30 Of The Wildest “I Don’t Think This Is Important, But-” Moments, As Shared By Doctors On This Online Thread

I work in an addiction treatment center. The number of our clients who insist that beer isn't alcohol simply astounds me.

Beer was considered a soft drink in Russia until 2013. Finland is next door to Russia.

Koln 2005, World Youth day, the german priest: "Italians boys are so good! They don't drink alcohol!". Our priest seeing all of us with a beer in hand...

It's always beer-30!

OMG

HOW can you not be aware that this is the ONLY thing that matters in genetic couseling?

i'm adopted. i also have chronic degerative disease which is thought to be genetic. my dad had a tumor taken off his heart on a monday and he recovered so well they released him on wednesday. i made the comment that i must have been in the shallow end of the gene pool and i wanted his genetics. confusion from drs followed.

No not at all lmao.

Okay but that's kind of sweet that he protected her like that. I think he's a keeper.

I would probably have gotten into an argument with my significant other about who was going to push whom out of the way.

edward cullen??

Hero and def a keeper.

Glad u ok

Usually TPA is only effective if given within a short time after a stroke occurs (no more than a couple hours.) it’s very lucky that it worked so well after so long. I’m a woman who had a stroke, I had dizziness and tingling fingers hours before the stroke actually hit but no tooth pain. I had TPA within 30 min but still was left mostly paralyzed on one side.

My younger brother (about 48 at the time) called me around 10pm on a Sunday night, asking if I could drive him to the ER. That in itself was disconcerting. On the way to the hospital, he suddenly couldn't form a coherent sentence. I told the ER Doc how concerned I was that he had even called me. Turned out he had meningitis & probably would have died if he hadn't gotten medical attention when he did. Scared the sh*t out of me. (He's fine, btw).

Oh my stars and gardens! TIL! I hadn't any idea! I'm glad to have learned this.

Very good info! Thank you for sharing.

My guess is the OP is a woman. Doctors don't believe women. It's a huge problem and leads to higher mortality rates. My wife went to the ER for severe abdominal pain. The doctor told her it was just cramps and sent her home with a Pepcid. She woke the next morning with a belly swollen with blood. I mean she looked six months pregnant overnight. Went to the ER again, and she had a ruptured ovarian cyst, which had been bleeding into her abdomen all night long. My grandmother, similar situation. She was having sever nausea, and kept telling her doctor it wasn't like normal upset stomach. She wanted to go to the ER (she lived in a small village with no hospital, had to be moved by ambulance). After three hours of fighting with the doctor, her son (my uncle) forced them to send an ambulance. She died before the ambulance got there. She had a massive heart attack. Doctor's don't trust women, and women pay the price for it.

This sounds almost exactly like my story! Had a spot on my nose. GP said, from across his desk, not bothering to check it closely, that it was nothing. I demanded to be sent to see a dermatologist, who said the same thing! I demanded a biopsy and I was right, it was a basal cell carcinoma. This was back in 2011. Next month, I'm getting my 6th surgery, because it keeps coming back, bigger each time. Why? Because the last 3 doctors to operate on it (the initial dermatologist + 2 plastic surgeons, did a sh*t job). I just got a young woman dermatologist who, by her way of working, helped me realize how badly I have been treated previously. She had me see one of her colleagues who confirmed I was not treated correctly in the past. Hopefully, I'll still have some of my nose left once this is all over - if I ever see the end of this.

That sounds like malpractice in my mind.

Sometimes medical practitioners get it wrong,always go with your gut feeling. I didn't&it almost cost me my life..

Doctors aren't perfect. First off, everyone thinks they have cancer; but the vast majority of the time it's nothing. Doctors are trained to see the simplest explanation first. "When you hear hooves, you think horses, not zebras."

Farmers are a different breed.

Was it impossible to find a picture of a broken femur...

he seems like the type that would say rub some dirt in it

I almost walked to the car on a broken hip... And was walking by week 3, although carefully. I don't respond much to pain.

My dad walked around on a broken hip for two months. Took the rear tire of a pick-up running over him to get him to go to the doctor. "Ah, it's just gout." Yeah, right.

There is a story about a man who goes into surgery for a brain tumor. The doctors get it all and they are thrilled because it was one of those tumors that just "peels" out. Unfortunately, it is the type of tumor that is secondary to a really, really nasty fast growing lung cancer. But they had x-rayed the man many times. and NO lung cancer. Three months after the brains surgery he is back in the hospital, coughing up blood. They do and X-Ray and there is a huge, incredibly fast growing lung tumor. They pull up the previous X Rays and there, on the film, now that they KNOW that there is a tumor they see a "hint" of a "smudge" of a picture that turns out to be the tumor. NO ONE caught it. Not the neurosurgeons, the oncologists,, the Internists, no one. Those films are now teaching films and even though students KNOW there is something "wrong" on the films NO ONE has caught it. And yes, it was before MRI's.

How did the patient forget to mention anything? She did just the right thing by not shrugging off what looked like a flu.

Checking lymph nodes is not standard in your country?

Excuse my ignorance but are there blood tests you can take for confirmation of some cancers? I feel like it should show up somewhere, not just when it's at the 4th stage already. If someone comes in with a persistent cough or any kind of ongoing issue, isn't that a sign they should be doing every test possible to confirm or diagnose the issue? It's not the first time this woman had been to the doctor, clearly. I sometimes feel like docs simply don't want to order additional testing out of a fear of it being paid for or it not being deemed necessary but clearly it is. It's frustrating because I had an ongoing issue I went and saw multiple doctor's about for years and was just told it was in my mind or I had allergies or I was overweight. It took almost 10 years to be diagnosed and it was a pretty simple test that did it. I asked over and over if there was a test. It really affected my life and didn't need to.

wow this might have been my mom... OP what state are you in?