The revelry of one of the most festive days of the year — and the spookiest — often carries over into hospital emergency rooms, where doctors and nurses treat patients who may have taken their Halloween celebrations a bit too far.
Multiple emergency room doctors described working in the ER on Halloween night as “memorable.”
“Suffice to say, you can get a clown in one room, a Dracula in the other room,” Baruch Fertel, director of quality and operations for the emergency departments in the Cleveland Clinic Health System, told ABC News.
Sometimes, there are contests among the staff on who’s taking care of the patient with the best costume, Michael Ethan Stern, emergency medicine physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, told ABC News.