Ghost Stories in Hospitals

Unexplained apparitions and encounters physicians have witnessed in medical settings

Stories about Ghost Stories in Hospitals

The Night Shift
Ghost StoriesPediatrics

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The Night Shift

They were running a code on a pediatric patient when the security camera captured something in the hallway that none of them could explain. The hospital administration classified the footage. The nurses never stopped talking about it.

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The Apparition in the Delivery Room
Ghost StoriesObstetrics Gynecology

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The Apparition in the Delivery Room

The patient's mother had died of cancer two years earlier. She had always wanted a granddaughter. And in the final moments of a difficult delivery, three people in the room saw her standing at the foot of the bed, watching.

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The Anatomy Lab Phantom
Ghost StoriesInternal Medicine

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The Anatomy Lab Phantom

Gross anatomy is where medical students learn that the dead are just bodies — inert, silent, teachable. But on her third week of dissection, something happened in the lab that made her question whether that was entirely true.

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The Operating Room That Wouldn't Stay Dark
Ghost StoriesAnesthesiology

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The Operating Room That Wouldn't Stay Dark

OR 7 had been decommissioned for renovation. The power was disconnected. The lights were off. But every morning, the surgical lamp over the table was on, and the monitors displayed a flatline tracing that corresponded to nothing — because nothing was connected.

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The Night Shift in the ICUFeatured
Ghost StoriesCritical Care

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The Night Shift in the ICU

Dr. Chen had always dismissed ghost stories as the product of exhaustion and wishful thinking — until the night she saw a recently deceased patient standing at the foot of another patient's bed, smiling.

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Read the Stories That Changed Everything

Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts.

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Physicians' Untold Stories by Dr. Scott Kolbaba

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The Stories Medicine Never Told You

Public descriptions say the book draws on more than 200 physician interviews and presents 26 selected accounts involving end-of-life experiences, unexpected recoveries, faith, and other events the narrators found difficult to explain.

By Dr. Scott J. Kolbaba, MD. Check the retailer for current formats, pricing, and reader ratings.