It's impossible to know everything there is to our lives – and as much as we would've liked that, some things are just not meant to be. Though, there are times when people's cluelessness makes you want to question your whole existence. 

It appears that many folks don't really know their anatomy. Some are confused about complicated things, so it's somewhat understandable – others get freaked out when they realize that their newborn child is toothless. Perhaps you could blame the education system on this issue, as it's a widely known fact that it all could be a little bit more informative – however, when somebody is surprised about their offspring's lack of teeth, it raises a question or two. 

An online user took it to one of Reddit's communities and asked the medical professionals about random human body misconceptions their patients have had. The experts have gathered together and shared a bunch of amusing and sometimes mind-blowing stories, resulting in the thread receiving nearly 17K upvotes and 7.3K worth of comments. 

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#1

The Pill

The Pill A couple was pregnant and didn't understand why since "they were taking the birth control pill". It turns out it was the guy who was taking it.

psyemphath , futurestreet Report

#2

Insulin Injection

Insulin Injection I asked an elderly patient to show me how she gives her insulin. She said, I need an orange. I said why? She said well, I draw up my insulin in the syringe, inject it in the orange and eat it! That’s how the Dr showed me to do insulin!

SecretMiddle1234 , keiichiro shikano Report

Saviik
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe the doctor used an orange to mimic the injection itself, and the patient missed the vital bit of ‘pretend this orange is you in this demonstration’. Idk what else could have brought her to this conclusion O.o

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#3

Appendectomy

Appendectomy I can’t begin to tell you how many dudes have argued with me that they’ve had hysterectomies. And I’m like you mean appendectomy? And they are absolutely adamant that they had a hysterectomy.

dedredcopper , Elvert Barnes Report

#4

Blood

Blood I offered a diabetic a tissue after doing a finger prick to mop the the 2 drops of blood on his finger. He looked at me like I was an absolute idiot, said "you don't know very much do you" and sucked the blood off his finger. Then spend the next 5min 'educating' me that because he was a diabetic, he needed all the blood he had. Therefore he needed to 'put it back into his body' rather then wasting it by putting it on a tissue. He was under the impression that if he just drank his blood it would go straight back into circulation.

CreativeSun0 , Toshiyuki IMAI Report

May
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did he think being diabetic made him anaemic? This doesn't make sense in any way

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#5

Hair Dyes And Babies

Hair Dyes And Babies Working in an ER as a nurse practitioner. I had a patient’s granddaughter, who was pregnant, ask me if she dyed her hair would it also dye her baby’s hair. Made my day!

mermaidmyday , Mustafa Khayat Report

#6

Body Tissues And A Clueless Dad

Body Tissues And A Clueless Dad My dad doesn't have a clue on anything that happens in the body. I told him I work in a tissue lab and he asked "oh are you developing new Kleenex?"

When I told him that I work with body tissue this man really said "oh, I don't think I have that. I just use Kleenex"

otter_space08 , Big Ben in Japan Report

Ms.M.
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Personally, I just use whatever brand is on sale 😺 Also: upvote for cat pic

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#7

Toothless Baby

Toothless Baby I had a father of a baby absolutely beside himself because his newborn baby had no teeth

GPFO , Marco Assini Report

Joel
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Any mother would be terrified to nurse a baby with teeth

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#8

Faceless Newborn

Faceless Newborn Baby came out face down ... father freaked out his child was born without a face. We had a good laugh after.

osrsmvk , lmcreglow Report

Karin Gibson
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope the baby did come out facing the bed as a face to pubes delivery is extremely painful and the head tends to cause very extensive tears

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#9

Fasting For A Blood Test

Fasting For A Blood Test “Did you have anything this morning for your fasting blood draw?”

“No, just tea with honey, and a glass of orange juice.”

commoncheesecake , Jeremy Keith Report

#10

Fruit Cake = Fruits

Fruit Cake = Fruits "What do you mean, I can't eat an entire fruit cake? Isn't fruit supposed to be healty?"

-Diabetic type 2 with a blood sugar level of 450 mg/dl.

VloekenenVentileren , Mitchell Hirsch Report

#11

Sharing Is Caring, Even If It's The Birth Control Pill

Sharing Is Caring, Even If It's The Birth Control Pill Pregnant girl who were on the pill, asked why she get pregnant, discovered that one day she takes it, the next day it's her boyfriend and so on ...

That's not what we mean by "sharing cost"

And another one, she pulls the whole box of pills (Yes all 28) in a bottle of water, and take a sip once a day.

Jaakuna12421 , Amy Entwistle Report

#12

Medication

Medication Pharmacist here. I had a patient call me and ask me why their medication wasn’t working anymore after they had stopped taking it.

lordvoldemortnosejob , Alabama Extension Report

#13

Baby Teeth And Their Importance

Baby Teeth And Their Importance I’m a dentist and the thing we get all the time that I hate is parents not caring about their child’s decay because ‘they’re just baby teeth’. Losing baby teeth early causes all sorts of problems aside from the pain and trauma but in addition to that I often have to explain to parents that the adult teeth that erupt at age 6 are meant to last forever. They’re always oblivious.

dctrimnotarealdoctor , Bill Smith Report

High Mamii Melo
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dentist of 25 years passed away 2 weeks ago. I am so sad! A lot of patients came to the funeral which made me smile :)

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#14

Breast Reduction Surgery

Breast Reduction Surgery I had breast reduction surgery. My husband went to the pre-op appt with me. The doctor was explaining the surgery and mentioned they would remove my nipples. My husband asked where they were going to get new ones from.

12 years later and we joke about wondering where the nipple locker is.

BB1429 , Jo Naylor Report

Chucky Cheezburger
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes you just gotta learn. I used to think that when a guy transitioned to a woman, they just cut down the tree,split the stump and saved them in a freezer or something for when a woman transitioned to a guy. But that was back in the olden days of the 90's.

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#15

Ankle Bumps

Ankle Bumps One time I had to explain to a parent that the “bump” on their child’s foot they were worried about was an ankle.

TheModernAlch3mist , molybdena Report

Beth L
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister got hauled off to the ER from Girl Scout Camp after a picnic table collapsed on her because she had an "unusual" bump on her ankle. Well, she has them on both ankles, and so do I, but the camp nurse never thought to look...

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#16

Tampons And Anatomy

Tampons And Anatomy I had a colleague in her thirties with children who had come to the UK after marriage - she asked me one day if you could use tampons before you were married. She honestly had no clue about her own anatomy.

shiveryslinky , Eric E Castro Report

Viv Justviv
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in my early 20s, I had a female coworker who was at least 35 say she never used tampons because there are "so many holes down there." She was confused by her own anatomy!

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#17

Turns Out Whales And Babies Have A Lot In Common

Turns Out Whales And Babies Have A Lot In Common Had a mother ask if it was true that the soft spot of her baby’s head was “like a whale blow hole” that he could breathe out of. Apparently her own mother had told her that.

veggiethrower1 , Lukas Koster Report

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#18

Fetus' Hair

Fetus' Hair Sometimes in pregnancy women’s bellies can gain a little bit of hair, I assume from extra hormones etc. During a routine prenatal check a partner asked if it was the fetus’ hair poking through her skin.

CrumbFactory_ , Britt-knee Report

#19

Bleach

Bleach Holistic doctors have convinced a lot of people that adding BLEACH to their drinking water will cure chronic diseases.

Literally a high enough dosage to stain clothing being drank through a straw.

BEST part is there's no convincing them otherwise.

Relative-Gap7643 , Mike Mozart Report

#20

Heart And Its Feelings

Heart And Its Feelings I’m in the mental health field but I met with a client who was worried that if their relative had a heart transplant would the relative still love and remember them. The logic being that the feeling of love lives in the heart.

Ordinary_Donut1877 , Andréia Bohner Report

Nathaniel
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sweet if it comes from a child, just baffling if it comes from an adult.

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#21

Baby And Doritos

Baby And Doritos Pregnant patient during ultrasound: “my baby loves Doritos.” Me performing the ultrasound on said baby: “awww, baby is opening its mouth!” Pregnant patient: “omg! It’s Doritos! I just had Doritos! It’s EATING the Doritos!”

heatherbacker , Jennifer Morrow Report

#22

Tube Issues

Tube Issues I've had male patients in my audiology clinic tell me they have fallopian tube issues. Perhaps I shouldn't assume they mean eustachian tube issues, but I do.

tunaMom20 , jeff covey Report

#23

Seizures And Benzodiazepines

Seizures And Benzodiazepines They seem to think that, by pausing a ‘seizure’ to inform us that they’re having a seizure, they’ll get benzos. Lol no.

GPFO , bfi Business Furniture Inc. Report

#24

Blood Is Not Actually Blue

Blood Is Not Actually Blue I’m a phlebotomist. I’ve had so many patents tell me “blood is blue until it touches air.”

user789123456 , Herry Lawford Report

Otter
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, I actually heard that in high school science class! Apparently it was thought to be true, back when people thought the hemoglobin molecules dropped off all the oxygen they carried in the capillary beds. Actually, venous blood is about 70% oxygenated, and if you see blood circulaing through an ECMO machine (heart-lung bypass), the venous blood is darker red than arterial, but not a lot darker.

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#25

Students And Their Bizzare Questions

Students And Their Bizzare Questions I taught a college level health ed class, and the misconceptions were truly astonishing.

Students wondered why household bleach could not be injected into a vein to cure HIV, and questioned why alcoholics were not immune since alcohol is an antiseptic.

Voc1Vic2 , I am R. Report

#26

Urethra

Urethra Not a medical professional, but I had a coworker who did not know she had a urethra. She thought that was something only men had. I had to break it to her that she did indeed have a urethra.

TriggerHappy92 , Dennis Jarvis Report

#27

Retinal Photos

Retinal Photos I used to take retinal photos to look for diabetic retinopathy. When I would call to make appointments, more than once a patient said “Well I just saw the proctologist.” No sir, these are retinal photos, not rectal photos.

TheManInBlack36 , Rick Kimpel Report

Ms.M.
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Butt, they just misunderstood 😂

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#28

Papercuts

Papercuts I'm not a doctor, but my sister works in a hospital. No, you don't need to go to the ER for a papercut. You won't bleed out

Pugkin5405 , Dennis Jarvis Report

Jennifer
Community Member
1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But their primary can't see them for a month! 🤣

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#29

Is It A Bacterial Pneumonia Or Just A Disturbing Emotion?

Is It A Bacterial Pneumonia Or Just A Disturbing Emotion? “How are you feeling today?” “Not great, I have a cough that starts from an emotion in my throat and chest. That emotion disturbs me.”

... a bacterial pneumonia ... roommate is a neighborhood “spiritual guru”

SymBoL94 , Mike Mozart Report

#30

Healthy Eating And Alcohol

Healthy Eating And Alcohol That the only reason to eat healthy is to manage weight. Also that alcohol is not harmful unless you are a full on alcoholic.

LongDance , I am R. Report

Jeff Gabrisl
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alcohol is harmful unless you're an alcoholic, taking alcohol away from an alcoholic can kill them...

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