Bizarre ER, the BBC Three show featuring eye-watering cases from A&E, is returning. For the new series, the production team wants to hear from patients or medical staff willing to share their stories of improbable accidents and injuries, with the proviso that the patients concerned made a substantial recovery.
They are specifically interested in:
- a story with a very unusual wound, fracture, other injury or symptoms
- a bizarre accident - either in terms of its impact on the body, or the details of the accident itself
- something that called for a curious form of treatment or operation
- a fairly commonplace injury which was sustained in improbable or amusing circumstances
Among the cases explored last series were:
- a man who fell into a concrete mixer, severing his limbs, but who was stitched back together by skilled surgeons who used his toes as fingers
- a schoolboy who fell over in the playground, had a pencil in his pocket spear his chest, and walked around for several weeks unaware that the pencil was lodged in his lung
If you have a bizarre, unusual or extraordinary story to tell, please contact Samantha Williams.
