Doctors Share Their 30 Craziest ‘Thank God They Came In For A Second Opinion’ Stories

Reminds me of my 1st child's birth. I was in labor for 13 hours got pitocin and the whole deal. I had an epidural but was still feeling so much pressure insisting I had to push. The dr checked and said not yet. I kept telling them that something was wrong then and to do an ultrasound. They basically ignored me and about 5min later the baby's heart monitor goes crazy her heart rate is 222 . I finally get that ultrasound showing my baby's face, she was sunny side up, which is not the safest and she was stuck. Emergency c section and baby was fine thankfully but it was very scary and might not have been so traumatic if they had listened.

Notice Dominique's experience above. Your wife is lucky you came and stood up for her, since women's issues are often not addressed.

I don't get how heart rate 99 one day is good, and having the same heart rate a few weeks later is so dangerous they recommend abortion.

When it comes to your health, you really have to advocate for yourself and loved ones. You simply can not trust the medical community absolutely. All it takes is one person making a mistake and your life is upended, yet they carry on like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and move on to the next poor soul.

Had a trama birth on my 1 and only kid and the 2nd day a doc took my child with my husband der up for brain scans and blood tests ect, i said u have wrong baby, he pushed passed me and asked my husband to "look after her" i screamed the place down telling him 2 get his fu#king hands off my child and do his job properly, when he found out it WAS THE WRONG baby he didnt even say sorry 🤬

Holy c**p

So many people dismiss how important Eye exams are. The ophthalmologist’s’ office I worked for had to remind so many patients of their medical diagnoses to get them to come get checked. And the times a simple eye exam can find cancer, in the eye or brain both. Get your eyes checked people!!! You can’t get a replacement. Editing to add, Get a quality examiner. My brain tumor could have been found years earlier if the dang LensCrafters “doc” had accepted there might be a reason I was failing the visual field test instead of just retesting me until I passed.

My ophthalmologist saw that my optic nerve was swollen. Had an MRI that day. Brain tumor the size of a tennis ball. No symptoms. The tumor was benign. The doctor saved my life. Always get your eyes examed by an ophthalmologist.

Went to eye Dr for regular check for twitching and to check if there is any change in my glasses. Turns out optic neuritis, underwent MRI to access the damage, got admitted and started with the steroids. All these in the span of 3hrs. This was 8yrs back and since then I regularly visit my eye Dr for regular checkup just to check on the relapse.

Some heroes were lab coats.

Thank goodness he was bored!

What’s a heart block?

I have a story, not very dramatic, but kinda painful: One time I got sick, I coughed for a month before I went to doctor, who prescribed some antibiotics. After coughing some more for the week eating the antibiotics, the cough got so bad, I felt like my ribs were broken on both sides, I couldn’t get up from bed by myself and breathing hurt. (I’ve since broken couple ribs, and the pain was same) I went back to the same doctor, who told me I was too sick for her to treat, and sent me to ER. I drove 80 km to ER, waited 5 hours and they prescribed me some more antibiotics, and told me they wouldn’t do an x-ray to my lungs because I was pregnant. This repeated 2 more times. During the third or fourth antibiotic I developed the worst headache I’ve ever had. Went to ER, and they discovered a sinus infection, spread to my frontal sinus and probably about to go into my skull (which is sort of bad) Got IV antibiotics for a while, and 7 sinus punctions on both sides over 2 weeks. (it is horrible)

Sounds like something would happen on a hospital or doctor show.

Why, oh why are some doctors so dismissive on grounds completely unrelated to the problem at hand? How the hell is blood in poop less worthy of being treated because its a baby from first time parents? Yes it might be that they are overzealous, but is that worth risking letting a baby die and just not looking?

Makes me think of my mom, who had a heart bypass in 2002. After the op, she kept complaining that she couldn't breathe. Like it would take her 45 minutes to eat a meal because she had to stop and catch her breath in between bites. The nurses would take her plate away after 20 minutes so she wasn't even getting proper meals. The nurses also ignored her complaints about the breathing because they said, "Oh, since she's a smoker it's emphysema, and they always complain." I'M SORRY WHAT. A physician and the surgeon both told her the same thing. Finally, another doctor comes in and actually listens, sends her for X-rays and discovers so much water in her lungs she'd almost drowned on dry land. They took 5 LITRES of fluid out of her lungs. If I ever have to go to hospital, I'm not going to the Union (Alberton, Gauteng), that's for darn sure. But Dr Mamorare, wherever you are, thank you for listening to my mom and letting us have her for longer.

My sister called me from her son’s pediatrician’s office once in hysterics. Her son was ill and had a rash on his legs that was unusual to her. They kept telling her he had a cold. She screamed and refused to leave because she insisted there was something wrong. I left work and met her there. Finally, an OLDer physician came by to console her and noted that he was showing symptoms of spinal meningitis. My nephew, with his mother, was transported by ambulance to the hospital. He remained on life support for 36 hours. Had it not been for her maternal instincts and those of an experienced physician . . .

I'm so tired of incompetent doctors. They're so arrogant they just dismiss you and move on.

This is a good baby, pooping at the right minute. 😇 In my family, a lot of times we are really sick but then the symptoms mysteriously pause as soon as we're in the doctor's office.

I hope he lost everything and his family disowned him for saying that, Cant belive he said she made it up even AFTER she had the surgery

This recently happened to my very healthy 25 yr old son. He had symptoms and went to the ER and instead of doing anything to help him, they said he must be on drugs or have an STD. They said he was to young to have had a stroke so they refused an MRI. I didn't know about it for 2 days bc no one called me. When I couldn't reach him I called the hospitals and found him. When I got there I went crazy on them and they did an MRI. Brain surgery. Twice. Coma.

I hope he lost it.

Holy hell, I hope she got his license yanked. What an incompetent a**hole.

God i don't usually genuinely want to commit felonies but if I had a knife and that man within reach I don't know what I would do

My husband and I along with our two large dogs moved several states away and were staying with friends until we found our own place. One of our dogs gets sick and passes it on to our friends' dog. The wife freaks out and rushes their dog to a vet who convinces her it is parvo even though all the dogs are vaccinated and older. I called my vet back home and he said it was just a stomach bug and it was going around. I ended up paying an obscene amount of money (because we felt responsible) for her dog to be treated for parvo unnecessarily and get special food. I would warn everyone I could not to go to that vet unless they wanted to be gouged.

When I lived in Dallas my dear kitty Tigger got really sick, temperature dropped (cats do that when they’re sick). Gave her antibiotics that didn’t work. They maintained she had some abdominal infection caught from the mom and would go to her spinal fluid and she would die. Best to euthanize her. Being a people nurse, I thought that maybe some people situations might transfer to animals. I said that with people, until we get things figured out with a blood culture we start them out on a broad spectrum antibiotic (works on many different kinds of bacteria as opposed to a certain one). I suggested we try this because the infection she had might not be covered by the antibiotics they gave her. Thank dog the vet listened and started her on a broad spectrum. Just like with people, she started to recover in 48 hours.

Never decide fast on such. Especially in younger animals ... a 20 yo old cat with liver tumors who starts avoiding being touched and gets yellowy eyes is a cleas case - wait no longer, spare'em that. But this ... well, humans, who can talk, describe what they feel, did, what prompted their defect are already hard to deal with often, but other animals ... they're a PITA being diagnosed!

That's why there's a specific vet here that I will still never go to. Said my cat had cancer. She had a broken leg, that's it.

Our 11yo cattle dog mix started throwing up and wouldn't eat. After a month of our local vet throwing diagnoses and medications at him - maybe it's pancreatitis, try this, maybe it's ehrlichia, try this, maybe it's Cushing's, try this - she suggested that it was probably stomach cancer and we should put him down. We took him to the vet teaching hospital at Auburn, Alabama, and their equipment was able to detect a small bowel obstruction. It was a clear plastic squeaker from a toy. Dexter survived the surgery and lived another 2 years. I had no idea how dangerous squeaker toys could be. PLEASE DO NOT BUY SQUEAKER TOYS. They almost took my best friend. I'm convinced he'd still be here if he didn't need that bowel resection.