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37 Patients That Decided To Lie To Their Doctor And Paid The Hefty Price
Interview With Expert
There’s probably no worse time to lie than at the doctor's. While it’s understandable that people don’t want to feel judged, embarrassed, or lectured by their health provider, even a half-lie when it comes to our health can have some detrimental consequences.
To prove that telling nothing but the truth and only the truth to the doctors is crucial, we gathered some of the most unbelievable stories about patients who did the opposite. Scroll down to find them below, but be warned that some of them get quite intense.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with Dr. Cortney S. Warren, ABPP, board-certified clinical psychologist and author of Letting Go of Your Ex and Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception, who kindly agreed to talk with us more about lying patients.
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#1
One of my relatives had a bad reaction to amoxicillin as a child; Puffy face, trouble breathing, emergency room visit bad.
Fast forward fifteen years, she's off at college and has come down with some sort of infection.
She, however, didn't inform the campus health people, because, and I quote, "Allergies are caused by a bad diet, and since I'm a vegetarian I shouldn't have them any more."
Yeah. They prescribed her amoxicillin, and, if it weren't for her roommate being home to call an ambulance she'd have been dead.
PawCamp 7 months ago
I had an allergic reaction to penicillin as a child (rash and some difficulty breathing, but not extreme), so I always say I'm allergic. Last year (mid-30's now) a doctor tried to prescribe me penicillin because "how do I know I didn't grow out of the allergy"? Like, ma'am, are you trying to k**l me? Is this a hit? Yeah, I may have, but what if I didn't? Is that the only medication? No? Then just why?!!
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
Do people "grow out" of allergies? Is this a thing? Since when?
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Owiella Freddie 5 months ago
cousin of mine believed the same thing so felt getting the COVID vaccine was unnecessary. We attended his funeral (yes, COVID death) the fall of 2020.
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#2
Paramedic here, one common one is when older guys are having chest pain and we want to give them nitroglycerin paste/pills to help the chest pain.
One thing that doesn't mix well is nitro and Viagra...it causes a blood pressure drop that can be really dangerous.
We always ask and make it really clear that if we give the nitro and they are taking Viagra and similar meds that they could die. It usually takes 3 or 4 warnings in a row before the guy will admit it.
Early on I made the mistake of trusting a guy after just a couple mentions of how dangerous it would be.
I sprayed the nitro under his tongue and he said "does generic Viagra count?"
F**k.
At one point his BP wasn't even registering on the box cuff, it was bad. I thought I was going to get screamed at by my doctor, but he just laughed and said it was so common that he wasn't upset, and gave me a couple ideas on how to make it clear how dangerous it was to the patient.
Jill Jones 7 months ago
A "nurse" tried giving me 2 nitro pills for chest pain and got pissed when I declined her " medical treatment ". I had repeatedly advised her of my heart condition and that I am prescribed 6 Viagra a day to stay alive, so yes, I am declining the treatment offered. I really wasn't in the mood to die that day. She kept telling me I was mistaken about what medication I took. I've been taking it for 5 years daily. Some people really shouldn't work in the medical field.
#3
When patients lie and say they haven't eaten anything prior to elective surgery when they have. I caught a patient snaffling biscuits that her partner had brought in for her because we are "so cruel" to deny her food. People can die from aspirating stomach contents during a GA.
Kim Kermes 7 months ago
This is why surgical patients used to be hospitalized the night before so they were under supervision, as hospitals used to be fully staffed.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 7 months ago
Eliminating Pre Surgical over night stays doesn't have to do with staffing. It has to do with insurance companies not wanting to pay for them
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Deborah B 7 months ago
The worst is when it's a pediatric surgery and the parents sneak the kid food and then lie about it.
Strack Attack 4 months ago
Parents should be prosecuted for endangering their child.
Load More Replies... CD Mills 7 months ago
I was fussed at by my Gastro Dr. after he scoped me, saying I had to have eaten after midnight because I still had food in my stomach. I told him I had eaten dinner at 8:00 pm, which was backed up by my husband. He thought some, then scheduled a different test, and found I have Gastroparesis, which translates to 'Stomach Paralysis'. Which is why I still had food in my stomach 12 hours after eating.
CatD 6 months ago
I have a weird condition where my gastric valve will just shut, and stay like that for days. Lots of hospital time...
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whiterabbit 7 months ago
My favorite is the patient who openly admits they ate because "it was just a small banana and some coffee with creamer, nothing more than that." Yea guy, still can't do a general on you.
Bart Crunk 7 months ago
I was in pre-op, and overheard the nurse talking to the old guy in the next bed. She asked if he’d had anything to eat, “not really”, he said. “Is that a yes or a no?” “Well, I had a little to eat, just 4 had boiled eggs”. They scrapped his surgery.
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FranSinclair 7 months ago
You know when youre a preteen and adults told you you couldn't or shouldn't do something and that waz ridiculous bc they just dont want you to have fun. Then you grow up and realize they were trying to keep you alive. How the heck do you make it to adulthood without the knowledge that doctors dont adive you of things bc they dont like you and want you to starve, you fool! Just trying to keep ya alive and theyre the experts
the sixthgirl 7 months ago
I've done that NPO from midnight for an 8 a.m. procedure, and then all day they pushed it back and back until it was at 3 p.m. instead.
weatherwitch 6 months ago
You have to do that with pets so why don't people understand they too could die from this?? 🤦🏻♀️
Jan Moore 6 months ago
Right at the my dad was still station and just got married to my mom; his jeep was just -hit broadside by a truck. They evaluation him for 2 weeks and decided to surgery, the night before two of the German nursers gave him ice chips. And of course he aspirated. the army chaplain was catholic and gave him the last rites. This did not make my Lutheran Chaplain Grandfather happy. My dad survived but was in the hospital for months.
According to statistics, many patients aren't truthful with their doctors. The latest survey results show that 77% of people have lied or withheld important information from their physicians.
The survey also found that patients are most likely to be dishonest about their lifestyle, particularly their alcohol consumption (25%), eating habits (23%), exercise routine (23%), and sexual history (21%). Around 20% even admitted to lying about their symptoms.
#4
I work in an STD clinic, so the stuff I deal with isn't usually deadly or at least not immediately deadly. However, I am constantly surprised by the percentage of patients who test positive and refuse to tell their partners.
A guy came in a few years ago who for something relatively simple like gonorrhea, but seemed to have trouble walking. Long story short a nurse called an ambulance for him and sent him to the ER for a spinal tap. Turns out an ex boyfriend refused to tell him about his syphilis diagnosis after they had a rough break up like 15-20 years earlier. So not only was our guy possibly spreading syphilis unknowingly, he now had untreatable neurosyphilis. He worked with our Disease Intervention Specialists to track down as many partners as they could but I think he died from related complications like a year after his initial visit.
Deborah B 7 months ago
This is why you need to get regular STD checks if you're sexually active.
JK 7 months ago (edited)
Amen to that! And people don't realise that quite often an STD test is free/relatively cheap and it doesn't take a lot of time - it can also save you from contracting horrendous disease(s) and stop you accidentally being responsible for the *death of anyone else*
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Shortstuff 6 months ago
An African guy in New Zealand had Aids, and slept with numerous women and didn't tell them. He got 7 years jail.
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 7 months ago
I hope he gave the name of the guy who gave him syphilis. Knowingly passing on a fatal disease can be chargeable, especially if someone dies because of it.
Amanda Reinstatler 6 months ago
That Ex should face prosecution. UNBELIEVEABLE. Hes basically a slow serial killer
EJN 6 months ago
It really is not that uncommon. I was a priest in the USA and a young woman wanted to talk to someone, although she was not affiliated with our temple. I sat down with her and she told me that she had been diagnosed with AIDS, due to using h****n (injecting it). She said that she was trying to stop her dr=g use and her boyfriend was also trying to stop. Then, she told me that she had not told him that she was positive for AIDS. I told her that she really should tell him because his health and even his life was at stake if he caught the disease. She said she realized that, but was afraid that he would dump her and she had no other place to go. After spending some time listening and talking about places she could go as resources for help with the a*******n and her AIDS, she was ready to go, but I do not know if she ever told him... she was a mess and could not put her BF before her own needs... I felt so limited in what I could do to help and I wondered if she lived much longer after.
#5
The most frequent one is that they don't need a specific antibiotic or other life saving d**g because it is really just too expensive for them to afford. The fault is mostly with the d**g companies. They find out they are the only ones making a specific d**g and they raise the price just because they can. Then the insurance stops covering it and the doctors may not learn any of this until the pharmacies start calling his office to get the d**g changed to something else. But there is no telling how many people die or suffer serious health problems because of the d**g and insurance company's greed. A lot of people get less than ideal treatment simply because of these middle men trying to get their cut.
Nitka Tsar 7 months ago
And still some people think the US system is the best. It’s really mind boggling and frustrating. Even if the US really had the best doctors, best treatments and best medicine in the world (of what I am not really convinced), what good does it do you, if you can’t afford to use those resources?
Beef Brisket 7 months ago
In Canada healthcare is free (not really, it's taxpayer funded) but it's also kind of useless because it's either not available or you'll wait months to years to get treatment.
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UKDeek 7 months ago
As much as people moan about the UK health system, at least we can get the medication we want for a small charge. Currently, you have to pay just short of £10 per item on a prescription. If you claim certain benefits then you don't pay the charge. Also, if you get a lot of medications, you can get a pre-payment certificate for either 3 or 12 months, which can save people lots of money.
Boo 7 months ago
Must be in England. In Scotland, our prescriptions are free.
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Susann 7 months ago (edited)
I completely agree with all that is said with the American capitalistic health system, but honestly, I'm Swiss and I will support her till I die, but the health sytsem here is a little bïtchy too. Although it is obligatory to have health insurance and everyone will be treated, I pay CHF 650 (USD 700 per month) to have that basic insurance, plus 300 franchise a year (a choice). The doctors, nurses and treatment is amazing but the system is stupid (you do get help if you are on benefits).
weatherwitch 6 months ago
The fault is with the America system. This year I've had three ECGs, numerous blood tests, numerous medical appointments with my GP, consultant and specialist nurses, podiatrist, all the Type 3c diabetes equipment I need including the sensors etc, ambulance to A&E, I have over 25 prescriptions a month..... Free. Most people pay a fixed fee for prescriptions and if you need a lot to can buy a prepaid certificate which saves further. Last year investigations into gynae cancer, all free 🇬🇧 It breaks my heart hearing of people in America going without insulin and other desperately needed life saving medication 😔
Sally Moen 7 months ago
It's crappy that United Healthcare had to suffer a loss to their stock prices after the publicity over their CEO being shot and questions about what motivated it. *I'm being sarcastic about feeling bad for UHC and it's stock prices and stockholders. The stockholders are now suing UHC because their profits weren't sustained after the shooting. UHC's practices of denial of coverage has boosted their profits so much, but publicity after the shooting caused backlash, which affected stock prices. Nobody feels guilt about denying coverage at UHC, apparently*
Sue User 7 months ago
Several time i have nit filled script due to cost. Nothing life saving just quality of life. Sure, cant sleep for more than 4 hoursor sleep for 10 , but i am not oaying $450 for time released Ambian.
#6
Jesus. Nurse here. We dont care. We dont care about your history, your finances, your social scene, your anything. We just want to help you. Christ. We really don't care about anything except that you are a human being, and we want to help you. Please people. Tell the truth. It will save your live.
Btsquestrian 7 months ago
This. So much this. I promise you that we have heard it all before. Nothing that you can say will shock us. We just want you to live.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
You won't shock them. You probably won't even mildly surprise them.
SadFatTortilla 5 months ago
One of my friends has an o****d problem and has had to go to the ER a couple of times for unrelated things. I have IMPRESSED upon her to always tell the Dr's the truth about what shes on. They aren't the cops, they dont care. They just want to make sure they dont k**l you!
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
The moral thing is to be ruthlessly honest. The elephant in the room is that in the US, there are thousands of cases in which hospitals, doctors, and nurses have reported people to police for having used weed and other d***s. Some states actually require them to do it. And the situation gets even worse when there are children or pregnant people involved. OP may not care, but there are an awful lot of Dr Frank Burns and Nurse Houlihans out there who are just itching to report folks. Likely tens of thousands of people in US prisons or detention centers who were honest.
Krd 7 months ago
Oh yeah. Had a nurse try to commit me to the state, all because I wanted to leave AMA (After having been there over a week, and my infection having passed. Was just taking the last few rounds of antibiotics in pill form, no need to be in a hospital bed.).
Load More Replies..."As a psychologist with an expertise in self-deception, I assume all of my clients lie to me about something at some point. Some will probably lie regularly. Depending on the patient population and frequency with which they perceive a client to lie, I think that most therapists are on the lookout for lies that may be very common but important to the clinical presentation and experience of our clients," says board-certified clinical psychologist Dr. Cortney S. Warren.
"For example, as someone who specializes in eating disorders and addictive behavior, many of my patients lie to me about how much food they are eating, how often they are binge eating and purging, and when they last used drugs or alcohol. I generally assume this to be the case and am on the lookout for indications that they aren’t telling me the full truth."
#7
Not a doctor but my sisters godfather was diabetic. He went to the ER because he had a really bad cold for like 2 weeks. He went in and they asked him if he was a diabetic and for some reason he said no. Long story short they gave him something that made his sugar levels go up and he went into a coma. He died about a month later because his organs shutdown.
Edit: he was only 32 years old just in case anyone was wondering.
Becca not Becky 7 months ago
I bet it was a corticosteroid (i.e. prednisone). Helps treat respiratory problems but can really mess with your blood sugar.
Sue User 7 months ago
Yes, i was on 60 mg of prednisone for months. Every week they tested me for dugar. Two years later i get a lecture for not being checked for wellness. Um, i was very sick and monitored every day. I am sure if there could have been a heakth isdue, they would have caught it.
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Roni Stone 7 months ago
I have type 2 and had an episode of gout. Dr. gave me prednisone and a lecture about faithfully watching my blood sugar. I did cuz he's scary when he lectures.
weatherwitch 6 months ago
Why the Fk would he say no??? At 32 he'd have likely been T1 or T3c, he'd have Known the consequences of not being clear and open 😞 Perhaps he was confused from the cold, poor guy. So young 😔
Lisette Verkade 4 months ago
Why not take more insulin and check his glucose level more frequently.
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I'm not a doctor but a patient with a couple of really weird disorders that cause doctors who arent familiar with them to think I am taking. I have been denied very needed basic treatment like a bag of saline because my dehydration is exasperating my symptoms because they think I'm somehow gaming the system. These assumptions that patients are lying do a lot of harm, too.
PawCamp 7 months ago
My grandpa got leukemia when I was young and it made me have a drive to donate blood as often as I could. By the time I was in my late 20's I had scars from where I've given blood so much. Every single time I go to the doctor they ask about intravenous d***s at least 3 times.
Justbecause 7 months ago
Im a phlebotomist and was looking at a patients arm when they apologised for there track marks, explaining the track marks were old and they had been clean for decades. I told them I assumed they were blood donors or a cancer patient. Even if they weren't I was glad they were seeking health care and looking after themselves. Its none of my business to make comments about scars. The poor patient was surprised and had unfortunately faced a lot of criticism for her old scar.
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BookFanatic 7 months ago
Yep. My bestie has chronic spinal pain. Has had it as long as I've known her. Every time she ends up in the ER she's belittled and refused because "she's a d**g seeker." So she's given up asking and will just curl up into a fetal position until her husband finds her and drags her in.
Amanda Reinstatler 6 months ago
Oh yah. Let me fake something so I can get my hands on a saline drip!!!!
Motivated sloth 7 months ago
Hospitals always thought my mom had taken too much medication because of her symptoms. Until her d**g tests showed she had not taken her benzo and very little pain medication due to the fact that her BP was too low. She used to have to get outpatient fluids once a week. She sadly died last year at only 66.
Brian Droste 7 months ago
I will be 66 in about 5 months. That is way to young to die to me.
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Robin Roper 7 months ago
Well, a lot of patients do lie and game the system so they are only reacting from their reality.
Royal Stray 7 months ago
Yeah, but if you assume that every patient is trying to game the system you'll end up k*lling people. Either you become good enough to figure out which is which, or you need to treat every patient without bias.
Load More Replies... Forrest Grump 7 months ago
They cause doctors who aren't familiar with them to think you are taking what?
patricia patricia 7 months ago
The problem is a lot of patients do lie, not only to get d***s, but also to get attention, or because they are too stupid.
#9
I was a L&D RN. My coworker had a patient show up in labor, she was 6 cm. I was helping get the room set up for delivery, and the patient's mom started to ask her, "So does that mean the baby -" and the patient violently shushes her.
Her doctor wasn't on that night and that office didn't have electronic records we could access at night, so we're just going about prepping for this delivery, when her doctor happened to come into the nurse's station because she had to come in for a medical patient on another unit. She just stopped by to chat, but noticed that patient on the board and asks, "Oh, so her baby actually flipped?"
Turns out the kid had been breech all pregnancy, and was still breech. She didn't want a c-section so she figured she'd just try to come in so far dilated that she could just deliver. That would have been okay if she was frank breech (butt down) since it wasn't her first baby, but she was footling breech (crossed legs with feet down). That's dangerous as hell, because it's super easy for the umbilical cord to come out first instead of the baby, which cuts off baby's oxygen (my fourth was head down and this ended up happening to me anyway - emergency c-section in less than 10 minutes). Her baby was so lucky her water hadn't broken, especially if she'd been at home still.
She still kept refusing the c-section, and my coworker finally snapped. We had another patient who was in for a stillbirth, and had a lot of family down in our waiting room trying to process what had happened. My coworker asks if her patient had noticed all the crying people at the end of the hall, as they were mourning their dead baby, and would she rather have a c-section, or deal with the grief that family had?
She finally got the stupid c-section. My coworker caught a lot of flak for checking that patient and not noticing she wasn't feeling a head.
Robin Roper 7 months ago
My sister was in L&D to deliver her 7 month old fetus that had died; it was a full 12+ hour labor. We sat around listening to people complain about how long it was taking for their family member to deliver. We finally said "At least you're waiting for a live baby; we know we're waiting for one that isn't alive." This shut them up.
Tamra 7 months ago
I'm so very sorry for your sister. I went through something similar. You never really get over something like that. You just make room for it, knowing that's it's changed you forever, and try to keep going. My very best wishes for your sister.
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Mabelbabel 7 months ago
There are people who seem to think that having a section means you haven't really given birth, or you're not a real mother, or you've failed somehow. There was a baby inside you, and its now outside of you-that means you've given birth. A section is far safer for the baby, and a section under controlled conditions (elective, or non-emergent) is always going to safer than an emergency one. Doctors don't get paid more for doing sections (in the UK at least)-if they advise you should have one, it's purely for your benefit, not theirs.
ILoveMySon 7 months ago
Well, I have a son to prove I am a real mother and my scar is awesome.🙂
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 7 months ago
When my mom was preggers with me, the doctor reached in to check and told her I was horribly deformed and probably wouldn't live very long after birth. Doc didn't realize I was breech and he was feeling my butt instead of my head. This was 1979. Spoiler alert, I'm still alive.
Kalikima 7 months ago
Your poor mom! That had to be so traumatic. What stupid àss doctor did she have, not to recognize a butt.
Load More Replies... Panda Bear 7 months ago
Breech babies are also dangerous for the mother. So she was putting her life at risk as well as the baby
weatherwitch 6 months ago
It risks mommas life too! I was breech, my poor mum had to give birth as the hospital left it too late for surgery. I already had one foot out and they didn't believe her. Didn't even check her for another half hour. They nearly lost us both and my poor mum was so badly damaged internally she suffered for the rest of her life. She'd been in the hospital for most of the pregnancy too from the all day vomiting and hepatitis too, then a 36 hour labour. Early 1970s. I'd like to think things have improved but I know it's not much still 😔
Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
I was a Frank breech, delivered vaginally. Scary know what could happen...
CatD 6 months ago
I take it you don't live in a Southern state where abortion is illegal.
Load More Replies... Dr. Warren says that the main reason patients color the truth is fear. Fear of judgment, embarrassment, and consequences. They could also choose to lie in order to look healthier than they are, get approval, and maintain control. Additionally, they might be in denial or feel like they can trust the medical professional.
Even though it's understandable why patients mislead doctors, we have to understand that being dishonest with a physician can have dire consequences. When people are coloring the truth or withholding information, doctors can't accurately diagnose, treat, and advise them.
These stories on the list are just some examples of how people voluntarily put their lives on the line because they chose to lie. Health is no joking matter, so we urge you to be honest with your medical professionals, as some lies can be really dangerous.
#10
I wasn’t the lead on this case, but I was the assist. When I was in dental school this patient came in and was really hyped up. My buddy asked him if he has been on any d***s and the guy just said he had a lot of caffeine. OK-we move forward. From what my friend told me his blood pressure was high, but not too high for an elective procedure.
Part of the local numbing we give patients has epinephrine in it and sometimes this gets into the bloodstream with certain types of nerve blocks, not uncommon. However, if you’ve snorted a couple lines of c*****e and then get epi in your bloodstream that’s no bueno. Ended up calling the ambulance, his BP was so high he was at risk for a stroke. So yeah, even stuff the dentist does can k**l you if you lie.
CF 7 months ago
In vet med, at least, recent evidence (ok, lectures from multiple AVDC/vet dentistry specialists at a conference) advises against using lido or bupiv with epi. The local vasoconstriction does more harm than the benefit of more rapid onset/longer action is worth. There are better ways to extend duration of analgesia. Reducing bleeding with local epi turns out to not be a good thing, and better tissue handling plus other hemostasis techniques are superior to epi.
Sue User 7 months ago
Ideas ? Red head and analgesia wears off pretty fast for me.
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Deep One 6 months ago
My problem is the reverse. Dentists don't believe how fast I burn through Novocain. Everyone in my family does and it doesn't work at all on one of my sisters. I had to endure the extraction of a broken wisdom tooth that had rotted to the jaw. The whole side of my face was hot, red, and swollen and I was in extreme pain. So the dentist gives me the shot then leaves. He checked on me a couple of time and I kept telling him he had to get to work but he ended up wait until it wore off completely. I endured the extraction of a very large, impacted, infected wisdom tooth with no anesthesia. Hed refused to give me another shot said I'd have to come back again later. I only had a voucher for the one visit. (I was between jobs.) He had to crush the tooth with what looked like regular vice grips then pull all the pieces out one by one. When I got out of the chair there was a lake of sweat in the seat. He looks at it and say: "Oh. I guess you were hurting." I almost decked him.
#11
Social Worker at a children's hospital. We have kids coming in through our resuscitation room that have been seizing and are unconscious with no prior history. I'm constantly trying to get parents to tell me if there is a possibility that their toddler might have ingested something, "Does your kid have access to cannabis? Could they have eaten some?". Parents never want to admit it to doctors and so I'm always on a fact finding mission. As a social worker parents are either glad I'm there or they think I'm going to take their kids away...
PSA - cannabis can effect children in horrible, shut down your ability to breathe, kind of ways!
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
Almost killing your child because you don't want to admit to the presence of any type of d**g or narcotic is silly.
Tamra 7 months ago
From the National Institute of Health: "Pediatric exposures to cannabis edibles have been associated with serious adverse effects, such as respiratory depression". The American Academy of Pediatrics also lists respiratory depression and seizure as two effects of cannabis ingestion in children.
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How about the opposite? I’ve moved a lot and when I visit a new doctor they often try to answer my health history for me.
‘Drinking? Smoking? Exercise and diet? Meh. You’re thin. So moderate, no, regular, healthy.’
None of that is accurate, but when I correct them I get ‘Oh. So is this a cry for help?’
What? No. I just want you to have the facts.
Fluffy Cat Sleeps 7 months ago
"Yes, it's a cry for help. You think I'd be at the doctor if I didn't need help?"
#13
Middle-aged housewife comes to ED with episodes of headache and collapse/vacant episodes. Usually early hours of the morning. Has the full work-up with CT scans and lumbar punctures several times - always negative. It took several attendances before anyone asked her about recreational d***s (she was an unassuming suburban mum). Turns out she was into c*****e in a big way leading to reversible cerebral vasoconstriction. No more c*****e = no more headaches (and no lasting consequences luckily).
Nina 7 months ago
She must've been a special kind of stupid to not linking the cöcaine to her episodes
PawCamp 7 months ago
Right? If I started having these issues and was on cöcaine my first thought wouldn't be, I need to get to hospital to see what this is, it would be, I need to stop doing cöcaine.
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Btsquestrian 7 months ago
You always, always ask every single patient about their use of illegal or recreational d***s. Every single time (I am a healthcare worker). Even if the patient does not tell you the truth, at least it is in their chart that you asked them. I always ask about alcohol use, nutritional supplements, workout supplements, tobacco products, and caffeine use. I've had patients who were admitted for caffeine intoxication / o******e.
CatD 6 months ago
True, a lot of people forget to ask about supplements, and you have to ask about things like grapefruit juice that can change drúg absorption.
Load More Replies... Magenta Blu 7 months ago
Recreational substance usage should have been asked at that beginning. This is completely health providers' fault
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
I had a colonoscopy and they asked about recreational d**g use.
Load More Replies... UKDeek 7 months ago
One of the issues with recreational pharmaceuticals is the perception that they are "harmless" due to information peddled by those that shun medical research, or they have that person they know who has no obvious negative reactions. Another issue with recreational pharmaceuticals is that you don't actually know what's in them - they are mixed with all sorts of filler material, and these substances can cause significant harm as well, such as the batch of h****n that was contaminated with anthrax in 2009/2010 in Scotland.
HighNMightyBigshotBossOfWorld 4 months ago
Americans whether Black or white, abūse drúgs at roughly the same level, ( whites being a tad bit higher). Thus white people are the majority of drûg users and dealers. But being America the demographic that gives us the greatest number of serial k:llers tell us tha Black people are the problem
#14
I was admitting patients in the psychiatric ward. Busy night, and I was way behind. An older man with s****o-affective disorder is admitted with a caretaker. A nurse asks them a few questions, including if the patient has taken any medicine and/or narcotics. The caretaker says no.
I see the patient 4 hours later. He seems delirious, which often is caused by a somatic problem (including medicine - you know where this is going). He can’t maintain eye contact and can only sit in his chair and talk nonsense. He drools and yells every word, but somehow seems very tired.
I ask the caretaker if the patient has taken any medication, and she says the patient broke into a medicine room at the the institution he lives and just started eating random pills.
Apparently this is somewhere around 80 pills not being more precise because she did not bother gathering the empty pillboxes. The only information I could get was, that he definitely ate over 40 lithium pills (which is just great if you really hate your kidneys).
Now, after calling the emergency department to quickly prep and an ambulance with an anaesthesiologist for transport, I talked with the caretaker (through my teeth - just slightly - angry). Apparently the nurse “wouldn’t understand” because it wasn’t his own medicine and she didn’t want to “make a fuss”. I screamed into my pillow that night in pure frustration.
I later found out he lived after intensive care and almost loosing his kidney function.
patricia patricia 7 months ago
And why is "schizö" censored? It's not a swear word, but a medical term. WHAT KIND OF lMBEClLE censors a medical term, FOR FÜCK'S SAKE????
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Negatoris Wrecks 7 months ago
Now we are censoring mental health conditions. Why even have words...
Royal Stray 7 months ago
This is giving me adoptive parents gave their own medical history vibes
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
The idiocy of this always makes me think of the girl that got pregnant because she used her birth control pill as a vaginal suppository.
Load More Replies... Btsquestrian 7 months ago
Why didn't the psychiatrist order the chem 7, tox screen, and UA labs that are standard for all psych patients who present to the ER (at least where I work)?
CF 7 months ago
My guess is that the results were still pending. They mention they were way behind that night- guzzling a potpourri of pills is really something that should be mentioned as soon as you walk in the door of the ER, and then every single time you encounter a medical professional until it is taken seriously.
Load More Replies... Strack Attack 4 months ago
Bored Panda, take your ridiculous F*****K I N G censorship and F*****K I N G shoving it in your F*****K I N G A S S H O L E S, you bunch of absolute C U N T I N G F*****K S. F*****K you in the C U N T!
#15
One of my patients was smoking in the bathroom while on oxygen. Could've ended very badly for him and others in the hospital.
Billo66 7 months ago
I worked for a Medical Supply company setting people up on oxygen every day. Repeatedly warned them. Even if you take off your tubing, the oxygen has saturated your clothes and surroundings. Had to pick up equipment after a few house fires, they didn't make it. You could follow the burn line from their chair to the equipment where it followed the tubing. Sad.
KieLeaHar 6 months ago
I’m sorry, but it’s more stupid than sad. They’ve been warned, they know what’s gonna happen but they still do it.
Load More Replies... Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
Started to smell smoke at the emergency room desk, I went to investigate. My patient had a cigarette dangling from her fingers, lit. Fully denied smoking. Literally holding it. A few inches from her oxygen tubing. I do no understand people at all.
Huddo's sister 7 months ago
One of my brothers was on oxygen for most of his last 6 years of life. Countless times we walked into the hospital with him for appointments and there would be people on oxygen smoking, or standing just outside the non smoking area smoking, not caring people on oxygen were going past, including nurses.
LinkTheHylian 7 months ago
Someone didn't attend their Fire Safety Day in school. Which is a shame because they didn't get a sticker or a pen.
Aimee Stilts 7 months ago
In the last days that my mother was alive, we decided to give her some oxygen one night because it seemed she was having trouble (she was very close to death so her breathing was halting). Well, it was AFTER I turned on the oxygen machine that I realized there were burning candles about three feet from mom's head. Obviously I got it shut off in time but, my stars. It's been 11 years and I still wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what COULD have happened.
Btsquestrian 7 months ago
Why is their ethnicity pertinent to your story?
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“Everybody lies” - Gregory House.
LinkTheHylian 7 months ago
Those people require an MRI, a PET scan, and an LP. It's either an infection or an autoimmune disease, but it's never lupus.
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Not a doctor BUT I was in the ER once separated from another patient by only a thin curtain. It was impossible to not overhear what was going on. She was an elderly woman who had taken an ambulance in due to feeling faint and said she had no other symptoms.
Hours are going by, she gets up to use the washroom a couple times and makes small talk with her brother, sounding pretty woozy the whole time. Doctors keep checking on her, they draw blood and check her blood pressure. I think it was like remarkably low but they aren't sure why.
Cut to several hours later when a nurse notices there's some blood on the woman's bed. After some back-and-forth she finally admits that she had been bleeding profusely from her r****m for WEEKS.
The doctors gave her a hard time but got her out of there REAL fast.
Norm Gilmore 7 months ago
I'm going to try the old joke- R****m. D**n near killed him. (Should be three words out of five censored...)
#18
My cousin is an ER doctor and sees this quite a bit. Mostly people lying about having done d***s and underage drinking because they don't want to get in trouble, not understanding that the doctors are less concerned with that than they are making sure the person lives.
One particular incident the person had drunk quite a bit and done several kinds of d***s but wouldn't admit to it, and came in alone so there was no one to verify what had happened. Because this person wouldn't admit to the d***s they'd taken (and thus wouldn't tell the docs what they had taken) they had no way to help and could do little except watch as this person slowly died from the d**g and alcohol interactions because without knowing what was already in their system giving them anything could have only sped up the process. The person was a minor and passed away from massive organ failure because they were more worried about getting in trouble than saving their own life until it was far too late to admit the truth.
SCP 4666 7 months ago
Tell your doctor/lawyer everything, tell the police nothing
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Ace 7 months ago
This is clearly a "friend of a friend" story (i.e. it's not true). Medical staff have lots of treatment options if they suspect d**g and alcohol interactions, they wouldn't just sit back and let them die because they didn't fess up to what they'd taken.
Motivated sloth 7 months ago
OK don’t you have d**g tests for this? I mean a Dr can see someone’s symptoms and suspect d**g use and test them instead of watching them die, right? I know sometimes it can happen quickly but it don’t sound like that’s the case in these stories (except the old lady on the benzos). But the woman that was a huge coke head? They should be able to get some idea just by physical exam.
Btsquestrian 7 months ago
Or just run a tox screen, which is a standard blood test for all ER patients
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Btsquestrian 7 months ago
They couldn't have run a tox screen or a UA? They couldn't have administered Narcan, a normal saline IV, or a banana bag? Unless they are in very primitive field conditions (somewhere without electricity, running water, or a medical lab), this story makes no sense whatsoever (I am a healthcare worker and was a medic in the military a very long time ago).
Mabelbabel 7 months ago
Depends when and where you are-I was a very junior doctor in a rural hospital in Ireland about 30 years ago. A grandmother had been looking after her grandchild overnight and brought him in-he had the oddest symptoms. We only had routine clinical chemistry and haematology blood tests available at night-granny was very, very evasive about events. I got my consultant in quickly (our version of USA attending doctor). He got nowhere with her, child was getting sicker, he phoned the main regional paediatric hospital for advice (4 hours drive away). It was only when he was brutal with her "the child is dying, if he's taken anything then you'll be responsible and will be charged with neglect or child cruelty" that she said he'd taken some of her cardiac medication. He was transferred to the regional PICU but didn't make it. I don't know if the time she wasted lying to us would have made a difference.
Load More Replies... JenniB 7 months ago
A group of us were away on vacay, March Break, senior year. I come back from the beach with a few other friends and one friend that had stayed behind was acting strange. Panicked, delusional, scared, you name just very much NOT normal. I call an ambulance and begin questioning all our friends that stayed behind what she had taken/ingested. They were so ashamed or scared to admit what it was that I didn't find out until ODing friend and I were already at the hospital and I had to call them begging and crying to just tell me so we could save her life.
carol bland 6 months ago
When people are determined to apply for a Darwin Award - I would let them.
#19
Had a grandma who was basically comatose status in ER, whenever we could rouse her or get a word she stated she wasn't on any d***s, we YOLO gave her Narcan (narcotic od d**g) with no effect, 20-30 minutes later we do flumazenil / romazicon (benzo od d**g) and she wakes up. A lot of ppl weren't suspecting her of d**g OD given her age & statement so they were thinking 900 different routes.
Enuya 7 months ago (edited)
I think it means that they didn't know what to do, so decided to take a risky route not knowing if it will work. Something like: "She's dying anyway so let's try these meds since we have no better options". Admittedly, I'm not sure
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Becca not Becky 7 months ago
A lot of older adults use benzos for sleep, even though it's no longer advised for older people. This one doesn't surprise me at all.
Billo66 7 months ago
I've taken xanax about 10 years now. Cancer and some other issues. I was taking 8mg a day for about 7 of those years and now down to 6. At any rate it would take a ridiculous amount to put me in a comatose state, or alcohol if I drank. But, I've buit quite a tolerance, full blown dependance and withdrawals if I don't take it.
Billo66 7 months ago
I obviously don't know her tolerance or any of her situation but yeah, xannys will fade you right out if you're not used to them.
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Had a relative that went in for surgery on his stomach. There were holes in the lining that were caused by painkiller abuse. No one at the time knew what was causing this except for my relative. Doc asks him if he was on any medications, relative says no, they put him under, he didn't wake up. His toxicology showed oxycodone and hydrocodone. Don't lie to doctors. They don't tell anyone about your medical problems anyways.
KC Lancaster 7 months ago
Having been in for surgeries, I always provide a full list of my medications - both prescribed and over the counter (like vitamins & Tylenol). They are always grateful! Since the hospital I've used is in the Kaiser network (my regular Doctors & insurance) I asked if it was possible for them to access my pharmaceutical records. They said they could, but it took a great deal more time, and they had to go through my GP for permission.
Shortstuff 6 months ago
I am 77. I don't take any meds whatsoever. Many times Dr's question me over and over, as it seems most people are on something.
#21
My teenage brother had the opposite to most of these stories.
He came home after being out drinking with friends, raided the fridge and went to bed. A little later he comes out panicking to my parents that he’s having trouble breathing, is feeling dizzy, and has a bunch of other alarming symptoms.
They rush him to the ER and from what they tell me the staff were yelling at him to tell them what d***s he’d taken, even though he was adamant he hadn’t taken anything. They wouldn’t believe him, my parents were begging him to tell them, but he insisted he hadn’t.
I’m not sure of the rest of the details but it turns out he had developed a nut allergy he wasn’t aware of, and had eaten something that was causing him to go into anaphylaxis.
DaisyGirl 7 months ago
Similar thing happened to me being screamed at by nurses what d***s have you taken. I and flatmate who took me to ER kept saying none. What i had taken was clarityn (tablet for allergy) for severe reaction to nettles and the active ingredient in the clarityn had caused anaphylaxis. Wear a SoS bracelet that states allergy to Loratadine and Desloratadine
CF 7 months ago
Oh wow, that is wild that you have an allergy to an antihistamine!!
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Reception TLC 5 months ago
How about doctors causing you harm (accidentally or intentionally), covering it up by lying/altering your medical records, not realizing your a doctor too (veterinarian). Under investigation currently.
#22
Here's a f****d up family story. We had an 81 year old frail grandmother brought in by family for "failure to thrive" in the setting of incurable stage IV colon cancer being cared for at home. Patient was admitted awake and conversational, poor historian, complaining of pain. She proceeded to gradually get sicker, shut down like she was dying - becoming gradually nonverbal, unresponsive, and dropping vitals. She was DNR so we did supportive care and looked for causes such as UTI, SBP, sepsis, liver failure, etc. The family was around the whole time, acting very involved and caring. 36 hours later she gradually started coming out if it, before recovering back to baseline.
It turns out she was given her home dose of morphine in the ER prior to admission, which was 100 mg extended release morphine (twice daily) as she had been complaining of pain. Her family had failed to mention that they been diverting all her pain medications. That nearly got their grandmother k****d, as we had no reason to suspect an opiate as the cause. That reminded me to always consider opiates. We discharged her to a long term care facility.
David Ingle 7 months ago
Diverting of meds is when they are not used as prescribed and typically used by someone else. Grandma therefore had less tolerance for the opiates so she overdosed on them. What a family.
Brian Droste 7 months ago
I had to read your comment and others plus read the last paragraph a few times to make sense what was happening. Otherwise I would not have understood what was going on.
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May Barnett 6 months ago
can't explain their past medical history well, or more likely here, what was going on the past few days about symptoms and anything else leading up to the hospitalization
Load More Replies... Deep One 6 months ago
The same thing happened to my grandmother. I don't know what kind of cancer she had. (I was not close to that side of the family.) But I found out her own children (or maybe one child and that child's significant other) had been squeezing the morphine out of her dermal patches and taking it somehow. They would then stick the empty patch on her. She died while in their "care".
david kichi 6 months ago
So is there a list of words that is automatically censored by the bots? I know k@ll, dr@gs get censored so itd help to know what words not to use which is really weird, like why censor words other than curse words???
#23
I work in outpatient surgical center, lying to anesthesia can be really dangerous. I've had a person lie about not taking d***s and then react badly when given the anesthesia meds because they interacted (fortunately for that patient not nearly dying but I will forever have it ingrained in my head the anaesthetist leaning over their head screaming "what d***s did you take?!". Anotehr that I fortunately havent seen serious event but definitely has happened to our providers and I've seen more mild versions, people eating/drinking before the anesthesia and then denying. Lucky for my patients they just have puked after waking up so we know they had it but made it ok. The danger is you can puke during sedation and then get it in your lungs (called aspirating) and die from that. Could be really bad but fortunately I personally havent seen the worst yet, but I've heard plenty of stories of it.
CF 7 months ago
Imagine being in vet med where the patients can't talk (though they can't lie either). But a pre-anesthetic injection of morphine never lies (causes nausea, often vomiting, and way too often brings up an undigested meal in a dog that was supposedly not fed in past 8+ hours). I don't use morphine in every pre-op, but definitely if I don't believe the owner or if its an emergency surgery where morphine is not contraindicated (down dachshund, big dog-little dog, etc).
Helen Rohrlach 7 months ago
I took one of my sheepdogs into the vet to be sterilized so didn't feed him but let him run around before I left home so he'd p**s and poop. He dissapeared for about 1/2 hour and came back stinking. Told the vet, she gave him something, didn't vomit, did the operation, didn't vomit, I took him home 3 hours later and he vomited roadkill kangaroo all over the lawn. Thanks mate, at least it wasn't in the car.
Load More Replies... Shortstuff 6 months ago
I've had many surgeries. Definitely dont eat prior to surgery but vomit every single time when I wake up.
#24
When we do our pre op check before a surgery, our office prints out a list of meds we have in file that the patient is taking. We tell them please look at this list and sign it to indicate this is the current and up to date list of the meds you take. Patient signed and we plan for surgery next week. Get a call from anesthesia the day before her scheduled surgery. Apparently she "forgot" to mention she had started taking a weight loss d**g that if you're taking it, can cause severe hypotension when you go under anesthesia and in extreme cases you can die from that. You have to have stopped the d**g for at least 4 days to be safe to have anesthesia. So her surgery got pushed back a week. Not canceled just pushed back enough to be safe. She call our office fuming and demanding a refund for the time she took off work. Seriously lady? Sorry but we have a signed document saying you told us all your meds. Exactly who should be mad at who? You put us at liability and now the surgeon/our office doesn't get paid for that day when we could have subbed in someone else in that slot.
CF 7 months ago
I called mom last night for a mother's day chat (I'll be working Sunday) and she told me the story about her last colonoscopy. They told her no food or drink and no NSAIDs. She is massive coffee a d d ict so of course had a headache that morning from caffeine withdrawal. So she took an aspirin or two. 😁 They almost canceled her procedure. For those of you that don't know, aspirin is NOT an NSAID (non steroidal anti-inflammatory), but unfortunately a lot of Dr's offices lump those together. Aspirin will inhibit platelet aggregation-> poor blood clotting="blood thinning"-> bleeding if they had to remove a polyp or whatnot. The biggest problem with that whole incident was they gasped and made a huge deal out of it instead of ha dling it calmly and quietly, which humiliated my mom after an already horrible night on the toilet (pre colonoscopy clean-out) and rough, hungry, caffeine-free morning. She now refuses to ever have another colonoscopy.
Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago
Protocol over here (Netherlands) is (black) coffee allowed until two hours before the procedure. I wouldn't recommend it though - next time I won't drink anything for the five hours leading up to the the colonoscopy and go thirsty for a while. Surprisingly, the procedure rehydrates you a bit :)
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ILoveMySon 7 months ago
I keep a list of my medications in my phone for various doctors. More importantly, for emergency situations in the event I am not conscience and ER needs the information. My family and friends are aware. Tox exams are usually run but you never know.
Dragon mama 7 months ago
Not for nothing but that is a terrible process almost guaranteed to cause problems. Sure, office isn't liable since patient signed the form but dang, I'd rather have a living patient. There is more than enough research out there on human behavior to make it clear to this office that meds need to be reviewed with patients verbally and repeatedly.
#25
We had a patient that took her home heart meds religiously even in the hospital when we were also administering then to her. She was Educated to not take any of her home meds while she is hospitalized since were giving her the hospital meds. She would sneak and take them. Her blood pressure bottom out and would have to bolus her. Security was called and had to remove the meds from her and lock them up. We had another patient requested a sleep med. The nurse gave it to her. Later, found patient barely arousable and blood pressure dropped which did not make sense she was given a low dose of sleep aid. Patient had her purse open on the bed and found a prescription of Ambien. The patient took our sleep aid plus double dose of her home med Ambien. We always instruct patients on admission not to take their home meds while in the hospital. We are not allowed to go through their belongings due to privacy. Edit: grammar.
Robin Roper 7 months ago
One reason people in the US do this is they don't want to pay the hospital cost of the d***s they already have at home. The US healthy system is really messed up.
patricia patricia 7 months ago
Some people do the same here in Spain, where we have "free" universal health care. Not only elderly people with cognitive issues. I've seen younger people take their own medicines without telling the nurses, because "I take it every day and it's perfectly safe". Or herbal stuff "because it's just herbs". Some people are just plain stupid.
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Jihana 7 months ago
Had a big surgery last year, and had to stay in the hospital for a week. I was instructed to take my medication with me for the whole hospital stay. But you also have to sign a list of your daily d***s. I think it's fascinating that people don't tell the doctors what they take. I have no idea what stuff they gonna give me and how everything interacts. Once I even asked the nurse if I am allowed to take Zomig (for migraine) and if not if they could give me something else.
Tom De Paul 7 months ago
Ignorance and stupidity aren't contagious but they often run in families.
Neb 6 months ago
It is not contagious, the same as having kids is not contagious...
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JusticePanda 6 months ago
I hate it because some doctors discontinued home meds or forgot to add them.
#26
I’m not a doctor but my friend went to the dentist for an emergency root canal, The dentist Asked him if he had done Any kind of d***s in the last week because anesthesia they needed to put him under would k**l him if he had done any form of c*****e. He lied, the the dentist Was about to put him under when My friend finally came clean. My Dumb a*s friend Nearly k***ed himself Because he lied to a dentist.
Grumpy Old Broad 5 months ago
Who needs to be put under for a root canal? My doctor used local for both of mine, they were no big deal.
#27
I'm an NP in a medical ICU. Probably my most consistent is people lying about their drinking habits. I could give less than a s**t if you pound a bottle a night, I just need to know so I can be ready for you to start detoxing on day 3 and have the right meds in cue so you don't have a seizure, aspirate, etc. I always make this abundantly clear, and I am not the morality police. Yet, every year we have a few come in with very fixable problems, lie about heavy drinking habits, and ultimately die in the hospital from complications secondary to their withdrawal.
wowbagger 7 months ago
That's how my grandmother died. She and my grandfather were both in complete denial about the fact that she practically lived on alcohol. (They also failed to mention that she was a two pack a day smoker). She went in for an elective surgery and never went home.
Shelley Keenan 7 months ago
Heard a story of a 16-year old kid who was admitted an appendectomy. Eventually started decompensating quickly and a fast thinking doc recognized it as alcohol withdrawal. Turns out the kid was getting wasted EVERY NIGHT since like age 13. Almost died. But he didn't, and was admitted directly from the hospital to detox. Crazy - poor kid.
CatD 6 months ago
Doctors used to actually prescribe a beer for alcoholics, saw it done once in '92.
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NP=Nurse Practitioner ICU=Intensive Care Unit
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Nurse on an ortho unit. This particular patient was a fresh post-op joint replacement. They woke up in the middle of the night going bats**t crazy. He was insisting he had to leave. He was seeing things. We were on the 6th floor and he tried going down the back stairwell. There was no reasoning with this dude. He was straight up determined to leave.
Turns out he was detoxing from alcohol. He had lied to both his doctor and the nurse that admitted him about his alcohol use. When you're a heavy user like he was, quitting cold turkey can k**l you. We were lucky he didn't start seizing before we got meds on board to help him detox safely. I was very thankful I caught him trying to get down the stairs before he went a*s over tea kettle and c*****d his head open.
A few months later, he was back on the surgery schedule to fix an injury on his operative leg from falling. Luckily, his doc knew to plan for detox this time around. But the patient also planned ahead... after he was discharged, we found a bottle of booze in the bedside table. -_-.
#29
I have a story about someone’s lie that did end up k*****g them. About ten years ago my best friend’s ex, David, bought some e*****y for himself and his big brother, John. The e*****y they bought was laced with something bad but they didn’t know that yet. They each took one and John started to OD. David, wanting to save his big brother, called an ambulance. It showed up and David explained what happened. They loaded up John and they asked David if he also took the e*****y. Because he didn’t want to get in trouble he lied and said only his brother took the bad e*****y. Ambulance left with John while David started to OD minutes later. John was taken to the hospital and survived, David died alone at their house. Such a dumb accident but so sad nonetheless. I think John still struggles with the guilt of the death of his baby brother to this day.
Motivated sloth 7 months ago
This is extremely sad but the e*****y wasn’t laced with something or just bad e*****y. It is made of several d***s and you really had no way of knowing what you were getting. I think kids do molly now which is mostly just mdma I think (so maybe that’s what the brothers thought but it actually had h****n or fentanyl) But in the late 90s to early 2000s, that stuff could contain just about anything.
Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago
If it was made with several ԁrugs and not just mdma and fillers, it was laced with something.
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My, well, step-uncle (brother of my step father, never met him though) lied about being in pain/sick so he could stay home from school and miss a test. Kept upping the ante so they'd believe him. Apparently his parents were pretty strict and he was terrified to admit he'd lied.
Long story short they took him to the hospital, he was diagnosed with appendicitis, and they straight up cut him open.
The test was looking pretty good at that point.
roddy 7 months ago
This happened to me, too. I had a mild stomachache and wanted to stay home. But my mum was concerned and despite me saying it was nothing major, called the doctor. In those days they actually did house visits. He gave me a few quick pokes and said to take me to the hospital immediately. It was appendicitis and they operated the same night.
Cee Cee 7 months ago
I grew up in the bush in Uganda. Doctor father was away, mother a nurse recognised I had appendicitis. It was a Sunday and she had to borrow money from Bim Ji for petrol. A three hundred mile trip over unmade roads to the nearest hospital was not fun for a 5 year old in serious pain.
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Motivated sloth 7 months ago
lol he really got more than he bargained for! I bet he never missed a day after that.
Jihana 7 months ago
When I had appendicitis as a child my only symptom was throwing up in the morning. My brother nearly died because of it, so my mother skipped the pediatrician and went straight to the surgeon with me. But then she wanted to argue if I could have the surgery next week, since then I would miss a test. I did better than anticipated on the other tests in that subject, and she knew I would most likely tank my grade if I took another test.
Sally-Ann 4 months ago
I was about 13 at time. Told my mum I felt 'off' just get a day off school. To my horror she took me to the doctor. I expected a lecture for wasting time and lying, what I got was 3 weeks at home because I had pneumonia. The only reasons I didn't end up in hospital was that it was caught before it turned deadly and my mum was on holiday from her job so could be with me 24/7. I was pissed, we had a field trip that week that I was really looking forward to. Took me nearly 30 years before I finally got to visit that museum :-)
#31
Not a doctor but a Army Combat Medic.
We were in a small firefight and a ANA soldier was hit in the leg, it was very easy to see the wound because of the desert camo doesn't blend in well with blood. The part that almost k***d him is he never told us that he was hit in the chest, we asked him and he said only in the leg. I knew he was lying because he was holding his chest too, but I didnt want to make a bad situation even worse so I didnt say anything but when we asked him again and he said no I didnt want him to die of course so i pulled his plate carrier off and we did more Medical on him. He definitely would have died from that wound, it punctured his lung and he was having trouble breathing. We called for a MEDEVAC and he lived but with only 1 lung. Never knew it he join the ANA again but I assumed he stayed out.
ILoveMySon 7 months ago
May have been depressed and just wanted his life to end?🤷♀️
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Not a doctor, but my Dad's a paramedic - he's told me plenty of times about when patients have told him they've taken XYZ d***s when they've been doing illegal d***s to avoid getting into trouble, and he's administered d***s which just make it 10x worse because of the combination of them, and he can't do anything else other than just take them to the hospital if they're still breathing.
Motivated sloth 7 months ago
The way this is written is confusing. When they’ve taken XYZ d***s when they’ve been doing illegal d***s to avoid getting in trouble. Did they mean NOT telling him when they’ve been doing legal and illegal d***s together?
Sue User 7 months ago
I took it to mean saying they took a legal d**g instead of an illegal one. Like saying you took oxycodon rather than h****n.
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“No I don’t smoke.”.
Pernille 7 months ago
This seems so stupid. I mean I'm a former smoker and if asked I will inform the person that I haven't smoked a single cigarette for 4 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours, and 47 minutes, but when I smoked I knew they cold smell it anyway so I might as well confess.
Billo66 7 months ago
I still try to minimize. "Yes but only half a pack." I would really like to be able to just say no.
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 7 months ago
I used to tell my doctors that and they always rolled their eyes. But even if they could smell it and saw the nicotine on my fingers, they had to go by what I self reported, Why did I lie? Because insurance premiums for a smoker could be hundreds of times higher than the $47 a month I paid as a declared non-smoker through the ACA. I could barely afford the $47 a month. I could never have afforded the $300 that it would have cost me per month as a declared smoker. I wanted medicine to help me quit which was covered by insurance, but couldn't ask for it because I smoked. A catch-22. Yes, I quit smoking.
Marguerite Barnett 6 months ago
Believe it or not there are some smokers that i have missed their lie and i have a sensitive nose. And a good nose for BS. A couple have gotten by with it by vaping or using nicotine products like gum so they truly believe they are safe from the bad effects lol. Now i don't ask about smoking, i ask about nicotine use AND i now show them nasty photos of what happens to surgical flaps if they smoke "even two cigarettes a day!"
#34
Not a doc, but worked in EMS for a handful of years. We would get o******e patients who "definitely don't use d***s" yet respond to Narcan.
#35
Not a doctor, or a dentist, but plenty of people die from doing m**h before going under anesthesia.
Rob Williams 6 months ago
Thank god! I thought it was mash and I can't live without sausage and mash!
Load More Replies... AsylumWalker 7 months ago
Mate, just admit you actually know nothing about darwinism
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"No, I currently do not have scissors lodged in my neck and am hemorrhaging."
I'm not a doctor, but that sounds like it could have happened once right? ;).
Kathy Brooke 7 months ago
Seen a few "no I have not swallowed a pill shaped battery" cases... and that can also be fst a little.
#37
So, this new patient of mine comes in claiming he’s diabetic, later to find out he isn’t, but needs me to believe it so he can be close to me, apparently all apart of his plan to break out of prison, from the infirmary. Anyway we have a happy marriage with a FEW hiccups, a lovey kid, took down ‘The Company’, broken a few people out of prisons in different continents including myself. His name is Michael Schofield and oh yeah he’s almost died a few times.
DragonsFox 7 months ago
If I had to guess, it was the delusion the guy believed to be true.
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Dave Van Beurden 7 months ago
Why post an article on medical dangers and issues, if none of the actual terms or issues get past your ridiculous censor filter? Even scientific names for body parts are a no- go...
Kim Kermes 7 months ago
If I understand correctly, the only thing required in the US to report to law enforcement is a gunshot wound, and releasing any other information about adult patients is actually banned by law. If so, maybe these people should be told that in short words.
geezeronthehill 7 months ago
Folks in the US don't trust the health care industry. Now why would that be?
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Betsy S 7 months ago
Not just fear of judgement, but fear of reprisal. Medical people are mandated reporters, so if you tell them you've taken something illegal, they are required to report you to the police. There is no trust or safety with medical people, so of course patients are going to try to cover their butts.
Little Bit 7 months ago
I once lied to nurses in A&E. At the time I was married to my violent ex-husband who used to beat me up. After one particularly bad beating where I had lost consciousness for a short time, he insisted that he took me to A&E. The nurses kept asking how I had come by my injuries and I said I'd fallen down the stairs. One of them said, "Why don't you tell us what really happened?" I still insisted that I'd fallen down the stairs. There was no way that I was going to tell the truth when he was sat right next to me and risk another beating or worse when we got back home. I simply didn't want any more trouble or awkward questions. I didn't even want to be in hospital but he practically dragged me there, probably so that everybody could hear from my own mouth that my injuries were my own fault.
Kathy Brooke 7 months ago
Why the heck didn't the nurse take you somewhere private... "I just need to do this test, no sorry Sir, you can't come along". Standard training in the NHS.
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Forrest Grump 7 months ago
I worked as a nurse in a hospital. One time I had a patient who was in for. . uhh. . I don't remember. But he was also diabetic in addition to his reason for being hospitalized. Every evening his blood glucose level would go to about 500. We were careful about what hospital food he was being served. And the doctors were adjusting his diabetes meds to try control the level. But it kept happening. We finally discovered what was going on. His girlfriend was coming to visit every day after she finished work and was sneaking a chocolate ice cream milkshake in to him. She got banned from visiting.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
A friend lives in a state where weed is legal. His doctor is just across the state line where it isn't. So when the nurse at his annual physical asks him the standard question "Do you use any illegal d***s?", he can truthfully answer "no". He's mentioned this to them and pointed out it would be true of many of the doctor's patients, but they still ask it that way.
Dave Van Beurden 7 months ago
Why post an article on medical dangers and issues, if none of the actual terms or issues get past your ridiculous censor filter? Even scientific names for body parts are a no- go...
Kim Kermes 7 months ago
If I understand correctly, the only thing required in the US to report to law enforcement is a gunshot wound, and releasing any other information about adult patients is actually banned by law. If so, maybe these people should be told that in short words.
geezeronthehill 7 months ago
Folks in the US don't trust the health care industry. Now why would that be?
Load More Replies... Betsy S 7 months ago
Not just fear of judgement, but fear of reprisal. Medical people are mandated reporters, so if you tell them you've taken something illegal, they are required to report you to the police. There is no trust or safety with medical people, so of course patients are going to try to cover their butts.
Little Bit 7 months ago
I once lied to nurses in A&E. At the time I was married to my violent ex-husband who used to beat me up. After one particularly bad beating where I had lost consciousness for a short time, he insisted that he took me to A&E. The nurses kept asking how I had come by my injuries and I said I'd fallen down the stairs. One of them said, "Why don't you tell us what really happened?" I still insisted that I'd fallen down the stairs. There was no way that I was going to tell the truth when he was sat right next to me and risk another beating or worse when we got back home. I simply didn't want any more trouble or awkward questions. I didn't even want to be in hospital but he practically dragged me there, probably so that everybody could hear from my own mouth that my injuries were my own fault.
Kathy Brooke 7 months ago
Why the heck didn't the nurse take you somewhere private... "I just need to do this test, no sorry Sir, you can't come along". Standard training in the NHS.
Load More Replies... Forrest Grump 7 months ago
I worked as a nurse in a hospital. One time I had a patient who was in for. . uhh. . I don't remember. But he was also diabetic in addition to his reason for being hospitalized. Every evening his blood glucose level would go to about 500. We were careful about what hospital food he was being served. And the doctors were adjusting his diabetes meds to try control the level. But it kept happening. We finally discovered what was going on. His girlfriend was coming to visit every day after she finished work and was sneaking a chocolate ice cream milkshake in to him. She got banned from visiting.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
A friend lives in a state where weed is legal. His doctor is just across the state line where it isn't. So when the nurse at his annual physical asks him the standard question "Do you use any illegal d***s?", he can truthfully answer "no". He's mentioned this to them and pointed out it would be true of many of the doctor's patients, but they still ask it that way.
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