Doctors, what are the dumbest patients you've met?

[@metarcee2483]

Story twelve explains the "do not take medicine if you are allergic to medicine" warnings in the commercials.

[@Just1Nora]

I had a good snort at that, thanks. Seriously, who takes sulfas with a sulfa allergy?! Perhaps she wasn't aware that the horse antibiotic was a sulfa because it wasn't on a list of drugs to avoid? But also, antibiotics don't do anything for colds anyway as they're viral! So much basic knowledge just totally skipped.

[@breannahogeland-sg3kp]

I love the commercials that are like do you have asthma ?Talk to your doctor about ( blank ) Also tell your doctor if you have trouble breathing because ( blank ) can cause asthma related ☠️ like excuse me what … ?? lol 😂

[@KitsuneYashaX48]

Yeah, I've kinda found out the hard way that more than likely, no matter how stupid a warning on a package or commercial or whatever may seem, if it's there... there's probably a reason it's there. Not that knowing that helps me much because I still sit there going, "Well what kind of IDIOT--???" lmao

[@elizabethkelley2559]

The only people who could consistently identify pills by sight alone are experienced pharmacists.

[@tessiepinkman]

And Addicts who's been in the game a long time. We know what's "good" and what's bullshit, and most of us have had loads of medications during our lives. So, we become semi-experts on pills and medication. Not as good as a pharmacist, of course, that's why I put the "semi" infront of "expert". EDIT: Just wanna add that I'm clean now, 4 years, after being hooked on heroin, amphetamine and Xanax (and whatever else I could find) since I was 14 until I was 30.

[@metarcee2483]

I can identify MY meds, and only mine, by sight.

[@angstydoodles1101]

One of the pharmacists I work with is an actual god at this. Sometimes when pills are dropped on the floor but not found for a while, we put them in a container, and he identifies them before we put them in the hazardous waste. We could just haz waste them unidentified, but this is more fun. We do get yelled at sometimes by our manager, though.

[@jonmendelson1104]

If you're talking about with respect to the first story, I can very clearly tell apart my pills by sight alone. They look nothing like each other so it's very simple to tell them apart. Each one is a different color and a different size and shape. I don't think I'm an addict because I take the pills prescribed by my doctor.

[@DVG7093]

​@@tessiepinkmangood job! Keep clean!

[@KenshiImmortalWolf]

laughed pretty good at '20$ a gram' like, the fact he's in business mode first thing is hilarious

[@Just1Nora]

Well, the price does give an idea of the quality and if it might have been...fortified. Almost everyone who has been a teen once has had some bottom tier skunky weed that probably has X on it. Or was that just my cheap-ass friends? 😂

[@YunxiaoChu]

@@Just1Norahmm

[@RMMilaRei]

I feel so mad and disgusted with this monster who blinded their cat! Pets are just like babies! Completely dependent on you and these people see them suffer and think their opinion is above anything else! It's heartbreaking

[@tangentyoung5633]

My darling cat is asleep next to me. I can't think of anything I wouldn't do for (spayed and chipped) her.

[@samsimington5563]

You'll hate Pennsylvanians that own farm animals then. They're stupid enough to give whiskey to donkeys just because there isn't any laws against doing that

[@sentient_baby_carrot]

to be fair the person who blinded their cat would probably treat a human child the same way

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

@@tangentyoung5633”chipped and spayed”?

[@ArranVid]

Pets are not like babies, just stop. Some pets are annoying! And I have had pets and don't worry, I looked after them well. Lots of you Americans call cats and dogs as 'fur babies'...lots of us Europeans cringe when you say stuff like that.

[@erincarter1469]

Reason #1 why I will never become a vet. I'd end up in jail from taking pets from idiots.

[@melissacooper8724]

If they can't follow instructions on medicating their pets properly then they shouldn't have pets to begin with!

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

Cant you have the animal taken away if they're intentionally doing something to hurt thhe animal. Lik the women refusing to give the dog insulin??

[@erincarter1469]

@@trappestarrgaming3422 The police or animal control can come and take the pet. But then they end up in the local shelter. I'd be tempted to just take them, which would be stealing.

[@linkeddevices]

One of the things I learned that prevented me from pursuing vet science is that it's not for people who love pets actually... You treat pets more like farm animals.

[@linkeddevices]

​@@erincarter1469you can adopt from a shelter. They have the stealing thing handled. You just bribe them like $300 bucks

[@StormTheSquid]

17:25 I get how it happens with cats. They're fluffy as babies and their "identifying features" are hard go tell apart, and if youve had them since they were born like my cats, some people just look once, think they know, and don't think to check again later. My cat Ninja, we thought she was a boy at first.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

We have a rescue cat that my son found at our local high school a year or so back. We took the cat to the Vet Clinic here as she needed treatment at the time. Even the Doctors (yes, plural) went back and forth a few times as she was still a kitten. They didn't figure it out for sure until we took her in for spay or neuter. And that's how we figured out Arnold was a girl.

[@janemiettinen5176]

It happens with nearly every animal with visible genitals, as a former vet tech I have stories, even animals with parts from both genders. But yeah, some kittens are extra difficult to figure out, only time will tell. Lots of pets for Ninja and Arnoldina :)

[@animal_gal_adventures9885]

The exact opposite thing happened with my cat artemis. He was a very lanky, fluffy kitten and the person we bought him from said he was a girl. We didn't bother to check because we don't care about the gender and only found out the truth when we got him neutered.

[@kaycep6819]

But you brought Ninja in to the vet and it was clarified. I get that sometimes it’s tricky, but these folks in the story are “extra” Ninja is lucky to have a good family ❤

[@mugglecatful]

I had a literal hermaphrodite cat. Had all the equipment. 😅

[@joaobarros6744]

For me it was when I was in ICU (as a doctor). There was this patient which was sedated and with a tracheostomy and family visits were happening, when I come into the room to examine her, the sister was feeding bread to her through her tracheostomy (which goes into her lungs)...

[@NarwahlGaming]

Plot twist: the sister was her life insurance beneficiary! 😂

[@HannahSiemer]

Good intention, wrong tube

[@EllpaFox47]

NOT THE BREAD

[@adelerodriguez2432]

​@@NarwahlGamingholy moley!

[@nerdypenguin9164]

I can understand confusing a cats gender, I have a hard time telling the difference, but a dog? With full parts? Idiots. I often wonder how we're at the top of the food chain

[@Kennedy00Louis]

fr, specially when it's a new born kitty, I've mistaken lots of cat's genders, when they grow up just a bit I can tell the difference way better.

[@Just1Nora]

I've seen lots of vets are leaving empty scrotes on neutered males. It's easy to tell that they're male and neutered all in one, and I think it decreases healing time. I shadowed my vet once in college for my editorial photography class, and I got to see both cool (an exploratory abdominal surgery for an undesended testicle in a small male dog) and heartbreaking (cat declawing) things. The testicle was like that one itty bitty grape on the vine that doesn't grow. I was quite surprised how tiny it was, even with the size of the dog.

[@belatedcascade5]

Being on top of the food chain is what allows these people to exist. If we weren't, they would be something else's dinner. Nowadays, we keep these people from getting themselves the Darwin award.

[@terrorbillywilly7918]

Simple. Since we're at the top of the food chain, there's nothing actively hunting us, so a lot more stupid people end up surviving and going on to have children. They go on to pass their genes onto their descendants, and it just keeps spiraling down hill

[@selenalulamoon1167]

Male Dogs... have a very obvious... seath??? You can't mistake that unless their fluffy as fuck.

[@TheDarthChungus]

My step mom was a pharmacist and once had an angry elderly lady come in asking if my step mom was putting drugs in her pills

[@ResidentMilf]

"Um, yes? That's my job?"

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

I can understand a lot of misconceptions with the elderly. A lot of them do not have fully functioning, logical, thinking brains anymore due to age and dementia. And things were not always explained to them in the past. With this one they probably grew up and for most of their adult life Medicine was what your doctor and pharmacist gave you, but Drugs were what addicts took and drug dealers tried to sell you. Never being told that the two were just different words for the same thing. Ignorance was intentional as those that did know many times wanted there to be a distinction. Much like those who push Organic stuff today want people to think Chemicals are all bad stuff.

[@tangentyoung5633]

​@@davidtherwhanger6795I thankfully do not mix up "medicine" and "BAD DRUGZZZZZ" like my older relatives. Oh boy did they ever! However, several developed dementia, so we were trying to unalive them with every pill or insulin dose. It's my turn to get into the old category. However, I am *extremely* careful and organized with my cr*pton of medications. No. There is NO child or whatever to " "help" ". I am quite capable. I just have to, as said, be organized and careful. NO DISTRACTIONS while filling up the weekly pill box. NO INTERRUPTIONS while working on necessary pharmacy refills. Etc. :)

[@Termini_Man]

this one made me laugh quite a bit lol

[@kiwisweetheart71]

😆🤣🤣

[@PrimeCypher]

Somebody definitely misunderstood the phrase “feeling a little hoarse.”

[@frostfamily5321]

At least none of the stories were about patients being adamant against the danger of xenotransplantation or even about what are organs and what's not or anything!

[@jamesnguyễn5510]

Wait!? It's not "My throat is a little 🐴?"

[@Sidhiel946]

EC Vet tech here, can confirm this quote: “not all pet owners are crazy, but every crazy person owns a pet”. Owners are, 8 times outta 10, idiots. Insulin over/under-doses are common, as well as popped staples/sutures after surgeries because owners “thought he/she looked sad with the cone on” and took it off (patient chews them out or gives itself a severe incisional infection). Ignorance is bliss with these people. Lots of elderly, emaciated pets that “just started acting sick yesterday” and are covered in mats, bedsores, and excrement. Lots of people who drop $500-$1000 on “purebred” puppies (read: backyard breeders) then don’t keep up with their vaccines because they have no money or don’t care and have to surrender because the pup is dying of parvo. Also lots of intact female pets with life-threatening uterine infections (pyometras) because owners didn’t want to spend the time getting them spayed young, so now the pet is deathly ill/septic and the owners are out $4000-$6000 for surgery, post-operative care, IV antibiotics, and multiple days in the hospital. We try to educate folks, but people just ignore us, go on their merry way, then get angry when they have to come back or their pet doesn’t improve. We tried, KAREN. You listened to your breeder, which is like getting gynecological advice from a pimp.

[@neliaferreira9983]

Burrying their hybernating pets. 😟

[@meegansandberg1308]

I always thought that people who assign human traits to their pets were stupid until I did it myself. When my cat was diagnosed with diabetes, my vet told me not to give her treats anymore. I explained this would be hard because I use treats to coax her into doing things she doesn't like to do, like take medicine or let me clip her nails. My vet said that 5-6 treats a day probably wouldn't hurt anything. I told her my cat was accustomed to getting more. She replied cats can't count. 😂

[@AG-iu9lv]

I like that you give so many of these folks grace, like "he's not dumb, how was he going to know without being told? Seriously, why did no one tell him?" That's a good-dude move, well played. Also thanks for the kindness towards pregnant people asking slightly strange questions, it's true that pregnancy hormones crank up anxiety and dump a lot of brain fog, plus it changes literally your whole body and how it works. With all that going on, I'm with you, the "is it ok to 💩 close to birth time" question isn't illogical or dumb.

[@brendenhawley2225]

Honestly considering we are walking with a brain designed for hunter gathering, in a data overload techno world, a lot of dumbness is understandable. Also people are only experts in what they are experts in. Patients generally are not doctors, biologists, so the fact they would not understand the basics makes sense. For example I actually understand the cream one, most medicine is taken orally, I can totally seeing someone connecting those dots and not realize cream is generally an exception to that. Granted I would know doctors are not always smarter through. That and counterintuitive stuff is sometimes true. People who do not believe that may be known by names including and not limited to flat earners, quantum mechanics deniers and people who are convinced computers are a devil plot no one understands, because how does one’s and zeros explain what they do.

[@IFBBProYeo]

But .. what would you do INSTEAD of going to the bathroom? The pressure on your bowels is so high when you are at full term! You can't just hold it until you go into labor, And if you do, you're going to be crapping your brains out as soon as your feet go up. I can definitely understand the brain fog, The extreme fatigue from your body being sick for months, but when you follow through the question, I guess the doctor is supposed to tell you what to do instead? Go in and have it medically extracted?

[@Abutado]

I love how hung up you are on the yeast infection cream 😂 yes, thorough instructions, usually with images, so how she messed that up is puzzling.

[@purplegroot9787]

Either she failed to look at the instructions or she watches too much South Park.

[@kaycep6819]

Last time I needed this, the instructions were in English and Spanish with images for both languages.

[@Abutado]

Right? I mean she had everything else right, how did she confuse vagina with mouth?

[@juliekline2871]

I actually think I know how this happened. When I had this sort of issue as a teen a Dr recommended a yogurt treatment. I asked if any particular flavor was best or if I could use whatever I found tastiest. I felt really dumb when they explained the Yogurt would be inserted not eaten. Maybe this person thought if you could use yogurt as a cream the Monostad was edible.

[@TrunkyDunks]

Imagine being that surgeon or the nurses. You spend WEEKS trying to save dudes foot, put in so much effort. Just to have him go swimming in putrid lake again and you have to cut it off

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

And, of course, "I'm Suing 'Cuz It's All YOUR Fault!"

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

I really like how you defend patients for not being dumb. It's very kind of you. 🙂

[@TheAdditionalPylons]

This is why nurses, doctors, and dentists always talk to me like I'm a mentally ill child. Its frustrating but I understand why, they have to deal with a lot of morons and cant just assume that anyone has any common sense.

[@mrorcadood]

feel like we’re getting a lot of gross medical ones recently

[@PeanutbutterHobgoblin]

Agreed

[@Lilli_Loves_Bondi]

We are

[@chancia8990]

and thats great

[@kittyKatfish]

I'm not a doctor. A lady I babysat for gave her baby nebulizer medicine directly instead of using a nebulizer. I have asthma, so when I tried to explain how to properly give the medication, she argued with me. I even offered to let her borrow my nebulizer and show her how to use it on a baby. She wouldn't listen. I refused to give the medicine to him that way because it made him sick to his stomach.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

Child abuse on her part.

[@melissacooper8724]

Anyone who can't properly medicate their children/pets shouldn't be parents/pet owners!

[@Ariento]

Funny thing is I have a lady dog who lifts her leg to pee. She just started mimicing her older brothers when we got her and never stopped even though the boys have since passed.

[@neliaferreira9983]

Yup! Had one like that too. 😄

[@lucindawelenc2191]

​@neliaferreira9983 Mine did too. It's a scent-marking thing, not a full-bladder urination.

[@robertanesmith172]

My girl does it every so often but, it's funny, only when the pee spot she is sniffing is higher up on the tree, pole, etc from where a larger dog peed prior, otherwise she squats. Also funny is that when she squats, she holds up one back leg. If she's pooping, all 4blegs are on the ground. When I 1st got her and noticed this, I had to laugh. People have asked me if she's injured due to her holding one of her legs up to pee. Nope, that's just her way. I figured she was trying to do a "lean" to keep pee from getting on her feet. She doesn't like going out if it's wet outside.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

​@@lucindawelenc2191I have seen female cats spray when they pee.

[@xerosereify]

I always find a not insignificant chunk of these stories from medical professionals often sound like the medical professional was just bad at their job. Like you cant tell me the wrist lady was stupid- it sounds like she had something more serious going on that noone picked up on. Also a lot of the stories involving very sick, or very elderly people don't seem weird given the person involved might have dementia or just be too sick to think straight....

[@NDNauthorgirlie]

Yeah the lady with the wrist and the guy with two holes obv had something else going on

[@annnichols3091]

I recall a veterinary clinic that had an illustration of a pregnant dachshund, a veterinarian, and a shocked woman. The woman couldn't understand how her dog got pregant because she was never allowed outside and the only other dog in the house was her brother.

[@Seabeastie20000]

These are much easier to understand as someone who's high school anatomy class was almost solely coloring pages. Tiny southern schools shove their coaches into health, anatomy, psychology classes when they have no specialization training (and im squinting suspiciously at their teacher licenses)

[@missamanda2703]

Had a man treating a nail wound in his foot. WITH PICKLE JUICE. He was also diabetic. Also, a construction worker who hadn't had a tetanus shot in 10 years. That man was a beast.

[@flamefangstar]

Was it. Working?

[@codeskhr4092]

i mean same here with the tetanus shot and i get small cuts/burns almost everyday never had a problem

[@NarwahlGaming]

Pickle juice, butter, bouron, leeches... All home remedies big pharma don't want you to know about! 😂

[@wendyryder2708]

When I was single and used to travel, I had problems with my ears when I fly, so I would be given capsules placed in hot water and then sniff it up to clear my ears! When we had a shift change on a long flight, I requested the medicine to inhale for my ears, when a new steward arrived with the inhaler medicine, he looked at me and said”You know you don’t drink it”? I just gave him a weird look and he told me that when he gave some to a lady and before he could explain it to her, she DRANK it down! I couldn’t believe it!

[@flamefangstar]

What medicine?

[@wendyryder2708]

@@flamefangstar Hi! I don’t know if they still have it! I’ve always had trouble with my ears, particularly in planes! It’s a clear capsule that you put in hot or boiling water and it dissolves and you inhale it and it clears your ear and nasal passages! It worked!

[@llamawalrushybrid]

@@wendyryder2708 I'm big into the ETD community because my ears are a huge pain, never heard of this stuff! sounds neat!

[@adelerodriguez2432]

​@@wendyryder2708I wish I could get that stuff!

[@michaelmosier5627]

I have been a RN for 32 years. I have had some crazy patients. I will admit that a lot is ignorance because most hospitals or doctors don't take the time to teach patients. I often will treat a patient or the family as if they don't know anything about an issue so that I cover everything they need to know. I have had to instruct family members before giving a rectal suppository to take it out of the wrapper before inserting it. The issue with knowing what your medications look like is not always the patients fault. If the pharmacy uses a different supplier then the medication may look different. The pharmacy will usually put a sticker on the bottle explaining it will look different.

[@TheSamjane4]

Yes happened to me. I was diagnosed with asthma as an adult. The doctor prescribed me a preventer and Ventolin. He however did not tell me what either was for. After only seeing people with asthma in movies I assumed you waited till you have an attack and then pick one to use . 😂. Since the preventer was very expensive and appeared to do nothing I just used the Ventolin when I had an attack …which was at least 2-3 times daily . I did this for a couple years until a pharmacist noticed I was going through the Ventolin rather quickly, He suggested I see my GP to assess the preventer I was on as it clearly wasn’t working . My reply …What’s a preventer.😂. The pharmacist bought a few out and I was like Oh I have that one but it doesn’t do anything when I have an attack..He then spent 15 minutes telling me what it was for and how to use it 😂

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

9:40, As a mechanic I get this all the time too, but with people thinking that mechanics can just identify any car problem just by listening to the customer describe it, or worse just by reading the customer's explanation in a text message. We also had a customer come back repeatedly for a noise that we couldn't find. Finally the boss has the guy drive him to show him the noise. So the guy takes the boss, goes like 90+ miles an hour into a bend and hard cuts the wheel to make the noise. Well no wonder we didn't hear the noise, we're not driving your car at 90+ on roads with a 35MPH speed limit.

[@beaucarbary5619]

I was the therapist on a hospice unit for 10 years. There was this patient that was actively dying: mouth hanging open, eyes half shut, very clearly at the end. Her daughter and SIL come in to sit with her, and within a few minutes daughter comes running into the staff room saying the patient was choking. I said "She's choking?," to which daughter responded, "Yeah we poured a cup of water in her mouth and now she's choking!" Why anyone would pour water into an unconscious person's mouth is beyond me.

[@martypowell116]

Years ago, in a hospital, we used to refer to a diagnosis of TSTL, or "too stupid to live".

[@katieminns9778]

Used to work in an ER on reception every now and again. This gentleman came in looking very well, well fed, healthy, groomed, had a Rolex on so was definitely well off too. He came up to the front desk and said “hey I’ve got stomach aches, it’s like really bad hunger pains?” I asked him when he last ate and what it was he ate. He said “six hours ago, just a biscuit.” I advised him to take a seat and to grab a sandwich from the vending machine as the wait was long. He did and I observed him eat it to see if it made the pain worse. after 20 minutes, he came back up to the front desk. “Hey, just to let you know, I’m going to head off. The pain is gone! Think I was just really hungry.” Dude had stomach pains that felt like hunger and thought trekking to the hospital was a better idea than grabbing something to eat.

[@jinxhead4182]

Ok, the dude with obviously glandular hypospadia is a great example why a) parents need to be open and honest with their children about their bodies b) sex ed is important in school That guy was failed by the educational system and his parents.

[@paticakee8686]

Considering I have to on the regular argue with smooth brain individuals why I cant give them food that they are allergic too makes these stories less shocking

[@mkman1]

Nothing like having a dude tell you he's allergic to mayonnaise because of the egg then order a burger with egg in it then get mad when you say no we can't do that

[@Abutado]

I used to work as a server in an assisted living facility. One resident was severely allergic to shellfish but always ordered shrimp when it was on the menu. We of course had an allergy board, but sometimes the newbies didn't pay attention or couldn't remember the different residents (to be fair, we had like 20 Bills). One time he was given his wish by accident, we had a huge scare when he decided to take a nap during lunch and we all saw a plate of shrimp in front of him - turns out he never got around to eating it, just fell asleep. Poor new girl thought she'd killed him though 😅

[@watchtime8760h]

My dad was in an active heart attack for 3 days. Thank god he finally went to the dr. He was nauseous at first. Then he started vomiting and couldnt keep anything down. For 3 days. He thought it was a stomach bug. He has diabetes as well. That means any other sign of the heart attack was on existent. You cannot feel other effects due to nerves being damaged from diabetes. The only sign was nausea and vomiting. He had emergency stents put in 2 separate times in a 2 day span in the icu.. awful times but hes doing okay now, 7 months down the road

[@ameliab324]

Regarding the cats' sex one - I tried to check the sex of two little kittens some time ago, and with one I just saw that there was *something* there, but it didn't resemble any body part enough for me to be sure, and with the other one I saw the testes, but didn't really...recognize that they were testes? Like, they seemed too big somehow, plus I didn't see the penis, which I assumed had to be visible on a male cat, so I wasn't sure either. So yeah, checking a cat's sex is not as simple as it seems, or at least not everyone is good at it haha

[@juanvilas5341]

I have a sister in veterinary and indeed people are ridiculously stupid, they never take seriously what their vets tell them and then they are surprised when their beloved pets end up seriously ill or in the black bag. This happens to all health workers in general, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and I am mentally preparing myself for the inevitable rant of stupidity and totally ridiculous situations on the part of my patients.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

☘️ GOOD LUCK! 🤞 As we all know, YOU'RE GONNA NEED IT, FRIEND! 🙏🙏🙏

[@samsimington5563]

"FlYiNg tRuCk jUmP"

[@Hollyberrystreats]

Yeah, one of my meds has changed shape like 4 times. Expecting doctors to just know them all by sight would be strange

[@Philipasu]

And here I thought that scene in Dr House when a lady told House her inhaler wasn't working, and when the doctor asked her to show him how she was using the inhaler, she actually sprayed it on her throat (on the outside), like it was a perfume, not inhaler... but really always manages to bring out a better idiot.

[@baliyae]

Story 4: That poor dog. I can’t believe the owner is that stupid. How can you not give a diabetic dog insulin? She should be banned from owning animals.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

You're too kind! We All For DRAWING & QUARTERING THEN BEING VERBALLY ABRASIVE!

[@IPlayWithFire]

Dogs: Yeah, you can't mistake gender. Cats: When they're neutered and not hairless, female and male look identical.

[@majortom7038]

I was admitted into the hospital once, and when the doctor came in to see me he told me “I am the tummy doctor”. I looked at him and said “so you are the gastroenterologist.” Remembering the look on his face still makes me smile.

[@SewardWriter]

I gave my cat her medicine while listening to this. At least I know I'm better than some people.

[@boopdoop2251]

I appreciate you giving the benefit of the doubt to the patients who probably weren’t dumb, just misinformed or ill!

[@PeriwinklePig]

"Sulfa"

[@rosiefay7283]

12:24 No, it says SULFUR.

[@PeriwinklePig]

@@rosiefay7283 Yeah, but underspark pronounces it as "sulfa"

[@rosiefay7283]

@@PeriwinklePig Lol that anybody would have a problem with that.

[@PeriwinklePig]

@@rosiefay7283 ...I've never suggested it was...? Calm down lmao.

[@superslimanoniem4712]

The correct form is, in fact, sulfa.

[@paigeb5390]

Story 15 made me chuckle coz I recently had a similar thing happen, but the other way around. I have a male cat called Marzipan, but we call him Pan most of the time. Pan was a stray for about 6+ years before I took him in, so were not 100% sure how old he is, but the vet thinks he's between 8-12 years old. He's completely deaf, he has a heart condition, and he walks weirdly due to both his front legs joints / elbows not being where they should be, all of which the vet discovered at our first appointment awhile ago, and she thinks he's had all these issues since birth. During that appointment she also checked/ confirmed that he WAS in fact a male cat. Anyway I took Pan to the vets for a routine check up at the end of February (we have them every 6 months), and despite his chart, me, and all the paperwork saying he was male (and the fact you can tell just by looking that he's male), the vet, the vet assistant, and the receptionist all kept referring to him as female (she / her). And every time I corrected them they'd say "he" once, then immediately go back to saying "she / her". It was incredibly odd as they're normally really good about calling him by his name or using the correct (male) pronouns. I even went as far as to check they had the right cat, and that they had his info correct on their system, which yes it was pan, and yes they did have him listed as male on everything. So I don't understand why they kept referring to him as female lol. Tbh I think the issue was probably caused by his name, but we've never had this issue with them before, so I'm hoping it was just an off day for all their staff. Hopefully next time they get it right :)

[@onionbubs386]

The pan flag in your icon really puts the cherry on top to your story

[@paigeb5390]

@@onionbubs386 lol thanks :) Honestly I really struggled to come up with a name for Pan, i spent hours everyday for over a month thinking of names and looking at name lists but nothing really 'clicked', so I asked my family for help and my brother was the one to come up with the idea to call him Marzipan (Pan for short). My brother was like "hey why don't you call him Marzipan, Pan for short, so you two can match! You use PanPaige.. for everything, you love marzipan and you named your previous pets after food, so it just makes sense." lol. My brother was right I do tend to go by "PanPaige.." on alot of things (its a combo of me being pansexual, my name, and a play on the name of one of my fave pokemon lol), I do love marzipan especially around Xmas, and I did name my last 3 pets after food (cookie, crumble, and twiglet). So we tried out the name a few times and it really just clicked for everyone in the family. If my brother hadn't of suggested it, I have absolutely no idea what Pan would be called right now lol ... Tbh id probably still be researching names xx

[@llamawalrushybrid]

Pretty sure it's because of the "Dogs are masculine and cats are feminine" crap. Annoys me too. Like I get it, the pets don't care. But like you brought up it can signal a medical error and that's not confusion people need.. and it's just rude to ignore a correction too.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

Is your cat white?

[@paridhaxholli]

10:40 this is why shampoo bottles have instructions, because some girl is going to think that drinking it cleans her hair

[@koolers19]

My mom worked in a pharmacy back when I was growing up. So 80s & earlier 90s. The stories she has told me over the years are crazy the 1 I rem & my fav. An older man came in & wanted to know why the medicine was so hard to open. He couldn't get the foil off of it, then he wanted to know why it tasted so bad & was like a wax. My mom just said she turned around & went & got the pharmacist cause she was laughing so hard & couldn't tell him it was a suppository & u don't take them by mouth. 😂😂I still lol every time I think of this story or tell it

[@flowersgamingg]

Some people don’t know you can only move your lower jaw? ADULTS??

[@liuqmno3421]

Ohh it didn't click with me that they might've thought they meant the upper jaw! Maybe I'm the stupid one

[@llamawalrushybrid]

Know and "know" are a bit different. I'd wager most people would need to try and move the upper before they'd learn this. Also it can just be a miscommunication. For me I could think "oh they want a better angle.." and in my mind they could be communicating that they want a better angle to the left side of my upper jaw.. which would mean moving the bottom jaw to the right. So more of a "your left or my left" question but poorly phrased.. Either way this was probably the top 5 most excusable of the video

[@Lindwyrm6429]

1:10 this story makes me so mad. I would NEVER risk my dog’s life because of some shit I found on the internet, and the fact that anyone would because they’re that stupid makes me so angry. Obtaining an animal is way too easy, and more people should lose their pets

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

🙏🙏🙏 A-MEN!!🙏🙏🙏

[@AnyoneMining]

I'm glad that we gave our bunny the medicine we got from the vet and it helped because we thought she was gonna die. She thankfully is still alive.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

Congratulations! Skinny Noodle little rabbit (Peter Lily Pad) could play dead & 'stay dead' 'til you called "Here, Bunny!" 🐰🐇

[@accidentalgoddess]

My grandfather was a doctor, had his own general practice when he was done working for a hospital. One of his favorite stories to tell us was the young woman coming in furious that she was pregnant after he had fitted her for a diaphragm to prevent just that. She claimed to have followed all of his instructions perfectly (conveniently forgetting that NO form of birth control is 100%.) Still, he went over with her step by step on how she had used her contraceptive. How she prepped it, correct. How she inserted it, correct. How it had been placed/sat, correct. Finally, he asked her what kind of jelly she had used, wondering if maybe there had been a problem with the brand or something. Her answer stunned him. "Grape." The woman hadn't been using spermicidal jelly, she'd been using Smuckers. He loved this story so much he sent it in to Reader's Digest and it was actually printed and has made the rounds every since. While I doubt he's the only doctor with a similar story, whenever I hear it or one like it make the rounds -- and most recently heard it a couple years back on youtube, which he didn't really live long enough to ever use as he died at 92 in 2001 -- it always makes me think of him and how he could never tell that story without chuckling. The last time he evert told it to me (for the umpteenth time) I was 15 and had my first boyfriend...who was very confused when my grandfather gave him a small jar of strawberry jelly, because grape just doesn't work.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 We LOVE Your Grandpa!!

[@littleblackcar]

I used to work for a vet. I remember two cats in particular (unrelated) who came in with girl names and . . . one of them, the owner knew he was male but her granddaughter had named him and they figured the cat wouldn't care. The other one was extremely fluffy and came in for a spay when "she" was young, so it wasn't entirely surprising that they didn't know.

[@fantasystaplesuwu1554]

18:45 I don't think you need to be a medical professional to know that the uterus is separate from the digestive tract...

[@SirberusKhaos]

you Do, however, have to be taught that information and many people are not, in fact many are taught nothing about whole sections of the body, because it's "wrong" to talk about certain things that people need to know in order to live well...

[@lemguins7031]

The story with the "seed hole" he isn't an idiot, the parents feeding him lies thinking it will equip his life with anything besides confusion and misunderstanding are.

[@pandavroomvroom]

thats the goddamn reason why we have INSTRUCTIONS on CREAMS AND THEY STILL MESS THIS UP?!

[@EnderHasEntered]

One of my old teachers was also a nurse and she told the class about one patient who came in with a stab wound, _knife still in wound,_ who had come in for something completely unrelated. My teacher couldn't even recall what he actually came in for because everyone was just so baffled

[@kianentertainment3968]

Okay, just thought I should mention, my grandpa died because he thought he "didn't need sunscreen". Ended up getting skin cancer and didn't get to watch me grow up. So please, I beg you, wear sunscreen ffs.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

Sorry about your Grandad! Experience is a harsh teacher But Sometimes A Fool Will Learn In No Other!

[@googelle7555]

I made it 3 minutes into the video before having to stop. These poor innocent animals being "protected" by true idiots ... 🥺

[@darcybrummett7004]

14:10 The sting/burn should only last less than a minute. I had to use prescription eye drops after cataract surgery many years ago that stung during the first couple of days after said surgery. I didn’t like the sting but I dealt with it. I get that some people may be more sensitive to eye drops but that’s where they’re supposed to go.

[@naturetime3823]

Pills are required to be labeled individually in the USA. Anyone can look it up, but that doesn’t excuse the laziness

[@jadab618]

Vet tech girly here! Last week I had an owner say that he was having trouble giving his cat the prednisolone and said he eventually got sick of doing it every 12 hours so he gave the last 5 dose at once….. yeah that’s not a safe or effective thing to do. Then he complained that the cat wasn’t improving and seemed to get worse. Then declined bloodwork and any other diagnostics and then declined further treatments, then got upset that we weren’t helping his cat when he was clearly sick. I still don’t really know what he wanted us to do without running tests or treatments. There’s a surprising number of clients that expect us to wave a magic wand and cure their pet.

[@katrenacanaday4992]

Just to say....dumb, like the word fat, does not usually carry negative connotation. Its the state of being unenlightened on a matter. Stupidity is usually what applies here. Idiocy might be more apt on some of these

[@KamisamanoOtaku]

@17:25 I _kind_ of get it. Maybe not for the specific example, but *in general* the following can make proper identification a challenge: 1) Most people don't want to study their pets genitals intently, nor do all pets tolerate it. 2) Most people aren't especially familiar with how pet genitals look; they're not impossibly different from humans, but they're "different enough". 3) Checking too soon can be an issue, especially if you're not in custody of the pet the whole time e.g. stake a claim on a young puppy only to find out it was misidentified once it was a bit older and more obvious. 4) Already neutered males, depending on how they "heal up" back there.

[@beeef5139]

Honestly I could never be around these “professionals” bc I have severe social anxiety and would probably say something stupid, and then they would immediately mark me as stupid

[@extremchiller410]

i can asure you (i knew a few people wo work in thge medic fields. first responders /nurses ect. ) it takes a lot befor they mark you as stupid.

[@Kanako_ketsunake]

Small suggestion: do you think you could do a thread on veterinarian stories? I wanna hear stories of people saving animals and stuff

[@rantinggrannyb7408]

I'm listening to this just before I go to sleep and out of all of them The guy that didn't wipe his butt is the one that made me cringe the most. I'm afraid I'm going to have nightmares tonight. That is so disgusting. If I were the doctor I would have refused to see him. Ewwwww 🤢

[@parisgreen4600]

I love how the last patient (with the foot/ankle injuries) ignored every part of his aftercare instructions, but took the time to carefully bag up all the external fixator hardware and return it. People are a mystery.

[@hollyhell3772]

I'm a vet and the dumb "client" was someone from my family. She texted me to ask if we sell those body suits for cats out of surgery (which prevent them from licking their stitches), specifically a medium, in the hospital ai work at. The cat was recently spayed, and she reported that the cat was unable to walk or eat with the first suit she bought, so she cut it cause she thought it was too tight, it didn't help. She bought another one, no difference, and she cut it again, still didn't help. Asked me if we sold medium ones, as she didn't want to keep buying more because "they are expensive". I told her we did, but asked her when the surgery was. She tells me "we picked her up from the vet at 2pm". It was 4pm at the time. The cat was probably still under the effects of anesthesia, and even if she wasn't anymore, nobody wants to move around and eat right after surgery, give her some time ffs!

[@brynna77]

15:12 bellybutton shape absolutely can be determined by how the umbilical chord is cut - justice for that guy

[@conlon4332]

Honestly I don't see why Chole needed a new name. Like neuter it, yes, and then it's basically sexless anyway, it really doesn't matter. And it will already be learning its name by then. Call your male dog Chloe, even call it a she if you want, it really doesn't matter at all.

[@andrediamond4374]

This is like that bit in House where the woman came in complaining of asthma. He asked her if she knew how to use her inhaler and she was all offended. He told her to show him how she used it. She proceeded to put it up to her neck and press the button like it was perfume. One of the best bits in that entire show

[@CrochetIsLife54]

Monistat and other vaginal medications DO come with very clear instructions PLUS diagrams showing how to properly position the tube in the vagina. I’m not sure how anyone can mistake those drawings for a mouth. The pregnancy and poop question: you have obviously never gone through a pregnancy. It isn’t uncommon for a woman to accidentally poop while trying to push a baby out. Embarrassing, yes. Uncommon, no.

[@animal_gal_adventures9885]

16:20 ok look sometimes the male cat has a very slender, lanky build as a kitten and you don't realize your little Artemis is an Artie until you take him to get neutered. That and the person we got the cat from probably didn't know and we weren't purposely checking back there...

[@EquanoxDragon]

I have a lot of mental disabilities of which a few need medications to handle them, i may not know all of them by name immediately, but after a few moments I usually can tell the doctors/emergency workers what I take. Luckily my medication don't typically cause conflicts with other meds that could harm me. I know what the medications are for and the doses as well just sometimes have trouble with recalling the technical names. The medications I take are for Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, birth control (helps with irregular cycles and pain), allergies, Asthma (sublutonal inhaler as well as a steroidal inhaler) and acid reflux. The last two conditions are only taken as needed.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

I wanna say my own even if I'm not a doctor; I never realized my hips and elbows popped out of place a bit sometimes (now a lot of the time) for a while until my sibling told me about EDS running in our family. Then the pain and sudden mobility in my hips that I previously didn't have made sense, since I'm pretty sure sometimes it can be unnoticable and suddenly get worse

[@llamawalrushybrid]

Silly question but did you see a doctor to confirm?

[@anum4776]

Many of my joints over-extend. Over the years I have found more and more abnormal movements, I never know until someone goes "oh my god what's wrong with your ankle!?" and I realize other people cannot bend that joint like that. If something in your body has always been that way why would you question it

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

@@anum4776 Absolutely! I didn't know my hand shouldn't bend the way it does, or I shouldn't be able to straighten my finger joints at the ends basically flat. Or I shouldn't be able to shove the joint of my hip and thigh fully up when I'm not actually flexible. Until my sister got diagnosed with EDS, and then everything clicked of "oh shit that's why I do that"

[@anum4776]

@@lovelysakurapetalsyt Coincidentally the first thing I noticed was my hands. Fingers bend backwards like 90 degrees, thumb kinda pops out and can bend behind my palm and wrists go way too far. Then someone pointed out my ankles and I figured why my feet get sore (had to recently see a physiotherapist about that) and just this year I figured shoulders should not go this far back... Luckily the bigger joints (knees, elbows and hip) seem to be mostly fine. Damn I should have started doing gymnastics when I was young, I would be so flexible now xD

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

@@anum4776 My bigger joints are my main issues. Mainly my hip, knee, and elbow joints, though my shoulders rarely give me issues it's annoying when they do. Makes me have to strain my arms and legs more, and although I gain more muscle in those areas, those areas also have the worst of where my skin isn't connected right. My hands and feet have that too, so my dead skin doesn't come off correctly and I have to take a lot of stuff off myself. And the anesthesia not working normally thing sucks too, but my sister told me that a dentist they went to actually listened, so I'm planning to go to that lady when I can, so I don't have painful procedures

[@consumingkazoos]

"do not eat shampoo, you will die" is valuable info for these people

[@Ms3queen]

I mean, you won’t die from eating shampoo, unless it’s a medicated shampoo or something. It will not be a pleasant experience, though.

[@DaisyAnimeluvr]

Vet tech here. I once had a client tell me their dog wasn’t taking his meds. When I asked for more details like “is he spitting them out” or “are you having trouble opening his mouth,” they said they had been putting the pills in his bowl and he refused to eat them. As in, they put the tablets, not hidden in peanut butter or cheese or even covered in butter, into his food bowl and expected him to eat non-flavored medication. Just wild.

[@silververnallbells191]

Don't give cats tea tree oil it can be lethal to them. Cats are super sensitive and can foam at the mouth even w/a VERY low dose of pepto bismol. DON'T give pepto to your cat unless you've cleared the issue w/a vet 1st.

[@Cri_Jackal]

17:23 for cats this does actually make sense. Hormonal male cats do indeed mount each other sometimes, same reason a dog will hump your leg, probably not a dominance thing though they're just horny and don't know what to do. The genitals of cats are also less conspicuous, usually hidden from casual view by their fur and tails, and it's not like an owner is going to want to look at their cat's crotch when petting it or something. The sexual dimorphism of cats in general is also less obvious than a dog's, and forming a reference point can be difficult with all the different breeds muddling things. Males have longer snouts and more triangular heads, while females will have flatter faces and rounder heads. This is something I've learned literally just now, having had my curiosity piqued, despite having cats in the same household as me for pretty much my entire life.

[@lizzyarlyn3409]

18:37 Humans have traveled pregnant, because human babies have such large frame there for a large head, but it is difficult to come out of the narrow Birkin Birkin out that human woman’s house. It’s part of the trade-off for having intelligence that humans have. We also have babies basically “ undeveloped “ as compared with other animals.

[@echognomecal6742]

Just had a conversation with a friend who was instructed to do salt water rinses for an infected tooth. Solution instructions: A cup of warm water w a teaspoon of salt. They would swish it around Once...& throw the rest down the drain. Every day. Also...wasn't using a "cup" measure, but a tall glass, so it was too diluted. I didn't have the mental capacity to ask how long they'd hold it in their mouth. THEN a few days later, they told me they spoke w someone who's Supposedly a medical professional...who said they do The Same Thing. This may bother me more than people using "literally" as its opposite meaning.

[@DorkyAraia]

I work at a donut shop and the question I get the most is "how many donuts are in a dozen?" Smh

[@OnlyWaifuYT]

13:41 isn't this a House MD skit? Like, word for word lol

[@SarahSied]

Bless your soul man, you gave a lot lf these folks the benefit of the doubt

[@bumblebeebattlegolem]

the poor 70 year old guy. first i thought it was weird because one of the first things you learn in sex ed and similars are stuff about how women have two holes and men have one, so you need to know not to mess with the urethra in women, and learn how to clean yourself adequately as a man, but idk if that was even done when this guy was in school (or if school failed him, it's possible too)

[@Ms3queen]

He might never have gotten sex ed, or if he did, it might have been just “don’t have sex, goodbye “

[@llamawalrushybrid]

I mean I think you answered your own question with the 3rd word. I can't imagine they went around telling people that in the 50's. Also I don't remember hearing that part either and that would've been like 2010

[@dorothydedmonVato]

Keep all my pill bottles in a box on the shelf in my closet

[@ryanjefferson1428]

Funny when you ask a patient to not move their head and maintain the position then they answer with a nod lol

[@ryanjefferson1428]

Also, I had some I asked if they had allergies they will answer with "No, just seafood" or "No, just penicillin"

[@itt2055]

As a man who has two eyes on my man bit I also thought it was normal. It wasn't until I was circumcised at the age of 39 after a zipper accident that I found out that I am different.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

There's a whole bunch of it being able to 'watch where it's going" jokes went through my head.......BUT THE MIND BOGGLES! 😱😵‍💫😱😵‍💫😱😵‍💫😱

[@elizabeth3405]

35 year healthcare worker here and the amount of injury patients cause themselves by sheer lack of brains is mind boggling. You would have hoped with all the mandatory education available it would have lessened but nope it is so much worse 😢

[@othername1000]

I had an older patient who reported being allergic to all antibiotics. Me: All of them? Her: Yes. Me: Ok, what happens if you take them? Her: They give me yeast infections. Yeah, that’s not an allergic reaction. "Why don’t you talk with the doctor about that?" Let me write that on the paper. Patient reports allergic to all antibiotics. States they give her yeast infections. This woman has had a vagina for decades.

[@jewelhenson3034]

For the vet, I took my two babies (cats I bottle fed) to a new vet I hadn't been to before. I'm mid 20s so pretty much any vet is new and I'm new to being the main care taker for animals. But this vet is really nice, I love them honestly. The first visit was for the male cat and he's super chill. He went around the exam room like he owned it. And he absolutely loved the window we had right next to the table. His sister went a week later and she's more reserved and nervous. She manages to escape in the car so I carried her inside and they didn't mind! The vet also fell in love with her because she's a total sweetheart and her coat is a dull orange. She looks brown but she's actually orange which if anyone knows that's not a common color for a female cat. Also, I wanted to know how to identify kitten genders early when one of our cats came up pregnant. This was my first time with a pregnant pet so I was being very studious. You can basically compare them to punctuation. Female is an upside down exclamation and males a period. Well months later three kittens get dropped off at my work. 2 of them are still there, 3rd was taken by a coworker. One is very clearly male, the other is female. However, the coworker who took her brother is adamant she's male. He's a know it all and you can't tell him he's wrong so I just shrugged and went on. I've resorted to calling the cat by her name or baby in front of him. I don't want to have the argument again.

[@darcybrummett7004]

I’ve heard one where a woman took her baby’s temperature by turning on the oven and feeling the baby’s forehead.

[@ReganSkye2010]

I used to think I couldn’t work in the medical field b I wouldn’t have the stomach for it. Turns out I wouldn’t have enough patience for the stupidity some people have.

[@4givablyun4givable]

I will say that when my fist child was a newborn and i only gave him breast milk i did have a day where i was really unsure if i should've be giving my baby water because, well, humans need water to survive. I didnt actually give him any but i was panicking the whole day waiting for his pediatrician to reply to the email i sent her asking if i was supposed to be giving my baby water this whole time. Obviously the doctor told me no and all was good.

[@ff-pj3de]

“Can’t believe how no-one advised her before that” about the first story… I expect cause she didn’t bring in her bag and people assumed she keeps her medication in the original packaging? That or the overall state of medical services are such that professionals are mostly burned out and as a consequence, can’t bring themselves to notice things like this

[@LxvxndxrBxnny]

Unpopular opinion with story 15, I don't really see the issue with calling your male pet a 'she' and vice versa If that's what you want to refer to your pet with, sure, go for it. No need to change its name, especially because it's most likely already used to the name it's already been given. The animal literally will not care if you defy its biological sex.

[@Boggelfinger]

Had a patient who had a hydrosil. Lived in a van down by the river.( really) Ended up in the hospital because he was eating steak and decided to drain it with a steak knife. Ended up almost losing everything. Makes me hurt just to think about it.

[@Regrettable-Username]

My sister thought her boy cat was a girl for months! He was super fluffy and didn't have an issue with marking territory. She brought him to the clinic to see if he'd been fixed or something because the lack of going into heat was concerning to her. The fact that he'd been named after a drag queen made the situation perfect.

[@Berniej.Janinsky]

🙀 THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE CORN-FUSED CAT! 🙀

[@NijutheWolf]

4:10 Maybe like, the nerve/something disconnected, and the brain just decided that the wrist signals are now the shoulder signals. (??) Trauma does things, I guess

[@Jargonecius]

Stories of people who have conditions that they were born with.... Well I can't really blame them cuz they only have their own body for reference right? I have a strange condition with my eyes and it did not get diagnosed until I was 35 and working for specialist of that exact eye condition. Why? Because my vision is 20/10 without correction. You would never think that there's something wrong with my vision, but that is because my brain is doing an excessive amount of work. Balancing out the image. Because my right eye is just barely imperceivably higher than my left eye. So I went 35 years without depth perception and just figured I was an idiot. I figured I just wasn't good at judging distances. I was great at video games because 3D on a flat screen is entirely different.