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When you go under the knife, you assume that the highly-skilled surgeons know exactly what they're doing once they cut you open. Of course, you hope that the margins for error are minimum and that you will wake up with all your body parts intact, as they should be (unless you're in a Saw movie). But even surgeons encounter "oh shit" moments, and Reddit's surgeons are revealing all their scary experiences where things almost took a drastic turn for the worst. If you have an upcoming surgery, this probably isn't for you.

Doctors are one of the few professions where they get to see it all. And by all, I mean the weird and incredibly stupid things people choose to shove up their butts. Hey, no judgment, but, when someone shoves 15 wine corks up their behind and then ends up in the hospital, I question their intelligence, somewhat. A Reddit thread asked proctologists to share the strangest things they've removed from patients' butts before, and honestly, you couldn't make these replies up. Scroll through, and you'll see what I mean.

Having surgery is a pretty big deal, even if it is a minor procedure. With all sorts of risks at stake, anaesthesiologists have an important job of ensuring that patients stay sedated for the entirety of the surgery. But sometimes they can mess up, causing patients to wake up during their operations and of course, freak. The. F*ck. Out. I'm sure I would! Reading through these real accounts of people who have woken up during their surgeries is enough to make me pray I never have to go under the knife if I can help it... it's truly the stuff of nightmares!

Doctors are notorious for having bad handwriting; everyone has been in a situation where they've been given a letter or prescription by a doctor but it's impossible to read. Well, it's lucky that doctors don't have to design logos, because if they did, this is what they'd look like: a load of scribbled garbage! Check them out...

Sometimes people put foreign objects in their bodies. On purpose. And then they get stuck (shocker!) Sometimes people get things inside their bodies that shouldn't be there, by mistake. Regardless of how the stuff gets in there, sometimes surgery is the only way for it to be removed safely. Reddit asked the surgeons of the world for the weirdest things they've ever have had the misfortune to unearth from patients' bodies, and some of the answers are so strange, it's kind of terrifying. People truly know how to turn their bodies into junkyards. Here are some of the weirdest answers we found. 

A Reddit thread asking doctors to expose the biggest case of "faking it" they've ever seen and the replies are nothing short of brilliant. These patients take hypochondria to a whole new level. Read and be amazed at how far some people will go to get some sympathy for things that don't exist. And if you like these, here are more cases of patients who were caught faking various ailments.

Twitter product manager, Laura Gao, took over twitter feed this weekend with her viral imaginary script of her and her unpleased dad flying together when there's a medical emergency on the plane. People loved it and used the meme as Gao intended—to talk about themselves and what they do.