Doctors, What Patients (Almost) Died From Ignoring Your Advice? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

[@CINRZ]

Doctor: your child needs surgery Parents: if he doesn't get an A* on this test the appendicitis will be the least of his problems

[@mags3905]

My mom

[@genericname5909]

Hey ik my kid is about to die But can death Wait like 6 days he's nearly 3 WDYM Vaccines Dont have toxins they do he will get autism

[@chriswelcome8102]

@@genericname5909 What

[@prettyricky9676]

Somehow I bet these people were Asian or Indian.

[@Pink-Computer]

Doctor: "your child needs surgery" Parents: "if he fails his test tomorrow I'll rip his appendix out myself"

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

Some of these should've just ended with a CPS call.

[@kwayke9]

Like the shellfish allergy one. The father probably knew

[@pomesa_]

They should not ever have been trying to "convince him". He didn't have to understand. He had to get over it. What he was doing was just straight up abuse, and he should not have been allowed to continue his shitty behavior.

[@lotusfae]

I'm guessing she was a young adult at the time and out of CPS reach. But yeah, I wish there were more they could have done. If she was an adult, they didn't have many options that would actually lead to anything.

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

@@lotusfae Knowingly triggering an allergy can often be classified as assault, and depending on severity, the charges can be upgraded to murder in the second degree or voluntary manslaughter.

[@windhelmguard5295]

charging twenty bucks a day for parking at a hospital is straight up murder.

[@leviniahill454]

At one of our hospitals in Australia (Victoria) it's $10 per HOUR. Or $35 for the day. Terrible thing to do to sick patients that need a specialist appointment. You are definitely going to be just waiting for 3 hours for said appointment. :-(

[@windhelmguard5295]

@@leviniahill454 and yet we are surprised that people stil keep trying to walk off life threatening conditions.

[@salhb737tm2]

Ah yes capitalism

[@Tokuijin]

To be fair, if they didn't charge people would use the hospital's parking for whatever

[@beena3593]

dude if a doctor tells me not to do something for 6 weeks imma add an extra week to be safe. like i don't wanna lose an eye for a couple of rollercoasters. nope nope nope.

[@aronblancia15]

I'm allergic to shrimp,but at least my dad doesn't force me to eat the food that has shrimp.

[@AllenTax]

Just that? I assume more than that. I mean useually it is some comp. in the make of foods that does it. Can be in other foods to. I used to be allergic to tomatoes. Thankfully no more.

[@feelgoodinc3654]

Same but only a mild reaction wit large quantities of shrimp

[@gamerninjah8508]

@@AllenTax Wow, I actually found another human being who was also allergic to tomatoes!

[@AllenTax]

@@gamerninjah8508 How you know?

[@gamerninjah8508]

@@AllenTax ?

[@isobelneferata330]

I knew a person who needed a hip replacement and I guess insurance (or something I can't really remember) decided that he'd have to be in a nursing home so he could have people take care of him around the clock. While he was there he went from a lively old man to pretty much a vegetable because the nurses never took care of him and he was left on a bed without being moved. He eventually had a stroke while eating and that was one of the final straws before he passed away. It was horrible to hear

[@katiewhelan6431]

14:28 That's my uncle right there. He could've gotten help for his alcoholism, but both he and his immediate family did not try enough to get him to stop drinking, so he died from liver failure. Ended up causing some tension in the family since they tried to make his ex-wife a scapegoat for his death. It's heartbreaking and frustrating.

[@Jenna2k]

Unfortunately you can only help someone who wants your help. Sometimes even if the person wants help the addiction wins. It is horrible.

[@ravenpatterson7393]

2:51 I have a similar story! I have an allergic reaction to pineapple. Not like your generic pineapple allergy. My throat would close up completely and I could not talk or eat or breathe. One time, I went to a party where they had pineapple in the fruit salad. They served it to everyone. This is how it went: Me: I'm sorry, I can't eat pineapple. I'm aller- Entitled Parent: I don't care, eat it! Me: … EP: If you don't you will get no ice cream or pizza! Me: But I: EP: I DONT CARE, EAT IT! So I did. Then the entitled parent running the party saw that it was a serious reaction. Long story short, in the end I got ice cream and pizza. My mom was mad at the EP.

[@LeBronyaJames]

Say no even if she forced me then throw it on the floor.

[@kuracyn]

Anaphylaxis?

[@hamburger4626]

This sounds extremely fake and made up

[@SecretAgentNein]

By ”generic pineapple allergy,” do you mean the tingling feeling people get from the enzymes in the pineapple? Yeah, that’s not an allergy. Your allergy does sound pretty generic though, much like my own.

[@emjenkins464]

I'm mildly allergic so can't eat it raw (I think it's too acidic for my stomach) but that's horrible! And definitely child abuse!

[@alexisgrunden1556]

12:35 I've been told that for surgery (fasting prior to sedation), and I managed to puzzle the crap out of my doctor. I'd been told no food, and no opaque liquids for the 12 hours prior, and I asked if tea (no milk) counted as an opaque liquid or not. It took him a minute, and a phone call before he decided that a cup of tea was allowable. And if you're wondering, I'm American, not British.

[@toratsubasa91]

My mother works part-time at a vet clinic. She told me a story one of the vets told her that I honestly can't stop thinking about. The vet had done a spay on this nurse's dog, and the nurse requested that she be able to take her dog home that night. She didn't want to have to pay for a night of boarding on top of the spay surgery. The vet explained that it was protocol, to make sure the animal kept the cone on overnight, since they also administered pain meds. They wanted to keep the animal still until the meds would wear off the next morning. The nurse would hear none of it, and said that since she was a nurse, she could definitely take care of a dog, much less her own. The nurse bitched and moaned until the vet gave in, but not until he had her sign a waiver saying she knew what she was doing and that the vet would not be at fault if anything went wrong. The nurse brought her dog home, put the dog in a cage and proceeded to go on a date with her husband. When they returned from the date, the dog had gotten her cone off, had ripped through the stitches she couldn't feel because of the pain meds, and was EATING her own INTESTINES. Needles to say, they don't let owners take their pets home before they're ready anymore, nurse or not.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

"When did your patient almost die?" Story one: Nearly died. Story two: Dies. Story two, did you not read the title?

[@WolfyFancyLads]

@@justinpettit8282 I thought story two was the magnetic therapy guy who died of cancer?

[@Robin_hood27]

TheBritishWolf yes

[@joneelillard892]

"Almost" is in parentheses, so the title covers actual deaths and near-misses.

[@labyrinthgirl17]

Oh man, the stories about allergies make me so mad and anxious! If someone says they have an allergy, please don't force that person to eat what they're allergic to, or try to hide it to prove that the allergy is 'fake.' Killing someone is not worth it, okay.

[@windhelmguard5295]

to be fair many times allergies and intolerances are just in a persons head. like that one doc who told my cousin that she was lactose intolerant. until my aunt ran out of lactose free milk and just took an empty lactose free milk carton, cleaned it up and filled it with regular plain ass milk and my cousin had zero problems with it. worse even my nephews mother took him to some sort of pseudo science herb witch who told her that he got sick often because he drank cow milk and not at all because he is a small, dirty, loud person who hangs out primarily with other small, dirty, disease ridden, loud people for ten hours every day at the daycare. took a lot of convincing for her to accept that switching to goat milk was a giant waste of money.

[@ianmoseley9910]

Was a study done recently that showed most 'gluten intolerant' people (not coeliac sufferers) were either not affected by gluten or were being affected by something else in the bread.

[@Jenna2k]

Even if it is fake still don't feed that food to them. The obviously hate it enough to say they are allergic.

[@chriswelcome8102]

Dad: Make sure you drink this delicious death inducing soup I made or I will punish you ...Wait, what

[@Kartoffelkamm]

If I were a doctor, and a patient told me this kind of story, I'd ask that parent to speak with me in private and explain, in full detail, what happens during an allergic reaction. I'd also have them sign a document that they have been educated on the dangers of allergies, that [list of foods] trigger an allergic reaction in their child, that these foods or ingredients therefore count as harmful substances for their child, and that it is illegal to purposefully expose another person to harmful substances.

[@TheChocloate]

6:16 Going through similar stuff and lemme tell you the last thing on my mind is rollercoasters so how this person managed to voluntary go on a rollercoaster is astonishing.

[@TheEnabledDisabled]

welcome to the 21 century imagine telling people in primitive countries that people can get easily cured but does not accept them or does the opposite

[@Shimmiy]

the sad one about the hospital parking, its not worth dying but getting slammed with a huge hospital parking debt because hospitals are scummy as hell when it comes to taking advantage of parking

[@Tokuijin]

To be fair, the parking 🅿 fee is to make sure you're not only using their parking lot for whatever the hell and that you actually need it.

[@masonreppeto882]

The previous renter of the house I'm living in died at like 52 because she wouldn't stop drinking. liver failer is a real thing people. She left 3 kids behind. People still sometimes send retirement home mail to this address even though she's been dead for 8+ years.

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

When I was about 15/16 I was at a friend's house, and her father had just had quite serious reconstructive surgery on his face (really don't remember the details). Subsequently, he had been instructed to avoid most solid foods until he healed, especially those which require crunching. Anyway, I'm sitting in her living room and he, yelling, stumbles into the hall with blood streaming down several cavities in his face. Man almost died to snack on a bag of pretzels.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

That's the kind of person I wish doctors were allowed to deny treatment, or at least put lower on the wait list, because they ignored medical advice.

[@alannacarlson6715]

Got an ad for the handmaid's tale following the story of a girl almost dying because of her patriarchal culture.

[@grigger7000]

I like that show because it distracts people from actual societies that treat women like absolute shit, but yeah the oppression in that show oh no.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Grigger I don’t follow, are you being sarcastic when you say you liked that show?

[@zeecaptain42]

"What do you think this cable is for?" Unfortunate last words

[@etherraichu]

I got a huge stomach ulcer from using NSAIDs way too much. After some time in the hospital I got home and I didn't go back to taking NSAIDs, even though it meant I had miserable headaches a lot (especailly at first). So my ulcer healed up fine. Dealing with headaches is infinitely better than the hell my ulcer put me through.

[@AllenTax]

Why so much headaches? I used to get them really bad in my teen and early 20s. Now hardly. Unless it is raining.>_

[@hjt091]

If you're having headaches that often might be worth having it checked out. Could be you just need glasses.

[@kimjongun5676]

5:42 we know how a stroke works. Ischemic stroke- blocked artery Hemorrhaging stroke- rare but more deadly, cause its an artery that ripped and is pouring blood out. (Reference for you who dont know)

[@corey6796]

What a time to be alive. All these geniuses in the world.

[@Pink-Computer]

8:56 I can relate to the lack of care given to the patients that need the extra attention. My granddad was put in one of these facilities because it was extremely hard on my mom to keep rushing him back and forth to the hospital on doctors appointments (my granddad had cancer and regularly had appointments to go to to correct his condition). He had gotten his larynx removed because the cancer had completely destroyed it. He was sent in as a total laryngectomy patient but was constantly treated like a tracheostomy patient and the tube he used to breathe was never cleaned by the caretakers at all. Every day my mom would have to come in and correct their mistakes because if she didn't he could literally die. We were also told that he would be getting excercise daily so he can get to moving around again, but never did. He wound up getting nasty bedsores on his ass and feet and some of his toes had turned completely black. They kept giving him the wrong medications and were quite neglectful with him. We were told it was because the facility was understaffed and they didn't have the time to really focus on every patient's individual needs. That was when we decided that enough was enough and we brought him back home, where he lived for maybe a month and a half before passing away. What was heart breaking when he died was that he died fighting. He was extremely hesitant to pass on, and he would constantly get "mini seizures" when he felt his grip on life slipping. After an hour of fighting, he finally let himself go. I cried for an hour, constantly visiting his room, where my brother now occupies. I own my granddad's bed (it's one of those beds that you can prop the head and legs on and it has vibration settings and what not. Basically a hospital bed). I miss him a lot, and I'm extremely bitter towards the facility he was kept in because we trusted them to take care of my granddad and they failed us. They failed him

[@LeBronyaJames]

You can't just fake an allergy on the spot, escepically a fatal one.

[@Lana-un2qk]

The woman with the allergies 😬 i had a reaction from soya milk. My throat was a little swollen. Had just a little sip so it was not that bad. But it felt bad. I can't i magine you eat things on purpose, if you know you can't have it

[@Kurokodairua]

I'm very allergic to chicken eggs, everytime I accidentally eat some (because my poor ass eats processed stuff a lot) I'm out of service for like a day, even if its only produced in a machine that also does egg things

[@jamesliu8095]

Egg, fish and nuts It's only made worse by the fact that I'm a picky eater.

[@AllenTax]

I think they just want to try it once. Once can be deadly.

[@yeet69yearsagoedited48]

Lana if you want to try, you gotta ask a doctor how much will harm you, how much is ok?

[@lordblazer]

I'm allergic to gluten and shellfish. I'll let folks know that no I am not having that birthday cake. No I am not going to the company happy hour at the Cajun restaurant. Fuck em. I value my life and health. Social decorum is often bullshit in these situations.

[@natashanabein]

I had a friend who lived with a ruptured appendix for weeks (maybe even months). It somehow managed to contain itself so he could live with it more or less, but it still needed to be removed. Kinda crazy!

[@InternetinaNutshellChannel]

"You can't have peanut butter, because you have a peanut allergy." "Fine I'll eat almond butter, since it's not peanut butter."

[@Mars-zv4ky]

Erm, I don't know if you realise but most people who have an allergy to peanuts are in fact not allergic to almonds. I know this because i am allergic to almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio, walnuts etc because they are tree nuts. Peanuts are different as they are legumes so if this guy had almond butter, he would be completely fine unless he was in fact allergic to tree nuts as well as legumes. So if he had almonds, he most likely will be ok.

[@marijamagdalenadilber4501]

@@Mars-zv4ky a good friend of me is allergic to all nuts except almonds for some reason

[@Mars-zv4ky]

@@marijamagdalenadilber4501 may have a rather mild reaction like me. I still react to almonds but it's rather minor (minor lip swelling). The other nuts are worse but if your friend doesnt react to almonds despite the others he reacts to, that is very weird. Does he react to peanuts then if you dont mind me asking.

[@alexwang982]

Is there peanut is almond butter?

[@ChronicRen]

Peanuts aren’t nuts. Peanuts are legumes. Being allergic to peanuts doesn’t necessarily mean you’re allergic to almonds.

[@river6032]

the one about the obese man, this happens too often. we had a dude bordering on 650 lbs. took two stretchers (he was sitting up). another patient we just had to take the whole mattress he was on because he was seizing and there was no way we could get him off the bed and into the ambulance much less the closest hospital almost thirty minutes away in time.

[@IamayMizono]

Daughter of a retired OR nurse here, I have slightly higher than average medical knowledge and this video made me hurt so bad, showing this to mom tomorrow!

[@grigger7000]

12:28 I remember starving myself for 8 hours before my breast tumor removal surgery (it was non cancerous) the hunger was real both before and after- tried to drink a Powerade in the car, now there’s a big stain on the front passenger seat. The stomach becomes super sensitive.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

Personally, I never had problems with that. My only issue is that I get terrible migraines if I don't get anything to drink shortly after waking up, so I needed a glass of water in the morning, just a bit, but then it was fine. Other than that though, I'm fine with not eating for several hours. Am approaching 9 hours without food as I'm writing this. My sense of hunger is effectively non-existent, so if I didn't have medicine to take, which I have learned the hard way not to take on an empty stomach, I'd just not eat because I don't feel the need to do so. I know eating is important, but I'm never hungry. I'm also never really full, so I can eat as much as six other people, and in the same time, and still have room for more.

[@cardiaccoder9622]

I DONT UNDERSTAND. Some off these are literally just suicide

[@maxh7118]

My grandma was prescribed liver medication. She didn’t take it. Just passed from complications of liver failure. Listen to your doctors.

[@Creechur_Feechur]

Me: ·hears story at 11:29· Also me (A diabetic): Im not gonna touch any of my slightly sweet stuff for a bit.... (Don't worry. I take good care of myself I promise.)

[@josi4251]

6:55 Noononoonooo pronunciation made me laugh

[@phs125]

A patient needed surgery, so he had to do 8 hour fasting before the surgery. Now after the surgery, he had a ET tube put, so we told him not to eat or drink anything or else he could choke. Patient's wife came, complained that he didn't eat or drink anything since a long time now, so, Guess what? Poured milk down his ET tube. He died of aspiration.

[@indiashante1560]

My dumbass ignored Doctors orders about staying overnight for a pregnancy stress test cuz I was going to the movies and out to eat with a friend. At the time I had no friends and literally this was the only time I got to hang out with somebody and I wasn't cancelling it. (Lonely army wife) The next day I had to get admitted to the hospital and actually had to get transferred to a civilian hospital our way in an ambulance because my blood pressure was too high. I had to stay for two weeks before I gave birth to my daughter. Come to find out I was supposed to be on blood pressure medicine but they never actually prescribed it to me. I had a blast day before but I regret my decision. My daughter was perfectly fine in the end.

[@stephenwolfgangstout]

Im an 18 year old guy, and I weigh about 130 lbs. I have this kind of caving in the middle of my chest, really easy to feel my heartbeat directly. Not just that, my body has many spots that don't look natural, and I've had several incidents like uncontrollably throwing up saliva that my mom and dad don't really care about. Even as a child they told me it was my genetics and I'll be fine, and now I'm pretty sure I won't live past 25 unless I take myself to the doctor and get help.

[@mennehgambia1962]

jesus christ go to the doc as soon as possible, hope youll get better

[@jayamarillo628]

Now that you’re 18, your parents don’t matter to your doctor as much (legally speaking). I’m not saying that’s particularly a good thing in all contexts, but at least it’ll help you get the help you need.

[@dx1450]

Sad one is the woman who couldn't afford to take off from work for necessary eye surgery. This is one reason we desperately need universal health care in this country.

[@jeaniebird999]

5:04 reminds me of my son - he broke his wrist skateboarding. The cast covered his lower arm and only the the top part of his thumb. Of course, we were ALL told not to allow him to skateboard. Now, this is the bad kid. We had a good kid and a bad kid. If you knew our kid, you'd know how impossible it is to keep him from skateboarding. He'll find a way to skateboard, no matter what. And he did. He also broke the thumb that was sticking out. He went through four casts! On another note, he grew up and eventually stopped being such a huge pain in the ass. He's now a Sergeant in the army.

[@arrow_mc1753]

6:55 - 6:57 I’m sorry but I choked at the text to speech

[@hivocals8926]

ME TOO SKSKLSDOKS

[@YuBeace]

You'd think people being all hooked up to tubes and IV's would... like.... stay PUT?!

[@walker89140]

Why do junkies like to shoot up in the most painful places possible? Between the toes, another one of these videos had a woman shooting up in her perineum! WHY????

[@chelseas9281]

Jade because they’ve used all the easy non painful veins, ie arms and such. You can only go into veins so much til they have too much scar tissue to get into.

[@walker89140]

@@chelseas9281 so basically these are people who have been shooting up for years and are in too deep to just stop. That's both tragic and terrifying.

[@yerghaizverot6441]

Another reason for places like the toes and buttocks is to hide to telltale signs of use. Most people are pretty poorly educated on drug culture, and so they look for things like track marks on the arms, so addicts take to shooting up in more discrete locations of the body, so as not to draw attention to their addiction.

[@henrysanecdotes5323]

6:56 oooh that’s a fun sound!

[@jayden7736]

I honestly hate how family tries kissing on the mouth, like who in the world gave you permission to go start trying to kiss me on the lips. Only person I'll kiss would be my SO

[@ragnkja]

ZERO Besides the fact that a premie can’t consent in the first place, the medical personnel gave reasons that should be interpreted as *explicit non-consent* in the infant’s stead.

[@sausagedog98]

Ya'll got some problems. Different cultures have different ways of showing affection towards family. Try to not apply your cultural relativism onto everyone. Yes in this case the mother was wrong, but not because she likes to kiss her children on the lips, because she didn't listen to her doctor. Why have you got a problem with what other families do anyway? It doesn't affect you in the slightest. If your family did kiss children on the lips,when they were growing up, if they're presumably all fine about it have a think why just you have a problem with it.

[@TJM990]

Doctors need to pretty much threaten people to stop them from being stupid.

[@lightning-flower5327]

For the spay and neuter story, they could of done what I did with dog after she got spayed. We had her wear a small shirt that covered her stitches and watched her like a hawk to make sure she didn't mess with the stitches and it worked. She loved the shirt better than the cone.

[@PixieoftheWood]

Yeah, sometimes it can help to suggest alternate options if the cone doesn't work. It's one thing if your pet is just sad, but I had a cat who would panic and would start thrashing around forcefully to get the cone off...not a good thing when they have stitches. I basically ended up using a neck control collar instead.

[@applesKIWISbananas]

Im terrified of aspirating shit into my lungs during surgery that even after fasting for more than needed, im still anxious

[@Bublio53]

8:50 story around this point made me sad... how far gone must you be to not even care about your sons future children? Your grandchildren... 😔

[@prettyricky9676]

Just starting this and know there's gonna be a ton of ones about drinking smoking and drugs.

[@cvf253]

8 Minutes in. Yeah that is addiction for you. Nothing will stop the active addict inside you when you are in active addiction and it is absolutely heart breaking. I will have 3 years in September. This is an extreme story but this is what addiction does. In lamen terms; your brain creates pathways that, in which, tells you the drug your addicted to is necessary. Believe me it is not a choice. Addiction is a disease. The rest of these are just crazy!

[@ShadowYoshi-Vincent-]

14:55 Sounds like my dad. The hospital gave him 1 year left to live after all the damage he's done after 20 or so years of drinking.

[@salemr2088]

5:32: What's funny is that my dog's name is actually Luna lol

[@QueenSunstar]

My cat is named Luna. Yes, she’s a black cat too. She’s the cat in my profile pic.

[@Hannah-k8m]

Okay so you'd rather your kid die over missing a test, get a doctors note for it, be able to take the test for full credit and then return to normal? Thank chuck there're such genius parents like them!

[@ianmoseley9910]

Someone I know has severe hip problems cannot walk without crutches - his wife died during surgery for similar problems and now he is too afraid to have the surgery himself

[@stephaniebaker6001]

I'm not trying to nitpick here, but to the medical "professional" who spoke of this, get your terminology correct. It's actually a "tracheostomy" - not a "tracheotomy." The suffix "otomy" means "to remove"; I doubt that they removed her trachea. The suffix "ostomy" means "to cut into"; I've heard other medical "professionals" misuse the term and it drives me mad.

[@stellaw3620]

It could also... Just be a typo. Chill.

[@jayamarillo628]

I learn something new every day :)

[@s10m0t10n]

@@jayamarillo628 We could probably all learn something new every day, Nick, as long as we pay attention.

[@jayamarillo628]

Very true

[@stephaniebaker6001]

I doubt it's a typo; it is a VERY common mistake. Kind of like when people say "Nucular" instead of "Nuclear."

[@edwinkharismaprawira7607]

Some people need to pass parental exam in order to have a child, some of them are just too stupid and harmful to procreate :/

[@kilroywashere9343]

The one about the jugular really got to me

[@beena3593]

7:08 i mean he should've just paid the parking but couldn't he ask to make a phone call to someone to get his car back home?? send a text?? he didn't have to bring it himself

[@QueenSunstar]

On allergies, some can be mild. I have a mild allergy to coconut. My tongue swells up and gets itchy. It’s never stopped me from breathing, but I still avoid coconut. A mild allergy can turn lethal with enough exposure. To treat an allergy, we inject you with a tiny bit of the allergen once a week so your body builds a tolerance to it. My mom had a bad cat allergy and we had two cats. Instead of rehoming them, my mom got the shots. She still has the allergy but it is far better than it once was. Now days a squirt of Zyrtec is all she needs to control the allergy.

[@michaelbutler1619]

My mom's paternal uncle had colon cancer. He ignored it until he started puking up his own crap. He choked to death on it.

[@ClarissaPacker]

& I wonder how many people died when their pain was dismissed as drug seeking or their severe asthma attack was labeled as hypercondria. A woman went to a local hospital for a severe head ache they accused her of drug seeking, she went to another hospital & found out she had a brain bleed. In 2003 I went to the ER for 1 of those sever asthma attacks that comes on slow & gets potentially deadly at the last minute, they ER doctors told me can't find nothing wrong, sent me home w/out treatment, didn't bother to do tests & called me a hypercondriact as I was walking out implying that the attacks I had in the past were fake. Next morning I had attack, blacked out, woke up 8hrs later, chest so tight I wasn't wheezing. Stayed home, attack lasted 3 days, told pulmonologist, nebulizer wasn't working that weekend, I haven't trusted ER doctors & nurses since. I'm lucky I didn't die.

[@whitneewhitmore4291]

Idk why but I also peed at how the voice read @ 6:55

[@stephaniebaker6001]

Thanks Nick. 😊

[@lotusfae]

That homeless woman story... Drugs are a hell of a drug.

[@aquabluerose7734]

Ok sorry but I just about died laughing when the robot said "Nuuuuh. Nu- nununun- nuuuuh."

[@lordblazer]

Wow this is rage inducing

[@NoNo-qn9po]

Appendicitis scares me.

[@chloeb5730]

The one about the shellfish allerge, the woman also put her side on reddit in r/entitledparents, I think rslash or reddx read it on their channel

[@janiestraub5964]

Man these are some seriously messed up people. I don't feel sorry for them. They were told over and over but ignored the advice. Why did they even go to the doctor?

[@thechopstick5059]

If i was told not to rip out the tubes to my heart, I would have done that exact thing 3 months ago ( i was in a deppressive and suicidal state )

[@leshreddur]

I was 12 years old, stepmom bought be a nice loaded foot-long sandwich before an after school baseball game. I had a horrific headache and wasn't hungry and just wanted to lay down, I felt like my head was in 3 vices. My Dad gets home orders me out and screams bloody murder to eat the sandwich and get dressed for baseball, smacks me a few times when I said I'm really not feeling well. I get dressed, I eat the sandwich crying with my dad screaming at me calling me a big wussy and he paid for me to play baseball and that sandwich was a treat. We get to the game before warm ups I puke the whole sandwich up but I ran out to the street to puke, as to be polite. Now then, it was a big sandwich and whenever you throw something up it looks like 3 times bigger. I was freaking hugegantic. I puke like a 7 foot diameter mess on the street next to the curb. My dad watches all of it, offers me a soda and says he's sorry for being mean, he thought maybe I just wanted to stay home and play video games. So 10 mins or so later my headache is gone and i feel better and want to play, secretly I was mad as unholy hell for getting slapped around and screamed at, we had a karate chop order to our batting as grounders are hard to catch, I was also told, always let the first pitch go by so people can steal bases. I was mad I ignored all of that, pulled the first pitch as hard as I could with 2 people on, they were chasing the ball so long I made it all the way home, but the ump made me go back to 3rd, because they didn't allow homeruns. That tied us, next guy got on base and I took home for the win in the last inning, previously were 2-0. Rest of the team ran in 3 more runs. Dad had a lot more respect for me after that if I said I felt like crap. Never abused it. We laughed as a neighborhood dog ran off with a huge piece of meat from my 7 foot diameter pile of sick which I obviously didn't chew very much with him yelling at me lol. He apologized profusely again for being mean. It was some mild abuse but I was stronger mentally for it later.

[@ACAB.forcutie]

I was raised by a doctor who taught me to follow directions When Sam Tarly is explaining to the maester how he cured Jorah without catching greyscale himself, and goes "I just followed the instructions..", I was like I FEEL YOU BRO lol xD

[@chrisp187]

I feel sorry for the people that are told to fast. I was told not to eat anything and I ate 5 pieces of candy. Mind you, I had not been allowed to eat anything for 4 months and had been in the hospital the whole time with a ton of IVs. I was allowed to leave the hospital for two hours before been readmitted for another 4 months. This was during Halloween, so I thought I could eat least one pieces of candy, but I couldn't stop. So I ate 5 pieces and decided to stick my finger down my throat and purge the candy. Nothing came out. No matter how hard I tried. I had to tell the nurse the truth. I was ashamed. While I was on morphine, I would have vivid dreams of eating and didn't know if I actually had. Not the best time in my Young life. No eating the candy didn't affect my stay in the hospital. I was lucky.

[@deandupont5503]

I played that game (#1) once. Got hit by a car, concussed and drugged, IV line in me... But dammit, I had things to do. I was leaving. The scary part? I made it from the 3rd floor to the lobby without anyone noticing the mostly-naked guy wearing one boot and dragging an IV stand. They only paid attention when me and the stand fell over while I was trying to pull my other boot on.

[@Roentgenstrahler]

Wow. I don’t have words for some of the story’s. Kinda deserved tbh

[@craterglass]

But I took it out of the shell!

[@darknephilim3248]

Frankly I'd say if they don't follow instructions the first time the staff should be allowed to talk to them in the most condesending tone possible. They're gonna act like a moron, they get treated like one.

[@deer0skullz]

I seriously want to slap some of these people, especially the parents. It's one thing to risk your own life with your stupidity, but someone elses is just cruel.

[@avshockey6633]

Not an almost died story, but this patient did almost lose a finger because he was an idiot. I was working at an urgent care as an X-ray tech, and just before we closed one night, a group of 5 boys in the 16-20 year old range came in. Four of the five were really drunk, including the idiot who slammed his finger in the car door. He had an open fracture meaning the bond was actually sticking through the skin. I took the X-rays, and when the doctor went in to see him, she told him that his finger was badly broken, that he would need surgery to fix it, and that was something we couldn't do at an urgent care. We cleaned and bandaged it up, gave him a CD with copies of his X-rays and the doctor told him he needed to go to the ER right now. She explained to him that if he didn't go to the ER, he would probably develop a bone infection, and he could lose the finger. She gave him paperwork that explained all of this, and she also talked to the one sober person in the group (the driver), and reiterated that it was very important that his friend be taken directly to the ER, and we even offered to call an ambulance to take him. He refused the ambulance, and they all promised that they would go directly to the ER. As you might have already guessed, they did not go to the ER. Three days later, the kids father shows up threatening to sue because his son had gotten a bone infection, and might lose his finger. The kid had told his father that our doctor had told him his injury was no big deal, bandaged it up, and sent him on his way. The doctor puled the kids file, and showed the dad all of the paperwork he had been given (with the kids signature on it), and that he (and all of his friends) had been told how important it was that they get him directly to the ER. One of the pieces of paper he had signed was actually a refusal for the ambulance. Father storms out still threatening to sue, but that was the last we heard from him.

[@hivocals8926]

6:56 the way tts bot says nononoonono....im cackling

[@arkchiller6126]

I wonder what the fuck the brain does to be like “aight, I’m boutta be allergic to *insert food item here*”

[@bread-pe4cu]

I pulled my chest tubes out when I was a baby and still have a scar

[@Soysauceb4ketchup]

This is an exact copy of at least two other videos floating around youtube

[@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist]

4:10 this one is beyond stupid, couldn’t CPS be called or something in the beginning?! And how can a parent not fucking understand how allergic reactions work?! Its times like this doctors should be allowed to shout or yell or whatever at a patient or parents of to make them understand.

[@txominabel6353]

Me: you just woke up from surgery you had 4hrs ago, you shouldn't get up on your feet, wait for me to get a wheelchair Pt: nah I know my body kid, help me out Pt proceeds to faint and become unconscious and falls right in my arns He was 6'3'230 lbs and I am 5'7'152 lbs Thank God I was able to reach the bed emergency button to call for the other nurses

[@hutao7917]

But... an ambulance is like a very expensive Uber!

[@locustzedicus2437]

12:52 Work in veterinary medicine this is also common as fuck. But you can't blame the animal it's the fucking owners. The numbers of dogs that the owner 'didn't' feed this morning that proceed to regurgitate identifiable kibble in close to half. Even after telling them that the bet could choke on the vomit.

[@aukusti3761]

Locust Zedicus My dog does this thing where he dosent want to eat before surgeries so i have to basicly put the food in his mouth

[@huonsmith]

8:16 what does shooting mean in this context? Edit: so I imagine it means injecting drugs, but how did that cause rotting?

[@gardoniangardonian844]

Drug users don't always sterilize their needles properly so they poke dirty needle bacteria right into their body, causing an infection and eventually necrosis (rotting).

[@queen-lf7kf]

my mom always has surgery but she always eats before it💀

[@sporgiii]

Listen to your doctors, people. They're more educated than you.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

On biology that is

[@jamesteegardner2273]

It's one thing to go after your own personal Darwin award, but when you do things to put your children in danger, you should have your children taken away from you. The mom kissing her premature baby on the lips after being told numerous times by numerous nurses really pissed me off.

[@lukechazzy2764]

Last one is basically my dad

[@sophieklaus2275]

6:55 nOnNOoNOnnoNu

[@savage1219]

I want to finish this but I physically can’t

[@sam_oyed]

I have a story but just a bit reversed. I had a serious reaction too melon I would have tons of diarrhea for days. I sometimes broke or clogged the toilet it was that bad.The docter advised me not to eat any fruit from shops cause they are probably cut together. So I did, I have a nurse (disability stuff) I would have nurses around me. This one nurse wanted to prove it. My mom was there too giving a grin the whole time. She gave me a stack of it and well, let's just say my ass hurt for days

[@harleybynature]

How about the stories where people were underinsured and died?

[@Jenna2k]

I never got the allergy ones. Either they have an allergy or they hate that food enough to say they do. Either way dont give them that food. Basic consent when eating should not be hard to understand smh.

[@emilybarclay8831]

People get really pissy about their food. They act like it’s a personal attack on them. Especially men in patriarchal cultures. Because they see cooking as ‘woman’s work’ when they do cook they act like it’s a huge sacrifice. Like ‘look at me, I have lowered myself to a woman’s level and prepared this meal for you’

[@Froatgoddess]

Ok, on that first story, please tell me the coworker got into trouble?

[@Snakeofwrath]

Some of these stories the patient dies even though the question says ALMOST dies. *sigh*