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Channel 4’s 24 Hours In A&E viewers were left reaching for the sick bucket following Tuesday’s installment. The episode started with a patient who had a horrible injury that left her foot hanging off.
Kirsty, 45, was rushed to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham after she broke her ankle during a charity run.
While she was lying on the gurney, she declared: ‘Just need something to knock me out.’
One of the nurses who was trying to make her feel better said: ‘Kirsty, we’re going to move you and get you something strong for pain relief my darling.
Kirsty’s bloody ankle was hanging while she hid her head in her hands to deal with the pain.
But it was too much for her, and she “whacked” nurse Anna in the face while the medical team tried to figure out how to move the patient.

Viewers expressed their shock by the horrifying scenes, with one of them hailing it ‘the worst thing’ they’ve seen on the show.
One viewer wrote: ‘That poor lass with the worst ankle fracture I’ve ever seen, and that my friends is why a fun run is never fun ! On another note I wonder how the nurse is? Because that was some punch she took to the face #24hrsAE 24 Hours In A&E.’
‘Omg I can watch surgery shows and all that jazz but that poor ladies foot straight hanging off on 24 hours in a and e was something else…,’ another added.
‘Watching 24 hours in A&E. NOT for the faint hearted, horrific open fracture. Husband watching football in other room so had to go in and warn him not to switch over. Fascinating to watch how they deal with this. Hope they manage to save her foot,’ a third person tweeted.
Kirsty’s ankle was saved by the nurses, who wrapped it in a bandage before she went to the hospital for emergency surgery.
A little boy was taken to the hospital after falling out of a tree, and John, who was 92, was having trouble breathing.
24 Hours in A&E continues on Tuesday at 9pm on Channel 4.