Ioana on the Coast shares the hilarious conversations she overheard in an Australian emergency room
Canadian expat shares the ‘amazing’ conversations overheard in an Aussie emergency room: ‘He’s not being tortured, he’s getting an x-ray’
- Canadian waited for doctors in Aussie ER
- She overheard some funny conversations
A Canadian woman living in Australia has been left with thousands of stitches after sharing snippets of conversations she overheard during a trip to the emergency room.
Ioana, from the Gold Coast, heard some funny exchanges between hospital staff and patients and was introduced to some classic Aussie sayings while waiting to be seen at the hospital.
The expatriate, who has lived in Australia for seven years, overheard one doctor calling a patient’s ‘bag of chips’ a ‘breakfast of champions’ and another assuring people that a screaming child was not being ‘tortured’ but given an x-ray. .
She also overheard a man say his smell was the only sense he had left and another claimed they had “never been in pain” in their lives when they were offered painkillers.
Ioana has developed a huge online following for sharing her observations about Aussie culture since moving Down Under, assuring viewers that she was “all right” and “alive and kicking” after her visit to the emergency room.
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Ioana (pictured), a Canadian woman who has lived in Australia for seven years, shared the hilarious conversations she overheard while waiting at a Gold Coast emergency room
Ioana overheard a patient ask if something was blood or fluid and a doctor answered “both.” She also overheard a man named Alan say he ‘never had any pain’ in his life when he was offered pain relief
In a TikTok clampIoana shared tidbits of conversation she accidentally overheard while waiting to be seen by a doctor.
“Is it blood or fluid?” someone asked to which someone replied ‘Honestly mate, it’s a bit of both’.
A doctor asked a man named Doug if he had eaten anything that morning and he said he had a “bag of chips.”
“Breakfast of champions, huh?” Ioana heard the doctor reply sarcastically.
She also heard a hospital worker ask someone how their sense of smell was, and they replied, “It’s the only sense I have left!”.
Ioana saw someone ask a patient, “Do you want something for your pain, Alan?”
‘No. I’ve never had pain in my life,’ Alan said back.
At one point, Ioana, along with everyone else in the ER, heard a child screaming hysterically before someone came out to clear up any confusion.
“Sorry for the noise y’all, the poor kid’s getting an X-ray, I swear we’re not torturing him!” they apparently said.
Ioana said she is in good health after her hospital trip and is “super grateful to all Australian health workers and the healthcare system.”
Her video has been viewed over 555,800 times and received thousands of comments from Aussies laughing at her experience.
“Breakfast of champions” is such an underrated Aussie saying,” one woman wrote.
“I’m a hospital worker and ‘I’ve never had pain in my life.’ takes me OUT,” a second commented, while a third said, “We all know an Alan.”
“I must love Straya,” another agreed.
‘Welcome. We treat pain the way we treat the wrong brand of beer. Kind of angry but hilarious,” another joked.
Others shared the “amusing” things they experienced at the hospital, including one woman who said doctors weren’t sure if she was “vomiting blood or red wine.”
“My daughter and I heard ‘ouch bananas is my safeword’ in Townsville ER at 2 AM,” one mother recalled.
Man in ER: ‘I’m just sleeping it off,’ Doc: ‘Your shoulder’s dislocated friend isn’t sleeping to fix that,'” another added.