Doctors, what was a time where a patient ignored you and almost passed away because of it?

[@HarrysIrishPrincess]

Why would a school test be more important than your child's life?

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

Because parents are idiots and they think the world will stop spinning for them

[@SoftySenpaii]

Any parents who think grades are more important than literally anything else are trash. If I had a kid and they said they were sick/in pain, I'm letting them stay home and I'm getting them checked by a doctor. Even if they are 'lying', better safe than having no child.

[@mileslima8114]

Normal for Asians

[@DeliciousBoi]

I've wondered that my whole life.

[@multifandombish1855]

That's like my Mum

[@annika5893]

Fun fact: hospitals don't always have the correct meds in their supply. I was in a hospital ward, recovering from a planned stomach area surgery. And after a couple of days of the heavy duty pain meds, I moved on to the non-prescription pharmacy drugs. I was supposed to be getting paracetamol because ibuprofen might cause internal bleeding after the surgery. They didn't have paracetamol, so the nurse brought me ibuprofen. I said I'm not supposed to have that. She told me to take it anyway, and so I did. Nothing went wrong, but next day that nurse came to apologize and they had paracetamol now, probably ordered some from the hospital pharmacy.

[@kurotsuki7427]

And some cases there are special meds that arent normally in stock. But there are ways to handle that and it involves talking to the doctors and pharmacy and such and having a paper trail so the docs can make sure they dont interact badly with other stuff. (Source, worked on a floor of a hospital where CF patients would stay and some had meds from home kept in special lock boxs in their rooms cause they were rare meds the hospital didn't cary)

[@deborahshallin5843]

Paracetamol is Tylenol.

[@PokeMageTech]

You were supposed to get _acetaminophen_ - that’s the name Americans and Canadians recognize.

[@slc1161]

The nurse giving ibuprofen has just committed malpractice.

[@ArcanineEspeon]

​@@PokeMageTechok...is there anything wrong with OP using the other name?

[@lenax9798]

Parents who let their kids die or in a near death experience because of denying vaccination, ignoring doctors instructions ("dont kiss baby on mouth", "dont feed child 12hrs before surgery" etc) or not taking allergies serious, should be arrested for neglect and charged!!

[@GogiRegion]

Yeah, it’s honestly very sad how ignorance can protect someone in a case like that. It seems like the child has to actually be dead before intervention happens, at least in America.

[@hibaakaiko3888]

Oh, so thaaaaats where i went wrong, i didn't almost die! Double ear infection, scarlet fever because my parents have never listened to a word that comes out of myvmouth. I thank god ever day that my food allergies are extremely rare and unavailable in the general USA markets for most of my life. Parents still don't believe I'm lactose intolerant and just BARELY started having gluten free food at holidays for my CELIAC husband! Of course this is after 10 years of him not eating a crumb at any of their dinners because we couldn't be sure what had gluten or not.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

​@@hibaakaiko3888your parents sound like they're dangerous.

[@melsoft121]

As a security guard doing a first aid response I had a woman come to me for heat exhaustion, and eventually while I was talking her she started talking about having indigestion. As I was asking some general questions I found out she had been inside (in a well air conditioned building) for over an hour, and the last thing she ate within the last 3 hours was an apple. I expressed concern that she was cold and clammy, and I could barely find her pulse (something I’m usually really good at even in people with low blood pressure), so I mentioned I was concerned she may be having a heart attack and asked if she wanted an ambulance. She was helping on her grandson’s field trip and didn’t want to miss the rest of the day, so she absolutely refused an ambulance. Eventually I was able to at least convince her that she was cold and there was nothing I could do to help her heat exhaustion symptoms and get her husband to leave work and come get her. She told me she wanted to go home and nap for a couple hours and she would mention her issues from the day at her annual doctors appointment the following week. When he came, I took her out in a wheelchair because I refused to let her walk when she was feeling dizzy. Once we got her loaded into the car, I told the husband that his wife wanted to go home and have a nap, but I think she is having a heart attack so they should go to the hospital and she could nap once they had her settled. I explicitly told him that no matter what she said, even if they did a short nap first, it couldn’t wait until the doctor’s appointment. I was on vacation, but the husband came back two weeks later and told my team that his wife had experienced a massive heart attack and her cardiologist told him she wouldn’t have woken up if they’d gone home for that nap she wanted. I almost never pulled people’s partners aside to tell them not to listen to a patient, but I just knew she wasn’t going to give him an accurate summary of what I had told her.

[@Allantitan]

Good job there not only did you save a life but I shudder to think about how distraught the grandson would have been if he lost his grandmother that day either during or immediately after his field trip

[@othername1000]

After a bad (fatal) outcome, if they're sick enough I just call the ambulance. They can always refuse treatment from them. At least they get a better evaluation and a chance at emergency intervention; from people that are used to talking people into the ambulance. Pt can nap at the hospital. Beats taking a dirt nap.

[@snake5solid]

Appendicitis and cholera stories: It's one thing when an adult is being stupid about their health. It's a special kind of stupid and disgusting when you deny healthcare to your child.

[@tracey5324]

I believe for several of these stories involving older men- it is a pride/fear thing instead of just stubborness. If you believe your value is only tied to being a breadwinner that never complains, then needing medical attention and ongoing support robs you of your value. Plus add the fact that we all don't like visiting the doctor/dentist and its a perfect recipe to avoid it. The pain isn't a 'problem' because 'I've managed until now'.

[@slimecorn]

That’s so sad, glad it’s slowly starting to change

[@DoritoBot9000]

Toxic masculinity at it’s finest.

[@meegansandberg1308]

My step-dad was one of those morbidly obese men who had a heart attack and ignored the symptoms. His excuse was he didn't want to miss work. A week after the the symptoms began, he collapsed in his front hallway while trying to leave for work. He was rude and grumpy to the emts and wound up spending a month in a big hospital two hours away from his home. He needed a quadruple bypass and ended up with an enlarged heart. I always thought he was stupid and foolish to ignore his symptoms because of his job. Until I read your comment. My mom was narcissistic and materialistic. She beat us both down and often played us against each other. He hated me and she was extremely manipulative. If he couldn't make lots of money to satiate her unsatiable needs, he had no value. He died of cancer in 1999. He worked until he literally couldn't get out of bed anymore and died three weeks later. RIP you angry, hateful, old goat. You earned it, I'll give you that.

[@eggnogalcoholic]

First story, this can’t take place in the states because NO WAY the ambulance would be cheaper than $20 parking

[@spiritwolf3103]

I live in Alaska and for a base ambulance ride, when last I checked, it's around 200-250 just for the ride, and air lifts which range into the low thousands, so it depends on how long he would have to be parked before the cost of an ambulance is outweighed by the price of parking. But when it combed down to it, some just want the cheap way of doing things.

[@madhatterline]

It depends, he might have had emergency cover, plus there would be recovery time in hospital after the stent was put in. As it was an emergency this would likely be several days, possibly weeks, maybe even months, which could run into hundreds if not thousands on the parking spot. Surely he could have just asked his son to pop down & move his car after a few days, but some people really hate to ask for help. 🙈

[@Kurone2231]

Here in Ontario, the ambulance is $15 cad.

[@captain_ducky583]

In Serbia ambulance is free

[@Kairos_Akuma]

Also...couldn't he just tell his son to fetch the damn car...???

[@IlloyedKater]

For those not understanding why there is a difference. With one surgery you just remove the time bomb. With the other you also have to clean out all the gunk that spilled from it and recover from having all that stuff in your belly for a while. That's why the recovery is more extensive...

[@ipanesm]

Ive had the appendicitis surgery done when i was 16, luckily detected it at the earliest stage (grandpa was a doctor). If you never had surgery let me tell you that the anesthesia is like blinking, and when i blinked i woke up to MUCH more pain, if before surgery it was a 2 after surgery it was an 11 in the tenth scale, i couldnt move, barely talk in whispers and had to fast for two weeks as eating was just so painful. The reason? The surgeon fumbled my appendix and dropped everything inside, so much for having the "non intrusive modern technique", as a bonus my belly button is forever messed up. I know i was an outlier as it normally goes without issue and you are out the next day, but hell, that was not a nice experience.

[@DoritoBot9000]

Mindblowing that this even needs explaining to some people

[@lailoutherand]

​@@ipanesmdid the surgeon even pass med school 💀💀

[@Nebulisuzer]

​@@DoritoBot9000*gutblowing

[@ayseberraokumus4197]

The amount of grandmas putting babies with fever in layers and layers of blankets... I can't even

[@AgTheFreeborn]

fevers work by making the internal body temperature too high for the illness to survive. Unfortunately, it sometimes ends up being too high for our bodies as well and can damage or kill us. It's honestly not a terrible idea to give blankets to someone with a fever, but you have to carefully and regularly monitor their temperature so you can start cooling them down if necessary instead of heating them into brain damage.

[@deathlordicelord8402]

i'm both the "grandma" and "baby" i had a fever of 101 and decided to take a nap i had too many blankets covering me because i had a fever of 103 thankfully my mother was smarter than i was so she had me only have 1 blanket on me

[@PokeMageTech]

Fevers make the body a worse habitat for the intruder. So, it makes sense to make it easier for the body to maintain that. If course, you need to monitor temperature, because it’s dangerous if it’s too high.

[@ayseberraokumus4197]

I am talking about layers of blanket, not keeping the temperature subfebrile...@@PokeMageTech

[@lenax9798]

@ayseberraokumus4197 blankets make person warm. They trap the heat so we stay warm while we sleep. By giving someone multiple blankets, you trap a lot of heat that keeps the body warm and pretty much boil out the sickness. But like others said, it can be dangerous for the body if the body temperature gets too high because then you start boiling other important parts of your body that you need to function properly like your brain. In short, it's not weird to give a pick person multiple blankets as sick people often are feeling extremely cold and need that extra heat to be comfortable to sleep. But you have to keep an eye out on someone and call the doctors if their fever gets too high. Also babies have more difficulty regulating their body heat sooo

[@Holychickendinner]

It's disgusting that hospitals even charge for parking to begin with.

[@adelerodriguez2432]

That's one reason I didn't chose the university hospital for my breast cancer treatment. I went to another hospital bc I had met the recommended surgeon years before and liked him. He retired recently. One of the best surgeons and nicest people you could want to know.

[@niro017]

Now a days an appendectomy is literally an over night stay with the micro-surgery techniques they use now. Just 3 or 4 small incisions about a half inch long, home the next day, off work for about a week and a half or so, just so to not strain yourself, I doubt taking an exam would be a strain, at least not physical.

[@Techischannel]

That is assuming the surgery staff has the equipment, money, surgeryplan and most notably: Qualifications/training for it. There can be a oh so fancy surgery out there, if you cant afford it or there is no place where you live at doing one as such, its back to the old school method of cut you open, cut it out, sew you back together and have you rest in a communal room shared ith 3-5 seperate patiens as usual. Possibly getting you really sick and extending your stay. I'm talking about germany btw. this shit is too frequent in germany. And docs not wanting to treat you because they think that playing videogames has corrupted your soul with satan and they dont want to risk that. As it totally can be transmitted by ... proximity and exposure to the person. I gonna add to this: Or you do an appointment for other things, and get sent through the entire hospital until after what felt like half a day of pretty rigourous excercise as you were half running after a while as you were getting late to your appointment, get told by some secretary staff that they dont even do treatments/thingies/etc. in the field they gave you an appointment for / say they have ON THIER FREAKING WEBSITE.

[@thepursuiterer]

A friend of mine got appendicitis in high school. He had his appendix removed, was out of school for two days, and the next week was racing in track and field again

[@ludicrousspeeds4938]

I had to get an emergency appendectomy after my appendix burst. My doctor told me that my surgery was 8 hours long, and I had to stay in the hospital for 5 days. The only reason why I let my appendix burst is because I fell off my bike the day before, and I thought the stomach pain was because of that.

[@kaycollarfeild]

One night? They sent my mam home 6 hrs after the surgery ended. Not even after she woke up, just after it ended -

[@SewardWriter]

I was home three hours after a cholecystectomy. Had to go back to the doctor that afternoon because the nurse gave me a pain pill I can't tolerate.

[@rebekahgeorge2773]

I’m not a doctor but have a story. My dad’s friend had this disease that ran in her family. I’m not sure what it was called but she had lost many people to it. Anyway she got married and got pregnant. She went through delivery but barely. Her doctor who was very trusted told her “if you get pregnant again you will not survive” she went home and told her husband “if you don’t get me pregnant again I’m going to divorce you” so she got pregnant again and she ended up on life support, she delivered the baby, and eventually even on life support passed away. My dad tells her story every now and then as a lesson to listen to doctors.

[@josse13579]

It sounds like she wanted to die... 💔

[@Trailer_Park_Jarl]

"You have to want to stop." I remember being on the floor of my apartment damn near crying, telling myself I wouldn't go get anymore liquor, only to later go out and give in. I was awful. Just an absolute waste of a person. Coming up on 9 years sober(March 23rd). Have a job where I'm depended on, A wife, A kid, and a big house. Some addicts can be great people if they just get clean.

[@CrochetIsLife54]

Congratulations on 9 years! Keep up the good work.

[@othername1000]

Good times

[@lynnlytton8244]

Wow! 9 years, one day at a time! Congratulations.

[@MrEricSir]

Sometimes the opposite happens: I was once discharged from the ER despite the fact that I was bleeding all over the floor.

[@Justarandomcommenter-gl7bx]

Holy shit how’d they let that slide?

[@Penguinstudios123]

@@Justarandomcommenter-gl7bxoverworked and underpaid (in uk at least)

[@hectorpascal]

That is indefensible conduct on the medical staff's part. If they couldn't treat you for any reason, they should have organised a trip to a facility that could.

[@Allantitan]

@@hectorpascaland do what they could to make sure the person would survive

[@HannahSiemer]

That sounds like something that similarly happened to me. At the time I had hypercalcemia, basically too much calcium in my blood, and they were trying to figure out as to why. I have a rare genetic syndrome that basically shuts down the entire body to some degree, it’s linked to a protein that scientist aren’t sure what all it does in the body. Anyway, it was found that I had enlarged lymph nodes, particularly in the chest area and the doctors wanted to personally ask lymph node what was going on. This was not the same hospital where a lot of my specialist were and that had diagnosed me properly about six or seven years prior to that, this is about three years ago so more like five years prior? Anyhow, they do biopsy, I feel fine, except for your problems. The first is, they can’t speak, barely above a whisper, I sound like a couple kids I knew, both of which I’ve had tracheotomies and issues the vocal courts. One of which is a walking, talking sound machine, is imitations about Darth Vader in R2-D2 or spot on. The other is, I had terrible diarrhea. Well it turns out they discharge me free my truly, they kind of forgotten, although I don’t know how you forget this, but I’m on a blood thinner. They had Nikk something in my lung, next morning about 3 AM I wake up, coughing up blood and feeling like I can’t breathe. I lived about 45 minutes south of where this procedure was done, Had to go to the ER, and be life flighted back up to the city where that procedure had been performed. Spent another couple weeks in the hospital, since a coughing up blood was covered with a feeling of not being able to breathe, and went home for about a week or two on an oxygen tank. Yes, patient should listen to their doctors, but doctors should listen to their patients, and for the love of God, read their charts

[@SoftySenpaii]

This all sounds like stuff my mom would do, literally would ignore any health issues going on so I had to drag her to the hospital myself countless times. Literally told me that if I wasn't there caring for her, she'd just let herself die instead of getting help. But whenever I asked for help, she would say I was 'overreacting' and then get angry/upset if I told her that I was seeking help for myself. And to this day, I still have a hard time asking for help (not as much as she did but I still tend to wait until I know that I have to do something).

[@ViewingChaos]

Sounds like she had some sort of passive suicidal idolation... I hope you can get some therapy so you look after your mental health properly

[@adelerodriguez2432]

She filled you with self-doubt.

[@samgateoz1]

You need to do one that is, where doctors ignore what the patient was telling them and are now do not have long to live, or have already passed away.

[@witchy90210]

That would just be listing malpractice lawsuits and obituaries

[@lucindawelenc2191]

Yep. I was in the hospital for observation following a car accident. I have had migraines since childhood, and I know my triggers. The big one is fluorescent lights. High overhead and lots of daylight? I can last several hours. But once night falls, I'm almost certain to get one. So, there I am in my hospital bed, and I start getting prodrome symptoms. I asked for sumatriptan, which has to be given within the first 20 minutes. After that it's ineffective. They didn't bring it for two hours. Fortunately I had my husband with me, who was able to interpret "N-n-no p-p-p-pill! T-t-too llllate! SSSHOT!"

[@WendyDarling1974]

To the allergy, patient: damn, that’s a really hard way to learn lesson. I received immunotherapy shots for allergies over the course of I think three years and every time I thought about leaving early, either I commit myself to stick with it, or the nurse asked where I was going.

[@LittleAmyHe]

Sadly, the husband stitch does still happen in the west. US is the only developed country where birth related deaths are rising due to patients not being listened to.

[@TreSpiller]

My husband would need stitches if he requested that. Just saying.

[@averycheesypotato]

@@TreSpiller Good 👍 I hope he knows that lol

[@skittlemilks1614]

And people wonder why more and more of us women are choosing to be child free

[@LittleAmyHe]

@@TreSpiller That’s great and all, but sometimes the doctor does it without anyone asking or telling anyone.

[@slimecorn]

It’s considered medical malpractice so at least you can sue and get a payday. And get it corrected . Still creepy and shouldn’t happen though.

[@janemiettinen5176]

Ive seen crazy things in veterinary medicine as a former vet tech. Taking e-collars or wound dressings off because the animal in question “didnt like it”, not giving the medicine described, trying dangerous or downright crazy home remedies - you name it, someone did it..

[@tookitogo]

About 15 years ago, the dog I had at the time (an 85lb black lab mix, with unknown other half, probably a bully breed of some sort; best dog I ever had) needed to have some minor surgery. Of course, he had the cone on when I took him home, but I quickly realized he was not happy in it - but not annoyed, he was actually _afraid_ of it. “Terrified” is probably the word that described it best. He was too scared to even lay down or move. I literally, _literally_ found him trying to sleep standing up. So I called the vet and explained the issue, and he said that if I can put clothes on him such that he couldn’t nibble on or scratch the sutures, I could try that. And that is how it came to pass that I put an old hoodie on my dog, who was then perfectly content, and I got some of the cutest pictures of him ever. I still miss him…

[@janemiettinen5176]

@@tookitogo Some animals react this way, most learn to tolerate and adjust, but not all. And it’s ok, I dont know how I would behave if I woke up with an e-collar.. But you definitely went with the responsible route, asking the vet for other options. Some owners think we are just overly cautious or even mean, suddenly every single instruction is thrown into the wind and replaced with “uncommon sense” or neighbors cousins counter-intuitive and dangerous DIY-tips. I loved all my patients, but I cant say the same for their humans. I met really awesome owners, but the few horrible ones .. the memories are still vivid, two decades later. And I might be just a tiny bit partial, growing up with yellow lab, but labs are just the bestest doggies ever. Ev-ver. Ps. Our orange cat put me thru an ordeal when he got neutered few years ago. He wasnt scared of the e-collar, he hated, no, he despised it. No matter what I tried, he figured it out. Luckily we got thru without ripped stitches or infections, but the resolve of this lil dude was impressive. Now he is learning to open windows, Im guessing as to let what’s left of my sanity out.

[@Woolnut35]

There is some other videos on KZbin about owners doing that for their animals so that the area healing would be left alone. I'm glad the vet listened and offered a different option

[@Ariesgirl8403]

Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of being human.

[@GogiRegion]

People forget that the only reason we as humans have gotten as far as we have is our ability to specialize. Everyone is good at certain tasks, and by having the people most able to do those tasks do them, you get much more done than if everyone tried to do everything themselves.

[@kimielle]

Worked as a wardie for a private hospital and got to see a LOT of dementia patients rib out tubes, try to jump off balconies and one even thought he was a doctor and managed to make the rounds to a few bays before he was taken back to his room. Unfortunately I was there during a norovirus outbreak so the poor old dolt gave nearly every person he saw a severe case. Working during an epidemic was the worst. I got noro as well but thankfully it was brief. A patient tackled me while I was full cleaning and disinfecting a bay and ripped my cleanroom gear off while shouting about ET. Story about the guy ripping out his chest drains unlocked those core memories so thanks lol

[@KatieV456]

Story 3: Last year on my 25th birthday (yes, on the day itself), my dad's abdomen started hurting really bad. He'd just taken a shot of Ozempic to help with weight loss that morning and he thought he'd accidentally hit the muscle or something, so he ignored it. Then, during my birthday dinner around 7:00, his pain got exponentially worse. Still, my dad is stubborn and not only stuck the dinner out, but then drove us to visit my brother at work, since he was organizing a Valentine's Day dance at the park he was the assistant manager of. Finally, we got home around 8:30-9:00, and after about half an hour my dad complains of having the worst pain he's ever felt and knew he had to go to the hospital. Again, since he's stubborn he said he was going to drive himself instead of call an ambulance, since he still thought it was a bad muscle pull or something similar. I immediately shot that down and called my brother to come home and bring him to the hospital (I don't drive due to anxiety and my mom is physically disabled and can't drive). Since it was a Friday night and we live in a major city, the hospital was packed and my dad wasn't seen until like... 4:00-5:00 in the morning. Which is when they told him that his appendix had burst. He had surgery that day at 1 pm, while my family waiting, terrified. My dad is a larger individual and I was so scared he was going to have a complication and die. We finally got a call from the surgeon around 3:00 (an hour after the surgery was supposed to end), who told us that my dad was "a very sick man," whose appendix had literally exploded and went everywhere. He was able to get all the gunk out, but I was still terrified of something happening post operation, since it was much more intensive than we'd anticipated. When we finally were able to see him that night (he'd not gotten his own room until 7:00 pm the day after he was admitted, and because of COVID restrictions we weren't allowed in until he had a room), I was sobbing, hugging him as close as I was able without hurting him. Luckily for us all, he miraculously had no complications, his body responded super well to the antibiotics, and his worst lingering symptom was throat pain from the ventilator or something. Literally the next day (two days after my birthday) he was out of the hospital and driving me to and from my internship and job like nothing had happened. Now, a little over a year later, he barely even has a scar. Had my dad ignored his pain and went to bed that night, I'm positive he either would not be here, or would have had much worse long-term problems. That sort of happened with the mother of my childhood best friend. She had a massive, really sharp headache one night and decided to sleep it off. Her husband woke up the next morning to her cold and still beside him. Turns out she'd had an aneurysm and died in her sleep. She was in her mid 40's, a year older than my dad at the time, three years younger than my mom. That has always haunted me, as I was super close to her as a kid, and I'd only been 18 when she passed. Moral is: if you are in intense pain, please, PLEASE go to the hospital if you're able. And listen to your loved ones (and doctors!!! Especially doctors!!!) if they are concerned. I'm super close to my dad and don't even want to think about what would have happened if he'd died. Definitely my worst birthday by far. Luckily this year's was much, much better.

[@TreSpiller]

I am one of those patients. I have MS and had a UTI (couldn't feel it) - I thought I was having a MS relapse (there's no cure) and I just drank water to get rid of the UTI. Long story short - I ended up with sepsis from the UTI and my heart stopped in the ICU. Oof.

[@Artemis-jw5ue]

Did they revive you or is this your ghost commenting?

[@TreSpiller]

@@Artemis-jw5ue I'm still dead. Clearly.

[@ExEvMusic]

I read it as the opposite: “Patients, what was a time where a doctor ignored you and you almost passed away because of it?” 😂

[@gardenofsn5955]

There's compilations of that too!

[@mgames3209]

Same bro

[@judyemmstoyradio3064]

Still listening to the video but the one about people willingly missing their dialysis for petty reasons made me upset. My grandpa died because he needed one and the hospital refused to give it to him(even though we all asked for it). So hearing people taking that life saving procedure for granted just pisses me off. 🤬

[@ClassicYoutubeFrog]

My father passed in a similarly stubborn way as the first story. He had gotten covid from a colleague and as a very right wing leaning man, he believed it was no big deal even when we could hear his breathing across the house. When his girlfriend came home she called an ambulance to force him to go to the hospital. Turned out the covid had created the perfect environment for pneumonia to develop, and he passed that night in the hospital.

[@Cedrinate]

How we as a species survived is beyond me..

[@goodgenes0]

Humans survived due to several factors, including: *Social bonds* Sharing food, caring for infants, and building social networks helped humans meet the challenges of their environments. *Complex brains* Modern humans' complex brains enable them to interact with each other and their surroundings in new ways. *Communication skills* Homo sapiens' advanced linguistic abilities and communication skills affected their ability to hunt, trade, and dominate the animal kingdom. *Generalization and specialization* Homo sapiens could generalize and expand across the world, and specific populations could specialize in certain environments. *Infant survival rates* Homo sapiens may have had better infant survival rates than other hominins. *Climate changes* Climate changes may have pushed other species to the brink. *Hunting and interbreeding* Homo sapiens may have hunted other humans or interbred with them and assimilated their genetics. *Equipped for heat* Humans were equipped to cope with heat, being smooth and largely hairless, allowing them to sweat more efficiently. Some theories about why humans outlived Neanderthals include: *Interbreeding* Some scientists believe that Neanderthals gradually disappeared through interbreeding with humans. *Diseases* Modern humans may have had a more robust immune system than Neanderthals. *Advanced tools* Some researchers believed advanced hunting weapons or other tools may have helped humans outcompete Neanderthals. Competitive replacement: Some believe that competition from humans for food and shelter, or evolution that selected more successful human traits, contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction. In conclusion, Humans survived due to several factors, such as social bonds, complex brains, communication skills, generalization and specialization, better infant survival rates, ability to cope with heat, and climate changes. Social bonds played a crucial role in helping humans meet the challenges of their environment, such as sharing food, caring for infants, and building social networks. Modern humans' complex brains allowed them to interact with each other and their surroundings in new ways, while their advanced linguistic abilities and communication skills affected their ability to hunt, trade, and dominate the animal kingdom. Homo sapiens could generalize and expand across the world, and some specific populations could specialize in certain environments. Moreover, humans were equipped to cope with heat, being smooth and largely hairless, allowing them to sweat more efficiently. Some theories about why humans outlived Neanderthals include interbreeding, diseases, advanced tools, and competitive replacement. Some scientists believe that Neanderthals gradually disappeared through interbreeding with humans. Modern humans may have had a more robust immune system than Neanderthals, but some researchers believed advanced hunting weapons or other tools may have helped humans outcompete Neanderthals. Moreover, some believe that competition from humans for food and shelter, or evolution that selected for more successful human traits, contributed to the Neanderthals' extinction.

[@lenax9798]

Because the strong ones survived. The dumb and stubborn ones died back in the day. Just like any animal species

[@Sammythat_B]

I think about this often. We only survived because we figured out how to protect ourselves & numbers. If we were solitary.... We'd be dead. Humans are like genuinely weak compared to any other predatorial animal. We don't have sharp teeth, we don't have claws& we don't have a tough hide. We can no longer run fast, or climb trees. We have tools, an evolving brain,& numbers.

[@Allantitan]

Dumb luck

[@jayamilapersson4030]

Its probably only because of numbers, and sometimes because some of us are able to learn and teach stuff to others.

[@gabrielles1851]

Not a doc but I had two good friends who caused a good portion of their health problems. One refused to eat vegetables outside of tomato sauce on pizza. Said it was a texture issue. The other was likely borderline personality disorder which may have caused her to not heed medical advice when she had other physical issues. We tried to help them be steadier and healthier, but once we moved away they fell off the wagon. We saw the decline from afar. In two years one had a stroke, three years one had partial amputation, five years one couldn't travel anymore, six years legally blind, and then by year 9 care facilities. After 10 years both had died. I still feel guilty I wasn't a more steadying force, but they were grown adults who were 15 years older so maybe there wasn't much to be done to keep them from an early grave. I'll miss them both.

[@electrowave114]

For the texture issue, it might've been ARFID - it's an eating disorder about as dangerous as Anorexia Nervosa, and equally difficult to treat if you're not trained.

[@Butterism]

I had a somewhat similar experience to Story 14. Or at least, in the same vein. I was someone who used to be incredibly active. I walked every where and did an hour of cardio every day. I was also doing 2 forms of martial arts at the time. One day, I walked to the store. The same 10 minute walk I've always done and became incredibly out of breath. In a way I never felt before after exercising. I thought it was just a cough. Or I was just developing allergies and started taking Claritin. But it was happening every time I went outside. It was too the point I was terrified of walking places. Of going outside and/or walking anywhere. I told my mom about it, but I made light of it. Telling her it was just a cough. Until I got back to her house after I took a walk up to Target. She heard me wheezing and came downstairs with her inhaler and told me to take a hit. (She had COPD) Instant relief. I'll never forget the feeling of my lungs opening back up. When my mom told me it sounded like I couldn't breathe, it fully hit me how bad it was. I _couldn't_ breathe. I straight up could not breath. And it took my mom telling me in that concerned way how serious it was and how stupid I was being. Long story short, Covid gave me asthma. And I was suffering though some bad asthma attacks for 2 months. Due to not addressing the problem, I ended up getting a chest infection as well. But, I thought I would be fine until my health insurance kicked in a few months and was gaslighting myself. Get yourself checked out, folks. I struggle to imagine how much worse it could have gotten if I tried to weather it out for a whole other month. Mine progressed from triggering when I was walking. To just going outside. And then having asthma attacks when I woke up. To waking up in the middle of the night due to the wheezing. It's been about 2 years since then and I rarely get asthma attacks anymore. It's been months since I needed my inhaler. But I make damn sure I always have 1 on me.

[@sunshinehayle3899]

I don't think we should perpetuate the myth of addicts being helpless to help themselves. Yes, it's hard to stop, but not impossible and ultimately comes down to personal choices which we all have control over... no matter how hard it is to choose the right path. There is so much help available for addictions.

[@Holychickendinner]

💯🎯

[@throneisbed7833]

Never underestimate allergies, minor or not, is my advice from experience. I have a rat allergy, I've known for three years because when I adopted my first pet rats three years ago, I broke out in hives. Now, it's just a contact allergy, hardly anaphylaxis, but over three years, that allergy had the time to worsen, until last week when I was trying to clean the cage a little over a week after surrendering my rats due to, you guessed it, allergies. I didn't even get to the cage itself, just the shelves beneath, and I ended up with a contact allergic reaction in my lungs (can't recommend--it was so bad I genuinely thought it might develop to anaphylaxis) and ended up staying in the hospital for a while. Long story short, if you have an allergy, no matter how minor, respect that allergy. You never know what'll happen.

[@robertduggan4617]

Am I the only one who thinks that it is very unusual that they would ever put someone with paranoid schizophrenia in the same room as someone suffering from PTSD. And it's especially egregious that they did not try and solve this problem when they heard that the patient with paranoid schizophrenia was off his meds

[@austinhuber]

Can confirm that appendicitis is no joke, had no idea I had it. Was out at a party for the 4th of July a couple hours outside of town, and came over with immense pain. Left the party early and went to the Emergency Room, and found out after a ton of pain that my appendix had completely ruptured and a lot of bacteria found inside my body. Had a lovely 2-week trip to the hospital, left with a scar on my stomach that will never go away, they said that if I had not gone in when I did, I would have not made it. I either have a high pain tolerance or a terrible memory of what happened, or both.

[@Laundrey1]

Story 18 reminds me of my mom. I told her I would never treat her because she’s the worst patient. She never follows orders and will one day see the consequences. For now, she’s just stubborn. Her foot always hurts because she refused to stay off of it when it was broken and I caught her running in it. She thought the boot would save her. She instead blames the Drs for her foot hurting. Same thing with a patient of mine that was running on a new total hip 3 months post op and couldn’t understand why he was in pain still. But back to my mom. She has high cholesterol, heart issues, and is prediabetic. I asked her what her bloodwork said. She said her blood sugar was good. Then I asked her what her A1c was (this tests your blood sugar over months so you can’t cheat by eating good the day before bloodwork). She said it was prediabetes. Even after I explained the deficits with strokes and her high risk, she still eats red meat, dairy, casseroles, bacon, etc daily. Yes, bacon daily. High cholesterol runs in our family. I eat super healthy and am active yet mine is on the border. I love bacon but I don’t eat it because I don’t want a stroke. Furthermore, I told her all the issues cascading in the body from diabetes and she still eats tons of processed high in sugar garbage every day. She used to put sugar in her spaghetti sauce until I told her that was unnecessary (though she probably still does). And she uses that awful bleached white sugar. People in that generation are addicted to sugar and think fat free processed garbage is healthy. She thinks that just because she’s active she will be fine but it really comes down to what you put in your body. Being active is still very important but it doesn’t cancel out the junk she eats. Diabetes can literally wreck your body. It can be deadly in a second. I just don’t get it. She always thinks she has a thyroid issue because she’s tired but her thyroid is fine. She just is killing herself with garbage that she shovels in her mouth and refuses to do what the Drs tell her to. She won’t eat healthy and refuses to take meds so she’s choosing to kill herself because of stubbornness. Exactly why I refuse to treat her. Her sister - my aunt - now has diabetes. I’m not sure of her habits as it’s a fairly new diagnosis, but research has shown that proper diet and exercise can reverse type 2 diabetes but there are meds due to patient noncompliance. That’s so crazy to me. My FIL had diabetes and was able to reverse it with diet and exercise that he was taken off his meds. But my MIL is just like my mom but not active at all. It is 100% frustrating to see your family do this to themselves not realizing that the hammer will drop out of the blue. I don’t want to see them die anytime soon (or ever) but they don’t care and it makes me mad.

[@drifter139]

as bad as this will sound, some people are just determined to die

[@blue-cs3fk]

How did the antivaxx mom justify denying their baby a vitamin? Does she think vitamins and vaccines are the same thing? Even with the obviously stupidity of an antivaxxer, that level of ignorance is honestly impressive

[@Sir_Lagg_A_Lot]

Vitamin K is known to cause jaundice in babies and the main reason for giving it is to prevent bleeding if circumcision is done when the baby is only a few days old. Some prenatal classes discourage the giving of vitamin K.

[@WadeAlma]

​​@@Sir_Lagg_A_LotBetter jaundice than bleeding to death. And vitamin k isn't just for circumcision. It's for clotting any bleeding. Babies can start bleeding randomly.

[@ookamiblade6318]

@@Sir_Lagg_A_Lotthere was an issue with an ingredient in the vitamin K shot in the 1980’s in VERY premature infants only. Needless to say that was in the 1980’s the ingredient that had the adverse reaction was not the vitamin K but a preservative and that has been addressed. And I must stress again if the baby wasn’t born very premature (we’re talking delivered before liver function development) there wasn’t an issue. The reason there was a noticeable issue in the first place was likely that we were suddenly able to keep very premature babies alive more often and at an earlier stage in development and the science on the things that could go wrong at that point hadn’t caught up yet. There is no risk of jaundice from a modern day vitamin K shot.

[@ruthgiles8926]

​@@Sir_Lagg_A_Lotany bleeding. Not just circumcision.

[@darkstarr984]

@@Sir_Lagg_A_LotThat’s a pretty scary thing since babies can potentially get bruised just from being handled a little awkwardly like someone struggling because the baby is wiggling. If they don’t have enough clotting factor that can cause death rapidly.

[@allieniner675]

I just finished a nursing placement last night on a children’s surgical unit- the amount of kids that come in with appendicitis before it ruptures usually expect a stay of 2-7 days, when it does rupture, we had several kids spend a month or more on the unit. One kid had it burst, its contents spread through all four quadrants, needed an 8 LITER washout, and the surgeon was convinced the kid wouldn’t leave the OR table… Lesson here, IF YOU OR YOUR KID HAS APPENDICITIS, GET IT DEALT WITH ASAP!!!

[@dyslexiccowoom3991]

The motorcycle crash survivors are a different breed. A relative of mine was in a motorcycle crash and had to amputate their own leg below the knee to get away from the wreck. Used their shirt as a tourniquet and called EMS. Total badass. A friend of mine too, got in a motorcycle accident and I think tore his ACL. The ER didn't catch it initially, because he could still walk. He walked on the torn ligament for almost 3 fucking years before a doctor finally realized and said he need surgery asap. He had just assumed since the ER hadn't said anything, there was nothing wrong and it was going to hurt forever.

[@ThePolarBearProductions]

Not a doctor but I got a story. I Work in an ER. We got a call about a CPR in progress coming in. We jump in and get working on this guy. He’s in Asystole meaning no heart activity at all. Family and EMS had been working on him for a while so the odds weren’t good. Sure enough we can’t bring him back and he was pronounced in our ER. I get the story from the nurse. The man had a history of cardiac issues and had an EKG done at his cardiologists office earlier that week. Earlier in the afternoon of his death day his Cardiologist called him and warned him to go the Emergency Room asap. The man either refused or forgot to go. Come dinner time he’s not feeling well so the family gets him in the car and are getting ready to drive him to us. He proceeded to Code. We all did a fantastic job. Our doc on the code thanked us and said we did great despite the outcome. He also had phenomenal bedside manner in breaking the news to the man’s wife and family.

[@develyntwocentshenderson5739]

"please clean up for grandkiid..". definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. sonnyboy, mommy doesn't care about you, your kid or anything else. all she worships is the needle. live by the needle, pass by the needle. sad.

[@mschmidt9077]

OMG my mother in-law was nortious for not following provider instructions!!!! My husband and I always had to clean up the mess that she created.

[@courtneylanders]

If I was told my appendix was going to ruptured I'd probably just let it. Sad as it sounds, it would make me so happy to finally have an easy way out not at my own hands.

[@FluffyEclairs]

No please don't do this 😭😭😭😰😰😰😭😭😭

[@fee6362]

That's not an easy way. It's very very painful one. I understand you, but that is not the way I would want to go.

[@BarelyNoticedADD]

Story 1. Save $20 a day when you can call someone to pick up a vehicle by calling a $1k ambulance.

[@ewaleokadia76]

Clearly, that man was a total idiot. Can't feel sorry for the guy in the least.

[@DoritoBot9000]

Likely it didn’t take place in the US

[@Wolfie54545]

Ah yes. Natural selection.

[@dylanherrera5395]

morbidly funny...

[@xlsfd]

"Emergency Rooms: Working against Darwin, one patient at a time." - From the Internet

[@frosted_glaceon5513]

Addiction is indeed awful. One of my proudest accomplishments in life is having never touched alcohol, smoking, or drugs in my almost 24 years on this Earth. It might seem silly to some, but I'm surrounded by a family of diabetics that smoke pretty heavily. I see the damage and it hurts to watch. I hate that weed is legal here now.

[@ArinyaXoriGMVs]

Good on you for not touching that crap! I grew up with alcoholics in my family and it made me not want to be like them. I did, however, end up ruining my brain with drugs :( I regret it to this day. Weed is legal where I live too and it's super annoying. So many people drive around high 🙄

[@victordauphin2949]

20$ a day for parking beats a 1500$ ambulance.

[@fee6362]

an ambulance is free in most countries. Or very cheap at least. I needed one once and payed 15 euros.

[@meamme8]

$20 a day is cheaper than an ambulance ride...

[@timehunter9467]

I’m not a doctor but I do have epilepsy, that poor guy who died might have been acting that way because of his medication. Most of the ones I’ve been on have mood changes/irritability listed as one of the main side effects. It’s also not nice living with the condition, that might have affected his mood more.

[@Bubblez914]

$20 a day for parking? I once had an ambulance bill of over $600. I'll just pay for parking.

[@Shinypokemon77]

The “it’s just a cough” friends. You know they’re good friends even if they’re ribbing you. (Like you said)

[@cathyshepard253]

DUDE the 1st one, “$20 for the day? Nah, gimme a $7,000 trip in an ambulance and death instead.”

[@philipschifflin8546]

For story 1, I’ve literally payed $20 a day for a week of parking at the premium lot because I was worried I was going to miss my flight to visit my fiance. If I was having a heart attack, cost of parking would literally be the last thing on my mind

[@MinteyToast]

I know I already commented about the opposite idea of this video but just to chime in my own dumb experience on this one, I once went to the hospital with abdominal pain and they wanted to do a CT scan, but I was freshly 18 and it was actually my mom who was afraid of the radiation. So, she convinced me not to get one and since it was my decision as an adult she couldn't force me, but I was young and in a lot of pain and scared and wanted to trust my mother so I agreed to let her make that decision for me. They basically just ended up sending me off with some painkillers and the reminder to come back if things get worse. It obviously wasn't anything too life threatening because I did just end up sort of going home and resting up and I felt better after a few days, and to this day I have no idea what it actually was but I think it's so dumb I let my mom convince me to refuse medical tests when I was in such severe pain.

[@nillybilly6252]

Yea bro I mean I get it you want to trust your mum because adults know best but if there something wrong it's always better to be safe rather than sorry and as bad as radiation is with some research you'll find as complicated as it is it's the most dangerous thing in the world considering we get blasted with tones of it daily but that's just my opinion

[@MinteyToast]

@@nillybilly6252 I fully agree and now that I'm much older I'm able to understand that the radiation really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. When there's a medical need for a CT scan the amount of radiation you're exposed to is negligible in comparison to the information that scan could provide. Now of course prolonged exposure is another story which is why healthcare workers take personal safety precautions, but as a patient the handful you might have in your lifetime are going to do way more good than harm and I regret letting her convince me otherwise at that age.

[@herstoryanimated]

The reality is one CT scan will likely give you about as much radiation as two plane flights! You likely wouldn't think twice about a plane trip, so definitely shouldn't for an emergency medical problem

[@MinteyToast]

@@herstoryanimated Exactly this! The amount of radiation we're exposed to in a CT scan is really overblown, and if a doctor wants to do a CT scan on you, there's a reason! It's so much safer to just let them do the test. I was unfortunately really impressionable at 18 and put a LOT of faith into my mother's idea of the world. She fears a lot of medical things like scans, surgeries, and a lot of medications as she believes the side effects are too harsh and not worth the outcome. She even tried to convince me not to agree to reconstructive surgery when I presented to the ER with a pretty complicated bone fracture, because she was scared the anesthesia would kill me. (I did end up agreeing to surgery as the bones likely wouldn't have healed properly without stabilization) I'm able to make my own decisions now and can agree to things while being informed and understanding the true give and take associated with medical care. There will always be side effects or risks, but those can be mitigated and reduced in the name of having a better quality of life. It's never worth just suffering over.

[@herstoryanimated]

@@MinteyToast I totally get this, when you're young of course you trust the people who raised and provided for you. I am an RVN so I deal with these sorts of attitudes on a daily basis. I just like to show the science so when others read these comments they can truly understand the full picture, and be properly informed so they can make better choices. Very glad you got the care you needed!!

[@megangerhart3540]

20 bucks a day for parking at a hospital is ridiculous

[@herstoryanimated]

Not wanting to pay $20/day to live is also ridiculous, especially as he could've had a family member move the car.

[@Xiiki]

@@herstoryanimatedfuck that, I’d get up and drive my car off too.

[@INSERTNAMExHERE]

Seriously! My sister and her husband borrowed my parents and my own car for frequent visits to Boston Children's Hospital when their oldest had cancer. Parking for non patients/visitors was $8 a day! We constantly visited them, sometimes stayed overnight during high stress situations. If we had to pay 20 a damn day, we would've felt some type of way

[@oldlady1314]

“It’s just a cough” 😂😂

[@1Bluefur]

6:48 reminds me of a client I work with, I work in a kind of in between facility. It's supposed to be short term mental health care between inpatient and outpatient, but some clients are there longer than others. This particular client isn't med compliant and extremely paranoid. Luckily, there is no history of violence. But apparently the client has been in and out of the facility many times. Why? Because every single time they get sectioned, they get brought back to us. Last time it happened, the hospital literally just dumped her at the facilities doorstep without even contacting us. It was very lucky for the client that their room was still unoccupied. They stopped taking their meds again after about a week. There's a lot of talk about how this client needs to have a Rogers Order/Guardianship or something similar because they NEED their meds to function but refuse to take them. They go so far as to accuse other clients of poisoning and assaulting them when staff know it's absolutely impossible. I feel like nobody will take any of it seriously unless they actually hurt somebody else in their delusional thinking. Please understand btw, psychotic disorders do not make people evil or inherently violent. Most people with psychotic disorders are more prone to be assaulted than to assault. The guy in Story 9 genuinely felt pushed to such an extreme act in what was self-defense in his mind. Delusions are literally someones reality, doesn't make the actions less wrong but it doesn't mean they are being malicious for the sake of hurting others... That guy literally thought for sure he was being hurt and that he had to do something. Really fucking awful that he's got to live with the consequences of that when it should have been clear he wasn't well enough to decide if he needs his meds or not.

[@4rtistPeter]

11:09 This is the equivalent to being in a window and thinking "what if I jump?"

[@TheHellhound01]

I ain't ever gon get parents who'd put they kids through actually life threatening shit to force some kinda control over em. Refusing necessary surgery over a test or forcing your daughter to eat something she obviously don wanna

[@TheHellhound01]

Or ignoring doctor's advice regarding your own damn infant

[@4467jhgeji]

Idea for new background thingy: ever tried splatoon 2 or splatoon 3?

[@loffafm]

That would be great just I think it might be a little distracting.

[@FinkyOfNalanja]

I like Abzu more.

[@T2211D]

Like my granfather would say: "If everyone would listen to the advice the doctor gives, at least half of the doctors would lose their job."

[@stt5v2002]

ER doctor here. It is not rare for people to ignore my advice - being in the ER does not have a strong correlation to being a good decision maker. Here are a few examples. A guy was having a heart attack. He had been having chest pain for hours. Finally went to the ER because his wife was tired of hearing him complaining about chest pain. But he went to the grocery first and bought $60 worth of meat. He left against advice because the meat was still in his car and he didn't want it to spoil. He returned the next day with severe (and now likely permanent) heart failure causing respiratory distress. Another guy who was having a heart attack left against advice because his dog was in the car. We offered to take care of the dog if he would stay - he declined. Another guy was having a heart attack and went to his doctor's office. There they diagnosed what was happening and called an ambulance. He refused the ambulance and insisted on driving himself to the ER instead. He got to the hospital but collapsed and died in the parking lot trying to walk in to the ER entrance. Another guy had severe covid pneumonia in mid 2020. He insisted that covid was a hoax and refused to stay in the hospital. 2 days later he returned in severe respiratory distress, blue, oxygen saturation in low 60s. He died about 20 minutes after arrival.

[@steggopotamus]

The last one I wonder how many people take him dying in the hospital as "hospitals k!ll covid patients" instead of ignoring doctors in their fields of expertise can be deadly. I get the mistrust though, as a patient you can't instantly gain the knowledge of the body to know what's going on. But if you get bad vibes from a doctor or have trauma that makes it hard to deal with that kind of authority... Yeah, just sad all around.

[@spookyjoots]

As a hospital security officer, you have NO idea how many people who need care just straight up refuse it. Too many come in for issues more suited for urgent care while people who are admitted are ripping out IVs and running from us and Med Staff. Crazy shit.

[@egyphon]

Stubborness is the worst. Luckily, my father's brother passed away from it, so my father is more inclined to let me drag him to the doctor now. His brother's loss was preventable. He had a specialist appointment the very next day but it was too late.

[@raeraebadfingers]

The grandpa being too stubborn to do his rehabilitation.. thats my sister. She's 45, had a steoke a year ago as of yesterday. She never takes her meds properly. Cancels her dr appointments all the time, including physical therapy. Her left side is damn near paralyzed. She wasted so much precious time instead of recovery. To the point her boyfriend broke up with her because "she gave up on life and has no hope". And he isnt wrong. It's sad. But.. you can't make someone want to recover.

[@thetherrannative]

Part of my fear about medical situations is that I am female, and thus VASTLY less likely to receive appropriate care than if I were male. I do not trust hospitals or doctors. At all. Ever. If I am about to die I will of course seek help, but if it's anything short of an immediately life-threatening situation I just deal with it because a doctor will dismiss it as female hysteria. I mean, _"hyster"_ is literally a medical root term meaning "uterus." If you have one, you better hope you never get sick or feel pain, because all of that is in your head.

[@quantumphysics7008]

i have this problem quadruple because i'm not only physically female but also on record as autistic and having a history with the mental health system, which basically means that no matter what i do i am literally less than an animal to them and basically all doctors refuse to even TALK to me as if i'm so below sentient that i'm not even in the room. i'll go to the hospital if i think i'm literally dying, but in my experience otherwise it's better just to save the money and stay home, at least then i can die in my own room rather than with a bunch of strangers swapping between ignoring and condescending at me as if i'm the filth on their shoe and trying to prescribe me medications i'm on repeat record as allergic to while insisting it's all in my head and i should instead just be going to autism speaks (yes this really happened. multiple times. the entire hospital system in the state i live in has a partnership with them. that IS all that there is for autism-adjacent mental health resources here.) and you know that problem where all doctors literally always think that every woman's medical problems are all just because of fat? i somehow still get that all the time, despite the fact that i'm *not even actually fat or even fat-looking.* you can literally see my ribs. i'm too small for clothes i wore when i was in fifth grade. feels like everyone in the universe looks at me and sees someone(or more like some*thing*, like all i can be seen as is an abstract representation of an idea rather than an actual literal person) else and there's nothing i can do to change that. like i have some kind of reality distortion field that makes it impossible for people's perception of me to be anything other than what they most want(derogatory) to see. for example every doctor that's ever heard that i have non-alcoholic fatty liver absolutely refuses to believe that i'm not either a secret raving drunkard or a fatty fatty sugar-devouring bad diet irresponsible fat fat fatty that fats fatly even though they can SEE WITH THEIR OWN FUCKING EYES THAT I'M A GODDAMNED STICK. which is not even getting into the fact that i can't eat sugar. which ALSO make them more convinced that i'm an irresponsible sugarglutton fat fat fatty that did it to myself and not, you know, genetically fucked up and fucking immunocompromised, with literally zero control over what i get to eat at all anyway because i'm entirely financially hostage to my parents and have no choice but to eat whatever they're willing to get me, which itself is limited by what's available and affordable, which is FURTHER limited by the fact that we're all chronically and mentally ill and have absolutely no energy or ability for cooking and basically everyone here has fifty billion directly conflicting food allergies to the point that basically the only thing we can all safely eat is plain unseasoned chicken. given that this is america, somehow i don't feel like letting anyone know i've never considered myself a woman-or a man, for that matter-would make this set of issues any better.

[@JanMaynz]

Y'all have had some shitty doctors. I'm eternally grateful that my issues have always been taken seriously... despite being AFAB, ASD, ADD, clinically depressed... especially since I have seizures! I had no idea until I went in for testing for a completely different issue and had over 100 seizures in 24 hours! (Absence seizures are a pain to notice, especially when they only last a couple of seconds sometimes)

[@thetherrannative]

@@JanMaynz I'm so glad _someone_ has been blessed with good doctors. It makes me feel better just knowing there's someone out there being taken seriously. Maybe there is hope for the rest of us. :)

[@ravenID429]

Girl, do you think we live in the 50s? You are WAY over exaggerating any actual problems that still happen.

[@ravenID429]

And the uterus thing is just ridiculous because you have it the other way around - they called hysteria hysteria because they thought “it” involved the uterus

[@UserNotFound404_LOLOL]

Imagine valuing 20$ a day more than your life

[@mooster47]

The first one is pathetic, but the result of normalcy bias. If the staff wasn't blunt about the risk he would bring on with his plan to move the car, they should have been. Letting him drive in that condition jeopardized bystanders if he passed out at the wheel. Also, not all insurance will pay for ambulance service, which was likely a lot higher than that parking fee. The man wasn't thinking clearly at all. Should have called his son or a friend to move the car if it was that big a deal. They'd need two people, but probably would have worked it out under the circumstances.

[@Franimus]

Not to mention if you leave against medical advice, insurance won't pay.

[@INSERTNAMExHERE]

I had appendicitis and the pain was damn near unbearable. I was puking bile and crying for an hour before they administered any pain medication, gotta love how long hospitals take for pregnancy tests. My BF had to literally carry me before the nurses took over. To just walk out cause your parents cared more about some dumb test than your own well being is.. really fucking concerning! Just.. wow..

[@TitanDraugen]

Hearing about these stories made me recall how my uncle lived alone in our old family home and refused to get a caretaker or househelp. He tends to do things by himself and one day, he had a hard fall trimming some branches in the garden. The neighbors helped him up but they suggested to get him checked out just in case. He refused again and tried to walk it off. During the night, neighbors said they heard something hard fell in the house. After three days, my dad went to visit my uncle and he found him dead at the dining area. For me, I assumed he got a concussion from earlier and the second fall caused a fatal injury. Our whole family had to call the proper authorities to remove the body. The smell of decay still haunts me to this day... I still think back that if we frequently checked on him, maybe the accident could have been avoided...

[@onewayturtles]

Why would you call the paramedics after days of chest pain, and then refuse treatment?

[@jillefeldme9452]

I had a patient who didn’t “have time” to have a colonoscopy when she was 50. I gave her an order every year and she finally went for colonoscopy when she was 60. She had stage 4 colon cancer and died 2 years later.

[@michaelmosier5627]

I have been a Hospice nurse for many years. I can think of one patient that almost died because of not following medication directions. This was a 80 something man with C.O.P.D. His normal respiratory rate was around 30. This is typical for C.O.P.D. He had an order for Morphine 10mg every 1 hour as needed for shortness of breath (SOB). He decided he knew better and took three doses in 30 minutes. A symptom of too much Morphine is respiratory sedation. When I got to him his breathing rate was 8. He did recover. He never did that again. He was one of many people that I have cared for that need to experience something before they will accept that it is true. I had another patient that said that I was trying to kill him because he did not want to do what he was instructed to do. I finally told him that "If I was trying to kill you, you would already be dead". He did laugh and started to listen.

[@GabrielBadwolf]

I was that person that just went home after a tetanus shot. Only to be rushed back a few minutes later because I went into full blown anaphylactic shock with absolutely no history of doing so before, no major allergies on record, etc. they told me in the ER that’s only the second time they ever seen that happen with no allergy history with a tetanus shot or similar

[@riseuprxns]

This is not uncommon. Patients regularly don’t take my medical advice or don’t like my non-echo chamber approach and end up in worse situations for ignoring it.

[@thermobollocks]

20 dollars a day is egregious for parking.

[@Franimus]

It upsets me so much when family members in the hospital talk about taking meds from home without going through the doctor... Yeah it's a pain to have to wait for clearance but IMO it's worth it.

[@KosmicKat3000]

My mum has type 2 Diabetes with weekly Trulicity jab aswell as 2 types of pills. She dodnt manage her medication and went to A&E 3 times because her blood sugar was VERY high. They essentially said they are shocked she's conscious because her blood were so high she should of been in a coma! 3 FRICKING TIMES. She manages it well now, though. I think the paramedics telling her she will die 3 times in a 6 month time span finally clicked.

[@nate87799]

3:58 I’m surprised they didn’t give him a medical sitter after the first time he tried to take them out. He should’ve definitely got one after that.

[@giovannadallalba2126]

In my opinion most of the stubbornness of the patients comes from the fact that the healthcare sistem in your country is sooo expensive. In my country we don't have the best healthcare sistem at all but at least we don't have to die going to the hospital by car afraid of the cost of an ambulance ride

[@ewaleokadia76]

I don't fully agree with that statement. There are people who deny having medical issues, some want to try homeopathic solutions thinking that intravenous medication or whatever is poisonous and others are plain stupid.

[@elementgermanium]

Why is there not some sort of procedure for doctors to say smth like “you are ACTIVELY HAVING A STROKE, you are not fine and you are not leaving like that.” Really feels like there should be an emergency override.

[@minotaurbison]

I'm just going to say 20 dollars a day for parking is absurd for a patient of the hospital, wouldn't leave and get an ambulance though, that's even more absurd

[@aboveaverageazzuen2684]

I live in a large city in Canada. 20$/Day for parking is pretty damn reasonable.

[@hodanisbased4980]

Story 16: I love the detail of OP giving the kids cookies. Even though he didn't say it explicitly, it feels like the father was grateful for his help and learned his lesson. I hope that's the case because that sounds like a happy ending.

[@AisaWilliam]

I love the three different spellings of “Seroquel” in the last story lol

[@freeshrugs63]

Ok. This one scared me into compliance. Went on a "forced march". That's what I call the first 5 minutes of a walk, because I have a hard time getting started. Then I enjoy it. Will be eating better the rest of the day. And take tomorrow as it comes. You make good videos, btw. I appreciate the non- AI.

[@amandasnider2644]

Id like a thread where doctors tell stories about the patient being right

[@EllpaFox47]

the only time i had to stay in a hospital (type 1 diabetes) my parents had to drive all the way to my home pharmacy to get one of my medications since the hospital pharmacy didn't have it (or maybe just didn't have the right dose for it) this wasn't some small local hospital, it was *one of the biggest in my state,* with a separate building for children and multiple cafeterias

[@BrutalOverride]

It's absurd how many babies die because of the ignorance of their parents..

[@titaniumvulpes]

When I got appendicitis it was a single day ordeal. Got into the ER at about 11am, shipped off to the hospital for surgery around 5pm, left the hospital post-surgery at 11pm because I hadn't eaten in 30 hours and wanted onion rings from Burger King before they closed (not AMA, to be clear, they were actually quite pleased that I wanted to be up and about so soon). Before it ruptures they can do a lap appy and it's practically an outpatient procedure, dude could have easily made his test, but once it ruptures they gotta open your whole gut up and now you're stuck in inpatient for a week!

[@silververnallbells191]

The husband stitch is still done in the West. You have to be very clear that you don't want it and some doctors will still do it even if you decline. I was talking to a woman (USA) a couple months ago who's FEMALE doctor did the husband stitch against her wishes so when she got home she cut that stitch (she didn't go further down tho)

[@alesmsnegec]

After Appendicitis surgery here around is done, the patients are released home in about 1-3 days max of time in hospital, as long as they are responding well after the surgery. My own was ruptured and leaked into my abdominal cavity, so they kept me for a week to make sure they'd gotten everything out.

[@fidgetdestroyer3117]

$20 for parking at a hospital should be criminal

[@melocoton7]

only in America I guess....

[@fidgetdestroyer3117]

@@melocoton7 as an American I've never heard of such a thing, they're lying/over exaggerating

[@chelseasmith4753]

​@@fidgetdestroyer3117 Oh no there really are hospitals that charge for parking. I've personally experienced it multiple times especially if it's in a busier areas.

[@ArinyaXoriGMVs]

​@@melocoton7happens in Canada too

[@jblyon2]

I knew a couple, both on multiple medications for COPD and continuing to chain smoke all day every day. Both of them lived entirely off the government.They lived in government housing, collected disability, and were on medicaid for all their medications and medical care. They were both prolific online commenters ranting against anyone they perceived as mooching off the government in any way and engaging in any lifestyle choices that could be remotely perceived as having long-term impacts on health. The louder they preach, the more they're trying to hide.

[@Gryphon1-1]

*Is very clearly shot and losing blood* J just tell my Boss... I might be a little late coming in today! Ughh! *Almost dies, passes out, exit stage left towards operating room*

[@MelvaCross]

Thank you for being so kind towards the addicts in these stories! It's easy to sensationalise how stupid taking drugs is. But you insisted on how these people are sick and worthy of being treated with dignity even if their illness took them to the grave. I know quite a few people who just don't understand how difficult it is for addicts and their families.

[@DaveC2729]

I think $20 a day is a lot cheaper than an ambulance ride. Of course he wound up not paying anything, didn't he?

[@spiritwolf3103]

People still want to find a cheaper option. If you save x amount on driving yourself over taking an ambulance, then you can save y amount more by finding free parking.

[@DaveC2729]

​@@spiritwolf3103Are you reading backwards or what? He was _taking his own car home so he could come back in an ambulance_ to avoid a few days' parking at $20 per day. He would've spent hundreds of dollars on the ambulance--we're talking enough money to park his car there for _weeks._ More than enough time to have someone _else_ drive his car home before he spent more than the price of an ambulance, if he was really going to stay there that long!

[@Arandomperson12309]

This one time when I was 11, I was wearing some cheap ear rings, mainly just to open up the holes, A DAY later me and my mom found out, I have grown an allergy that almost led to me passing out! Im fine now and I have none cheap ear rings but im still scared to wear them☺ have a good day.

[@heatheral-hammadi3046]

Holy crap!! The aortic dissection is crazy!!! He’s dead for sure.

[@ReyRtz]

Parenting license is a good idea

[@Freckris]

.... first man refused to pay $20 a day, and instead wanted a multi-hundred ambulance ride back in? Welp...