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

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[@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? 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@jamesgordon5509]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@shitty_beatles]

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

[@nationalinstituteofcheese3012]

@@tangentyoung5633”chipped and spayed”?

[@user-bk9fk2tq2z]

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.

[@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.

[@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. 😂

[@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....

[@MaritheCreator2001]

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

[@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]

😆🤣🤣

[@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! 😂

[@user-vt4si1ef6r]

Good intention, wrong tube

[@EllpaFox47]

NOT THE BREAD

[@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. 😅

[@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

[@mrorcadood]

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

[@PeanutbutterHobgoblin]

Agreed

[@Lilli_Loves_Bondi]

We are

[@chancia8990]

and thats great

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

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

[@IPlayWithFire]

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

[@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 😅

[@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)

[@katherinebass530]

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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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! 😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@DIRTkat_ofc]

Look i dont wanna be mean, but this cluster truck gameplay is really bad

[@llamawalrushybrid]

Glad it's not just me. It was hard to even listen to the stories I just got so annoyed with the misses.

[@kz7xyz]

truely, I don't even know the physics of this game and the mechanics but I think I could do better..

[@smoluwu1616]

​​@@kz7xyzit's even the earlier levels where I got a top 1000 time in 2 tries just by holding forward and space

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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

[@SewardWriter]

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

[@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.

[@brynna77]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@jadabalding8550]

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.

[@boopdoop2251]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@SarahSied]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Hollyberrystreats]

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

[@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.

[@pandavroomvroom]

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

[@Em-jk1vq]

As a nurse, hearing you saying “that’s not that bad”… are you for real? 🤣🤣

[@melissacooper8724]

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

[@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

[@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 🤢

[@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.

[@augustrnning7823]

The way this guy pronounces Sulfur, messes with my head

[@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.

[@jem420_19]

4:47 im one of those people who can't move their wrist i was born like this but apparently i could have got it fix when i was younger but never did so it's permanently unable to be moved/turned fully at max i can do like 15 degrees of rotation maybe (this is with both arms) this doesn't really affect day to day life it's just annoying

[@vickiesmith3021]

Thank you so much for your video.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@malek849]

Man you’re giving these people too much credit

[@nightshade264]

I'm a lab technician working in the pharmacy and I can attest to the fact that some patients indeed have no clue on how or where to apply medications. On occasion it's painful to witness but staying professional is important in those situations.

[@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...

[@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.

[@annnichols3091]

Regarding patients who expect their doctors to know their pills by sight: take it from a woman who spent over 20 years looking up information for doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers: NO human being can possibly know everything in medicine, etc. (Neither can medical librarians, but we do know where to look it up. It's been more than 20 years, but I still cherish the memory of the radiologist [X-ray doctor] who wanted a photo of a particular disease that affected both the skin and the bones. I knew the dermatology [skin] books included X-rays, so I suggested that section. HE was certain the orthopedic [bone] section would be the place to search. Some minutes fruitless searching later, he asked me where I had suggested looking again. I swiftly found him two X-ray photos, one in Clinical Dermatology and one in Braveman's Skin Signs of Systemic Disease. He never questioned my recommendations again.)

[@tmntleo]

The people not knowing their pets' gender thing is so common. I'm a catsitter and the amount of times I've gone to a clients house and they've told me they have a male cat and they're clearly not male, or they've got a pair of "sisters" and one of them is very obviously a brother. These are usually the people who also have never taken their pet to the vets for anything so the vet has never told them. One of our cats that my mother got from a family friend was advertised to us as a "female tabby" named Tilly. Well "Tilly" was brought over and the moment 'she' turned around I immediately went "That's not a Tilly" because 'she' had a very prominent pair of fuzzy nuts on 'her'. The woman argued that no, it's a girl, I know she's a girl I've had her since she was 5 weeks old. I'm not a vet, but I have basic vet training from several courses I've done, stuff like how to do injections and fluids, how to care for neonatal kittens, how to help a cat or dog that is choking and most importantly, how to sex a cat or dog. I replied that if that was a girl then she's got two very large tumours on her ass that need seeing to. The woman still would not let up so I arranged an appointment with our vet because this was going to be the only way she would relent. Thankfully they had one that day so we went straight there. The vet looked at "Tilly" and within seconds went "Oh yeah that's obviously a boy" so the woman eventually gave in that she didn't know shit about how to gender a cat. We got him set up for neutering, microchipping etc whilst there since he was of age. "Tilly" became Dave. Dave is a great cat, he's a big lad and an absolute bug.

[@silasgaertner6296]

Thank you!!!

[@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

[@Aimz360]

That MRI one scared me. It was only a couple of months ago I found out why you should never wear metal, I only knew about the noise. I went for one once about 9 yrs ago, took my necklaces and earrings out before I left the house, but one wouldn't come out. It was a ball closure. I had to get jewelry pliers to cut it off, luckily I missed my ear. Got to the hospital and laughed about it for the dr to say they would have had to cut it out too. Little did I know.

[@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.

[@1GoodWoman]

The wrist woman…It could have been broken, injured at birth and for whatever she could not disclose. I worked in surgery….had a patient refuse the possibility of a blood transfusion so we had to cancel surgery for their brain tumor. They had been trained to reject anything biological from another person. I didn’t say anything but I wondered if they could hug another person. No idea the final outcome.

[@spankycomic4150]

Had a lady who brought in her baby because the babies skin rash was “peeling”. Turns out the baby had a runny nose and the peeling was the crusted snot and the obvious irritation from the crust. She didn’t know she needed to wipe baby’s nose for it. “I though that would just be instinctive”. Otherwise healthy baby and she was doing everything else right.

[@SonOfMeme]

Respect to the guy for giving back the hardware

[@naturetime3823]

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

[@goatmealcookies7421]

Worked in a rural area nursing home. 75% of my patients did not understand basic written prescriptions.

[@OnlyWaifuYT]

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

[@kwanholloway4112]

It's so difficult not to laugh at these. Lol omg

[@dorothydedmonVato]

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

[@angstydoodles1101]

As a pharmacy tech, that first one left me shook but wholly unsurprised

[@CuoriRubati]

The glaucoma eyedrops one... "eyes, nose, throat, they're all connected," yeah, they sure are. I feel like I might as well take mine by mouth, because a side effect is a bitter taste in the back of my throat about 10 minutes after use. Seriously though, eyedrops go in the eyes.

[@SirberusKhaos]

people have that same pride "i know what's best" as son as they create a baby, suddenly they know more about babies then a Dr or even worse, god forbid a lowly EMT say their Child's symptoms are not good and they should see be taken to the ER immediately. I was screamed at more times than I want to count "How would you know, you aren't parent" I have a baby face. my child is survived past 21, so I think I must have done Some things right from time to time. plus I went to literal school to know that babies can not survive at this temperature, and no 2 aspirin and a cold bath is Not an acceptable solution no matter what your great grandmother did. also, if you then ask how many surviving siblings they grandmother had, they get up set.

[@Wolfie54545]

Sulfah

[@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.

[@DrewLSsix]

Not a doctor but there was this one time, very recently where I heard a guy say eczema wrong, like over and over again. Pretty dumb, but funny as hell. Definitely liked and subscribed.

[@metarcee2483]

Like that video of the kid saying "you's got egg ma"

[@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 😢

[@rwbyab7423]

Man that cream story really got to you, huh? I hope you reference it in other videos 😂

[@missamanda2703]

I can identify any pill almost in a general catalog but because of color and related shapes. Not enough so that I could adequately access it to safely treat a patient.

[@jessik1810]

If your pet suddenly starts acting weird, worn out and especially if your cat hides more than usual, please please go to the vet immediately!! About a week ago one of our cats started acting like that and we went to the vet the next day, we suspected FIP because on of our friends cats had it and died from it. So we decided to start with the injections, because the early you start the better her chance of survival and even if she didn't have FIP it wouldn't hurt her. The vet gave her some stuff und send her back home but in the evening she looked worse, so we went to an emergency vet clinic. We knew from a recent vet visit that her heart was a bit weak but where instructed to do more testing after half a year. A day later she seemed better and more alert and we were told that we could take her back home in about a week. The day after she seemed even better but later that day we got a call that her heart stopped and they were reanimating her but to not get our hopes up. We drove there immediately but she had died before we got there, I think they tried to get her back for 20-30 minutes. I know rationality that we did everything we could but it still hurt.

[@jinxhead4182]

About the pet thing: No clue about dogs, but kittens are super hard to actually check, but once those balls drop, you should damn well know what sex they are, and that happens in a matter of weeks, not months. How can people be so divorced from their own lives that they just don't care...

[@maleklarsen9317]

More medical ones please😄

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@citroenboter]

I always feel kinda bad when I tell my vet what I found out about medicating rats. Especially because patients can be extremely uninformed and frustrating to deal with. But rats have such different systems than cats or dogs, that even my extremely experienced vet who can confidently treat rodents is stumped sometimes. We have to do a lot of crowd sourcing. They're used for tests relating to humans, but there's not a lot of proper care info on the animal itself. She's always willing to humour me in that regard, so I'm thankful for that.

[@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.

[@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.