Ohio - Emergency room doctors see everything so it takes a lot to make one cringe -- like seeing a man impaled on a shovel.
Dr. Kevin Klauer, an E.R. doc based in Canton, Ohio, still remembers the day he dealt with a patient who was trying to fix his roof when he fell off and impaled himself on a shovel.
Figuring out the extent of the man's injuries was a challenge to Klauer's team, especially when they had to turn the impaled patient over to see where the shovel entered the body.
"Turning somebody to examine them while they have a shovel impaled in their rectum is not something anyone's been trained to do," he said. "You have to work as a team."
The man was in so much pain that he filled the hospital with his screams. Klauer is empathetic.
"I don't blame him. If I had a shovel in my rectum, I'd be pretty loud too," he said.
But things got worse. More
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