive society.
 
dchristismi said:
20 something YO trauma code who's been shot. Again. And Again. 4 inch tall "F*ck You" across his chest, flanked with a hand on each side giving the C-7 salute.

He's the one we rolled to find 2 fresh bullet wounds, 3 3-4 day old bullet wounds, and had old bilateral thoracostomy tube scars. A true loss to productive society.
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That's kind of a rude and entitled assessment.
 
Had a nice elderly male paient with a German name/accent in for CP. When I was examining him, I noticed a Nazi era tattoo on his mid chest right over the sternum. It was the one of the eagle (?) with wings spread. I asked him about it, and he just quietly replied that it was done a long time ago during a very dark time...Sent one big chill right up my spine to think that this may have been one of the guys leading my peeps in to take thier last "shower"😡
 
I had a dude (who ive now seen 3 times) with 100% pure honky tatooed in a circle above his chest.

He is 100% dead-on.. nice guy though.. but too much crack hep c etc.
 
spyderdoc said:
Had a nice elderly male paient with a German name/accent in for CP. When I was examining him, I noticed a Nazi era tattoo on his mid chest right over the sternum. It was the one of the eagle (?) with wings spread. I asked him about it, and he just quietly replied that it was done a long time ago during a very dark time...Sent one big chill right up my spine to think that this may have been one of the guys leading my peeps in to take thier last "shower"😡
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I've stopped being shocked by these guys. A little depressed maybe but no longer shocked. Most of the ones I've seen (and there have been plenty) are on Korean/Vietnam-era vets.

I called a Splattoo the other day before even examining the patient. Not just the location but the subject matter as well.
 
spyderdoc said:
Had a nice elderly male paient with a German name/accent in for CP. When I was examining him, I noticed a Nazi era tattoo on his mid chest right over the sternum. It was the one of the eagle (?) with wings spread. I asked him about it, and he just quietly replied that it was done a long time ago during a very dark time...Sent one big chill right up my spine to think that this may have been one of the guys leading my peeps in to take thier last "shower"😡
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Sort of in that same vein. Many years ago I was at a McDonalds in San Antonio and we were in the back of the line. In front of us was a mother and her child and in front of them was an elderly couple.

The little girl, probably about eight or nine, says to her mom: "Look at his tatoo" motioning to the old man in front of her. The mother looks and this horrified expression comes over her face and she puts a hand over her daughters mouth.

I look over and the man has a very faded serial number tatooed on his forearm and I get a cold shiver down my spine. It was at this point in my life that I truly knew that evil exists.

The old man turned around and smiled at the little girl and says in a heavy accent that he likes his tatoo very much and "it reminds me that I'm alive".

-Mike
 
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Chronic Student said:
The little girl, probably about eight or nine, says to her mom: "Look at his tatoo" motioning to the old man in front of her. The mother looks and this horrified expression comes over her face and she puts a hand over her daughters mouth.

I look over and the man has a very faded serial number tatooed on his forearm and I get a cold shiver down my spine. It was at this point in my life that I truly knew that evil exists.

The old man turned around and smiled at the little girl and says in a heavy accent that he likes his tatoo very much and "it reminds me that I'm alive".
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I would love to meet that man.
 
55 yo man with a tattoo above his pubis that read, "GO FOR IT!" in thick letters. It was a little bizarre.
 
It was the one of the eagle
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I believe the term is Reichsadler 😉

We had a guy who had an SS blood type tattoo under his arm. Talk about a chill up your spine.

The old man turned around and smiled at the little girl and says in a heavy accent that he likes his tatoo very much and "it reminds me that I'm alive".
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That's a very interesting attitude, and one I doubt I could ever bring myself to embrace if I went through something of that manner. If anyone is interested, here's an article I wrote for a school newspaper on a woman who founded and runs a Holocaust museum. Her outlook on things is very interesting:

A fundraising lecture for the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum will be held this Sunday, September 25th at the Indiana Theatre at 4 p.m. The featured speaker will be the Museum's founder and Holocaust survivor, Eva Kor. The topic of the lecture will "Echoes from Auschwitz" and will discuss what Mrs. Kor has been through and how she has channeled her experiences into a learning experience for all who hear her speak.

"There are some details in the lecture, that are important to understand how far I had to come in order to survive and to heal myself," said Kor. The topics she will discuss are not simply a rehashing of the statistics one reads in a history book, but rather a first hand account of a survivor who refused to allow what happened to her to destroy her, and at the same time try to prevent genocide from occurring again through education.

"The biggest problem in the world is prejudice. If we really understand that prejudice is the cancer of the soul, it destroys people, families, cities, nations and the world. We could cure it, but no money has been put towards that goal. No broad projects have been started to prevent prejudice," she said, "and if that is to occur it must start early, with children."

While many seem to think that hate and genocide on a massive scale is a thing of the past, of our grandparents' generation, Mrs. Kor wishes to remind us that such a mindset is dangerous. "We can not allow hate and prejudice to run rampant. We have seen it time and again, with Hitler, Saddam, Osama bin Laden, Milosevic."

One of the key points that Kor makes during her presentations is that one of the most important skills we can learn is forgiveness. Her forgiveness of the Nazis who persecuted her and her family has drawn both praise and condemnation. It is often asked of her how she can find it in herself to forgive persons who committed all manner of atrocities against such a broad and diverse group of victims. "Forgiveness has nothing to do with the victimizers; it has everything to do with the survivor. You take back the power and you are no longer a victim."

Criticism for her public forgiveness has come from some very unlikely sources- including various Jewish activists and organizations who are seeking retribution for the genocide. Similar backlashes were seen towards a Nazi physician who was involved in the experiments that Eva and her twin sister, Miriam, were subjected to. He spoke publicly and appeared with Eva during a return trip to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, outside of Oswiecim, Poland. Following an article by a Jewish columnist for a German newspaper- which included the address of the 89 year old, now senile, doctor- someone firebombed the home, in an apparent attempt to exact revenge upon the former colleague of Dr. Josef Mengele.

Mrs. Kor was outraged by this because she felt the doctor had fulfilled the second part of her belief on how to move beyond the hate. "The perpetrators have to take responsibility, at least moral responsibility for their actions. He was the only Nazi who ever talked to me, admitted what he did, and said he was sorry."

While some may right off forgiveness as ineffective or a false cure, Mrs. Kor disagrees, "Forgiveness is the miracle medicine for healing emotional scars of the past. It costs nothing, has no side effects, and if you don't like the way it makes you feel you can have your pain back."

As for those who have hunted Nazi war criminals, Mrs. Kor feels that they did the best they could, but leaves everyone with this point, "Do we want to hang the criminals or do we want to make the world a better place? Forgiveness is a seed for real peace. Every problem starts with one person and it can stop with one person."

Tickets for the lecture are $10 and will be available at the door or can be purchased from ---------------------. All proceeds to continue the expansion of the C.A.N.D.L.E.S Holocaust Museum and Education Center which was rebuilt after being destroyed by arson in 2003.
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My fiancee is a dentist and one of her patients was so proud of his tatoo that he had to show it to her in HER DENTAL OFFICE. It was a huge tatoo covering most of this patients upper back.

A large penis is draped over a humanized vagina (arms, legs and high heels), the penis is kind of squirting something and has a caption reading "one fu*king thing after another".

First of all kind of gross tatoo, second wtf are you doing showing this to YOUR DENTIST in their office. He was REALLY proud of it.
 
Dr.Evil1 said:
My fiancee is a dentist and one of her patients was so proud of his tatoo that he had to show it to her in HER DENTAL OFFICE. It was a huge tatoo covering most of this patients upper back.

A large penis is draped over a humanized vagina (arms, legs and high heels), the penis is kind of squirting something and has a caption reading "one fu*king thing after another".

First of all kind of gross tatoo, second wtf are you doing showing this to YOUR DENTIST in their office. He was REALLY proud of it.
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It's Detroit....what do you expect? :laugh:
 
such a great thread. Good idea OP! I don't really have any good ones... only one I can think of was a 17 year old involved in a rollover motorcycle accident, couple T spine fractures, frx spleen, couple ribs, maybe a pneumo (I was on trauma ICU). low back tattoo: "Rough Rider."

Q
 
Dude with "Buck Up" just above his johnson..
 
"Born to Lose" on some guy's torso. I think he was complaining of chest pain.

It was really hard to keep a straight face through that one.
 
I took care of a trauma several years back - A 80 y/o gentleman with an interesting tattoo on his left forearm. A series of 6 numbers in blue grey ink ,faded over the decades.

He survived 3 years in Auschwitz, but was beaten to death by 3 teenage punks over pocket change.
 
FISKUS said:
I took care of a trauma several years back - A 80 y/o gentleman with an interesting tattoo on his left forearm. A series of 6 numbers in blue grey ink ,faded over the decades.

He survived 3 years in Auschwitz, but was beaten to death by 3 teenage punks over pocket change.
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No doubt there is scum on this earth. Beating an old man.. sad.. Karma is a m-fer.. When they get to jail bubba is gonna have his way with them..
 
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