I heard stories of something like this happening during my residency training in a large city hospital, only in my case, it was a psych patient trying to escape from the guarded psych room. I thought it was just one of those urban legends.

Here’s proof from Serenity Now Hospital – pictures and all – that patients really do try to escape the emergency department by crawling through the ceiling.

Unfortunately, the tensile strength of ceiling tile usually has an adverse effect on those attempts.

Amazing.

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