"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a medical emergency. Is there a doctor on the plane?" How many times have we heard the phrase in TV and movies? And how many times have you actually had it happen on your flight?

If we were to believe statistics, it doesn't happen very often. A recent study by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine found that medical emergencies happen on one in 212 commercial flights. In 8% of those, the patients had to be taken to the hospital as soon as the plane landed, and in 1.7% of cases, the pilot had to divert the plane.

But medical emergencies happen in all sorts of public places. And we'd bet that many doctors and their family members have good tales to tell about people asking for help on the streets. So, we've picked the craziest and funniest answers

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