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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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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Saviik
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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!

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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"

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Yort
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This person is unfamiliar it’s the concept of a dad joke.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) I had a father of a baby absolutely beside himself because his newborn baby had no teeth

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Sue Grigg
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does one get old enough to be a father and never see a baby without teeth?

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) Baby came out face down ... father freaked out his child was born without a face. We had a good laugh after.

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Karin Gibson
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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

“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) “Did you have anything this morning for your fasting blood draw?”

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

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#10

“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) "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

“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) Pharmacist here. I had a patient call me and ask me why their medication wasn’t working anymore after they had stopped taking it.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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

“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) One time I had to explain to a parent that the “bump” on their child’s foot they were worried about was an ankle.

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Beth L
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) I’m a phlebotomist. I’ve had so many patents tell me “blood is blue until it touches air.”

user789123456 , Herry Lawford Report

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Otter
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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Summer Mason
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is little biology taught in nursing school its normally physiology (teaching of body functions) or atonatomy. Today I have learned something. Thank you.

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Imogene Cargeaux
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair. There's a lot of schools in the US that actually taught this. I was like.. 19 before I realized that this was not fucken true. Along with tons and tons and tons of other s**t. Lol.

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Memere
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True - I remember being taught that in 7th grade Biology class, back in 1963!

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Beth W
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, we were TAUGHT this in biology back in the olden days, deoxygenated boood was blue , also that certain parts of your tongue tasted different things, E,g. Only the front of your tongue could taste sweet things, the back could taste salt etc (I’m 54 so not that long ago)

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Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Taught the same thing in nursing school in 1964. Plus you needed to have taken Latin in high school! We probably killed more patients than we saved back then!

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Kimberly Herbert
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

unfortunately, I've had to correct fellow teachers on that one. I remember being told that in JH science class and asking my Mom. She went up to explain to the teacher that no that wasn't true. Source - Mom was a Chemist who was involved in renal research and the first kidney transplants in Houston. I think she had to get an immunologist and trauma surgeon who both had kids in the same school involved before the science department accepted the truth.

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Mazer
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just comes from people looking at their veins. However this is true if you are a horseshoe crab, but the blood stays blue no matter what.

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BookCrazyTeen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh gosh is it bad that I just realized that this is true and our blood isn’t blue? I’ve never been taught otherwise, just heard it was blue once and rolled with it.

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Laura Mende (Human)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, I thought blood was bright red. Like a firetruck. This is because I never look when they take my blood. One day I looked and asked the nurse why my blood was so dark red, almost black. I thought I had a serious illness...

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Zoe Vokes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are drawings of hearts that have blue and red colours, to show blood pumping in and out, so blood pumping around your body is blue?

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Casey Horn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and then if you REALLY get into it, colors don’t actually exist so the whole debate is a little silly anyway.

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JE Cummings
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lab tech here, and I've had many patients tell me they're "free bleeders". No, most of them are NOT on anticoagulants, they just heard it from some relative.

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Arenite
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, if there is a needle in your arm drawing the blood into the syringe, why is it still red? It’s not being exposed to the air. People are so amazingly dumb.

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Kishibe Angelo
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why does blood turn blue, why is plasma clear, where are my arms

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AzKhaleesi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I literally thought this my whole life. That is what was taught in science class. I was an adult when I learned the truth.

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Chey Monks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Came here to say this. We were definitely taught wrong. Not sure if this was just American education or more widespread.

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Terry Tobias
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad believed that! His rationale was that it showed blue through our veins. It didn't seem right to little kid me, so the next day at school I asked my teacher. She explained that the veins themselves look blue because they're under our skin, and that if you withdraw blood with a syringe you can see that it comes out red. Here my father gave blood regularly because he was type AB+ but never put 2 and 2 together when it came to him seeing the blood coming out of him and going into the bag was red. I never brought it up to him though because he would have still argued with me!

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this from biology class. 1986i-sh. Not all blood, but blood on its way back to get re-oxygenated.

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Sarah Stalder
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I was today old when I learned this. More of a purplish blue than true blue but, yeah.

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Tabitha K
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Welp, I was 39 (today) before finding out this isn't true...I'm Bored Panda.

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Janice Hazeldine
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep! As a small child I was taught blood was red after it went to the lungs and picked up the oxygen, when it dropped it off and went into the veins it had turned blue. I could never understand when someone cut themselves why we never saw the blue stuff. It was not until i got to biology class at 11 that the teacher cleared that one up. Even then some of the kids did not believe her.

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Bee she/her
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s clear with stuff floating in it, isn’t it or is this a lie?

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Veins are blue until blood has it's oxygen supply replenished by the lungs.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to joke when I would have my blood drawn that my blood was indeed blue. I stopped saying that when people would look at me funny and not laugh. I admit it was lame and clichéd anyway.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone gave me a discarded blood bag that still had about an ounce of blood and some air bubbles in it. If you left the bag lying on a table and didn’t move it, the blood slowly got darker and darker. Still red, but very dark. When you shook it, it turned back to bright red.

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Denise Taylor
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a literal argument about this in college. The poor girl kept insisting that she was pre-med so she knew more than me about blood. I told her she was gonna blush when she discovered how wrong she was- and it wouldn't turn her cheeks blue.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A phlebotomist? Phlebotomy is bloodletting - with leeches, knife or cups. If you're a phlebotomist today, you're definitely NOT a medical professional. You're rather in a position where you shouldn't blame anyone about their lack of medical knowledge.

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SoozeeQ
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A phlebotomist is somebody who takes your blood for a blood test. They are definitely trained medical professionals.

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Sabrina Bowen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is something I was taught in school. I now know it to be BS and I do NOT understand why it was taught in the first place. Like, weird propaganda bro, but okay... But I do remember testing on this "fact."

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Betsy Novack
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's amazing how much stuff we we taught in school we gets implanted in our brain. Or how sure

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Nuno Carvalho
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a story about it: During the Portuguese and Spanish discovery ages, the natives were darker skin. Nobles were very light color skin (not soldiers or working men, as they worked in the sun), so you could see their arm veins- blue. Therefore the expression blue blood for those of noble condition.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've met people like that. Seems to be a prevalent belief in the SE United States. There is no convincing them otherwise.

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phil blanque
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have a high class of British royalty patients.....or octopuses.

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J. F.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Given that it's iron that binds the oxygen in our blood it should be clear that it's red

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was taught this to Growing Up and until I watched my partner go through dialysis and I saw the blood sucked out of his body clean and sucked back into his body did I realize that it's still red just darker

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Corinne Hansen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was taught this in college in early 1990s. It was thought to be blue because of lack of oxygen, and if you cut a vein it would bleed red because it was exposed to oxygen. But now that I think about it, why would our blood be blue? Doesn’t make sense.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not that daft really - after all veins are a greeny blue.

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Hex Gurls
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

blood literally carries oxygen, every time i hear this i just wanna ShAke some sense into that person

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APL
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Isn't this kind of true though? Blood is blue until it's oxygenated. Seems like a simple misunderstanding.

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Zophra
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blood is maroon until oxygenated . It is never blue in a human. The textbooks just show it that way.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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Anne Mitchell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand why you are surprised by this, Your president seemed to think it was a good idea and he said he was very smart, in fact smarter than anyone.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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Mel Rupp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've heard of people who "didn't know their a**e from their elbow", but their a**e from their eyeball?! That's a new one on me.

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) “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

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“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories) 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

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Jeff Gabrisl
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2 years ago DotsCreated 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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