Doctors, what is the most STUPID thing a PATIENT has said trying to CORRECT you? - Reddit Podcast

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

"He's now the naturopath who saved five lives thanks to organ donation" Ice cold

[@TotalRookie_LV]

After all, some good came out of it, besides it's one less scammer in the world. It's a win win! I can't even donate my organs, as I got auto-immune condition.

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

@@TotalRookie_LV Leave your body to science.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar Perhaps, I will. Have been considering to do that for a decade or so, as I've heard form my classmates, there is a shortage of cadavers for students of medicine, and how girls nearly started a fight, since there was only one hand left for preparation. So I have that fantasy of young girls around my stiff... corpse. 😆

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

@@TotalRookie_LV🙂🙂🙂

[@mrcryptozoic817]

I had to read that twice to get it. Well stated!

[@CakeofRage]

you know that girl with the ectopic pregnancy died because her mother was so in denial that she wasn't a virgin

[@daykibaran9668]

So sad… mum killed her daughter just because of denial

[@KEeosFight]

Even as a Christian who believes in abstaining from sex You have to get off your high horse and realize when that didn’t work And when your daughter is dying and missed her period by 2 whole months you have to focus on being a mother and not a bitch

[@japanpanda2179]

No, that is incorrect. She died because the doctor didn't call CPS when they were legally obligated to. A parent can't refuse treatment for a life-threatening condition their child has.

[@Schaemia]

I hope not! I hope the family eventually saw sense!

[@blacky_Ninja]

@@japanpanda2179 Aren‘t JW literally allowed to deny blood transfusions to save their child due to their religion bs?

[@Shadowcub69]

The dumbing down of people regarding their health because they listened to something someone heard on a social media site/influencers is damn scary.

[@finalbossd]

I don’t think there is a causal relationship in the way you articulate. I think that the dumb people inherently are more susceptible to internet pseudoscience.

[@anderssorenson9998]

I will freely admit that in medical affairs I'm an idiot, It's not that hard. But even me a self identifying idiot can spot a ridiculous woo peddler from orbit.

[@Schaemia]

I don't think it's due to social media in so much as critical thinking and "general" knowledge is non existent these days. Case in point the lesbian who didn't know you need sperm to get pregnant. Can't blame that on Facebook.

[@Rose333X]

Nah, primarly shit education and lack of critical thinking skills with society that enforces faith rather then facts. Lmao

[@gmamah9559]

and they vote.

[@Debbie338]

I’m a veterinarian. A few years ago, a puppy came in for a check-up. When I recommended a Distemper vaccine, the owner said “Oh, he don’t need that. His temper’s fine.”

[@kaerligheden]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@hollygolightly649]

😳😆

[@BeckBeckGo]

Ohhhh that poor doggo….

[@BeckBeckGo]

And a vaccine prevents it. It’s not a treatment once the dog is sick. It’s really scary that people don’t understand that, even if they don’t know what distemper is..

[@Debbie338]

@@BeckBeckGo And now we also have people exposing dogs to parvovirus on purpose, because they don’t trust vaccines. Yep. That’s real.

[@koalaeucalyptus]

My mom was a family doctor for many years, and she had her fair share of crazy stories. One that always stood out to me was the patient that insisted her heart had stopped beating. MY mother asked for how long, and the woman replied TWO WEEKS. My mom couldn't help herself and commented that that was her first time speaking to a zombie. The woman was confused, and then my mom proceeded to explain that, if your heart stops, so does your life. She patiently helped the woman use the stethoscope to listen to her own heart, and taught her that the sound meant her heart was very much alive and well. The woman thanked her and went home xD

[@pioneercynthia1]

That's actually quite a charming story. Your mother must've been a lovely doctor.

[@july3817]

My father has a similar story but it's not as wholesome. So he works as a nurse at an elderly home and one day he got a call from the funeral service asking who exactly died because they didn't understand it during the last call. My father gets confused as no one had died. He finds out that this sweet old lady called them saying she died and needed to be buried. My dad tries to talk to her and informs her that she is not dead. She believed she was in heaven and refused to drink or eat because she's already dead. My father asks her why he was in heaven too and she promptly replied "you're right you shouldn't be in heaven" which wasn't exactly what he hoped for. She died eventually but I just hope she doesn't sit in front of heavens gate arguing that she is still alive.

[@williamlopez8676]

Working in surgery one day, the patient we were working on for a broken hip suffered a cardiac arrest. The anesthesiologist and his team started doing CPR. After about ten minutes of waiting , the Orthopaedist looked up at the anesthesioogist and said, "Are you guys finished up there yet? If I don't get this man's hip fixed, he is going to lay in bed, get atelectasis, and die" . Without missing a compression, the anesthesiologist looked at the surgeon and said, " Uh, DOCTOR, if we don't get his heart started, he's going to die right now".

[@Serenity_yt]

Not quite as serious but still somewhat in that vein. On my surgery rotation for EMT school we had a pt from the ICU in bad condition but they couldnt find much in scans so cutting them open it was. So the Internal medicine Doc's start up their thing but suddenly in the middle of the surgery the vitals are crashing and all the previous i.v.s are useless or not enough/ unreachable to pump meds into so the anthesiologists placed a cvk while the surgeons are still rumaging around in this pt abdomen I of course moved to watch them place the central line (really impressive in minimal space, almost 0 lighting and with alarms and the cauterization tool going crazy). The surgeons asked me why I was standing behind the curtain as I would get to see anything there .... . Dude this is the 5th similar surgery today but the first time a patient required a central line and crashed that bad my whole rotation.

[@cheriem432]

UN-believable!

[@SkyModess]

I was the patient. Went to the doctor with a very large, very black bruise from my knee to my crotch. He said I had almost torn my groin muscle. I said - "Uhh you know I'm a GIRL, right?" LMAO I was 16 and didn't know groin muscles are present in both genders.

[@splatninja9447]

We've all been there, got corrected on a knowledge gap that's so obvious it makes you feel like a total moron lol.

[@DawnRider-b7l]

Don't worry. I only found that out last year.

[@rileymcphee9429]

Anyone, witch or otherwise, who tells HIV patients to substitute their medication for snake oil should have to serve jail time.

[@pauljones2510]

I'm a patient -- not a doctor. But I have done a lot of reading. My doctor will listen to what I say, is genuinely appreciative that I know more than the average patient, and likes that I ask informed and intelligent questions. Of course, he also corrects any misinformation I may have acquired.

[@michelemoser5592]

Thank you for reading 📚 ❤️. Many of my patients have the literacy of 6th graders, minimal understanding of nutrition and hygiene, plus disbelieve all the advertising from the 1980s &1990s about warning against cigarettes 🚬. Then wonder why they are sick, but are angry at people who went to university to study 😫

[@erictaylor5462]

Anesthesiologists are the most highly trained and most highly paid of all specialist doctors. Their job is extremely stressful because being under anesthesia is not the same as being asleep or even sedated. Being under general anesthesia is quite literally being on the edge of death. The anesthesiologist must keep you under enough so you don't feel any pain, yet not so far under that you slip from the edge of death to actually being dead. It is probably the most difficult job in the medical profession, even harder than brain surgery.

[@larrianncurtis8078]

Thank you! The implications in some of these stories was making me cringe. Further -- Anesthetists are not exactly the same as anesthesiologists. The major difference between these two professions is that anesthesiologist are medical doctors that administer anesthesia, while nurse anesthetists are registered nurses who may assist or collaborate with doctors in administering anesthesia, or may work entirely independently as they administer anesthesia.

[@drksmkpncr7147]

@@larrianncurtis8078 - glad to see that someone pointed this out.

[@williamlopez8676]

Read my comment above

[@Kartoffelkamm]

That kinda makes me feel a bit bad for them, to be honest. I needed to have multiple surgeries in my life, and after the first one, I always told the anesthesiologist that I wake up faster than they expect, which every single one of them denied. Anyway, I usually proved them wrong on the way to the room where I'm supposed to wake up.

[@SweetLoveTarot]

It would have been nice if he had been able to pronounce it.

[@sneezyfido]

I did need to correct a young doctor when she explained at length how to use a steroid cream. Her instruction would have caused too high dosing. For ten years after that, every medical professional reacted defensively due to the note she left in my file, until finally I got one to delete it from the front page. For reference, I'm a pharmacist. Patient guidance on proper use of medication is basic training for me.

[@cynthiaandvern]

I trust my doctor for the diagnosis, but my pharmacist knows more about the drugs prescribed. I always discuss what has been prescribed with them to make sure it is a good fit. Nobody can be an expert in everything, and that's okay!

[@williamlopez8676]

After being rear-ended, I was in the ER waiting the x ray results. Two interns came in and told me my neck was fine, but they were concerned about a fuzzy area on the film. They said they weren't sure what it was, but that it could be a lacerated aortic arch with bleeding. Their treatment plan was for me to go home and come back later if I had any difficulty.

[@judycroteau482]

@@williamlopez8676 Wow! I hope you got a second opinion from an actual doctor without any training wheels. And obviously they were wrong as you lived to post your comment above! Smh.

[@Lynnmaria54]

I have had to correct a pharmacist twice at this same place when I was given incorrect medication that was NOT mine. One was for a doctor I have seen; a medication I have been on; the pharmacist insisted the medication was mine...I looked up the doctor on google told them the problem...put they office manager on speaker & asked if I was their patient she stated NO. so the pharmacist had to take back that bag of medication. The other was a name similar to mine but not me with again..birth control pills....I looked at her & said again..not my doctor and I am 65...I had surgery..I not doing this with you again..regardless she was pissed...not sorry for your mistakes. I haven't seen her lately.

[@moniqueengleman873]

I am a Clinical Scientist, and I request tests all the time. Then I have to explain all about the new approved testing in the Lab. Mostly they have no idea.

[@goddessmelanisia]

I had a doctor tell me I was stupid my entire pregnancy. He nearly killed my daughter and I both. He miscalculated my due date, and refused to listen to me about when my last period was. I was in labor 3 times. The first two times I told them her heart rate was dropping with each contraction. They stopped my labor and sent me home. She was born 3 weeks late, I had induced back labor, and once she crowned, they realized her heart rate was dropping with each contraction, because the cord was around her neck twice. So off for an emergency C-section. All because a doctor refused to corrected by a patient.

[@melissabarrett9750]

So many of them have that level of arrogance

[@sammer1097]

That's certainly tragic, but it's also arrogant of you to say that on a video that's about the exact opposite scenario. You can't let your own experiences blind you to the simple fact that overall doctors DO know better than patients, and if your reason for commenting your story is to try to convince people not to listen to doctors then you're a more dangerous and immoral person than the doctor in question.

[@GY-bd9bo]

@@sammer1097 your defensiveness makes me think that you are the arrogant doctor in question. when you *know* that something is wrong, and the doctors are ignoring you, you have a right to be mad and an obligation to get a second opinion. there is no other reasonable thought to have on this topic.

[@luketimewalker]

@@sammer1097 yes because "overall" = the full picture. And of course looking at the full picture is evil. Literally 2 comments below, a surgeon shares this: " @williamlopez8676 il y a 8 mois Working in surgery one day, the patient we were working on for a broken hip suffered a cardiac arrest. The anesthesiologist and his team started doing CPR. After about ten minutes of waiting , the Orthopaedist looked up at the anesthesioogist and said, "Are you guys finished up there yet? If I don't get this man's hip fixed, he is going to lay in bed, get atelectasis, and die" . Without missing a compression, the anesthesiologist looked at the surgeon and said, " Uh, DOCTOR, if we don't get his heart started, he's going to die right now".

[@mregister3945]

​@@sammer1097😂😂😂

[@decodolly1535]

I'm a patient, not a professional but the silliest thing I ever had in a medical situation was a few years ago when I had a mammogram. As I waited my turn, the three patients before me were all extremely thin, flat chested women. I walked into the room with my 38DDs, the radiographer looked at me and said "Finally, something to work with!" His face was a picture as he realised he'd said it aloud. Fortunately, I thought this was hilarious and we two giggled our way through the procedure.

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

Is this bragging, or do you really think that some women are guilty because they have smaller breasts? And FYI, now women with smaller breasts are considered more beautiful, and that fixation on big breasts is thing of the past.

[@decodolly1535]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 I made no comment on the merits of either small or large breasts, simply recorded an exchange I found amusing & provided some background to the remark which was passed.

[@hallowssys640]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 God, you must be fun at parties huh?

[@amandasnider2644]

@@ozymandiasultor9480 I think it was a comment of how difficult it is to effectively mammogram small breasts, less breasts for the squeezing plates to hold onto, harder to get a good reading. Must be frustrating at times because it's important to do. Might be nice to get a patient who's boobs will be easier to work with

[@ozymandiasultor9480]

@@hallowssys640 You must be boring at parties if that comment is saying anything about your originality.

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

I‘m a doctor too. One of the most stupid things a patient told me was that she was allergic to oxygen

[@Jerseybytes2]

out of curiosity, what do you say when a nurse insists on trying to diagnose someone with the wrong problem even after being told what the problem is? for example, my kids school nurse who insisted my kid had measles even after being told what he had was poison ivy?

[@nilsanieves3457]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@Jerseybytes2 report her and pray she loses her license and accreditation

[@G-forGacha]

Welp I hope you explained to her that we breathe with oxygen and that she would be dead by now, unless she was a tree

[@damionlee7658]

​@@G-forGachawould be dead as a tree also. Whilst trees take in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, they require oxygen throughout the day and night, during their aerobic respiration (growth) phase.

[@erictaylor5462]

I know of an OBG who had a woman insisted that she wanted an IED. The doctor tried to explain that she didn't actually want an IED, and in fact this would be highly illegal and unethical. The woman insisted that was nonsense, she wanted an IED. Finally the doctor explained that under no circumstance was she going to implant an Improvised Explosive Device anywhere inside her body. She finally asked what they called the little wire thing they could put in. The doctor said she would be happy to implant an IUD.

[@33pandagamer]

What dose IUD stand for?

[@melissabarrett9750]

@@33pandagamer Intra uterine device

[@MsGbergh]

If I was the doctor, I would start by asking , 'What do you mean by an IED?' Then if the patient said , 'You know - it's a contraceptive,' I'd proceed from there.

[@moosehead1183]

Doc was being a jerk..he knew exactly what she wanted..

[@MTTT1234]

RPT - Rocket propelled Tampon.

[@kellymal3693]

My cousin is a nurse who works in a nursing home. I fell off a trailer and injured my foot pretty bad, bruised and swelled. She insisted that it was just a sprain. My uncle convinced my mom to take me to the ER, I had chipped a bone and ripped two tendons. I was on crutches for a month.

[@kellymal3693]

She also doesn't believe in lactose intolerance and thinks that I'm being dramatic and rude because I wont drink milk or eat ice cream when she offers it.

[@CarolaTesla]

@@kellymal3693 it's quite worrying that she got a nursing degree...

[@JessicaO490Z]

@@CarolaTesla it's a nursing home so she might just be an LPN, which is not even a two-year degree. Full RNs have to take science courses and much more in-depth medical classes, for as an LPN basically just learns the physical tasks and has to be overseen by an RN. (I say this because in nursing homes it's always a high proportion of LPNs because they pay them about half as much). I did a few months in a nursing home and you're basically just popping pills out of packages and passing them, not doing anything really medical. :S that or she's a nurse for 40 plus years, from back when they didn't have to learn as much.

[@kellymal3693]

@@JessicaO490Z Yes she works at a nursing home, and she is the most stuck up, snobby person I've ever known.

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

That's why she's a nurse in a nursing home and not a doctor then.

[@Humanaut.]

I'm more interested in the opposite question: When/how has a patient corrected you and convinced you of something else than your prior opinion.

[@WilliamWizer]

I got one of those. when I was a child (about three decades ago) I had a peritonitis but the doctors couldn't find the cause of my illness so they wanted us (me and my mother) out of the hospital. my mother just crossed her arms and plainly stated "I won't. if you want me out, either you find what's wrong with my child or you call the police" the doctor that was attending us sh*t his pants (metaphorically, of course) and ran as fast as he could (literally) to find somebody with better knowledge/authority/whatever to save his arse. having the police involved was not an option. just in case whatever I had could cause my death. goes without saying, my mother was right and I had the required surgery with barely a couple hours to spare before I would had died. once I recovered from the orderal (it took me a week to recover), we sent a small gift to the doctor that saved my life. for him, it was work but, for me, he was my hero.

[@alihorda]

I had an injury after judo exercise, twisted my kneecap, blood built up there basically. The first doctor I met said I should immediately get a surgery to reduce it. Then I visited a doctor I knew and he was like : that doctor is an idiot, it is enough if I use some creme and small specific exercise, the problem will be solved in few weeks which happened. He saved me an unnecessary surgery and bill. Some docs just go for the money

[@Nullthewolf01]

@@WilliamWizer you should’ve sent a “gift” to the stupid doctor too lol maybe something just as stupid as him

[@WilliamWizer]

@@Nullthewolf01 no need. ignorance isn't a sin. neither is lack of trust on somebody that should know less than you. besides, remembering that name would be giving him more relevance than he had. to me, he was a nameless moron. but, gifting him a pack of condoms would be a good idea. there's no need to spread his DNA.

[@LazyIRanch]

I had a doctor who refused to look at an abscess. I had a pet turkey who pecked me so hard on my butt cheek that it caused a puncture wound that became infected. My doctor didn't give me a reason why he wouldn't check it, so I offered to take a pic of it with my phone, but no, he just told me to use Neosporin and it would heal. I had been doing that, for over a month and it had gotten more painful and swollen. I went online to see if there's any way I could drain this thing myself, and found the answer. Light two wooden matches, drop them inside a glass bottle and immediately put the mouth of the bottle over the abscess. It worked! The burning matches created a vacuum which caused it to pop and drain. I had to do it a few times to get it all, but it healed after that.

[@Vertraic]

I have had a couple experiences with the opposite... Doctors that just would NOT believe what was wrong/that there WAS something wrong with me... Had one idiot (had the title of 'Chief Orthopedic Surgeon'!) Who walked into the waiting room about an hour after we were sent in, almost two hours after the scheduled appointment, through up a month old x-ray, said nothing wrong here and started to leave. He had not looked at me or my mother, and had not actually said a word to us... Took TWO HOURS! of basically screaming at him to get him to actually take a look at me and see that my scoliosis had about a 20-30 degree increase in curvature over a 1 month period... Seriously, at that point my spine looked like a bow at full draw. My right shoulder was more than 2 full inches higher than my left shoulder. FINALLY got him to do a second x-ray, about an hour later he threw the new one up next to the old one he first looked at, turned around, and asked if my mom would ALLOW him to do the bone scan we had been TRYING to get him to take for THREE HOURS NOW! as if it was his own idea and we were going to object to it... Turns out I had a fairly large, fast growing tumor in my lower spine, and I probably would not have been able to force myself out of bed for much longer if we had allowed him to blow us off like he attempted to do. The EXACT tumor our chiropractor had suggested it may be and we had been trying to get him to check for the entire time... Also, two different doctors who wanted to give me inhalers to open up airways blocked by a constricted throat, when my complaint was that I could get air into my lungs just fine, I just felt like I could not get any oxygen out of that air sometimes. I passed lung capacity tests just fine while the problem was occurring. All the inhalers did was make me feel like someone had attached a live electrical wire to my face/teeth...

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

I've had many doctors try to kill me. Poison me with blood pressure meds, ignore a seizure attack lasting hours, ignore my necrotic gallbladder and instead send me home nbd in all these cases and more.

[@XofHope]

I'm unfortunately having a similar experience. There's something very wrong with my lower back spine, it feels somewhat twisted and pulling on the nerves. No one believes me. I've had doctors do just that, look at the exams and immediately dismiss me because there's nothing obvious they can see. After 2 orthopedists, 2 neurosurgeons, 1 neuroradiologist and 1 chiropractor, I've no choice but to accept this is what the rest of my life will be like. If only they had just a tiny bit of curiosity to look any further... But most don't, one even refused to continue seeing me when I told him the deep muscle massage wasn't doing anything and I was pretty sure it wouldn't, no matter how many sessions we did. And here we are, many massages later.

[@Vertraic]

@@XofHope I'm sorry to hear that:( Lower back pain is absolutely horrible. I hope you can find someone to take you seriously and get it fixed soon:( I WILL say that while the odds are low, there is still a chance something can help you anyways. After my surgery I continued having back problems for several months, and it only fully went away after I went on a ROLLER COASTER of all things. The drag on my spine on the initial drop caused my spine to pop like knuckles, and after that I no longer needed pain killers. I would not recommend trying the same thing unless you already know what the issue is, just saying that things CAN happen fortuitously.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@XofHope hey if you haven't yet try to see a good physical therapist (check reviews before u go.) It might be able to help you. I had a similar issue but it was caused by scar tissue on my spine and they had to dissolve it. Any chance u might have scar tissue? Like ever had a spinal tap even? If so you might benefit from such a procedure but it hurts the worst sorta pain. Try physio first hehe.

[@XofHope]

@@Vertraic I'm so glad you did get better! But it's so hard remaining hopeful when so many "experts" tell you they see nothing wrong. I have a degree in biology, I'm a woman of science and the only thing I'm absolutely certain is that this has a physical cause, I'm not making it up or blowing it out of proportion like some have hinted. I've been to private doctors and paying myself because I wanted to get better as soon as possible, but we have free health care and assigned doctors, it's just quite slow. My new doctor (my usual one has retired at the end of last year) seems nice enough, prescribed more muscle relaxants, which do nothing, but seemed concerned and somewhat willing to look further (but since he was filling in for my now retired doctor and seeing his own patients and it was already about an hour after the medical centre should have closed, I have to wait another 2 weeks to see him again... And that's because he made the appointment himself, if going through normal routes it'd take about 3 months!).

[@samppakoivula9977]

There is fine line between being critical and being stubborn, that is what I get from this

[@janicesuddath9737]

I was shocked recently when meeting with my cancer team when one of them said "you should have a 97.5 percent chance of it not coming back if you do what we recommend" I'm thinking why wouldn't I? Then I remembered someone I knew who quit chemo because she was worried about the long term effects on her health. OMG

[@erictaylor5462]

After I had a heart attack at the age of 50 I decided it was time for me to get a wheelchair to help me get around the house while not wearing my prosthetic leg. I've been an amputee since I was 3 years old and even now, at 53 I'm still fairly fit, but I'm not a kid any more and 48 years of hopping was having a toll on my knee. I was talking to someone from the insurance company trying to justify my need for a chair. The woman asked how I had gotten around without my leg until that time, I said "I hop." She asked why I could no longer hop and I said, "The International House of Pancakes went out of business." She started to ask, What does that have to do - ohhhh." then she started laughing. I got the chair in the end.

[@misscoati697]

Do you age backwards or something?

[@melissabarrett9750]

@@misscoati697 Hopping for 48 years, but only 43 years old... Fascinating! Must have been a painful pregnancy for his mother, the whole five years before he popped out 😳

[@pegasusactua2985]

This man changed his age three times in a single paragraph.

[@crystalclear8358]

None os that made any sense

[@erictaylor5462]

@@melissabarrett9750 Typo

[@marmot418]

I liked the "Why are you looking at my hip? I said the pain was in my knee." To which the response is a nursery rhyme

[@suzanne529]

I had a physical therapist do this to me, unprovoked.

[@japanpanda2179]

1:54 If this girl dies, that is on the doctor who allowed her to go home without getting CPS involved.

[@janiceteeter6091]

You can get gallstones after having the gallbladder removed. They can be formed by the duct which is not removed during the surgery. This happened to my sister who had gallstones when she was pregnant, 10 years after having her gallbladder removed.

[@luciferlampmuffin2879]

I have fibromyalgia and the amount of hippie dippy bullshit I have had sent my way does me head in! My family went from "that's not even a real condition" to apparently knowing more about it then my doctor is crazy, I only speak to them when I have to now (apart from my sister who actually apologized)

[@SewardWriter]

I've got Ehlers-Danlos. My family is OK, if a bit forgetful, but so many randos have said shit like, "It's all in your head! Take St. John's Wort!" It's so hard to be polite in the face of that bs.

[@JamesDavy2009]

I know how you feel, mate. My mother has fibromyalgia and I myself have something that wasn't recognised until the turn of the '90s: autism.

[@mariewillhite5051]

I have bad news. AFTER, fibromyalgia comes RA. I did not know this and NOW I have had RA for 15 yrs. Seems I could have done nothing to prevent the RA, but, perhaps, I could have been better prepared. SO, please get help and get informed.

[@cheriem432]

You poor thing.

[@shayleenparrett2035]

I feel really bad for people in this position

[@bonnieweeks7601]

My husband and I are retired nurses. He worked in the ER and had some good stories. An obese women came in for a stomach issue. During the exam they found chicken wings under her breasts. And that's a mild story.

[@pioneercynthia1]

I have a friend who's an ER nurse and he found a Twinkie lodged in a fold of fat on a woman's abdomen. He mentioned it to her and she said she wondered where it went when it fell. How he keeps a straight face is beyond me.

[@FarHowling]

Always keep some Snacks at Hand in Case of emergency

[@carmium]

Have you noticed how many obese people on TV ads lately? Sometimes as the lead character or modelling underwear! It seems like they want to normalize extreme overweight. I just saw a 400-pounder in an "ensemble cast" as tonight - a new record.

[@johnparkes2452]

@@carmiumso they can charge a lot for the bigger sizes that actually fits them

[@e.conboy4286]

@@carmium: Imagine attempting CPR!

[@newmle]

A reversal of this: wife and I took our kids to dr for RSV. We were sick too. Dr insisted that we, as adults, couldn't get RSV. My wife, a nurse, demanded they test us anyway because, yes, adults CAN get RSV. Sure enough, we all had it.

[@PK_Ghostin]

Story 31 was easily the funniest one, that impression was golden

[@jayayvee_music]

when you’re so narcissistic that one of your family members end up dying because of your behavior

[@JamesDavy2009]

That's negligent homicide.

[@jayayvee_music]

@@JamesDavy2009 yes

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

5:12 OMG! I have the tiniest veins (supposedly inherited from my father), and nurses waggle around my arms "searching" for the vein all the time. I warn them before hand, I beg them to find the vein first, _and _*_then_* poke... but it just kept happening. I finally got a port put in, every doctor and nurse from every medical facility will start tripping over each other just to come up with reasons they _can't_ use the port... and they usually don't. They literally place an ultimatum, they've given no reason, they _refuse_ to give a reason, but they won't use the port and I have to let them use me as a sewing machine or they won't do the surgery, or whatever's going on. Anyhow, after poking "too many holes" in one side, they just casually say "Let's try the other side." and I'll ask for someone _else._ And they'll just look at me like I have three heads, "I want someone who will at least _attempt_ to find the vein first, and _then_ stick the needle in. Not just stab me and fish around for the vein." Now, usually there'll be a breif wave of sanity and I'll get someone else at this point, but one nurse actually tried gaslighting me and said in the sweetest voice "I would _never_ do that." like that wasn't what she had literally just finished doing and was presumably planning to do again. It was even worse when I was giving blood, because I'm doing _them_ a favor, I'm trying to save lives because God blessed/cursed me with Type O blood; and they're doing everything in their power to keep me from coming back.

[@Max-ox5jd]

I had a similar problem, they never found my veins. And I had kind of s needle phobia worsened because of this. Then someday, after several useless attempts at my arms, one nurse switched to my hand to draw blood from there. That changed everything. It worked perfectly fine, didn't hurt (just a tiny bit, easily bearable), didn't swell up and hurt like crazy in the days after, was easy to do because of big shiny veins popping out of my hand... it was just perfect. However, at a later time somewhere else two nurses AND the doctor of a facility tried to draw blood for around 20 minutes. Right from the start I wanted them to use my hand, because as I told them, I knew from experience the arms wouldn't work, they didn't work well since several years and lately not at all! My hand was perfect for this! They completely ignored my wishes and poked a lot of holes in both my arms while my fear slowly switched more and more to frustration and anger. And pain. For two fu..ing weeks my arms were blue and black and swollen and I could barely move them, with lots of pain. In the end they had to use my hand anyways, which was a one-try thing and worked like a charm. Like I had said. The kicker to all of this was, while I very kindly (I was very introverted and shy and never really complained in an aggressive way) told them it didn't work and I would prefer the hand, for said reasons... they basically talked me down and made sexist statements like "You are whining more about drawing blood than the small girl from above (HIPA violation, anyone? they were very chatty about patients anyways...) who has it done daily." (I'm a big guy but very sensitive, btw). Yea sure, tell me more about a completely other human being with different feelings than me which you probably don't put in pain for half an hour every day, handling your stupidity better, tell me how I'm not a manly man because I "whine" when you completely ignore me and my feelings and knowledge about my body, because you are too arrogant and incapable in your field and cause tremendous physical and psychological pain. And people wonder why I have trouble trusting doctors and especially women. But this experience was my wake up call, to get more confident in demanding things done right, medically at least. Since then I always demanded it be done from my hand, and as long as I'm awake I will never let them do it to my arms again, ever. Hand or I'm out. They look funny at me when I demand it but I try to explain it in short words so they understand I'm not difficult for fun but for a good reason. Only had one single exception in the last 10 years because one needed that much blood that it would have taken forever (it wouldn't, I'm very sure, since others have done it with my hands as well, it just takes a bit longer), and she wouldn't budge. Anyways, I took it as test and told her she had one try only. She was lucky to get it at first try. However, it was still more painful during and afterwards so I'm not gonna repeat that.

[@Wald_M]

@@Max-ox5jd I asked and learned from medical personels that they never want to use the veins around the hand because they're the "quick perfect" veins for urgent IV and need to be kept in pristine condition, so now out of respect i let them stab me 3 times before i ask for the taboo veins and senior nurse on the ward.

[@slc1161]

The ectopic pregnancy is questionsble. Any ER worth their salt would consider the mother’s refusal as child neglect and call DCFS and the hospital lawyer to get an emergency guardianship and surgical okay, as this is a life threatening condition.

[@arianebolt1575]

Also, no ultrasound?

[@victorb145]

I told my doctor I was going to try to quit smoking because of chest pains every time I had a cigarette. The doctor said I don't think it's the cigarettes but don't want to discourage you from quitting smoking. I'll get you some nicotine patches. I managed to quit in the two or three weeks it took him to get the patches and like I had hoped the chest pains went away. Who was right and who was wrong? Who cares? The chest pains are gone and I kicked a bad habit!

[@MsGbergh]

If my doctor said he did not think smoking caused the chest pains, I'd have asked why he thought I might have them. Anyway - glad it worked out well for you.

[@victorb145]

@@MsGbergh The thought crossed my mind.I decided to save it for if my plan of action didn't work. I don't like thinking about things that could be, especially when none of them are good.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Your wallet/purse would thank you.

[@deannarounds3295]

@@victorb145 Just a thought - I am a 33 year cancer survivor and whether you know you have it or not you still have it. If the doc suspects something serious please go back and get it checked.

[@victorb145]

@@deannarounds3295 I'm sure anything serious will pop up on my annual exams. Your cancer has been in remission for 33 years? I hope so that would be a new record destroying the other woman's record of 30 years, that I am aware of.

[@grammasscotsgirl]

It isn't just patients. I had a doctor insist that the reason I had a cold was because I went outside with wet hair. We were at the town's outdoor pool/water slide park. I think it was my quick blinking that made her realize how idiotic her comment was.

[@cafsixtieslover]

My husband says that all the time

[@catherineharvey5556]

I hope you do one showing what stupid, unfeeling and high handed some doctors are. I like many have met the most horrid doctors that have misdiagnosed and/or dismissed very serious cases.

[@What_Makes_Climate_Tick]

One of my dad's closest colleagues had a Ph.D. in plant pathology. His main job function was to test the disease resistance of newly developed sunflower hybrids that were candidates for large-scale production and distribution to farmers. This was for sunflower diseases like leaf rust and alternaria. His wife had multiple medical issues, and when doctors would hear that he was a "pathologist", even with the word "plant" in front of it, they would talk to him as if he was an MD.

[@luketimewalker]

He must be the MD at an assembly line!

[@billnye69]

My Dads doctor was the senior specialist for cancer with 40yrs under his belt. My Dad was getting treatmment for cancer during covid and yelled about masks while in the hospital. He yelled at his doctor "You can't even transmit a virus!".........My sister is also an RPN and was so embarassed in front of hospital staff.

[@anonymousina9210]

Patients think they knows everything while theres a literal HEALTH PROFESSIONAL IN FRONT OF YOU

[@WilliamWizer]

one wonders why do they go to a professional if they aren't going to listen.

[@kaasmeester5903]

As some people say: MD stands for Memorized Degree. They know a lot about medicine and health, but the vast majority of them are *terrible* troubleshooters. My wife has had some health issues that no one was able to pin down; if I had a € for every time doctors told us: "It's probably not that", not because of a contra-indication but simply because of statistical likelyhood... Those morons already exhausted all the "likely" causes, but it simply did not occur to them that this means you need to start eliminating the unikely possibilities. Most of them were GPs, but I've met my share of idiot savant specialists as well. Medical knowledge isn't magic either, anyone with a bit of a brain can learn. Maybe I sound a little harsher about the medical profession than I should be, but my point is: *never* be shy to suggest possibilities to your doctor, if you found something online or whatever. Give him suggestions and tell him where you found them. 99 times out of a 100 he'll tell you that you're mistaken and why... But in case of my wife, turned out that we were right. Our current GP is brilliant, by the way. And always willing to listen to suggestions.

[@nancystockwell7829]

But there are times I have literally had a HEALTH PROFESSIONAL IN FRONT OF ME tell me I was crazy, because I had an extremely rare reaction to a new med. Then I have to say please check my history, I get extremely rare reactions to meds sometimes, and I believe I'm having another one right now. And yup I do know my body. It needs to be a partnership, with both parties listening to and respecting each other. It's hard to find when Drs. think their patients are idiots, and vice versa.

[@WilliamWizer]

@@nancystockwell7829 I half agree. because of a single undeniable fact. there's no place were you can't find any stupid. what's the first thing a doctor should do? check medical history and ask the patient about any medication he is taking, any known allergy or other medical issues in the past. what do some doctors do? I can't find the cause of the symptoms so take this four different pills for different possible causes and this fifth to protect your stomach from the others. good!! best doctor ever. I filed a complain at the hospital stating clearly that if they didn't fire that doctor, I would press charges against the hospital for the lack of profesionalism. I didn't had any intention of doing so but this kind of sh*t works wonders. I didn't check if they had fired him. I didn't truly care.

[@BeckBeckGo]

@@kaasmeester5903 the only problem with that is that in order to obtain the degree, they have to demonstrate that they can. Are all of them good at it? Not as good as others. But it’s like saying someone can get a math degree just by memorizing formulas. Which…. No. You can’t.

[@MrRukrio1]

honestly the "it's against my religion, i'm catholic" had me shaking my head. am Christian, it's literally in the bible to trust physicians (what they called doctors back then) to do their job because they also pray to god for success in proper diagnosis and treatment.

[@BulgariaMapping2]

i feel so bad for the children of antivax moms 😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@cathygretch7824]

And especially when children with measles, become in contact with pregnant moms (who even though they've been inoculated,) may give their 4-month fetuses severe birth defects.

[@BulgariaMapping2]

@@cathygretch7824 😱😱😭😭

[@cyberherbalist]

I know a woman who caught Covid both before and after getting vaxxed. My wife and I both caught it after being vaxxed twice and boosted. My brother and his wife had the same experience. Meanwhile, my stepson refused the vax, and has never caught it. He works in a darned _hospital_ for crying out loud.

[@franceslock2058]

I feel bad for all the children who get every vac there is available. I feel bad for children who were normal until their second round of baby shots then stopped talking and reacting to others . I have multiple chemical sensitivity and refuse any vacs. I have only the few they gave in the sixties. Yes, my children had the ones required for children in the eighties. They refuse any additional vacs.

[@spiritmuse]

@@franceslock2058 Yeah no I know you are talking about autism there and NO you are NOT throwing autistic people under the bus for your pathetic anti-vaxx conspiracy theories. Vaccines do not cause autism. This has been proven over and over and over again. End of story.

[@tommyfortress7515]

Story 9 is so ironic and a bit funny. I feel like she basically asked for that to happend by denying the doctor

[@daykibaran9668]

For me it’s just dump, she died just because she preferred work over health

[@meztlistormheart2636]

@@daykibaran9668 This is really common in the states, because you can lose your job for missing too many days, even if it's for medical reasons. (It's happened to me several times) Worse, a simple treatment can be $300 and my last misdiagnosis (In ER for a heart attack in my 30s) Was $46,000. I was lucky, because apparently I'd managed to recover without intervention, but I could have died and it still cost me that much...

[@carmencapa6945]

“No no that coffee is good it helps me with my shaking “😂😂

[@wizardsuth]

Funny, alcohol has the same effect in some people...

[@dude988]

That's not how caffeine withdrawal works. Only if she added a neat extra to each cup.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

I had a doctor who tried to suggest my fainting whenever I stood up too fast was psychological and not due to her poisoning me with blood pressure meds... my nurse bf at the time was like "yeah that makes sense..." I refused to see that crazy again. Stopped the med and became better within 2 days, haven't fainted since.

[@VeracityLH]

I hear ya. My father-in-law was diagnosed with CHF and was told he would be dead by Christmas and it was his own fault because he was a recovering alcoholic. The doctor left and the family sat there stunned. I said, "That's bullshit," and took my father in-law's hand. We got him some books about CHF, which I also read and got educated on the condition and what was possible. After few weeks later he calls me to say he's taking all the meds prescribed like a good boy, but that he's so fatigued he is continually dropping off to sleep. Like 5 minutes after he gets hone, he's asleep on the couch sitting up. I looked up his meds and sure enough, one had extreme drowsiness listed as its most prominent side effect. There were plenty of other drugs that would do the same job without making him sleep. He took the info to his doctor who insisted drowsiness was NOT a side effect of drug X. My dad in law grabbed the Physicians Desk Reference off the table in the exam room and looked the drug up, shoving it under the doctor's nose (as I had instructed him, if the doctor was uncooperative), and told the doctor he could change the med or dad in law would find a new doctor. He not only lived past Christmas, but lived another 16 years. Sometimes you just have to stick to your guns.

[@Memento_Mori_Morals]

@@VeracityLH I'm glad you guys knew when to speak up. Tbh if I hadn't studied pharmacology I might have believed my doctor AND bf if I hadn't known better, but to make matters worse I knew everything my nurse bf did along with way more pharmacology than him. /facepalm

[@Snowdemoman]

I'm sorry, but "I do not appreciate having to scrub three jars of mayo off grandma" is such a sudden sentence, what the flip are people doing?

[@phastinemoon]

I had a coworker who insisted that toothpaste on a burn would help. …yeah.

[@ShalmendoGlineux]

lmao. I use actual 'emergency burn jel' on my burns... I keep some in the kitchen because I'm a bit on the clumsy side and do accidentally get burned by a bit of oil flying out of a pan once in awhile or moving my thumb a bit too close to a hot surface... I apply the jel immediately usually and I don't even have any burn marks or anything the next day. You try that with toothpaste or may or whatever, and you're gonna have burn marks for days or longer.

[@dampmop]

Mom and the daughter story looks truly painful

[@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395]

Especially since ectopic pregnancies almost always end in death if left untreated

[@Xeridanus]

That one was rough. If I was the doctor, I'd make something up to get her into surgery. She knows why it's happening, mother doesn't need to.

[@Doc1855]

Well, like the old saying goes, “You can’t fix Stupid, but you can sedate it “

[@megumi_lover69]

I think it would be cool to see a video about the craziest/weirdest things that you have seen in a school bathroom or just a regular bathroom

[@NowPioneer]

Blue **crystals**

[@alfonsoroneras7821]

In the bathroom of a camp there are like 8 emails I want to contact them so bad just to say "Hi, is this _, i know what camp you had camped from_grade to _ grade

[@ax-109]

@David C if it was a girl it would be wierd but its normal to change your shirt (not pants pants isnt normal) in the middle of a men’s bathroom

[@puppydogs68]

In one of the girls bathroom stalls at my school, someone drew men and women’s… *parts* ….in great detail… 💀

[@victoriamiranda-stotelmyre4382]

I think that would be the least cool video

[@russellthompson8414]

I had an employee that had been off sick a few days. His supervisor didn't like the way it sounded and we told the employee he needed a doctors "return to work" approval. He refused and died of a heart attack instead.

[@mregister3945]

Another case: Patient in ER for chest pains. After waiting in ER for 3 hours, 45 minutes, nurse put blood pressure cuff on arm. Patient told nurse that arm was numb. Nurse insisted that would not effect the BP reading. During tests, patient explained her AV valves did not function properly (as per past cardiology exam tests). Nurse informed patient SHE WAS AN RN WHO TAUGHT HEART ANATOMY, AND HUMANS DO NOT HAVE AV VALVES (think Bicuspid and Tricuspid Valves)! Same nurse informed patient later that evening tests could not find a cause for the chest pains; patient was told it might just be a "PULMONARY EMBOLISM"! (think blood clot in the lungs ... very life-threatening!) Patient told she was being released to go home. When patient was presented with discharge paperwork, she held out her arm and asked the ER nurse if she was going to remove the IV starter. There are logical reasons for intelligent patients to not automatically follow advice from medical personnel. Remember, not all medical staff graduate top-of-the-class.

[@wristdisabledwriter2893]

Not a doctor but my uncle was in complete denial he had covid even though dad who visited daily caught it. Even if dad didn’t catch it from uncle, he would have given it to him. Lucky for everyone they both survived it. Mom and I didn’t catch it according to the tests. This happened when getting vaccinated was just starting.

[@koalaeucalyptus]

No kidding, the covid-related denials make me the angriest. My mother-in-law directly caused the death of two of her brothers because she didn't believe it was that serious, never practiced social distancing or wore masks. She would host dinners for 8+ people at least twice a week, and claim she "wasn't going out anyway, so that was safe!". Her brother with Down Syndrome lived with her and she took care of him. When she caught it, he obviously caught it too, and needed to be hospitalized. Her other brother, with other pre-existing conditions, had to step-up and help take care of him at the hospital, caught it as well, had complications and was also hospitalized. Both died soon after that. Today, she continues to say she has no idea how they caught it, how it was a terrible stroke of fate, and how they actually died from the other conditions they had, the doctors just wanted to list it off as covid deaths. I frankly despise her for that. They were good people.

[@FarHowling]

My Boss once told me about a patient who refused to believe he ever had covid. After he was hospitalized and spent several days in ER because of Covid. His explanation for needing emergency Care was "I guess I was imagining Symptoms"

[@Wren40]

The stupidity of some people is truly astounding.

[@HopeBagels5798]

When my grandma was a midwife, she had a patient who was convinced the baby was supposed to come out through the mouth. She apparently screamed at Grandma every time she felt like she had to throw up until she was gently talked through the fact that her daughter was coming out the same way she went in.

[@traceystammers798]

Spot on! "I was cured so do not need the treatment any more." So many times!

[@Schaemia]

I wanna see: doctors, when was a patient actually right about something you dismissed? But I don't think their egos would allow it 😆

[@Schaemia]

Damn this video just cemented my view that humans are dumb af. Wow.

[@evasmiljanic3529]

There is major stupidity on both sides.

[@nk6122]

lol so interesting! yea they're egos definitely wouldn't allow! I'd also like to know: How do young, inexperienced doctors train for beauty surgeries like e.g. nose surgery? I'm afraid patients go pay for an experienced surgeon..and while they're unconscious, some trainee doctor does the nose job 😬

[@bethanyhanna9464]

My mom had her gallbladder out out in the early 90s. She had dementia, and constantly complained about phantom pains, to doctors who refused to belive she had dementia. In the late 00s I showed up at the hospital (I was her legal guardian across the board. They weren't allowed to have her make important decidions, like SURGERY!) to discover they'd had her (a diabetic) NPO for over 12 hours for surgery to remove her gallbladder. 🤔 This is literally the very doctor who took it in the 90s. 🤦‍♀️ Mom, in her loopy state innocrntly asked "Do I still have one of those?", to which the doctor laughed and condescendingly explained that of course she had a gallbladder. I looked at him like he was especially dim, explained the he himself had removed her gallbladder and when (I know the exact date), at this very hospital, and questioned how he hadn't noticed the rather significant scar.🤦‍♀️ He was NOT happy, almost as much as I was. I produced the legal documents that spelled out how Mom could no longer make important decisions, and how I needed to be present for important medical discussions regarding her care. That doctor continued to deny mom's dementia, and claimed the 100% legal documrnts were legitimate. Our lawyer supported my stance, we had him removed from her care, and since she was a "frequent flyer" (lots of medical issues) we learned that the particular doctor "retired" about 8 years early. 🤔🤣

[@awesomegirls10]

That very last story and any similar ones like it just drive me crazy. I completely understand people wanting to find more natural remedies for something like a bee sting or the common cold, but not for a hernia or an aneurysm or something like that!! 🤦🏾‍♀️ True there is absolutely nothing that we can do for colds except rest and liquids. If you want to try some elderberry syrup or some honey to help you with your cough or your other symptoms, feel free! You're not actively hurting yourself or anyone else. BUT YOU DON'T APPLY PROBIOTICS TO A WOUND WTF

As harsh as it seems to say it, but some people are just too stupid to live. The only sad thing is that when other people, who are in command over someone with bad health, are stupid to such an degree. It usually costs the life of the patient, which didn't even have the chance to alter their fate, because of the stupidity of others.

[@MarcoAdventures]

Every time I see Story 23 I just internal scream. I have a fully catholic family, we are all fully vaccinated. I learn at s catholic school that will not allow you to attend face to face if you aren't fully vaccinated not just to covid but to some other sicknesses too. And then there's the person in Story 23.

[@MWHAAHHAHA]

@@MarcoAdventures ugh . Have you been brainwashed? I haven't been vaccinated and am doing fine. I heard bad cases of people dying because of it. If my autistic brother took it he would be having his heart beat 10x faster then it is already... Stop believing everything . I would rather not be vaccinated then deal with knowing that people were experiencing death that includes fast heart beats , sickness , and some virus for some reason. And some more. Just because of getting vaccinated. Can't change my mind. If your family goes through hell then it ain't my fault neither is the vaccine . Yours.

[@NaThingSerious]

Not vaccinating yourself is fine, but not vaccinating your children or pets should be considered child and pet abuse or neglect.

[@wizardsuth]

By not vaccinating yourself, you risk contracting and spreading diseases to others who cannot be vaccinated against them due to age or medical conditions. It is irresponsible to not take reasonable measures to prevent the spread of disease.

[@TheAleBecker]

Story 5: HOW CAN YOU RISK THE DEATH OF YOUR CHILD, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT SHE MAY HAVE HAD INTERCOURSE???!!

[@louiseogden1296]

Not a story that matches this particular AR question, but my husband was having headaches for hours on end while on chemo for his kidney cancer. My mum took him to his consultation (I was at work) and later said to me: the doctor said he'd 'do a brain scan, but he didn't think he'd find anythjng'. It was a moment of hilarity at a grim time, but it was certainly hilarious.

[@VeracityLH]

Ugh, and the 3 places kidney cancer is likely to metastasize to are bone, lung, and brain. Sometimes you just want to shake a doctor and yell "REALLY?!?" I hope things got better. I've been dealing with a stage I cancer for 5 years, inoperable but at least it's stable. My husband was found to have stage IV kidney cancer almost a year ago, which had already gone to bone and lungs, but last month we found it had spread to his brain too. Thankfully, we have great doctors and have only run into idiocy when they fail to communicate with each other. It's hard to be your own advocate under such circumstances. Take care.

[@robynw6307]

I'm a carer in Aged Care. Was discussing with the nurse how, when on the toilet one resident would almost always urinate then stop for a minute or more, then urinate and stop again, sometimes up to four or five times before fully emptying her bladder. The carer sitting nearby, upon hearing this, advised me that women have two bladders. I just looked at the nurse who slowly shook his head.

[@jessicas1195]

I get a kick out of “I want you to adjust my daughter’s scrotum” as 1) it’s hilarious, and 2) I thought she had confused the scrotum with Sacrum… not the back of the neck! 😂 way out of the park on that one! 😂😂😂

[@MsGbergh]

I've seen the following on a ward handover sheet : J D (75) Prostate Cancer , Diabetes , Uterine Stent. I asked one of the nurses about it, and was told it should read 'ureteric stent.

[@TimeladyV]

When I was very young I badly burnt my arm after play fighting with a brother in front of an open fire. My mother put me in a cold bath, then covered the burn with a paste of baking soda and water. The nearest hospital was an hour away so she decided that I would fine. I still have the scar 50 years later. She still believes that baking soda can pretty much fix anything. Love my mum.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I wanted to watch this but just having recovered from an ocular migraine, the thing came back again due to your background. Thanks.

[@anylength2215]

I totally agree. It was making me sick. I left a comment above abot this.

[@bobmirror7164]

Hum... So, if you do not watch the video your hearing stops. Very interesting.

[@Lily-Bravo]

@@bobmirror7164 Eh? Nothing to do with hearing. Jazzy visuals cause OpArt Jazzy patterns to swirl around in your vision. Hearing is not affected. The patterns keep on after you stop watching the video.

[@anylength2215]

@@bobmirror7164 some people get distracted when it's only sound. So they need to watch something. But stock photos of hospital corridors would have been preferable to what you add to the sound.

[@dissado]

@@Lily-Bravo Just don't look at the screen is what they're saying .. I plugged in my earphones and just listened... easy

[@annedunne4526]

It's sad and worrying that so many don't trust modern medicine. Is it because the American healthcare system is for profit rather than for care of the person?

[@vgverog]

Addiction to coffee... Reminds me of when I had to explain to my grandma that if the coffee cured her headaches, it was only because said headaches were withdrawal symptoms from her coffee addiction. If coffee helped her sleep, it was because restlessness was a symptom of coffee withdrawal. I highly suggested that she replaces at least one every two cups of coffee with a glass of water.

[@CathyGoes]

Caffeine withdrawal sucks and doesn't get the attention it should. It can really take a few weeks to months of carefully stepping down the amount to not have side effects bad enough to severely impact you.

[@margarettickle9659]

Several specialists would not listen to me about how strong the pain was in my throat. They insisted it was Alergies. Finally I insisted a specialist at the hospital look at my throat while I was laying off the bed sort of upside down. I was in the operating room next morning for cancer on the back of my tonsil. By the time they removed the tonsils, the cancer turned into Lymphoma to which I had to have Chemo and radiation. I almost died because those doctors would not listen to me.

[@brucebaxter6923]

My wife just passed from brain cancer, and listening to all these I think I should apologise for being a pain in the ass to the staff. Always at her bed doing what I could and asking for her pain meds and sedative meds when she needed them.

[@brucebaxter6923]

@MushMan Thankyou.

[@maryfields1382]

I'm so sorry... I'm willing to bet that if you *did* go back to visit the staff, they would likely tell you no apology is necessary. Wishing you comfort and peace...

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@maryfields1382 Thankyou. The staff were wonderful to her right till the end. I can’t say enough for them.

[@MsGbergh]

I work in a hospital. Relatives or friends who act as carers for terminally ill , or demented patients are always welcome.

[@brucebaxter6923]

@@MsGbergh Thanks. It was both a surprise and very upsetting that other patients didn’t have someone with them. Even more upsetting was when she needed spoon feeding her parents would not go near her and the food sat in front of her

[@sonarharin3906]

I went to a teaching hospital because of a rash that was spreading…. Some by my ear and some on my lower leg. The doctor, and his supervisor, looked behind my ear and said it’s a spider bite and gave me steroid cream. I asked “if it’s a spider bite where is the entry wound…? And what about my lower leg?” They didn’t respond and left after charging me $180. The next day my friend, who is a waitress, diagnosed it-correctly-as poison oak.

[@Bigzthegreat]

*Doctor:* You're having a heart attack. *Patient:* No u Later that day, the doctor died and the patient only got a slap on the wrist.

[@monroerobbins7551]

Honestly, one of my guilty pleasures is hearing people rant. Doctors? Rant away about the dumb-ass patients. Waiters and barhops? Please continue about the visitors who grated your nerves. Cleaners? Please, I wanna know more about the clients who never seemed to care about their houses. Not only is it good for them to vent, decompress, but I also learn a fair bit about what NOT to do, lol.

[@scottcardon5222]

Anesthetists are doctors. They just specialize in anesthesia.

[@Superduper666]

Interesting stories but the visuals make me sick to my stomach

[@evolition7]

The levels of ignorance and arrogance of these patients are astounding 😳

[@moosehead1183]

Some people will stop taking their meds because they flat out can't afford them!

[@babble2leeza]

The dumbest thing a Dr said to me: You can't have lupus, you're not black.

[@ianmoore525]

Doctors must hate it when the patient says “ I read on google….,”

[@melissabarrett9750]

That's why it's so perilous for a patient to suggest the diagnosis. Doctors get defensive when you, the patient, hasn't run any diagnostics and is going for a diagnosis based upon instinct, intuition and symptoms. Remember, we're simple pieces of meat as far as they're concerned

[@vwvqr]

Anaesthesiologists are massively underrated. They're essentially your primary advocate when you're under. And if you go in for surgery and are unlucky enough to go into cardiac arrest, surgeon steps aside and the anaesthesiologist is the one who revives you.

[@VeracityLH]

I had to laugh when the story of a family member with medical knowledge began disagreeing with the doctor. I'm in a similar position in my family, and yes, one medical job I worked was as a transcriptionist. I take a different attitude though. I'll tell a doctor of my experience so we can save time because I understand medical terminology; the doctor doesn't have to explain quite as much. Usually the doctor's response is a raised eyebrow but later in the conversation I'll see relieved smiles as they realize I'm not kidding and really do understand what they are talking about. I don't try to override what they are saying, and I surely don't instruct them. I do take what they say and go look it up myself. Doctors do make mistakes. I will never apologize for that as it has saved 2 family member's lives as well as my own. First time my mother-in-law was in a nursing residence and the in house doc changed and added to her meds. I checked for interactions (looking for side effects that might pop up, hoping to save her from unnecessary gi upset, etc) when I found a possible fatal interaction. Doctor blew me off, so I took it to the head nurse, who called my mom in law's GP, who blew his lid. I was entirely correct and had she taken what was prescribed it would have killed her. The GP called the in house doc in front of us and chewed him out, asking him if he got his degree off the back page of a comic book. I had never heard a doctor chew out another in front of a patient like that, but he was boiling mad and so were we. The time I was the one who's health was on the line was when a GP prescribed 12 Vicodin a day. I protested that that was way too much acetaminophen, and the GP told me to leave dosage to the doctors. Never mind that this jackarse knew I was then employed as a pharmacy technician. I took the prescription to work and handed it to my boss, who promptly did a double take and handed it back. "You can't take that. You'd kill your liver." No shit? Told her what the doctor had said to me about letting those who had big brains and degrees do their job and I should take it like a good little girl. He was just so pompous! Boss called this MD and the MD said to just fill it, like he didn't have time to listen to her either. She told him that when it comes to meds she is the HDIC ("Head Doctor In Charge,") and next time he wanted to give a patient an irresponsible dose like that, she would report him to the state medical board. "On what grounds?" he demanded. "Sheer chronic idiocy!" she shot back, and hung up. Reddit should ask about overheard calls between medical professionals. That's a list that would never end.

[@luketimewalker]

Congratulations! I'm noting this down. You give credit where credit is due, but take no BS. Congratulations on saving your mother in law's life and your own!

[@wtfsaml]

practical nursing student here. Most of my experiences have been when a co-worker has tried correcting me when I was right. But since i'm just a student, I don't know anything. Worked at a daycare last year. Winter, lost of snow and kids are never a good combination. This one kid (3yrs old) got hit by a snowball in the eye, a co-worker calmed them down and that was about it. The kid was very attached to me, so they kept coming to me, saying that their eye still hurt a bit. After like 4 times informing co-workers who said to just wait it out, they finally decided to call the kids parent to see if they could go to the hospital to check the eye out and come back for nap time. Turns out the kid had small rock(s) in their eye or something that could end up becoming a huge problem in the future. The kid didn't come back that day. I'm proud of myself for insisting on not waiting to get it checked. And tbh fuck those type of nurses who don't take these kinds of things seriously. A fucking snowball to the EYE isn't a thing to just sweep under a rug.

[@gmamah9559]

Siiiiiigh. Yep. That's life. You can't fix stupid or denial but you can educate the willing.

[@witchy90210]

It is so horrible that parents unalive their kids because they think they know better.

[@smnewstead4093]

Even worse when doctors do it even more often

[@CarlosRodriguez-kb9jc]

These colleague of mine told me story of one of the surgeries during his surgical residency. They were doing an emergency appendectomy on a grossly obese woman. They began the surgery and were cutting deeper and deeper through fat when all of the sudden they were looking at the surgical table. Instead of going from midline, they guesstimated and completely missed the abdominal cavity, and made a through and through hole on her side.

[@alexandraprovodelasheras3949]

Damn, I would sue. That's so scary

[@CathyGoes]

@@alexandraprovodelasheras3949 You wouldn't win the lawsuit. The normal anatomical markers are obscured to gone in a grossly obese person. The doctors seriously just have to make their best guess. Obesity has consequences.

[@the_5th_night]

Listening to the narrator’s captivating voice while making coffee. This ain’t gonna dizapoint.

[@katzentatzen9319]

I had a case of a woman coming to the ER with severe abdominal pain. It turned out she didn't know she was pregnant and was in labour. She had only been with her boyfriend for 5 months though. When he came to see her she showed him the baby and told him that the baby was a fast developer.

[@dissado]

😂🤣😂🤣 wonder if he fell for that!.. 🤭😂

[@katzentatzen9319]

@@dissado I'd love to know!

[@scavengingcrow3498]

Friendly reminder to all witches: ✨MUNDANE OVER MAGICKAL✨ Yes, manifest, spells etc, BUT DONT STOP TAKING YOUR MEDS!!!!!

[@antonysoares670]

As a non-native English speaker, "shingles of the eye" does sound like a funny made-up condition.

[@melissabarrett9750]

It only effects the skin

[@dented_riddles9967]

For anyone wondering: Catholics are not (supposed to be) anti-vax. The Church was actively encouraging us to get the COVID vaccine, and Latino Catholics had some of the highest COVID vaccination rates.

[@melissabarrett9750]

However, many of the excessively devout were of the opinion that God would protect them, so vaccination would be unnecessary and an insult to God 🙄

[@ADcommenter]

Are doctors handpicked for their patience? Because i would completely lose my shit at that point

[@evasmiljanic3529]

Med school weeds out people who are not masochists or unnaturally resistant to soul grinding

[@smnewstead4093]

They're handpicked for narcissism and cruelty

[@matchachachoco8948]

I had a doctor in my early thirties rejected my request of ultrasound, I had to fake the symptoms and make two more visit and finally she orders it. Surprise surprise the abdominal ultrasound review that I have fatty liver, gallstone and angiomyolipoma of my left kidney. A good doctor take care of the patient a bad one would just sit in the sidelines and wait until it's too late for you to have anything done. Switch Dr ASAP if you feel like being neglected, but also be respectful and listen to their opinion. I finally found a doctor that will listen to my concern and order blood test just to see if there is a basis for further evaluation. My doctor is wonderful

[@KateinLB]

I am always up for a great laugh. I only made it to the second story because of the wild swirling background and some kind of crazy numbers running. Congrats to all of you who do not have vertigo and could watch this lol 😅 🤪

[@horseluver4ever623]

But I'm a Libra /kidding

[@dissado]

I just plugged in my earbuds and didn't look at the screen .. 🤪

[@FarHowling]

Two of my favorites from my workplace: -Elderly Patient who had two heart attacks and severe high blood pressure. Stopped taking all his med, including the vitally important ones, a month before his appointment. The whole appointment was to check if his medication was sufficient. He couldn't even give us a good reason why he did that. Apparently he just did it on a whim because he wanted us to see his heart's current status or something. -Mid-sixty patient comes in for a preventive colonoscopy. Everything's alright. Leaves without complaints or any Symptoms. Six MONTHS after procedure, she calls in complete rage, yells at us and threatens a lawsuit because she had developed hip pains over the past couple days, and she was convinced that the colonoscopy SIX MONTHS prior was the cause.

[@PixieoftheWood]

I remember my grandpa did the first one, but it was after my grandma died, and with his health going downhill on top of that, he didn't want to keep going. I don't know if he admitted the reason to his doctor, though.

[@Qwty163]

Sometimes, it’s just cool to see natural selection do it’s thing.

[@jahimuddin2306]

Yeah.

[@koalaeucalyptus]

My thoughts exactly.

[@cosmicreef5858]

Except when innocent people die who should not have. That is not "natural" selection. That is dumb people killing others.

[@smnewstead4093]

That's what most doctors think

[@Rapscallion2009]

The doctor who lost his cool with the diabetic is the definition of "Chaotic Good". Sometimes people hear what they want to hear, unless you absolutely don't give them that opportunity.

[@Bobbb-f3i]

The comment at 5.00 about patients stopping their meds cos they felt better made me laugh. I've had real bad asthma all my life and my doctor would change my meds after an attack, I would get better on the other med and as soon as I was better, she would change me back to the other and I'd have an attack. After the fourth attack in 6 months a professor in the hospital came to ask me why my meds kept changing when clearly they should have kept me on the stronger one. I said my doc said it can give brittle bones with prolonged use, the professor said "yes in 30+ years and the way you are in and out of hospital you won't live that long" . My doctor fought against prescribing me the stronger med and wanted to keep me on becotide but the professor forced her hand. 15+ year later on ipratropium and fluticasone I have never had an attack.

[@jmdenison]

Who allows a child within a topic pregnancy to storm out of the ER. I hope that was immediately reported to the authorities and they brought the daughter right back in for emergency surgery. And that's not what most doctors do. You don't ask a woman if she's pregnant or you don't just ask her. You also confirm it with a pregnancy test. Pregnancy tests are pretty much mandatory for every female between 10 years of age and 60 years of age that reports to the ER or doctor with any abdominal pain. You don't really ask the patient you just test them

[@itsjustme4848]

I’m sure all these situations are frustrating for medical professionals. But it would be interesting the hear stories about patients who told their doctor something was wrong and their concerns were dismissed……only to be proven right later. My dad had an odd skin growth on his arm. His regular doc said it was nothing to worry about. Next visit months later his regular doc was on vacation so he saw a different doc who was concerned about the growth and did a biopsy. Advanced melanoma, but with treatment he survived. My mom went to her doc and said she felt like something was growing inside her, like she when she was pregnant. Since she was in her 60’s the doc dismissed her concern with, “My dear, you’re much too old to be pregnant.” Many months later later it was discovered she had a very large ovarian tumor. After surgery and chemo, still within a year she was dead.

[@luketimewalker]

sorry for your loss... may she rest in peace. Check out the other comments, loads of testimonies about doctors messing up -sometimes told by other doctors!)

[@peves-]

The thing about not stopping smoking while pregnant is something doctors used to say back in the day. They believed that quitting cold turkey would put too much strain on the mother and it would harm the baby to be under that kind of stress as well. I know this because my mother was a smoker when pregnant with me and she was told by a doctor not to quit because it would be too much of a shock to her system and could harm her baby (me).

[@poesypoet]

I went to emergency and told them my appendix has burst the "doctor" poked around and while doing so asked does this hurt I replied yes. Does this hurt I replied yes poked some more asked some more I replied in the affirmative. The "Doctor" say's Doesn't hurt enough it's not your appendix. I explain I've suffered with pain most of my life and have a high tolerance to pain. He sends me home I went back into another emergency and told them my appendix burst they put me on the stretcher straight to or and removed the rest of my appendix. "Doctors" patients do know their bodies so listen

[@suzanneperkins5545]

THE BACKGROUND IS REALY DISTRACTING LOVE THE CONTENT

[@ChurroNovo]

15:35 I can’t stop laughing 😂