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Someone Asked People To Share Their Absolute Worst Doctor Experiences, And These 30 Are Wild
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Going to the doctor's doesn't always turn out what we think it will be. Misdiagnosing, gaslighting, and poor communication are just some problems patients have to deal with. In fact, in 2022, 60% of Americans said they had recently had a bad experience with a healthcare provider.
Just a few days ago, a woman on Twitter (X) asked other people to share their worst encounters with a doctor. The thread quickly filled up with stories from the doctor's office featuring some questionable medical professionals. We know doctors are people too, but some of these docs truly deserve to be shamed.
Bored Panda reached out to the woman who started this thread, Candace D., and she kindly agreed to tell us more about what prompted her to ask others to share their worst doctor experiences. Read our short conversation with her below!
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Candace D., who started this thread on X (Twitter), is a chronic illness advocate who shares her own health journey online. "As a chronically ill person, I've had a lot of bad experiences with medical professionals and I know a lot of other people have too, chronically ill or not," Candace told Bored Panda.
"So it's an interesting topic. I wasn't prepared for just how sad and deep the topic would be though. It was honestly really hard to read all those responses."
Still, Candace has had her fair share of negative experiences with the medical community. "Medical gaslighting and dismissive treatment delayed me being properly diagnosed with EDS, MCAS, POTS, etc., which also delayed treatment, and I know there are so many others like me," she shares.
"If I could change one thing about how the medical system treats chronically ill patients, I would just say—PLEASE BELIEVE US. An amazing start is just listening to us and having compassion for us. No one wants to be sick," the woman reiterates.
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After reading this list, you might think that everyone in the U.S. hates their doctor. But that isn't the truth. In fact, 70% of Americans are satisfied with their primary care doctor. But few feel that American healthcare is personalized: 53% say they believe that the system treats them more like a number than a person.
Many people also expect doctors to have a holistic approach. That's why 70% of American adults who come in for a checkup want their doctor to ask them about their mental health. This signals a shift from our understanding that a primary care doctor can only help with physical ailments.
Doctors make mistakes; they are human, after all. But the costs of their mistakes can often have catastrophic consequences. In the U.S., 250k people pass away each year because ER doctors misdiagnose them. Researchers estimate that a whopping 7.4 million people might get a wrong diagnosis at the emergency room.
But experts don't put the blame on the doctors. One of the study's authors explains that we have to take a look at the medical training, technology, and support that could help doctors avoid these mistakes.
Dr. Susan M. Peterson, another author of the study, explained that pointing out mistakes helps doctors improve. Like what happened with detecting heart attacks: public health campaigns, better diagnostic testing, and cardiologists and ER doctors working together resulted in more diagnoses.
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Debby Keir 8 months ago
I had cervical cancer when 27 and married - discovered after my smear 6 weeks post giving birth. Was told by the gynaecologist that I shouldn't have slept around so much....
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Like with many of the examples you'll read on this list, many patients don't think their doctors listen to them. Their concerns get dismissed or entirely overlooked. A 2021 UK survey found that one in four patients felt like they weren't treated with respect by their physician. Another one in four claimed not being listened to.
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Glenn Cuneo 8 months ago
On my birthday my a doctor told me "Yes, you have cancer. Oh! I notice it's your birthday, happy birthday"-- got up and left the room.
For women and people of color, misdiagnoses and medical gaslighting are even more frequent occurrences. Research shows that women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20%-30% more likely than a white man to receive an incorrect diagnosis. In a 2024 survey, 65.3% of women expressed concern about receiving unsatisfactory or poor-quality care.
Women experience neglect in the ER, too. One study showed how women who had severe stomach pain had to spend 33% more time in the waiting room than men did. And even if women do manage to get into the doctor's office, their heart disease often gets diagnosed as anxiety, ovarian cysts as regular period pain, and autoimmune diseases get interpreted as depression.
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tracy black 8 months ago
had the same thing happen to me in nashville i was pushing out a 12lb 15 oz baby without pain killers and she told me to stop screaming cause labor pains were in my head they didnt hurt ( later found out she was child free )
A lot of it goes back to the history of medicine, where any major health complaint from a woman was chalked up to be hysteria. Even today, there's still a bias in the medical community where doctors may think that it's a hormonal imbalance or the woman is just making things up.
"Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women, applied whenever women displayed 'inappropriate' emotions such as anxiety, anger and even sexual desire," Stephanie Trentacoste McNally, MD, explained.
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Debby Keir 8 months ago
TIL - postmarital s*x WON'T GIVE YOU UTI's. Must be true - doctor said it.
Until 1993, women and minorities weren't allowed to participate in clinical trials in the U.S. That resulted in the medical community not knowing whether the studied variables affected them the same way they affected white men. And we see the consequences of that today: we have a limited understanding of how women, especially women of color, experience disease and what treatments they need.
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Kalikima 8 months ago (edited)
Hey! Me too! And a doctor didn't even figure it out, my ex mother in law did. Doctor was shocked that he never thought of it, it was a perfect fit. Same doctor told me I'd never have kids. 2 pregnancies and one healthy 8 year old later, I proved him wrong.
Lez Be Honest 4 months ago
My dermatologist, of all people, figured it out for me.
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somnomania (she/her, queer) 8 months ago
my partner started gaining weight for no apparent reason when they started puberty, and the doctor told them they just needed to get off the couch and exercise. they have pcos, surprise!
Anna Drever 8 months ago (edited)
Not remotely the same thing but many many years ago I was at an emergency doc (not my regular), can’t remember what for, and I mentioned I had glandular fever (had been tested and confirmed previously) and he decided I didn’t have glandular fever and ordered another test. It also confirmed that yes indeed I had glandular fever.
And women do tend to have different experiences. With medications, for example, women are twice as likely to have adverse effects because the meds have only been tested on men. Women who receive hip implants are also 29% more likely to experience implant failure because of differences in anatomy and inadequate testing. Until 1999, we even didn't know that women present different symptoms of a heart attack than men.
Experts say there are certain steps we need to take to rectify the problem. For starters, having more women in leadership positions for medical and clinical research. Changes need to be made in medical education: students should learn how sex differences affect medical care. And, of course, more inclusive research that includes women of low socioeconomic status, older women, and those living in rural areas.
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Nichole Harris 8 months ago
This is actually awesome.... Your doc was concerned, made an effort for you to feel safe...... That's cool
What about you, Pandas? Have you ever had a doctor's visit turn into a nightmare? Share your unpleasant stories with us in the comments! And while you're thinking of one, be sure to check out our other posts about doctors saying inappropriate things and the worst advice patients have ever been given by a doctor.
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kzys59pcrp 8 months ago
I tried going off my antidepressant when I was pregnant with my second child but I couldn’t do it. He was born with a birth defect. The bones in his skull were fused. He had surgery at 6months and has been great since
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M O'Connell 8 months ago
Specialists often look for problems within their specialty. Some refer to other specialties, some should do that but don't.
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KnightOwl 8 months ago (edited)
I can't believe the number of bad things I've read here about horrible experiences with labour nurses and doctors. I'm from the UK where most women give birth using midwives and it's incredibly rare to ever hear anyone say anything negative about them. Midwives are amazing and incredibly supportive and non judgemental. People here often form incredibly close bonds with their midwives and it's not uncommon for them to remain friends after the birth.
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KrazyChiMama 8 months ago
They do need to find out where the internal bleeding is coming from. One of the tests for this does involve a digital (finger insertion) rectal exam for occult blood. Patients DO have the right to refuse this and there are other tests that we are able to do. Whether or not your insurance will cover/approve them if you refuse the physical exam is another story.
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KrazyChiMama 8 months ago
I call bs on this one…there’s no way an X-ray tech is going to hold a patient up with his foot while shooting a plain film…they’re not allowed in the room unless shielded by lead as they would get too much badge exposure
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Sophia Pandia de Delphia 8 months ago (edited)
On 1st read, I took his statement to mean he got to see all of the surgery on OP. However, tone isn't conveyed by the statement alone, so he probably was pervy if OP says so
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Lowrider 56 8 months ago
That happened to one of my ex-girlfriends. I didn't know that a person's intestines could get twisted like that.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
When I was a child, my dentist made two mistakes at once. He thought (a) he could take my loose tooth out with a single yank and (b) he didn't have to tell me about it in advance. I don't know when he died, but when he did I'm sure he still had my bite marks on this fingers.
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Nikole 8 months ago
My pediatrician (I was maybe 5) once said to me that he wanted to check how I was “developing down there”, and that my mom should probably leave the room because a parent can make kids nervous. She OF COURSE stayed and he ended up just looking down the front of my jeans and declared everything was fine. I still fúcking remember that. My best friend had the same pediatrician and he would always ask her how many boys she’d kissed. Fúcker. Good thing both of us had strong moms.
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
When I had an ovarian cyst and had to have an internal ultrasound, they didn't say it would 'take my virginity' but they did make sure I knew it might cause bleeding if my hymen wasn't broken already.
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KnightOwl 8 months ago
This happened to me too, I ended up being hospitalised for 4 days with a massive abcess that was growing down my neck and cutting off my airways. I had to have it drained 3 seperate times and tons of IV antibiotics. They told me they were extremely close to incubating me on multiple occasions as they were worried about the amount of swelling and pressure on my airways.
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Daniel Atkins 8 months ago
That is the worst part of having a kidney stone. It hurts so bad you go to the ER and they are doing their due diligence making sure you are not there to get a d**g fix, but the wait to have them administer the pain reliever is excruciating it'll make a grown man cry.
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SouthernGal 8 months ago
Date of last period is almost always asked, not just for teens but adults as well. There are various medical reasons that this info is important.
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Bored Sailor 8 months ago
Oh nerves suck, my stenosis has torn up the nerves between my C5, 6 &7. Surgery helped but the pain will never go away. Planning on surgery to replace C3 next week before it does to much damage, right now it is bruising the cord. The first time it took a few years to figure out it was a nerve problem, but not through not testing or trying. This time since it was only year the MRI picked this one up quicker.
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Do all jobs require a doctor's exam in the US? I can only think of a few jobs that might need it here, like my dad had to get his sight and hearing checked before his crossing guard job.
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Debby Keir 8 months ago
Well, if I had a rare condition, I'd much rather they bother to 'google it' than not. You can pick out which website you look at for information and there are a lot of reputable medical sites and research papers to be found (plus specific charities that are a wealth of advice) I'd worry if they just posted a query on Facebook.
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Upstaged75 8 months ago
This one is BS. Mayo Clinic is one of the best hospital systems in the world. They're doing cutting edge research and help thousands of people every day.
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Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Oh, no! You have a skin condition and he wanted to look at your skin!
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KnightOwl 8 months ago
That just sounds like small talk, asking about relationships, kids, jobs and the weather are all pretty standard small talk subjects. May seem a little strange during an exam but I'm sure a lot of people appreciate a bit of small talk to distract them from what's happening and any anxiety they have.
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Richi Weiss 8 months ago
That's not bad in my book. As long as he knows how to cure/handle it..
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Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
Brought my teenage daughter in for a checkup. Asked the young female doctor about getting my daughter the HPV vaccine, which can prevent a type of STD and cervical cancer. She refused to give it because "It encourages girls to have pre-marital s*x." WTF??
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
It's part of the regular vaccine schedule for high school students in Australia, has been since about 2006. Thankfully most people were well educated about why to get it.
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Parmeisan 8 months ago
I had a reaction to penicillin several years back and my kidneys shut down. I was in the hospital for more than two weeks, with a shunt in my neck so they could do dialysis to keep me alive. My nephrologist (kidney expert) has since given me a clean bill of health, said my kidneys are fully healed up, but 1) I shouldn't take any kind of medication that's hard on the kidneys if I can help it, so lots of over-the-counter stuff for migraines etc is off-limits for me, and 2) I need to avoid the entire class of "beta lactam" antibiotics because they might k**l me. Twice, TWICE now I have had a doctor prescribe me an antibiotic and then swear that it wasn't a beta lactam antibiotic, only for the pharmacist to tell me that it was. One was probably an honest (but terrifyingly stupid) mistake; the other had had the gall to ask me what I knew about beta lactams and then apparently decided that my answer was lacking and he could completely disregard my concerns.
PunchinelloTX 8 months ago (edited)
Men get weird stuff, too. Twenty-five years ago, I had a male doctor ask me why I wasn’t married. Not wanting to do the whole coming-out to my Christian GP thing at the time, I just shrugged and waited for my gastric reflux prescription. He winked at me and said, “ought not to have any trouble gettin’ a girl with the size of those feet.” True story—he’s an old man in jail now for overprescribing certain meds.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Let's see - my childhood dentist gave me four identical filling (same molars, both sides of upper and lower set). Only one had a cavity - because I hadn't had any numbing done, he kept doing another tooth, then another tooth and another, to test out my pain threshold. (In his words, I "fascinated him.") It took years for even my parents to believe it happened, after all, a dentist wouldn't do that, right? Even later dentists don't believe me, so I've stopped mentioning it. Next, we have my current health predicament caused by an experimental brain surgery, which we later found out I didn't even qualify for, but the surgeon needed the numbers so he could publish a paper. I've got a Teflon pad separating my 8th cranial nerve and the blood vessel there to supposedly treat an impingement. However, my MRI showed no such impingement and we learned the surgeon basically flipped a coin to decide which side to operate on. I don't like going to the doctor now - I wonder why?
Little Bit 8 months ago
I have quite a few. Firstly the doctors who repeatedly fobbed off my grandmother, my dad, and my father in law when they tried to get their cancer concerns taken seriously, and then by the time their cancers were finally diagnosed it was too late. Several years ago I had been feeling ill for weeks. Among other things I kept feeling dizzy, being sick, I had a screaming headache that wouldn't go away and my whole body was in sheer agony. There wasn't a single part of me that wasn't in pain and I barely had the strength to move. Thinking that I had the flu, I tried every OTC medication available but nothing worked. I made an appointment with my GP. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it took every last ounce of my strength to get to the surgery. I explained everything to the doctor and all she said was, "Well what do you want me to do about it?" I replied "Erm, your job?" I would have put a complaint in if I
Little Bit 8 months ago
Hadn't been feeling so ill. I saw another doctor who diagnosed a bad infection which eventually cleared up with antibiotics.
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
Mine isn't as bad as some of others' horror stories but still made me feel like garbage. I'd been to my (absolutely genuinely wonderful) dentist to have 13 teeth removed (all wisdom + nine others) under twilight sedation. Was told my b.p didn't come down as mcuh as it should have and to get it checked. Ok, no worries. Went to Dr a couple days later, walked in, and before even saying ''Hello'', or anything civil, she snapped at me, ''Oh, you're VERY overweight.'' No kidding Sherlock! I hadn't even said why I was there. Explained, she was too lazy to walk out of the room to get a larger cuff (yes I'm first toadmit I'm FAT) and tried THIRTEEN TIMES. My arm was practically blue when she gave it up (it ached for several days afterward and I had stripes, like bloodless sliver cuts, for over a year) When she finally got a reading, all hell broke loose because she said it was 220/110. Whatever you reckon, Doc. So she did a diabetes test (negative) and carried on about how I was going to -c-
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
have a stroke/heart attack any minute and I needed to lose weight (yeah I'd love to drop 20kg in an instant!!) I felt completely fine, by the way. Physically anyway. Anyway I ended up walking out in tears because I was scared and upset. I had to go back the next day and just as I was telling the receptionist, ''ANY Dr but HER!'' while sobbing, she was right behind me >.< Anyway, went back next day, b.p was nowhere near what she'd claimed, and the new Dr I saw was disgusted with how I'd been treated.
Justbecause 8 months ago
I have so many, I spend way to much time at the drs! I dont have chronic pain i have a opiate a*******n. Midwife gave me opiates despite my records saying I have an allergy, wearing an allergy band and me saying I have an allergy, she told me it was a different med. Had her for my second birth to and she laughed at my birth plan when it said I didn't want morphine or painkillers, said I would change my mind. Told I dont have chronic pain, its all in my head. Told my pain related vomiting was in fact because I was pregnant and I should have the morning after pill (I wasn't pregnant, i just thow up with to much pain) Told I couldn't have broken my back because I was walking (I had broken my back). Told my chest pain couldn't be my heart because i was to young, despite having had heart failure 8 days before. Are they headaches or migraines i dont know every Dr says something different.
talliloo 8 months ago
have had my share of horrible experiences with doctors and nurses. however, i will share the best thing a doctor has asked me prior to serious surgery: what is the most important thing that i wanted the doctor and nurses to know? my answer was that i am not a whiner/cryer when it comes to pain. i am usually calm but can be in excruciating pain so it is not always believed. high pain tolerance...maybe. bless him and his staff-recovery and physical therapy was a beast but he kept me at a level that allowed me to get back on my feet.
GalPalAl 8 months ago
Went to primary Dr. who had me see Sr. doctor in office for some unknown reason. I am aware that I am overweight. This m**o looked at me and said pre-diabetic. Not true. He looked like the crypt keeper and held my tongue from saying pre-death to him.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Did everyone stand up and clap after that?
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Llkru 8 months ago
Took my baby with high fever and severe pain to ER late at night. Nurse told me if I couldn’t calm her down so she could put the thermometer under her tongue, she would shove it up her butt. She did not know I had long standing small group exercise classes with the president of the hospital. Oopsie.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
I thought babies always had their temperatures taken rectally. No?
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
Bestie in college had a sore on her back near her spine. Campus doc said she'd blacked out from drinking and had hit her back. Turns out she had a bone infection in a couple vertebrae that was compromising the steel rods she had from scoliosis surgery. She needed emergency surgery and had a PICC line with heavy-duty antibiotics for six weeks.
Tyke 8 months ago
Was operated on awake, with absolutely no screen whilst having a panic attack.
HelyerT 8 months ago
I live in the UK so all drs suck. Lost weight due to anorexia developed gall stones. Said I was doing it for attention there’s nothing wrong with me. Have arthritis in spine told to read a book and ignore the pain. Had pneumonia and to keep giving me itv meds as it’s just a cold , my first od was at six. Had psoriasis as a kid told my mom it was washing powder. It’s was nerves as had a*****e household. Literally everything else is hormones. Got no help for anorexia at all.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
If this was the same doctor in all these instances, why did you keep going back to him?
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Aussi Panda 8 months ago (edited)
The dr put my daughter on a new adhd medication (Risperidone) & not long after her head starting turning to one side & she couldn’t turn it back. Went back to the dr & he said it’s not from the medication, I don’t know what has caused it but she’ll probably stay like that forever. I took her off them. Went to paediatrician & he took one look & said it’s from the medication. Thankfully her head went back to normal
Kalikima 8 months ago
I thought Risperidone was an anti-psychotic? Why would they give it for adhd?
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RM 8 months ago
Not a doctor, but a physiotherapist I'd been referred to (one of many over the years of dealing with serious back pain). He told me that most of my pain is actually "remembered pain". Um, no, I think after 20 years I can tell when my back feels like someone is sticking a knife into my spine and I can't move without strong painkillers, and even then it hurts like hell. I definitely wasn't imagining it. I was fuming, could have happily punched the guy.
Mr. Jones 8 months ago
Years ago when copays were $20, I went to the doctor because I had been dealing with some immense pain in my back right ankle. At the time I had a few tattoos and I was a smoker in my early 20s in pretty decent shape. I was wearing a black t-shirt, jeans and my combat boots. The doctor was wearing a plaid button down shirt, a contrasting bow tie, a sweater vest and Walmart pants. He looked me up and down and read my questionnaire and said, "You're a smoker because of course you are. Look, if your foot still hurts in 2 weeks come back. I don't just prescribe painkillers for phantom injuries." I replied, "I've been limping for three weeks. I don't want painkillers. I want to find out what is wrong with it and how to get it fixed." He said, "We're done here. Again, if it hurts in two weeks come back." I walked up to the check out desk and lost my s**t about what a complete d**k he was. I left and told them I was finding a different doc office.
Mr. Jones 8 months ago
I could tell I wasn't the first person to complain about him. He came around the corner just before I left and I told him off. Let him know he disrespected a combat vet and basically assumed I was a d**g a****t. Another doc came out and led me back and did a full examination on my ankle. Turns out I had/have sever Achilles Tendonitis brought on by an old Army combat injury. The next day the Doc office called me to let me know that doctor was no longer employed by their organization.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
Brought my teenage daughter in for a checkup. Asked the young female doctor about getting my daughter the HPV vaccine, which can prevent a type of STD and cervical cancer. She refused to give it because "It encourages girls to have pre-marital s*x." WTF??
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
It's part of the regular vaccine schedule for high school students in Australia, has been since about 2006. Thankfully most people were well educated about why to get it.
Load More Replies... Parmeisan 8 months ago
I had a reaction to penicillin several years back and my kidneys shut down. I was in the hospital for more than two weeks, with a shunt in my neck so they could do dialysis to keep me alive. My nephrologist (kidney expert) has since given me a clean bill of health, said my kidneys are fully healed up, but 1) I shouldn't take any kind of medication that's hard on the kidneys if I can help it, so lots of over-the-counter stuff for migraines etc is off-limits for me, and 2) I need to avoid the entire class of "beta lactam" antibiotics because they might k**l me. Twice, TWICE now I have had a doctor prescribe me an antibiotic and then swear that it wasn't a beta lactam antibiotic, only for the pharmacist to tell me that it was. One was probably an honest (but terrifyingly stupid) mistake; the other had had the gall to ask me what I knew about beta lactams and then apparently decided that my answer was lacking and he could completely disregard my concerns.
PunchinelloTX 8 months ago (edited)
Men get weird stuff, too. Twenty-five years ago, I had a male doctor ask me why I wasn’t married. Not wanting to do the whole coming-out to my Christian GP thing at the time, I just shrugged and waited for my gastric reflux prescription. He winked at me and said, “ought not to have any trouble gettin’ a girl with the size of those feet.” True story—he’s an old man in jail now for overprescribing certain meds.
LauraDragonWench 8 months ago
Let's see - my childhood dentist gave me four identical filling (same molars, both sides of upper and lower set). Only one had a cavity - because I hadn't had any numbing done, he kept doing another tooth, then another tooth and another, to test out my pain threshold. (In his words, I "fascinated him.") It took years for even my parents to believe it happened, after all, a dentist wouldn't do that, right? Even later dentists don't believe me, so I've stopped mentioning it. Next, we have my current health predicament caused by an experimental brain surgery, which we later found out I didn't even qualify for, but the surgeon needed the numbers so he could publish a paper. I've got a Teflon pad separating my 8th cranial nerve and the blood vessel there to supposedly treat an impingement. However, my MRI showed no such impingement and we learned the surgeon basically flipped a coin to decide which side to operate on. I don't like going to the doctor now - I wonder why?
Little Bit 8 months ago
I have quite a few. Firstly the doctors who repeatedly fobbed off my grandmother, my dad, and my father in law when they tried to get their cancer concerns taken seriously, and then by the time their cancers were finally diagnosed it was too late. Several years ago I had been feeling ill for weeks. Among other things I kept feeling dizzy, being sick, I had a screaming headache that wouldn't go away and my whole body was in sheer agony. There wasn't a single part of me that wasn't in pain and I barely had the strength to move. Thinking that I had the flu, I tried every OTC medication available but nothing worked. I made an appointment with my GP. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it took every last ounce of my strength to get to the surgery. I explained everything to the doctor and all she said was, "Well what do you want me to do about it?" I replied "Erm, your job?" I would have put a complaint in if I
Little Bit 8 months ago
Hadn't been feeling so ill. I saw another doctor who diagnosed a bad infection which eventually cleared up with antibiotics.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
Mine isn't as bad as some of others' horror stories but still made me feel like garbage. I'd been to my (absolutely genuinely wonderful) dentist to have 13 teeth removed (all wisdom + nine others) under twilight sedation. Was told my b.p didn't come down as mcuh as it should have and to get it checked. Ok, no worries. Went to Dr a couple days later, walked in, and before even saying ''Hello'', or anything civil, she snapped at me, ''Oh, you're VERY overweight.'' No kidding Sherlock! I hadn't even said why I was there. Explained, she was too lazy to walk out of the room to get a larger cuff (yes I'm first toadmit I'm FAT) and tried THIRTEEN TIMES. My arm was practically blue when she gave it up (it ached for several days afterward and I had stripes, like bloodless sliver cuts, for over a year) When she finally got a reading, all hell broke loose because she said it was 220/110. Whatever you reckon, Doc. So she did a diabetes test (negative) and carried on about how I was going to -c-
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
have a stroke/heart attack any minute and I needed to lose weight (yeah I'd love to drop 20kg in an instant!!) I felt completely fine, by the way. Physically anyway. Anyway I ended up walking out in tears because I was scared and upset. I had to go back the next day and just as I was telling the receptionist, ''ANY Dr but HER!'' while sobbing, she was right behind me >.< Anyway, went back next day, b.p was nowhere near what she'd claimed, and the new Dr I saw was disgusted with how I'd been treated.
Justbecause 8 months ago
I have so many, I spend way to much time at the drs! I dont have chronic pain i have a opiate a*******n. Midwife gave me opiates despite my records saying I have an allergy, wearing an allergy band and me saying I have an allergy, she told me it was a different med. Had her for my second birth to and she laughed at my birth plan when it said I didn't want morphine or painkillers, said I would change my mind. Told I dont have chronic pain, its all in my head. Told my pain related vomiting was in fact because I was pregnant and I should have the morning after pill (I wasn't pregnant, i just thow up with to much pain) Told I couldn't have broken my back because I was walking (I had broken my back). Told my chest pain couldn't be my heart because i was to young, despite having had heart failure 8 days before. Are they headaches or migraines i dont know every Dr says something different.
talliloo 8 months ago
have had my share of horrible experiences with doctors and nurses. however, i will share the best thing a doctor has asked me prior to serious surgery: what is the most important thing that i wanted the doctor and nurses to know? my answer was that i am not a whiner/cryer when it comes to pain. i am usually calm but can be in excruciating pain so it is not always believed. high pain tolerance...maybe. bless him and his staff-recovery and physical therapy was a beast but he kept me at a level that allowed me to get back on my feet.
GalPalAl 8 months ago
Went to primary Dr. who had me see Sr. doctor in office for some unknown reason. I am aware that I am overweight. This m**o looked at me and said pre-diabetic. Not true. He looked like the crypt keeper and held my tongue from saying pre-death to him.
Charles McChristy 8 months ago
Did everyone stand up and clap after that?
Load More Replies... Llkru 8 months ago
Took my baby with high fever and severe pain to ER late at night. Nurse told me if I couldn’t calm her down so she could put the thermometer under her tongue, she would shove it up her butt. She did not know I had long standing small group exercise classes with the president of the hospital. Oopsie.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
I thought babies always had their temperatures taken rectally. No?
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Bestie in college had a sore on her back near her spine. Campus doc said she'd blacked out from drinking and had hit her back. Turns out she had a bone infection in a couple vertebrae that was compromising the steel rods she had from scoliosis surgery. She needed emergency surgery and had a PICC line with heavy-duty antibiotics for six weeks.
Tyke 8 months ago
Was operated on awake, with absolutely no screen whilst having a panic attack.
HelyerT 8 months ago
I live in the UK so all drs suck. Lost weight due to anorexia developed gall stones. Said I was doing it for attention there’s nothing wrong with me. Have arthritis in spine told to read a book and ignore the pain. Had pneumonia and to keep giving me itv meds as it’s just a cold , my first od was at six. Had psoriasis as a kid told my mom it was washing powder. It’s was nerves as had a*****e household. Literally everything else is hormones. Got no help for anorexia at all.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
If this was the same doctor in all these instances, why did you keep going back to him?
Load More Replies... Aussi Panda 8 months ago (edited)
The dr put my daughter on a new adhd medication (Risperidone) & not long after her head starting turning to one side & she couldn’t turn it back. Went back to the dr & he said it’s not from the medication, I don’t know what has caused it but she’ll probably stay like that forever. I took her off them. Went to paediatrician & he took one look & said it’s from the medication. Thankfully her head went back to normal
Kalikima 8 months ago
I thought Risperidone was an anti-psychotic? Why would they give it for adhd?
Load More Replies... RM 8 months ago
Not a doctor, but a physiotherapist I'd been referred to (one of many over the years of dealing with serious back pain). He told me that most of my pain is actually "remembered pain". Um, no, I think after 20 years I can tell when my back feels like someone is sticking a knife into my spine and I can't move without strong painkillers, and even then it hurts like hell. I definitely wasn't imagining it. I was fuming, could have happily punched the guy.
Mr. Jones 8 months ago
Years ago when copays were $20, I went to the doctor because I had been dealing with some immense pain in my back right ankle. At the time I had a few tattoos and I was a smoker in my early 20s in pretty decent shape. I was wearing a black t-shirt, jeans and my combat boots. The doctor was wearing a plaid button down shirt, a contrasting bow tie, a sweater vest and Walmart pants. He looked me up and down and read my questionnaire and said, "You're a smoker because of course you are. Look, if your foot still hurts in 2 weeks come back. I don't just prescribe painkillers for phantom injuries." I replied, "I've been limping for three weeks. I don't want painkillers. I want to find out what is wrong with it and how to get it fixed." He said, "We're done here. Again, if it hurts in two weeks come back." I walked up to the check out desk and lost my s**t about what a complete d**k he was. I left and told them I was finding a different doc office.
Mr. Jones 8 months ago
I could tell I wasn't the first person to complain about him. He came around the corner just before I left and I told him off. Let him know he disrespected a combat vet and basically assumed I was a d**g a****t. Another doc came out and led me back and did a full examination on my ankle. Turns out I had/have sever Achilles Tendonitis brought on by an old Army combat injury. The next day the Doc office called me to let me know that doctor was no longer employed by their organization.
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