So, SK tells me that the Gauze story isn't my best, so here is one we think is way more disgusting.  This happened at another hospital where a good friend of mine works...

A little old couple come into the ER and ask to have the husband seen by a doctor.  The husband smells so bad (reminiscent of both poop and rotting flesh at the same time)that other people in the ER waiting room decide they aren't that sick after all and go home.  They hurry and get little old man and his wife into a room as soon as possible (and they do give him a room, not just a curtain area...) so others can breathe.  When the doc asks why they are there they explain that they signed up for one of those senior bus tours.  Ride around and see the country ya know.  Part way through the tour they were asked to leave because the husband smelled so bad others were getting sick, so they came to the nearest hospital.  Any idea why you smell?  asks the doc.  Well, I have this sore on my side that is oozing a thick brown pussy liquid, I think that might be it.

Doc takes a look, and discovers that the little old man had a blocked bowel that he left untreated.  It festered and the bacteria ate through his intestines, muscle, and skin.  Now poo poo and rotten flesh juices were leaking out of his side.......

They collected some of the ooze into a syring, packed into 4 ziploc baggies, and sent it to the lab for culture.  Poo juice inside a syringe, 4 bags, and a pneumatic tube still smells so bad it makes your eyes water......