Ioana on the Coast shares the hilarious conversations she overheard in an Australian emergency room

A Canadian woman living in Australia has left thousands in stitches after she shared snippets of conversations she heard during a trip to the emergency room. 

Ioana, from the Gold Coast, overheard some amusing exchanges between hospital staff and patients and was introduced to some classic Aussie sayings while she was waiting to be seen at the hospital. 

The expat, who has been living in Australia for seven years, heard a doctor call a patient’s ‘bag of chips’ meal a ‘breakfast of champions’ and another assure people a screaming child was not being ‘tortured’ but getting an x-ray. 

She also heard a man say his smell was the only sense he had left and someone else claim they had ‘never been sore’ in their life when offered pain medication.  

Ioana has developed a huge online following for sharing her observations about Aussie culture since moving Down Under and assured viewers she was ‘all good’ and ‘alive and kicking’ after her emergency room visit. 

Ioana overheard a patient ask if something was blood or liquid and a doctor replied ‘both’. She also heard a man named Alan say he’s ‘never been sore’ in his life when offered pain relief

In a TikTok clip, Ioana shared the conversation tid-bits she accidentally eavesdropped in on while waiting to be seen by a doctor. 

‘Is it blood or liquid?’ one person 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 informed them he had a ‘bag of chips’.

‘Breakfast of champions, hey?’ Ioana heard the doctor sarcastically respond. 

She also heard a hospital staff member ask someone how their sense of smell was and they answered: ‘It’s the only sense I’ve got left!’.

Ioana made out someone ask a patient: ‘Would you like anything for you pain, Alan?’

‘No. I’ve never been sore in my life,’ Alan said back.  

At one point, Ioana, along with everyone else in the emergency room, could hear a child hysterically screaming before someone came out to clear up any confusion.

‘Apologies for the noise everyone, poor child’s having 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 she is ‘super grateful for all the Aussie healthcare workers and healthcare system’. 

Her video has been viewed more than 555,800 times and drew in 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 been sore in my life.’ is taking me OUT,’ a second commented while a third said: ‘We all know an Alan’. 

‘Gotta love Straya,’ someone else chimed in. 

‘Welcome. We deal with pain like we deal with being served the wrong brand of beer. Slightly irate but hilariously,’ joked another. 

Others shared the ‘entertaining’ things they had experienced in hospital including one woman who said doctors were unsure if she was ‘vomiting up blood or red wine’.

‘My daughter and I overheard ‘ouchie bananas is my safe word’ in Townsville ER at 2am,’ a mum recalled.

‘Guy in the emergency room: ‘I’ll just sleep it off’, Doc: ‘your shoulder’s dislocated mate sleeps not fixing that’,’ another added.