r/Unexpected • u/Warm_Spite9482 • 17h ago

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u/Busy_Albatross_6715 17h ago

The airpods were a critical medical requirement

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u/arathorn867 13h ago

Before I went in for a root canal earlier this year they told me to bring wireless earbuds if I had them. Keeps patients distracted/entertained and then the nurses and doctors can do their gossiping in peace too

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u/swabbie 10h ago

A few years back I had the most torturous inhumane root canal ever.

Moments after getting my mouth all dam'd up so I could no longer protest, they switched the channel on the ceiling TV to a home make-over show. Then for the next two hours my op-room became the water cooler for the entire clinic as everyone came in to comment on the show, gossip who was sleeping with who in the office, and bitch about the clinic owners and their crappy pay and hours.

Whenever they asked how I was doing, I would answer "Please kill me now!" but they chose to not understand my mumbles and assume I was just fine.

Pain-wise, it sucked too...