The guy probably experienced levels of pain far worse than anyone else in history.

This video is inaccurate. The story is much more horrifying and complex then this video makes it out to be. JCO facility technicians Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were speeding up the last few steps of the fuel/conversion process to meet shipping requirements. It was JCO's first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years; no proper qualification and training requirements were established to prepare for the process. To save processing time and convenience, the team mixed the chemicals in stainless-steel buckets. The workers followed JCO operating manual guidance in this process but were unaware it was not approved by the STA. Under correct operating procedure, uranyl nitrate would be stored inside a buffer tank and gradually pumped into the precipitation tank in 2.4 kg increments Hiroshi Ouchi, one of these workers, was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital Emergency Room, three days after the accident. Dr. Maekawa and his staff initially thought that Ouchi looked relatively well for a person exposed to such radiation levels. He could talk, and only his right hand was a little swollen with redness. However, his condition gradually weakened as the radioactivity broke down the chromosomes in his cells. The doctors were at a loss as to what to do. There were very few precedents and proven medical treatments for the victims of radiation poisoning. Less than 20 nuclear accidents had occurred in the world to that point, and most of those happened 30 years ago. This book documents the following 83 days of treatment until his passing, with detailed descriptions and explanations of the radiation poisoning. It was in fact this family that wanted the doctors to do everything possible to try to save him. Accounts of nurses and doctors wondering if this was moral or ethical have been recorded. There is a book on amazon about this called "A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness" retelling this story and all its horrors. It does Hiroshi Ouchi and his family a disservice to tell his story so inaccurately.

It's interesting how almost everyone has tried to misconstrue this story when his family actually told the doctors to do whatever they could to keep him alive. When his heart stopped three times in one day, they pleaded with the doctors to bring him back, each time doing so and being successful for a short time.

The doctors weren’t using him for experiments, it was the family’s wish for them to keep ouchi alive in the hope he will survive. The doctors and nurses def got trauma from this experiments and really felt bad for him. If you want to blame someone, blame his family.

"The men stagger backward, blinded and dazed." *shows the scientists nodding their heads and smiling*

They should’ve just let him die. That’s torture

You make it seem as if this happened extremely quick, his skin didn’t start to deteriorate until almost day 20 and he actually asked to be saved

So much is untrue in this video: -Ouchi’s foot/leg was NOT removed in any way. If it had been he would’ve bled out as his blood was unable to clot. The medical team decided against amputations for this reason (I’m guessing this comes from that fake photo online supposedly of Ouchi with his limbs,with one leg missing, hanging and covered in blood) -The medical staff did not “decide” he would be a guinea pig, his family and Ouchi himself at one point were very much in favor of treatment up until they were told there was nothing more that could be done. Meaning his doctors DID let him die. They endlessly contemplated ending his treatment but Ouchi’s family encouraged them to continue -The skin on his back side was not effected in the way described. It was actually mostly intact until he died.Additionally, the skin grafts expected to fail. It was an attempt to keep those fluids in as much as possible. -His skin did not start to peel like that until AFTER he arrived in Tokyo. The team was shocked by how normal he looked upon arrival. -Ouchi was given extreme sedatives and painkillers during this time. It’s not as if he wasn’t suffering but all videos on this ignore this fact.

They basically made him feel like he's burning in acid for a month before he died the poor poor soul RIP

"Only human being to live with no dna"What a record to be broken !

Those doctors just tried to save Ouchi since that’s what his family wanted. So the doctors didn’t have any other choice and are not to blame.

he actually died the moment the radiation passed through him. his body is starting to rot like a corpse but he was alive to see it.

There are so many errors with this video it’s incredible. They had mSV doses, not SV as reported. They also weren’t “highly trained” nuclear technicians, they were low level employees doing what they were told to do by managers who had removed safeguards designed to stop this happening. The pretty cartoons are nice but getting the facts rights is a fundamental of telling the story.

59 days later, the dudes body is literally decomposing but his heart is still beating and they are still trying to keep him alive. That's just messed up.

FYI, the doctors are not the bad guys they are making them seem to be. The real reason why they kept him alive and resuscitated him after his cardiac arrest is because, in Japan, doctors are legally required to resuscitate a patient if they do not have a do-not-resuscitate consent form signed by the patient's family. The medical staff themselves kept advising his family to sign the form so Ouchi can stop being in pain. It was only on his 81st day in the hospital that Ouchi's family finally agreed to sign said form. On the 83rd day, he had another cardiac arrest and the doctors did not resuscitate him anymore.

Peaked Interest did a far better video on this story that explained how workplace negligence led to Ouchi's death. Plant workers were under immense pressure to produce rods with much higher uranium quantities to speed up the process, because they were behind on production. This among other corner cutting measures made the three workers take lethal or dangerous levels of radiation. This fact is glossed over at the very end of this video. Also, the doctors didn't really make the decision to try experimental treatments. Ouchi's family insisted that they keep him alive via any means possible and they simply couldn't let him die without a Do Not Resuscitate order signed by the family. They insisted that the family visit every day so they could see the reality of what Ouchi was going through and that this could hopefully change their mind. The doctors knew that he was a dead man and that any treatment would most likely prolong his suffering. They did it anyway because the treatments were experimental and if they didn't respect the family's wishes by keeping Ouchi alive they'd face criminal charges for allowing him to die. A DNR wasn't signed until 81 days after Ouchi's admission. He died two days later when his heart stopped again.

This video must be titled “How doctors tortured a dying man”.

There’s actual pictures of him on google, that man died in the most inhumane way possible

Actually, I think the doctors kept him alive at his family's request. The doctors tried every single medical treatment, including ones that were still in testing, just to keep him alive in the slim hope that he might live and that he can see his family. I believe the doctors had no ill intentions, in fact, I think they were deeply hurt by the trauma he had to go through.

This guys needs to revise his facts, they're not very accurate.

Radiation challenge: the girlfriend wasn’t happy about this !

The short answer: welcome to death we will be taking off in 3 mins.

Me getting my finger tip burned: 😢😭😭 Can't even imagine that man's pain

I honestly don't know how the heart was still beating with a melted body, that looks painful.

"If you fly directly over that core, I promise you, by tomorrow morning, you'll be begging for that bullet!" Now i know why

Short answer: he died

I feel like this video is biased against the medical team. Other sources claim that the medical staff were obliged by law to keep him alive since no DNR order was signed by the family. Granted, no one should ever have to go through this, and I feel deeply for what this man went through, but this is poor research.

This is horribly inaccurate. The doctors were not keeping him alive for experiments or just to torture him, they were keeping him alive because that’s what his family wished for. They wished to keep him alive as long as possible because they loved him and wanted to see him get better. The doctors did not force him to stay alive against his will, it was his family’s wishes to keep him alive.

Someone needs to lock up the Doctors who kept him alive. Absolutely criminal to use him this way.

This is just terrible, what they did to that poor man was pure torture💔

My heart hurts so bad for this guy. The amount of suffering . Deeply disturbing for me

It's kinda interesting how people straight up believe everything posted by some random guys without having even a smallest doubt about its accuracy

These so called 'doctors' should be in prison for torturing a dying man. I can't imagine how much pain he would have been in. 'First do no harm'

so not only did they not listen to him when he said he wanted to die, they made him live in severe pain, but in top of that they conducted experiments on him without even permission from him. This is just wrong.

You made the doctors look so bad in this video. This is ridiculous.

This is actually incorrect, he was conscious till about half way through his stay at the hospital. And his family were the ones who decided to keep going, although they weren’t notified of how bad the situation actually was.

Ive seen the image of his body, absolutely haunting

“it burned white blood cells” Shows red blood cell.

Wow! this makes being turned into a Feral Ghoul in Fallout seem like a walk in the park. The amount of unfathomable agony this man went through is just incomprehensiblly staggering to hear and to think that people say what he went through much worse then the video describes. Phew, my condolences for all of your suffering. Rest in Peace

The head doctor actually says in an interview that he pretty much knew he was going to die, and he let his family see him so they would realize the same thing. It was his family that kept him alive, not the doctors. There were some days when his heart would stop 8 times. It actually angers me that the doctors are painted as the bad guys when they were required under Japanese law to keep him alive at his family’s request.

Jesus Christ how were the doctors aloud to keep this guy alive. I'm sure people who suffer from this fate in the future will rush to the hospital knowing this is what will happen

Those doctors are more like monsters Why would they do such a thing as to let him die the most painful death possible

At 3.46 there is huge falsehoods being told about the medical team. He was kept alive because his family refused to sign a DNR authorization.

It’s not real that his skin is falling off in the first few hours after the exposure as of the interview from nurses he looks normal but with severely red tan on his arms

The medical team should’ve been arrested for violating human rights

The doctors who tested on him should have been arrested for in humane actions against a patient, like, wow.

A little bit of context: They were pressured to complete the task assigned to them. Normal safety procedures are ignored for the sake of completing the task. The doctors didn't treat him like a test subject. They treated him with respect and tried to save him. His heart was beating faster than someone who's running. The doctors are legally required to resurrect him. Later the doctors convinced the family to sign a paper which allows the doctors to not resurrect him. He died when his heart stopped one more time.

The doctors were legally bound to keep him alive. It was the family’s fault that he had to go through that

straight up wrong how they forced him to live.

"controversial decision" HOW IS KEEPING A PRACTICALLY ZOMBIFIED MAN WHO IS LITERALLY MELTING FROM THE INSIDE OUT ALIVE JUST "CONTROVERSIAL"? THATS DOWNRIGHT CRUEL.

There are some facts to this tragedy that you misrepresented. By the time he was airlifted to a more well equipped hospital, his skin was not falling off and he was not in pain at all. In fact, he felt fine for a few days and couldn't grasp the severity of his situation. It would take days before he began to feel severe pain.

That’s so evil they let him suffer instead of letting him die. The pain he experienced must have been insane.

I received the highest daily dose of internet after watching all of his videos

This is one of the worst stories I’ve ever heard. What the doctors did to that man was pure torture.

He was literally incapable of healing. Why would they ever believe that he could recover?

Love how the nurse is just like "I'm game"

Ouchi: barely human and dying The Japanese doctors: Oh no you don't!

Extremely *UNETHICAL.* If Ouchi was my patient, I would sedate him, keep him as comfortable as I can until he passed away. He would be LIT. I would not keep him alive suffering in agony like that. As soon as his heart stopped, I would let him go.

I'm seen some gruesome and truly nasty things in my life in person and over the Internet, but the picture of that mans body the day he died tops it all

This is like something straight out of Unit 731's playbook. They conducted live vivisections on Allied POW's and Chinese civilians without any anesthetic while they were fully conscious during WW2, so why would anything be different now?

This is so terrifying, I shivered after hearing about the pain this man went through

me: *smashes the keyboard becuase i am mad* everybody else at the reactor control room: 0_0

You could say he had history’s worst ‘ouchi’

This was not just pain but unfathomable pain jesus

*This was messed up.*

This film is really interesting but i am really suprised about one thing. The doctors, who refuse to turn off life support of the patient, the patient that skin was nonexistent, had blood in his eyes. They where making experiments on living-wreck. That is unaccpetable. They were propably on the same level with "doctor" Mengele. Nuts.

the documentary that showed the actual doctors in it said he seemed like he just had a sunburn ,not that his skin was already falling off like it said at 3:22

That takes the phrase ,,1999 bizarre summer" to a whole another level

This poor man truly deserved better in life

I thought about this, is it sad I like to watch this but don’t like to do school work? Both educational. Oh that’s why this KZfaq channel is fun to watch.

Here's a list of wrong information in this video: Ouchi was not experienced, in fact he wasn't trained for the task he was given at all and he wasn't told that the concentration of U in the mixture is 18% instead of the usual 5%. There were no immediate burns, except for damage to his left hand, which was swollen. Ouchi didn't vomit into the tank, but in the changing room where he passed out. His skin didn't start coming off until days after arriving at the hospital. Nurses who were taking care of him were fairly optimistic, because he didn''t show a lot of damage at all. He was lucid and talking to people, even joking. The doctors didn't keep him alive just to experiment on him, his family was insisting on trying everything possible to keep him alive. The doctors allowed for daily visitations, so that they can see his horrific condition and sign a DNR order, but they were stubborn. The whole depiction of where he begs the doctors to die so they put him in a medical coma is completely made up. He was on heavy doses of sedatives since his eyelids came off - even then his family insisted on keeping him alive. The medication didn't work on him not because he was so damaged by radiation, but because nothing could stay in his system long enough - he was leaking from everywhere, including heavy amounts of diarrhea and mucus from his intestines, later blood. The doctors legally had to resuscitate him, because the family didn't want to give up even though he was basically a skeleton.

5:24 that part was actually incorrect. His foot never fell off.

0:13 False. The greatest dose of radiation any human being has ever experienced is 117Sv in 1958 by Cecil Kelley, the worker in the Los Alamos nuclear power plant. The dose was so powerful, it immediately wrecked havoc on every part of his body, including the immune system, blood cells(they actually died the moment he was dosed, and since the bone marrow function was also jeopardized, his blood became transparent as the plasma of his blood became the only thing that was left in it) and nervous system. He said his body was "burning up" and began rolling on a pile of snow despite the fact that he looked mostly normal besides some minor burns and wounds sustained during the escape. The massive cell death in his blood caused his blood pressure to drop to 80/40 while his heart started beating at 160 beats per minute. He died 35 hours later after initial exposure due to cardiac arrest. While Hisashi Ouchi isn't the highest on record, the development of Ouchi's symptoms was far worse than that of Cecil Kelley, mostly because his entire body became so damaged that he couldn't sustain himself to see his body wear away in the same way Ouchi would have. However, in terms of explaining the horrors of what radiation can do to a human body, this video's topic is the most appropriate of them all. Edit: Changed 120Sv -> 36Sv after finding a more verifiable source. Edit 2: Changed 36Sv -> 117Sv after more research. Read the comment below.

He asked to die yet they still resuscitated him. What's wrong with people?

Possibly the largest concentration of misinformation in regards to play length I've seen in quite a while

i saw interviews with his doctor and he is not as evil as you make him seen. he had to deal with a family that expected him to survive. the doctor did what he could to save the man and eventually convinced his family to sign a DNR for next time his heart stopped

narrator: and his organs fell apart and his muscles peeled off his bones and a few months later he began to disintegrate! Me: Thanks For Giving My Nightmares!

Plot twist: he turns green and samuel l Jackson asks him to join the avengers

What makes me mad is that he didn’t beg to die he wanted to live and the doctors did an amazing job keeping him alive for the 83 or 87 days

this video make it look like they were wearing safety suits and being completely protected when disaster struck lol and they missed the fact that someone was also helping ouchi pour the dose in to the tank

I google imaged Hisashi Ouchi. Truly heartbreaking. Keeping him alive for 83 days is criminal imo. ☹️

No matter how many times I hear this story it still gives me the chills just trying to imagine the pain and anguish he had to endure

Peaked Interest imo made a better vid. He also debunked the claims that the doctors kept him alive. In fact the doctors took the family to a daily visit to show the state of Ouchi. And the doctors reported other stuff to. So they shouldn't be blamed.

I see a lot of people criticizing the doctors and nurses. Most of the time we’re not allowed to do what we want or what we think is best. These peoples families wanted everything done to keep them alive. Please lets not judge so quickly.

This is absolutely scary and extremely sad to hear.

I feel so hearthbreaked and horrified at the same time googling this guy, so sad what he experienced.

This video is not true. Although he did get burns the nurses there actually believed that he might be able to go home and they didn’t decide that he would be a guinea pig they genuinely wanted to help him survive. He also died of a heart attack after three times of his heart failing they decided not to bring him back. This video doesn’t include how gorey this story actually is.

This video makes the hospital out as the bad guys but his family was very cooperative with keeping him alive and actually begged the hospital to restart his heart every time it stopped

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What happened to the first guy is truly terrifying. I can't imagine the immense pain he must have felt while those doctors refused to let him die.

I've hear this story 3 times and they are all different...

The doctors wanted to end Ouchi's suffering. However, Hisashi's family refused to let him die and demanded the doctors do anything necessary to save him.

They did not mention how his family played a huge role in getting the Doctors to keep trying to save ouchi. They held onto hope and wanted him to survive

I’ll save you the long explanation: He died.

A much more accurate telling of this story was made by Lady White Rabbit. It's an excellent video if you're interested in learning more details (and more accurate ones at that) about this devastating story.

Soo I guessing he’s referring to that famous photo of that guy who has his hands up and has 1 leg. But that’s actually someone who has severe burns. He never lost a leg

Don't search photos of that man, they are so gross that you can feel his pain

Man Receives Highest Dose of Nuclear Radiation - This Is What Happened To Him he gets mad and turn green while going "hulk smash"

This just gave my brain a whiplash. Watched this right after watching another video stating the doctors and nurses were trying their best to help him heal because it's what he and his family wanted. But the narration on this one depicts the hospital workers in a bad light. Idk. Maybe at the end, yes, he wanted them to stop. I can't imagine how painful it was for him. :(((

4:30 "..I am not a guinea pig.." Doctors: _Unit 731 intensifies_