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[@ursulajoni15]

the 14 year old with the possible ectopic pregnancy makes me really sad. ectopic pregnancies are commonly fatal if gone untreated. She could have died before she even was old enough to learn to drive all because her mother was obsessed with her virginity

[@WinterWitch01]

It’s the leading cause of maternal death in the first trimester, so well done pro-lifers. The pregnancy can’t be saved, it was never viable to begin with, but now the mother has to die.

[@QueenSunstar]

Ectopic Pregnancy is always a medical emergency. Very, very rarely, it’s survivable without treatment because the embryo implanted elsewhere outside the Fallopian tube. There’s a case of an embryo implanting on the liver and growing into a full term fetus. There’s a couple cases of implantation in the intestines. Sadly, we can’t treat it anymore because the treatment is banned.

[@arianebolt1575]

Many ectopic pregnancies resolve on their own, and may resemble a miscarriage. As for surgical removal, that's allowed if there's no detectable heartbeat or if one removes the embryo intact (unintentional result of a needed action).

[@kheuzi6558]

​@@arianebolt1575 that's horrifying that a nonviable pregnancy that will surely kill the person its inside matters more than that person just because it has a heartbeat as if the person it's inside doesn't also have a heartbeat.

[@arianebolt1575]

@@kheuzi6558 As mentioned above, it's not invariably fatal. And removing it is allowed if done intact, as is usually the case. No reasonable and properly written/enforced abortion ban would prevent proper treatment of an ectopic pregnancy. That's fearmongering.

[@morganitegem5581]

Ok so unfortunately I also whipped back to front most of my life, and got frequent UTIs. One day the doctor at the nearby clinic asks which way I wipe, and I look at them confused for a moment before saying "the normal way" in more of a question. Turns out, my mom never taught me to wipe, she would just give me the toilet paper and let me figure it out as a toddler. It didn't really help that I was potty trained way sooner than any of the other kids in my family, in part because I had the UTI problem basically from birth, and in part because some children were unfortunately spoiled in a negative way in my family. I learned, at 18 years old, that I was in fact wiping wrong and hand to relearn to wipe myself. I still can't wear certain kinds of underwear or pads, I still can't take bubble baths as far as I've tested, but I haven't had a UTI in a year and a half now. Before, I had a new one monthly. My mother told me near the end of my suffering that it had to be the soda pop, nothing else could possibly be causing it, so I was forced, cold turkey, to drop soda pop. I no longer drink it as much as I used to, but I am back to drinking it now. My mother passed 7 months ago and insisted that I would end up with another UTI before long because I was useless and couldn't stay healthy for shit. Had that nasty woman just taught me some necessary skills instead of emotionally abusing me and neglecting me my whole life, I would have a healthy bladder and probably would have never gotten staff infection in my bladder, and now I need to try and train myself to hold it like an adult instead of a five year old

[@morganitegem5581]

Unfortunately, yes, my father was drugged out on the couch most of my formative years and my mother was emotionally abusive and neglected me throughout my life in favor of my younger brother, her absolute angel. That "they'll figure it out" attitude is often a sign of deeper bullshit, I've found, you may want to seek counseling if you aren't already speaking with a licensed professional, I can barely function in society because of that attitude. You'd be surprised how much you'll miss without help, especially if you're surrounded by other victims. My mother was a victim of her mother, my father a victim of his family, and my stepdad was a victim of my mother too. We didn't realize she fucked us up until 6 months ago when she died

[@TheFalseSavior]

Funnily enough, for me it was the soda that caused my UTI's. Caffeine crystals are a bitch

[@chasefrost1401]

I was at an urgent care when I was about 14, and a guy in his 40s was there, and was told he has a shingles outbreak around and in his eye, he was told his chances on becoming blind in that eye were very great, and a small chance he could go totally blind. His face when he was talking about it with me and my mom made me want to cry for him. So yes, you very much can get shingles in your eye, and it's very serious.

[@herusaleron6793]

it is indeed i work in ophthalmology and i have a patient who has it he’s young too and we’ve been working on restoring his sight with antivirals for months, last week his retina detached totally and he’s now going to be blind in that eye the rest of his life

[@theflaminglitten-fo6jd]

I hate it when people try to say they know more than a doctor only to die from something that could've been prevented, but that's just as many stories of people dying because the doctor was incompetent and didn't notice something the patient obviously thought was wrong until it was too late

[@WinterWitch01]

I get it’s easy to judge people based on their (lack of) hygiene, but there’s valid reasoning why they’re unable to keep up on brushing and bathing, sadly it’s common with sexual abuse and mental illness. Please realize it’s not just laziness or they enjoy being greasy and dirty.

[@Whatever-fe7xn]

Most of the time it is just laziness

[@lambentlamprey]

@@Whatever-fe7xn Maybe for you.

[@askreddit3021]

You know, I had mine removed 7 years ago, and this past January I couldn't sleep because I felt like I was having a gallbladder attack. I went into the ER and told them I know I don't have one, but I swear this is what it feels like. Turns out I had a massive stomach infection. It honestly felt the same

[@JessicaO490Z]

Well also, they have to leave a passage from your liver to your gut because the gallbladder served an actual function. It's kind of like a pouch that sticks off the common bile duct. You can get that area infected swollen and I think it can even build stones even though it's no longer technically a gallbladder, just the duct. I just took care of a patient recently where they had their gallbladder removed a few years ago, but they still got an infection and swelling in the common bile duct and it felt just like the gallstones had originally. Luckily it was just an infection and was resolved with antibiotics.

[@WayWardWonderer]

Doctors don't go to medical school for a minimum of 7 years just to be "outsmarted" by Karen who read a clickbait article on FaceBook.

[@silver5866]

I think you mean “Karen who read the title of a clickbait article.”

[@JessicaO490Z]

I mean I did 5 years as a nurse, with four of those being intense medical training about the human body and how it functions, and I still get crap like this too. As a nurse it's one of our jobs to go over things with patients. And every now and then you'll get somebody who will ask to speak with a "real professional", or ask how the heck I would know something when I answer a question they asked me. For some reason certain people have the mental image that nurses only know how to wipe up poop and hand over pills... Usually it's the family that can be the worst though, patients are usually grateful for the care they receive from you and more likely to listen to you. This last week I got super annoyed with one family member, every time they had asked me a question they would interrupt my answer, they get really upset with my answer, and at one point they told me to stop condescending to them even though they literally asked me to explain.. I just couldn't anymore. Funnily enough about an hour later a doctor communication popped up that said for health care team members to only speak with one of the family members (the poa) and I know it was totally because of that one obnoxious family member that I had to deal with... 😅

[@scottlemiere2024]

But she read it on the internet so it HAS to be true!

[@jodishapiro9257]

Tbh I outsmarted my endocrinologist when I was 21. He hadn’t read the clinical guidelines in a decade. I went to my primary care doctor and she sided with me after checking up2date.

[@abbyb6958]

18:31 to be fair, I often forget about my pain since it’s a constant thing. It’s nothing new so it doesn’t cross my mind to mention it

[@queenofdramatech]

What I hate, is when you have multiple chronic conditions, and truly know when something is going downhill and the doctor does not believe you. Then the blood work comes back and validates everything you just said. Sometimes, "I know my body," means you actually understand what the bleep is going on better than they do because you live with it 24/7 365.

[@laurenj6771]

I’d love to hear a patient version of these, I’ve heard so many horror stories of incompetent doctors ruining lives :(

[@Whatever-fe7xn]

Took ten years to be diagnosed with IBS something that is incredible common.

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

Doctors should be fully allowed, with no penalty, to look a patient in the eye and say, "Are you f**king stupid?" And if the patient says they want to use or are using essential oils, aromatherapy, homeopathic remedies, or chiropracty (as a cure all), then a doctor should be allowed (without penalty) to smack them in the face and then ask the question above.

[@ireneparkin3360]

As well as say "I didn't spend best part of a decade learning this just so you can "outsmart" me with a bs article from FaceSpace."

[@na-ky8ou]

Don't forget the people who use magical rocks, not sure how it's called in english...

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

@@na-ky8ou healing crystals = magical rocks

[@na-ky8ou]

@@carlfromtheoc1788 No 😂 I use the term "magical rocks" on purpose, I meant to say that I don't know how you call the pseudo-science of healing yourself with magical rocks. In my country we call it "litotherapy".

[@Hachimaro]

@@na-ky8ou There seems to be a new pseudomedical discipline popping up every month, and thanks to social media they spread like the plague. I don't particularly mind patients believing in this shit, I suppose you can consider it a form of natural selection, but it pisses me off that in my country I'm obliged to refer to homeopathic and traditional Chinese products as "drugs" and "medicinal products", and I can't undermine their effectiveness in the presence of patients, or else I might face the disciplinary board.

[@DemstarAus]

It wasn't that long ago that pregnancy was the single most deadly thing a female could experience. Ectopic pregnancies, Rh incompatibility, placental abruption, sepsis, haemorrhaging, pre-eclampsia... these things would not have been very well understood and we should consider ourselves lucky to have access to modern medicine.

[@Absaalookemensch]

The opposite of a "I know better than the doctor" but pertaining to traditional medicine. Working on a Native American reservation in the ER. Most serious cases the medicine man would come in, when cleared and, if not contraindicated, would light hemp and smudge out the evil spirits. We always welcomed the medicine man as they worked with us to help the patient. Patients were more comfortable with him there. Native Americans are darn sensible, they use modern and traditional medicine.

[@BuickDoc]

Me: "Hi, I'm Dr. BuickDoc and I will be doing your anesthesia today for your total hip surgery". He: "You're not a Doctor". Only Nurses do anesthesia, so don't tell me you are a Doctor."

[@markedwards3647]

"I think she has a sore." Family brought in mother. Buttocks, right thigh, and right hip were black semi-liquid, end of rectum was exposed. As were femur, pelvis, and right hip. She died a few hours later. Correction: the remaining 70% died a few hours later.

[@therick7445]

Guy who got turned into a newt, did you get better?

[@Emrys91]

The one about the 14 year old, yer you dont ask those questions with mum/dad there. Dr Patient confidentuality an all that.

[@JessicaO490Z]

Yeah and if you have a parent that's really adamant about something not being possible there is a way to convince them into taking the proper avenue. For example if they don't say your daughter's pregnant and need surgery, they could say your daughter is bleeding so heavily that we need to fix it with surgery. You're communicating the same thing You're just leaving out their trigger word, pregnancy. I mean it happens all the time when you have to talk to dementia patients.

[@threeducks157]

You will be surprised by the amount of nurses/med staff that are ignorent or antivax.

[@razorburn645]

It makes you wonder how they passed their exams.

[@scottlemiere2024]

The caffeine isn't good for me, it's good for everyone else. I get headaches from withdrawals and those make me short tempered.

[@fyoutube9410]

Seems like a good chunk of these are doing the world a favour. These are the type of people to make retail workers miserable.

[@dagfincarp1113]

My sister is terrible about second-guessing her doctor. The guy has got to have the patience of a saint. It's not that she's just asking questions, she actively argues with the guy. It's not just with this particular doctor, either. She's done this her whole life with doctors, nurses, dentists. She's going to be one of those people who winds up dead because "That doctor doesn't know what he's talking about!"

[@kyle18934]

I believe the gall bladder can grow back partially.

[@philyjfry]

If you refuse to believe you're having a heart attack. Well. Good.

[@soaringvulture]

My brother, who was a heart surgeon, refused to believe he was having a heart attack. He drove himself to the hospital where he practiced and went to the emergency room asking for Mylanta for his heartburn. The ER people got him into the cardiac unit where he had a quadruple bypass. So all kinds of folks can be in denial.

[@philyjfry]

@@soaringvulture Okay well obviously my comment was a joke, im sorry that he was in denial lmao

[@soaringvulture]

@@philyjfry No problem. I was just providing an example of how powerful denial is. I needle my brother about it all the time.

[@daniellebenfield95]

Well, I mean, TECHNICALLY, a vaccine to prevent chicken pox is different than a treatment you could potentially receive when you actually have chicken pox. So there's that.

[@animeluver4ever911]

Not doctor but ABA therapist practiced for 8 years. Some parents like to tell you how to do your job. I told a divorced couple that one of the reasons their child was struggling was that the father enforced all the rules and followed ABA and the mother refused to do any of it. I explained for a child you need to be consistent or it won’t work. They were both very sure that I wasn’t doing my job right until we had out next joint session and they realized that his behavior was linked almost 100 percent to when his mom was around. Took almost six months of them telling me I wasn’t doing my job right while my supervisor, their doctor and therapist were all begging them to listen to me. Ahhh memories.

[@jodishapiro9257]

ABA is child abuse. The mom was right not to do it.

[@animeluver4ever911]

@@jodishapiro9257 I am sure you know and that why I have 7 or 8 children who I have to bait to leave at the end of shifts because they love spending time with us so much? I am 100 percent sure you don’t know a thing about what you are talking about.

[@animeluver4ever911]

Oh and in the case I mentioned he was healthier, happier and doing better with socializing and school with his father.

[@MaxwellVrooman]

One time my mom accident no more than a nurse so they just took my brother‘s temperature because his appendix is infected or something so they just took his temperature in about a minute later he told my mom he feels hot she tells a nurse to check his temperature she says we just did my mom sternly says check him again so if he does reluctantly turns out he has a massive fever so they deal with it and the nurse asked my mom how did you know she says I’m a mother it’s my job to know

[@MuffinMammoth]

Woooo, another reupload. Way to go.

[@j.tgrooms]

The doctor will see you now

[@akiyama4535]

Antivax movement shouldn´t be called antivax, but Pro-Plague. If this would catch on, people wouldn´t be as enthusiastic as to participate in a "Pro-Plague" movemement

[@eerielconstantine5051]

That’s a great idea lol

[@eerielconstantine5051]

Anyone wonder what life would be like if natural selection was allowed a lot more with people?

[@kendoruslink7017]

No the doctor knows better

[@davidpaikins3172]

Some of these are just sad. Others are hella funny.

[@silver5866]

That last reply about neuropathy got me lol

[@liwiathan]

I'm confused how water made her diabetic

[@Свободадляроссии]

Really nice to know that natural selection still works to some degree.

[@ryzukumagawa7143]

You know I'm not defending some of these people but the one's who question the doctor level of education (length of study) have an bit of a point since there are so many fields of medical study are their any major differences sorry if I worded this poorly or if I sound like an moron

[@the_sorcerer]

Fun game- smoke a pack for every Darwin award in this video until you can't function.