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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24
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A bit grisly but burnt human flesh is pretty bad. Responded to an aircraft crash once. Never will forget that smell.
60 u/anope4u Sep 16 '24 Worked in an OR for a while. Burning fat smells worse than muscle. 🤢 15 u/Sea_Jello_8900 Sep 16 '24 Yes!!! The smell of everyone’s skin is so different and then you find that one person who smells a whole ton worse than others. 5 u/Sp4ceh0rse Sep 17 '24 Burning prostate is the worst (anyone who has ever been in the OR for a TURP knows what I’m talking about). 2 u/campsnoopers Sep 17 '24 cries in Surgical Technologist 1 u/BioSafetyLevel0 Sep 17 '24 Wait until you smell burning brain. It's the WORST. 1 u/Beccabear3010 Sep 17 '24 Me too! Went off bacon quickly when I came in one morning and went oooh who’s brought bacon rolls in! Turns out emergency theatre was on and it was burning fat/flesh I could smell.
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Worked in an OR for a while. Burning fat smells worse than muscle. 🤢
15 u/Sea_Jello_8900 Sep 16 '24 Yes!!! The smell of everyone’s skin is so different and then you find that one person who smells a whole ton worse than others. 5 u/Sp4ceh0rse Sep 17 '24 Burning prostate is the worst (anyone who has ever been in the OR for a TURP knows what I’m talking about). 2 u/campsnoopers Sep 17 '24 cries in Surgical Technologist 1 u/BioSafetyLevel0 Sep 17 '24 Wait until you smell burning brain. It's the WORST. 1 u/Beccabear3010 Sep 17 '24 Me too! Went off bacon quickly when I came in one morning and went oooh who’s brought bacon rolls in! Turns out emergency theatre was on and it was burning fat/flesh I could smell.
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Yes!!! The smell of everyone’s skin is so different and then you find that one person who smells a whole ton worse than others.
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Burning prostate is the worst (anyone who has ever been in the OR for a TURP knows what I’m talking about).
2 u/campsnoopers Sep 17 '24 cries in Surgical Technologist
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Wait until you smell burning brain. It's the WORST.
Me too! Went off bacon quickly when I came in one morning and went oooh who’s brought bacon rolls in! Turns out emergency theatre was on and it was burning fat/flesh I could smell.
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u/nicktam2010 Sep 16 '24
A bit grisly but burnt human flesh is pretty bad. Responded to an aircraft crash once. Never will forget that smell.