@@med8615 That is an irrational and broad statement. Religion and denying a child life-saving treatment are not even remotely comparable. You may as well compare the state of Delaware to the ancient Assyrian Empire; it would make about as much sense and have the same degree of correlation, that is to say, none.
@@justinmccurdy9319 sure it's not comparable in the sense that anti-vaxxer can lead to child death whilst religion doesnt. But it still has an effect of the child. Depending on the religion that can consist of genital mutilation (circumcision), refusal of certain life saving treatments (some religs don't allow transplants), refusal to take some meds cuz of the ingredients, some religions have a forced tax on it's followers, and most of all indoctrination. So you can't say it has no ill effects.
UZ I can, however, say that not all religions have those problems. I can also say that male circumcision is not mutilation (female circumcision is though) since it has some health benefits and it is usually consensual. Additionally, it is a one-time thing, it has no long-term negative effects, and in the case of children it is usually done at birth so they have no memory of it. My brother for example was circumcised when he was born and he’s perfectly fine. As for indoctrination, are you telling me that you think teaching your own children your personal beliefs is indoctrination or that it is inherently wrong?
@@justinmccurdy9319 "is usually consensual" ....I'm sure most are done when the kid is a baby, that's not consensual. Sure it can reduces chances of infection of the foreskin but so does cutting off any other vestigial organ. Let's start cutting off their appendix, male nipples, etc. Also it's shown to reduce sensitivity, girls that have been with both types of guys have attested to that, so yes there may be ill effects. When it comes to teaching beliefs, I would say that teaching your personal beliefs with the added "this is the 100% truth, the rest are completely wrong and sinners and going to hell, and you will be as well if you think otherwise" is indoctrination. Teaching your beliefs from the point of view of it being just another opinion on how the world works is fine. There has to be a balance there somewhere, surely someone can word it better than be.
The ectopic pregnancy one should have been referred to CPS to get it sorted, since the kid was too scared of her mothers reaction to the truth that she was okay with dying.
For things like this, maybe the Doctors should have detained them or something so the authorities could be involved. Feel free to disagree, but I think if the daughter did die, the mother should be charged with negligent homicide or some degree of manslaughter.
This is the awful gray area of hippa and health. Even if she’s a minor, once your pregnant you are considered an adult and legally medical staff can’t tell the mom. We also can’t detain a person of sound mind. Or we can be sued, lose license etc. however they should have had mom step out of room and thoroughly explain the situation to the girl.
@@mangaanimefan3089 Yeah. At some point, the egg would burst the fallopian tube leading to bleeding into the abdomen. You might feel like you've been punched in the side when it occurs, but if it isn't caught in time you'll bleed out internally. Pretty sad way to go if you ask me.
@s It's true that using frequencies can help to assist in some diseases. I've never heard it being used to kill cancer cells alone but I have heard of cancer patients using it to help with symptoms. There's a machine called an "Amp Coil" that helps mainly with Lyme disease. Other similar devices are called Rife machines. I own one and it truly does wonders. This can't be the only treatment though and I would NEVER recommend it to be used as the main treatment for cancer. We shouldn't call others morons for something they've most likely never heard of. It's actually a very interesting subject!
Royal Rife did discover how frequencies can heal certain things! I have something called an amp coil and it uses this idea to help heal Chronic Lyme Sufferers. However, I would never recommend it being used for killing cancer cells. Although I do know some people with cancer who use frequency therapy (rife machines) to help with some symptoms like nausea and pain they're having. It has helped me tremendously (Chronic Lyme sufferer of 9 years) so there is some truth to frequency healing! (:
All the anti-vax stuff... It just reminds me of a phrase I heard once. "If we start referring to water as the vaccine for dehydration, the whole Anti-vax nonsense would be over with in a week."
Reminds me of something I saw called "Raw Water." Basically it's water that isn't treated and still contains all the things that are normally removed for our health because, you know, "the government is trying to give us poisoned water."
@@a.j.duncan2050 *takes a long drink off her bottled water* Yeah, sure. _that's_ totally the cause of my depression! [/sarcasm] Watch though! Someone will see this and be like 'DOC I SAW SOMEONE SAY THIS ON UA-cam....'
A patient tried to tell me that their primary care doctor had given them a note saying they didn't have to wear their seatbelt. I'm a trauma surgeon. She was seriously injured in a car accident because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt.
@Infinity Stones No you shouldn't because what happens then is you have paramedics arrive, they use time, liters of scarce blood to get you to a hospital where a trauma team made up of 5 doctors 4 nurses and a respiratory therapist stabilize you, then you get taken to a CT scanner where a tech takes the pictures and between 1 and 3 radiologists read the pictures. Then you will likely need to be seen by multiple specialist surgeons including neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery and take up an ICU bed, and basically cost the system countless limited resources and man hours all because you're too fucking lazy to put your belt on.
Infinity Stones How lazy are you? Putting on a seatbelt literally takes no extra time and make your odds of surviving or only being mildly harmed in an accident exponentially greater. You can also be a serious risk to others in the car if you are in an accident and you get hurled through the air because of the speed. It’s not only selfish but directly stupid not to wear a belt.
@Infinity Stones The healthcare industry does not struggle financially it struggles to keep up with demand. Human hours, medications, and hospital beds are the resources that are scarce, not money. The system is stretched thin enough without entitled assholes like you out there.
I recall years ago a doc saying that depriving my great grandmother of her singular daily smoke woukd be too stressful for her as she was so routinous and 93. My brother has understood this to mean that giving up smoking is dangerous. People are just wonderfully dumb.
The appendix/scrotum one is real dangerous. You NEED to tell your kid the truth about surgeries like that, otherwise they're going to think it's impossible for them to get appendicitis and might ignore the symptoms.
I've recently become paranoid about appendicitis. I have a high pain tolerance and I'm afraid I'll ignore it thinking it's not serious because "it doesn't hurt too bad" and then wait for it to go away😟😟😟
@@SharRawr Appendicitis pain first off to be pretty dull and in the middle of your gut (imagine a pain circle around the belly button). Then after a bit (hour or so) it will get sharper and more painful, the pain will also move to the lower right side of your gut (near the tip of your hipbone that sticks out). It will also hurt to move your thighs up in the air when you're laying down. dont get too paranoid lol, it can have effects on how you precieve pain.
Yeah. Also, I feel like that's the one story here that isn't actually stupid. Like the parents implied it was appendicitis to their kid and never told him the truth, so it makes sense for him to rationalize where the scar was. Especially since he's a kid who wouldn't know better. It wasn't his fault.
You have no idea what kind of background they grew up in and what crazy shit was told to them though. Their ignorance could easily be a result of their parenting
Some are that much of a moron. As a Witch, ones that do shit like sell a 'fix all's s a scame and just want your cash and hopes you die from their fix. I hate the onea that do that. I will always say, 'never stop doing as your Doc has told you. '
Loki's Witch I’m actually genuinely shocked about that guy who died from HIV because a ‘witch’ told him to stop taking his meds. Every witch I’ve come across have only ever said something along the lines of ‘my services is NOT a replacement for medical advice or medical care’. That ‘witch’ that was referenced in the video is most definitely a charlatan.
@@beardlessdragon Sure, but they obviously had internet access and were actively doing some kind of "research" so there's really no excuse for not learning from the massive amount of freely available and well verified information that is all over the place. You can be "handicapped" by your upbringing but you can't use it as an excuse forever once you enter into greater society.
They hate each other because they see themselves in the other, they see how low and pathetic they have become. Simple plus ironically enough they tend to steal lot of the same shit so in a weird way its competition also. And before anyone says I'm wrong or an idiot no I'm not my sister her boyfriend and my neighbors were a mix of heroin and meth heads glad I left when I did last I checked other neighbors kept having stuff stolen or broken into random fight people coming and out at all hours and some addict got shot, so needless to say I have experience with both
Yeah I'm pretty what the mom did was illegal and the hospital is also at fault for not stopping her. Patients have a right to refuse treatment but that doesn't mean parents get to make that choice for their kids.
"Mr, your blood pressure is too high" -"It's okay, that's why I have my blood pressure medication" "No, we need to up the dosage" -"No we don't, I already have medication" "Yeah but not enough" -"But I have medication" "Look, your blood pressure levels are too high. The medication works by lowering it. If it's still high, we need to up the medication" -"No, you see, I already have my medication"
simple metaphor a boat with a hole filling with water. the current med amount was a drinking glass that worked for a bit but the leak is worse/the glass isn't quick enough so we are going to give you something bigger like a bucket
Registered Nurse here, I was talking to my Aunt and Uncle about my chest X ray results saying that my lungs were clear when my uncle corrected me and said lung. He said everyone has one lung. He showed me his actual chest X ray film showing he had one lung. I said the image one taken from the side so only one lung will show from that angle. I tried so hard not to laugh. Lol ; )
I worked as a dental nurse and had a mum come in with her 2 small children at the end of the appointment the dentist usually applies fluoride to the child's teeth the mother refused insisting that it would make their teeth weak and fall out so curious i asked what her children use to brush their teeth and this lady says Colgate so i ask if it is fluoride free and she tries to explain to me that toothpaste doesn't contain fluoride and insisted i was incompetent and unfit for my job
17:26 , being someone with chronic pain, when asked if I have pain elsewhere, I always ask "out with my usual pain?" because yes I'm in pain elsewhere, but no I'm not hurt elsewhere. I have pain unrelated to the current situation.
I hate being asked about pain when I go to Wound Care (off and on - long-term diabetic with lymphedema). They INSIST on a 1-10 rating and REFUSE to answer whether they want my normal standard live with 7+ level pain included.
As for the 'know your body' thing, sometimes it pays to listen. Just to list a few; -Aunt felt like something was wrong. Dizzy, nauseous, not good in general. Doctor's tell her she's just sick and to go home and rest, despite her protests that something wasn't right. Turns out she'd had a small untreated stroke that later caused a brain aneurysm. -My own leg got messed up during some drunken Nerf gun hijinks for a friends birthday. Me being me, I tried to jump through the fork of a willow-like tree instead of around and my foot got caught. Cue a huge crack in my knee cap and then the most intense pain I have felt in my life, including the time I was 12 and my arm was broken for 3 days before mum took me to the doctor. I couldn't move. I finally got helped up and got an ambulance called, went to hospital and they did some scans. They assumed because I was drinking I was exaggerating. Did some 'scans' and told me I was completely fine and just drunk, walk home and sleep it off. WALK home. I couldn't bend my leg for upwards of six months, it was so swollen at the knee cap I need knew pants (not a huge skirt gal) and the pain was just.. wow. But I pushed through because "nothing was wrong with it". Fast forward a few years and my new doctor notices my kneecap is a little wonky. Long story short, I have a badly healed untreated dislocated kneecap, a chipped rotator cuff and a couple badly healed snapped tendons. Made sure they got the scans this time. - High school boyfriend couldn't eat, I had to help him to the bathroom etc. He got so weak he couldn't leave bed without me (he was 18. Here that means he'd graduated high school a year ago, while I was 17 and still finishing grade 12, so he had his own place and lived alone, except when I'd visit every spare moment) Managed to get him to a hospital. They told him he had the flu. Did that a few times, take him to hospital, they tell him he's got the flu, he gets sent home. It got worse and worse until he had to fly back to his mother's a few states down because it was so bad now I couldn't manage high school, work, study and looking after him all at once. She took him to the hospital down there once he arrived. Cancer. He had fucking cancer. He's been dead now for about six years. Sure, some people might be faking or think they know what's going on when they don't. But never dismiss a patient. I'd rather you test for something and be wrong, than not test for something when it turns out you should have. Better safe than dead.
A vet told me once that she’d been about to sedate a horse with xylazine when the owner goes, “oh and xylazine doesn’t work on him, you have to use rhompun.” They’re the same thing.
I had a patient swear up and down that he will not take Lipitor, only Atorvastatin... ... They're the same thing, and he insisted such even after I explained he's been taking this a while now and it was the same medication the nurse the night before gave him.... Still refused it in sistant he did not take it...
Once, I went to the hospital with a STABBING pain on my lower abdomen, and the docs couldn't find out what was wrong. I was sent to a lab for an ultrasound and the lab technician (a trainee) told my mom I had polycystic ovaries. The truth is, my appendix had burst a few days earlier and peritoneal fluid was flooding my organs and necrosing part of my intestines and he actually couldn't even see my organs so he just guessed. We went to another lab not covered by my health insurance, with a trustworthy lab technician and he gave the diagnosis for peritonitis (IV) and I was rushed to the OR. My surgeon told my mom that if I had stayed like that for another day I would enter sepsis and most likely, die.
I had a patient tell me that their dentist said that their x-rays contains 0 radiation and were appalled that x-rays at other hospitals and medical clinics contained low levels of radiation.
8:23 my sister was having some type of seizure once (the doctors still arent sure if its seizures or something else... shell all of a sudden start talking nonsense, then sprint, then fall to the ground and her hands and body go completely stiff, her eyes roll back, shes unresponsive). This was the 1st time it occurred, so my mom yelled for me because she didnt know what to do. I decided since it looked like she was sleeping, putting an ice cube on her spine would shock her nervous system back to reality. It 100% worked, but dont ask me why. It was an impulse decision and im not sure why or how it worked, but im definitely not going to run around throwing ice on people having seizures
It might be a situation of adding a extreme irritant waking her up, likely when she became unresponsive the episode was over. There's a possibility a sternal rub or those smelling salts in some places (especially blood donation clinics) would have a similiar effect.
Or just about all of them. As a person in the food industry, it's my job to prevent people from taking a lethal dose of botox orally..... also called botulism
i'd like to specify, that as a patient, i *do* know my body. I'm having gynocological pain, two doctors have told me it's either cysts or endometriosis and i need to have imaging done, and my gyno (WITHOUT DOING IMAGING) told me, oh no, it's definitely a GI problem. go to a physical therapist, i clearly can't help you. I feel stupid, because everybody (including my mother) says, oh she's the doctor she knows better than you. but im having textbook symptoms and have had two other doctors tell me to go to her to get imaging done, so i feel stupid for feeling stupid.
There are certain cases like yours where the doctor is the idiot. I had something that may have been Adenomyosis (said to be cousin to Endometriosis), & somehow lucked out with an OBGYN who new her sh*t. Way too many women end up with the doctor being dumb or stuck in the 50s, sometimes both. My mom had it worse than mine so her 2x a month periods were also extremely heavy. She had docs say that since she didn't show up as anemic "it can't be that bad." She finally got a good Gynecologist (father of a high school friend of mine) who actually took her seriously. I hope you can find more success with a better doctor.
@lizzy rosario Gotta agree. I was having heart and lung issues and saw my pediatric family doc... ran a stress test and my heartrate was 160 resting. It went over 206 and they had to stop the test. Testing people were very concerned. Doc said that's normal for a 15 year old.... later on went to another genetic doc for a possible genetic disorder. She diagnosed me with a rare but potentially life threatening disorder and did extensive genetic testing that took 3 months... gave it to my primary & she literally throws it across the table & says "This means nothing. You're fine."
Patients who stop taking their medication are up to 80% patients with very high blood pressure. But then I myself have problems with the blood pressure as there is no possibility of medication. I have very low blood pressure (around 90/65) All I wish is to take some medication so it will be normal.. Edit Extremely low -> very low Wrong number on the diastolic so not 90/75 I meant writing 90/65.. Im sorry for that.
I used to to take florinef/ midodrine (not at same time) to help but the side effects were too much for me. Im not a doctor but just sharing part of my struggle with low bp. Lowest it’s been is 57/43. I also have conditions that affect my heart so thats a factor. Increasing salt and water will help
@@ohweea There was a medication that worked a bit but did not boost blood pressure so much but it is no longer to get hold of in Sweden. So when I faint or feel I'm doing so I get to take an EPI Pen it gets the heart pressure raises. My lowest is 62/46. Not so fun when you are 183cm long very far down to the ground.. ;)
Miss Goofy dang you’re tall! Try salt, electrolytes and water. Does help enough to notice but nothing significant. Im barely 160cm 😭 coconut water is better than gatorade but you *cannot* drink a lot or you’ll have too much potassium.
@@ohweea I love to be tall, so many who look up to me hihi.. My blood pressure problem is an "reaction" after My gastric Bypas surgery, I went down from 142kg to 62kg over 18 months. But I have learned that Don't stand up too quickly. If I do it, it looks like I'm very drunk for a minute until I can sit down. Can be a bit embarrassing when you are the shop or out walking in town
Miss Goofy lmao me too people stare at me when I stumble. Losing weight does indeed lower your blood pressure dramatically. When I weighed less it was a lot lower than it is now.
13:02 Don't blame the patient for that. It is far from common knowledge that many acute pains have their origins in completely different parts of the body.
This is pretty true. As a massage therapist, I often have to explain that sometimes where they feel pain may not be where the problem is, so that's why I make sure to check the muscles in areas that often can refer to the painful spot.
I never knew this until I learned about deferred pain in my Human Anatomy and Physiology class. The pain can be felt at one spot even though the actual point of harm/irritation/inflammation can be somewhere far away from that pain spot
I went to the doctor a while back with some lower abdominal pain on left side and the doctors ran all sorts of tests for appendicitis before checking anything else cause that's where appendicitis symptoms would usually start ... nerves are weird like that
I have spasms in the gallbladder and it feels exactly like gallstones... It's a fricking terrible pain, I will give birth to a child without pain relief (again) If they can guarantee that I will never again get an attack ...
@@CarolineOfSweden I'm continually surprised to hear that gallbladder attack pain is worse than childbirth, because I've been told so often that childbirth is one of the worst pains you can ever experience. I had a series of four gallbladder attacks before getting mine taken out. I guess that means I could handle the pain of childbirth?
@@ladyi7609 It is ambulance in and they have tog buckle me to the bed in the back, otherwise I jump around the ambulance. You can not lie still or sit still or stand still you have to be in MOTION, but it MAKES the pain just as bad so had it workt I had gladly fainted of
ladyi7609 I had gallbladder attacks when I was 14. My gallbladder was filled with polyps, my gallbladder had died, and had grown adhesions to surrounding structures. VERY very painful. I have yet to give birth to a child, so I can’t vouch for that claim, but I’ve always heard people say they’d rather give birth than go through that pain again.
@@bearsbeetsbattlestargalactica6 I had my gallbladder go bad too. From 14-20 I had to deal with it cause my doctors told me I was too young for that issue and it was just a minor ulcer from school and stress. Turns out my gallbladder basically grew tons of stones, then exploded then I went septic. I had 'attacks' that felt like the WORST muscle cramp ever. To where I was crying and I couldn't eat for days at a time, not even water. I've never had kids either..but I would rather get shot or stabbed than have to deal with that pain again ;.;
@lizzy rosario Well, I'm very sorry to hear that you have had problems because of your family doctors, but not all of them are like that. My family doctor is one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met, and she's helped me (with help from my therapist) get through my depression with medication.
Aye, that one about Nonna's caffeine addiction. I was in major denial about how legitimate caffeine addiction was until I fell pregnant with my 3rd child and went cold turkey on coffee. 3 day long headache that just kept intensifying, sweats, shakes.....went away within 10mins of having a coffee (which I had because it had been the only change to my diet)....cut down carefully after that. It's no fun
Nightshade Kelly In my family we debate antibiotics. I’m sick (mental health issues, but I have a really weak immune system), my dad has diabetes type 2 and my mom has cancer. So we’ve had people get really sick and the more antibiotics you take the worse they will work in the future. Last time we were debating if my mom with an infection level of ~60 should take them or not. (Your normal is supposed to be 0, can be 4 or so and you can still be healthy). She didn’t end up taking them. My dad is the record holder _without_ antibiotics at ~120, I’m the record holder _with_ antibiotics, I had sepsis and it was up at 462. And I don’t know why I feel inclined to share this. Families with illness have to make light of it, I guess.
have her take biology classes she will find out that bacteria is a living thing and viruses are not considered a living thing by most for a few reasons that i cant recall all the details about so i wont be able to name them but its like middle school stuff so its not hard to look up
My older sister, maybe like 8 years old, once went to my friend's dad for an eye exam. She insisted that she needed glasses and couldn't see correctly. When in reality, she just wanted to wear glasses cause they looked cool. My friend's dad and my mom played along that she had really poor eyesight and whatnot. Then at the end, the game had stopped and my friend's dad was like, "You passed your exam better than most patients do. Maybe just wear some sunglasses if you like their appearance?" She was so embarrassed.
i have myopia and my family is convinced it's because i use my phone. they also think that if i wear my glasses all the time then it'll make my eyes worse (that's false, i researched it a lot).
Sarah Crittenden i mostly just wear them for school, because i can still see things close to me, but sometimes i can't read what the board says during class. but i do wear them to the movies and sometimes out in public.
apple Friend of mine (in her 50s) won't wear her glasses in public. Was with when she had to pull out a magnifying glass to read a leaflet - said I thought wearing her glasses might be less conspicuous. She agreed with me but .. no.
It took my parents nearly a year, and a conversation with an optician, to believe me when I said I needed glasses..though, I don't really blame them.. When I was 8, every school morning during breakfast, I would say I needed glasses because I couldn't see the clock on the other side of the kitchen. On days off, I ate in the living room. This clock was the only thing I had an issue with. I had zero problems in school, even when I was moved to the back of the class. Yet, I was adamant I needed glasses. My parents didn't believe me, saying that it was just me being tired in the mornings. Just after I turned 9, I was called for a routine checkup at the optician. Mum got told that I needed glasses, and had likely needed them for a few months at that point. Thing was, when it came to where I sat for breakfast on school mornings.. at no other time did I ever sit there.. so all we had to rely on was the fact that I complained every school morning.. Though, I did get to say a big "I TOLD YOU SO" to my parents XD
@@ianmoseley9910 This is something I don't understand.. people who need glasses for the majority of their activities, not using them. I have been wearing glasses 23 years now. At the start, for the first few months, yeah, I didn't always wear them.. but I was like, 9 and getting used to them. Once they became a habit, that was it.. Now, at 32, I only remove them for a shower, swimming, bed, or looking at something up close like a book or a screen. By up close, I mean within 6in of my nose.
interesting thing about the one at 9:23. I'm sure things have changed since the early 2000s but when my mom was pregnant with me, the doc told her to cut down smoking, but that she shouldn't quit because the stress of withdrawal could harm me. Again, I'm sure far less doctors today would say that, but maybe it was advice from her mother?
Actually a while ago I was in a psychiatric hospital (I have depression) and there was a woman there for whom it later on turned out that she was pregnant, she was a heavy smoker too and the doctors actually did tell her to reduce the smoking to get her body used to having less nicotine flowing through her, bc it actually does harm the baby if she'd stop right away
The med student at 11:07 is so totally wrong. I'm a medical physicist and know for a fact that cancer cells and regular cells don't have the same resonance (that's the word he was trying to describe) frequencies. Cancerous cells and healthy cells have a different structure, different sizes and stiffness resulting in different resonance frequencies. If you know the right frequency, you can target the cancer cells and by increasing the amplitude of the frequency you can make the cancer cells vibrate really fast, overheating and killing them without damaging the healthy cells. Look up "hyperthermy" or "hifu therapy". These methods are already being used in several places (around europe, I'm from germany). But obviously that's nothing you can/should buy from the internet lol gotta be done by professional doctors/physicians/radiologists.
It's been used effectively for prostate cancer as long as the patients meet certain requirements, like it staying localised and the prostate is not enlarged. It is still a directional beam and can do damage to the surrounding tissue. The advantage is that there are less side effects that radiation or surgery, although studies are still on going. It's more commonly used for face lifts, but still has side effects. By no means is it settled technology.
I remember having shingles, I never knew there was a medicine for it, we even went to the doctor and they couldn't find out what was causing pain, meaning I had the worst two weeks of my life, they found out it was shingles when it was over
9:40 - ACTUALLY when I was pregnant in Canada around 2006, yeah, we were told not to quit cold turkey and that doing so would cause excessive stress during the pregnancy. The advice was to cut back as much as possible and quit only if no withdraw symptoms are manifesting. The withdraw from cigarettes can cause more problems than the smoking will cause if the pregnant woman was already a long-time smoker. That particular doctor was actually risking that patient's health by refusing during what could've been a withdraw moment. Depending on how far along she was, that could've put her into early labor, the stress and physical effects of that.
Pretty sure they were talking about smoking cigarettes not crack..... No the withdrawal from cigarettes is not going to cause more problems than quitting smoking, You don't have to take my word for it, ask a Doctor or look it up.
On the one hand correcting medical professionals is usually a bad thing, on the other hand I once had a therapist who recommended I try the paleo diet when I talked about forgetting to eat and I later found out that she was an anti-vaxxer. I also had a therapist who, after learning of my diagnoses, told me I didn't look like I had ADHD and went on about how smart autistic people are.
pre-med student here and I will say that sometimes patients are CORRECT when they say, “I know my body.” I remember once when I was 14, I was having the most incredible abdominal pains that would hit in me huge waves throughout the day. I visited my doctor (a male) and he was asking me a lot of questions about my period. I told him that, as a female, I KNOW the difference between stomach pain and menstrual pain (it’s an entirely different area of feeling?) and that what I was experiencing was stomach pain. he told me that I was still young and that hormones would cause my menstrual cycle to feel differently as I got older, so I was just having menstrual cramps- keep in mind, I wasn’t even on my period at this point. okay, whatever, I went home. a couple of days later, I collapse to the floor in so much pain that my body is seizing and I am feverish. my parents rushed me to the ER where they ran a bunch of tests. turns out, I had h-pylori in my stomach and it had eaten SIX ULCERS in my stomach lining! had this problem continued for a couple more days, I would have had an actual hole in my stomach and died. I had to be on a liquid diet for three months. I KNEW IT WASN’T PERIOD PAIN!
Thank you, I was going to say that too. The things that make you remember. Lol! As a massage therapist & a nerd, I'd remember the difference between abduction & adduction movements by thinking abducting is the aliens taking you away, adducting is them putting you back because you're too much to handle. 😂
Sailor here. At about 9:00. Story about lady who drank 11 cups of coffee a day. COFFEE IS LIFE! THAT'S WHY WE CALL IT LIFER JUICE! We had a seventy cup pot in our shop. About 25 guys in our division (Assault Div., Eng. Dept., USS Nassau, LHA-4). We went thru that pot about 3 or 4 times a day.
Caffeine is a drug and to much of any drug is not good. But your case is different then hers. She was a little old lady and I'm sure you're all young and in better physical shape then she is. I was in the Marines and got out about 15 years ago, 39 now was 21 when I joined. I have no doubt if I tried drinking what I did then I would feel it a lot more then when I was young and in shape.
I used to have constant discussions with my doctor about how I don´t eat enough and that´s the reason why I´m always so tired. So I did a little experiment: I stopped taking the meds my other doctor told me to take in order to deal with my anger issues, and within a week I wasn´t tired at all anymore, and I could stand up for myself again. Also, I could let out my anger in small and concentrated dosages instead of blowing up big time once or twice a year.
My mom's friend was having pain in her chest, so she drove to the hospital by herself, and she walked in and said “I think I am having a heart attack" and later when we went to see her she said it was my fault she had a heart attack, because I was living with her, and teased her doughter, and her doughter teased me, even though she was a fat ass that was like 270lbs of pure fat
ICU nurse here, i can identify with so many of these stories. Had a patient who was 33 with severe sepsis (among other things) from extreme drug use. Patient kept saying, "he just needs some rest"..... like no, he's on 3 pressors, he could die at any moment.
one time a doctor put the blood pressure thing upside down on my arm lol and tried and failed to measure it. He was a student though it was actually adorable lol
Oh my god, why are the wishes of the family more important than the wishes of the patient?? How are they even entitled to that info?? Which country is that happening in again?
I had a co-worker who said when he was a child his mother made him drink glasses of water that had rusty nails in it. She said everyone needed iron. He drank the water not the nails. He was amazed he survived his childhood.
My mom actually had cravings for that kind of "rusty water" when she was a kid. She was severely anaemic, and it actually helped. Though, the water was so rusted it looked more like puddle-water. Doc said it was fine though. It happened because of standing water in old, rusted iron pipes.
I had an employee who had been out sick with a cold or something for a few days. His supervisor didn't like the symptoms and thought something was off and asked if he could require a doctor's exam to return to work. I told him yes. The employee refused. Died the next day. He was having a heart attack. His supervisor was right. He had full health insurance, no reason not to see a doctor.
My local hospital is terrible my neighbor's had extreme stomach pain they him it was just a stomach ache they had heard other stories of the hospital and decided to go to a hospital a town over turns out he had internal bleeding
10:30 but there is a lymph gland ar the back of you neck tjat does fill with fluid and does drain. In fact in a bizarre twist. As I'm writing this it did drain.
Uhhh, I'm pretty sure your cervical lymph nodes are on the side of your neck, and they absolutely should not be draining anywhere out of your skin. They may swell if you have a throat infection, causing the sides of your throat to swell, but they're like under your jaw. And if a lymph node is draining outside of your body, you have a serious, serious, _serious_ problem.
I generally trust doctors. That being said, they diagnosed my grandfather with dementia 4 times before realizing, hey he's a diabetic, maybe he just needs dialysis
@@shiflett82 he had everything failing from having diabetes and deciding to still eat tons of deserts and vodka before bed. Regular blood sugar levels of around 300. Was warned multiple times he'd end up on dialysis
U gotta realize doctors r overworked sometime going days with little or no sleep so they won't always get it right. They r professionals but u still have to ask questions
Every time I watch a vid' like this, I find myself leaning toward the theory that "House MD" researched all of his clinic scenes from medical reports out of real clinics... ;o)
Sounds like the small village in Brazil where a couple of junkers looted an abandoned hospital and found a broken X-Ray. Sold it to a guy who busted it open and discovered a glowing blue powder inside. He showed it to his family and friends, who smeared it on their faces and sprinkled it in their dinner, believing it would bless them or give them magic. His wife didn't want anything to do with it and thought something was off, so she carried the powder to a hospital in a plastic bag and asked what it could be. The powder was the X-Ray's radioactive source, the man and his family died of raditaion sickness, and as far as I know, most of the town is still undergoing cleanup. Don't mess around with cesium-137.
I feel extremely sorry and worried about those living beings under the care of such stupid people. People should have a licence to adopt pets or just reproduce.
As a massage therapist who is a Type 1 Diabetic, this just makes me extra shocked how the hell they came to that conclusion! If massage cured Diabetes, pretty sure I'd be cured by now. The "I can't even" reaction I have to the person you knew's conclusion is stronger than the double facepalm of Captain Picard & Commander Ryker. 😵
Whilst it won't help with diabetes.. a good, vigourous massage will actually help with kidney stones.. we learned this when dad passed kidney stones he didn't know he had, when he went to the toilet after a massage.. he felt them coming out, and heard them plinking into the urinal.. lol
When I worked in dermatology as an MA, this was just a nonstop thing I heard: "Any history of skin cancer?" "Nope" "Okay, any family history of skin cancer?" "No, not that I know of" When the doctor comes in and begins examining them, without fail, patients would say something along the lines of, "Oh well I did have a melanoma" Turns out that, no, looking at their old paper charts from years ago, their father had melanoma, and they had non-melanoma skin cancer. God, I hate people.
Technically, I’m pretty sure doctors are trying to find a way for two women to have one egg removed each and then combined so that one of them can carry the baby. But obviously, that would need medical intervention.
They can do that. What they do, is they take an egg, strip the DNA out of the egg, discard rest of egg structure. Take a sperm, remove the DNA form that, and stuff the DNA form the egg into it. We now have a sperm with the woman's DNA, ready to fertilize another egg. It's a difficult process though, and I believe it's still illegal for human use.
I've had unknown health problems that I've tried to get diagnosed and I'm genuinely worried that I'm making it all up when nothing shows on results..omg...
Many medical problems are idiopathic and or caused by diet and stress. Depending on what it is, you may be able to treat it yourself without medical intervention.
Me: "I've been diagnosed with Afib" My Cardiologist: "No, you have tachycardia". Me: silently decides not to mention that afib is a form of tachycardia and make a mental note to change cardiologists. When I told my new cardiologist why I switched, he laughed and said I made the right decision. Largely because I do, indeed, have Afib. And it is, indeed, a specific form of tachycardia. Whatever reason the other guy had for trying to "correct me" (ego, asserting superiority, incompetence, just trying to mess with me, whatever) is good reason not to have him as my doctor.
My blood sister, AND my sister in law both thought it would be worse for the baby to quit smoking while pregnant. My sisters dr. Told her so. 🤦🏼♀️ this is my sister who is 30, same as her husband who have 4 kids.. and neither work. My mother puts the roof over their heads, heat, hydro, car, and car insurance. But my sister sometimes buys groceries. How could I be soooo selfish and ask her to do more! Can’t even mow the law. Or shovel the snow. 🤬
My mom does ultrasound. She told me that one time a patient TOOK the probe from her hand and started scanning herself, saying that my mom was doing it wrong. My mom said that in that moment she was totally shocked, that a patient would take her equipment from her!
I'm a nurse and had a patient tell me I needed to check her oxygen because she hadn't been breathing all night. I also had a patient tell me that a doctor brought her back to life with a coca cola. So whenever she felt bad she wanted me to buy her a coke. Had another patient tell me that 2 5mg oxy's is not the same as one 10mg oxy.
I got a reverse case here: a doctor got me to do a surgery on my eye that I didn’t even need. I developed a small nevus (eye freckle) and he insisted it was carcinoma because it was a deep chocolate brown (wtf?). I was born with the mark and he ended scaring my mom and telling her I could loose my eye. He forced a syringe into my eye to apply anesthesia. The spot came back and it’s just chilling there, but now I have a scar in my sclera. I was eight. I still can’t get over it, since I could clearly see the thing go into my eye and I remember the pain.
m m no it was in Peru Also, please don’t call India a third world country, we’re in the process of fixing our corrupt system. Doctors in the south of Peru take advantage of the simple minded citizens, it happens here. While I did tell my mom that it was unlikely it was cancer, she didn’t want to take any risks
I heard, from my instructors, of mothers coming in with their child who had a febrile seizure (this happens and is, for the most part, nothing to worry about. It's a sudden body temperature increase in an infant or toddler that causes them to size). They bring their child in and demand that he/she be given Dilantin. This is a 1st generation anti-consultant that is very rarely used today because of the plethora of awful side effects it causes, and there are usually far better alternatives. I'm just left wondering how they know what Dilantin is and still think their child needs it.
You know, I was feeling shitty because I was having such a hard time with understanding the mathematics behind bacterial titers in microbiology, but after that story about the med student that didn't understand the difference between antivirals and antibiotics, I don't feel so bad.
My ex-husband was a military respiratory therapist and we were both smokers. He told me that quitting smoking kills people for some "blah blah" whatever, I don't remember the details, reason. Some weird control thing for him, I guessas he was prone to lies for control and manipulation for amusement. Funny, I quit cold whenever I was pregnant with one of our three kids and didn't drop dead.
the monkey characteristics one is making me crack up as my little monkey child attempts to climb me for the millionth time today. -- and if that logic WERE true than they should be begging to get the all the jabs because life is SO much easier when your kid(s) can help you carry them. My son is the sweetest boy ever (yes I'm predjudice there) but he has VERY poor coordination and other problems which means carrying him is like carrying dead weight. He'll try REALLY HARD to help but at best he'll strangle you with his arms trying to hold on, he can't clamp with his legs so they'll just dangle. My monkey child weighs more than my son did when he was her age but she is 100x easier to carry because she can clamp on and move with me so my balance isn't thrown off.
I like to amuse my doctor whenever i see him to tell him that "i already googled my symptoms, and webmd says..." He laughs because he knows I'm joking.
I have nerve damage from a surgeon cutting my nerve when reconstructing my ACL. Surgeon tells me damage is basically permanent. The skin of my shin feels like pins and needles when touched, not a painful feeling. A decade later I cut my hand on broken glass, split open the webbing between thumb and index. I feel the same pins and needles sensation when I touch my thumb. I determine the nerve in my thumb is damaged. Go to ER for stitches and deal only with awesome nurses that sow my skin together. Doctor comes to talk with me at the end and explain my situation. I nod and interrupt with "Yea, I know" more frequently than would be polite while he explains the nerve damage and that I would need to stretch the skin of the webbing to get full mobility of my thumb back. I could tell I annoyed him, but he really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.
Back 45 years ago, while in Medical School, I encountered a 15 year-old girl who was in the Clinic for her third abortion. I gently brought up the topic of contraception, which really, really pissed her off: "I can't do that; I'm a Catholic!!!"
It terrifies me how much a parent can legally choose to harm their children, even against the will of the children, themselves.
religion teaching is against the kids will too
@@med8615 That is an irrational and broad statement. Religion and denying a child life-saving treatment are not even remotely comparable. You may as well compare the state of Delaware to the ancient Assyrian Empire; it would make about as much sense and have the same degree of correlation, that is to say, none.
@@justinmccurdy9319 sure it's not comparable in the sense that anti-vaxxer can lead to child death whilst religion doesnt. But it still has an effect of the child.
Depending on the religion that can consist of genital mutilation (circumcision), refusal of certain life saving treatments (some religs don't allow transplants), refusal to take some meds cuz of the ingredients, some religions have a forced tax on it's followers, and most of all indoctrination.
So you can't say it has no ill effects.
UZ I can, however, say that not all religions have those problems. I can also say that male circumcision is not mutilation (female circumcision is though) since it has some health benefits and it is usually consensual. Additionally, it is a one-time thing, it has no long-term negative effects, and in the case of children it is usually done at birth so they have no memory of it. My brother for example was circumcised when he was born and he’s perfectly fine. As for indoctrination, are you telling me that you think teaching your own children your personal beliefs is indoctrination or that it is inherently wrong?
@@justinmccurdy9319
"is usually consensual" ....I'm sure most are done when the kid is a baby, that's not consensual. Sure it can reduces chances of infection of the foreskin but so does cutting off any other vestigial organ. Let's start cutting off their appendix, male nipples, etc. Also it's shown to reduce sensitivity, girls that have been with both types of guys have attested to that, so yes there may be ill effects.
When it comes to teaching beliefs, I would say that teaching your personal beliefs with the added "this is the 100% truth, the rest are completely wrong and sinners and going to hell, and you will be as well if you think otherwise" is indoctrination. Teaching your beliefs from the point of view of it being just another opinion on how the world works is fine.
There has to be a balance there somewhere, surely someone can word it better than be.
The ectopic pregnancy one should have been referred to CPS to get it sorted, since the kid was too scared of her mothers reaction to the truth that she was okay with dying.
For things like this, maybe the Doctors should have detained them or something so the authorities could be involved. Feel free to disagree, but I think if the daughter did die, the mother should be charged with negligent homicide or some degree of manslaughter.
This is the awful gray area of hippa and health. Even if she’s a minor, once your pregnant you are considered an adult and legally medical staff can’t tell the mom. We also can’t detain a person of sound mind. Or we can be sued, lose license etc. however they should have had mom step out of room and thoroughly explain the situation to the girl.
I hope the girl didn't die. Ectopic pregnancies are very dangerous, can't they be fatal?
@@mangaanimefan3089 Yeah. At some point, the egg would burst the fallopian tube leading to bleeding into the abdomen. You might feel like you've been punched in the side when it occurs, but if it isn't caught in time you'll bleed out internally. Pretty sad way to go if you ask me.
So many things wrong with that story
Oh my god. I’m a trained opera singer. And I had cancer. If it ever comes back, I’ll sing at different frequencies to kill the cancer cells... lol
Donde_lieta if that worked, 4chan /b/ wouldn’t exist
(reeeeee)
@s It's true that using frequencies can help to assist in some diseases. I've never heard it being used to kill cancer cells alone but I have heard of cancer patients using it to help with symptoms. There's a machine called an "Amp Coil" that helps mainly with Lyme disease. Other similar devices are called Rife machines. I own one and it truly does wonders. This can't be the only treatment though and I would NEVER recommend it to be used as the main treatment for cancer. We shouldn't call others morons for something they've most likely never heard of. It's actually a very interesting subject!
Sing at E8 xD
No actually don’t that will harm ur vocal cords
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Chill dude it’s just a joke
It doesn’t kill you to just not be a Debbie Downer, hahah!
Royal Rife did discover how frequencies can heal certain things! I have something called an amp coil and it uses this idea to help heal Chronic Lyme Sufferers. However, I would never recommend it being used for killing cancer cells. Although I do know some people with cancer who use frequency therapy (rife machines) to help with some symptoms like nausea and pain they're having. It has helped me tremendously (Chronic Lyme sufferer of 9 years) so there is some truth to frequency healing! (:
All the anti-vax stuff... It just reminds me of a phrase I heard once. "If we start referring to water as the vaccine for dehydration, the whole Anti-vax nonsense would be over with in a week."
lol i love it
Let's do it.
@@matthewhalo1799 Perfect
Reminds me of something I saw called "Raw Water." Basically it's water that isn't treated and still contains all the things that are normally removed for our health because, you know, "the government is trying to give us poisoned water."
@@a.j.duncan2050 *takes a long drink off her bottled water* Yeah, sure. _that's_ totally the cause of my depression! [/sarcasm] Watch though! Someone will see this and be like 'DOC I SAW SOMEONE SAY THIS ON UA-cam....'
A patient tried to tell me that their primary care doctor had given them a note saying they didn't have to wear their seatbelt. I'm a trauma surgeon. She was seriously injured in a car accident because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt.
@@expertoflizardcorrugation3967 not exactly healthy to be 100 kilos either
alph0n yeah but still happens
@Infinity Stones No you shouldn't because what happens then is you have paramedics arrive, they use time, liters of scarce blood to get you to a hospital where a trauma team made up of 5 doctors 4 nurses and a respiratory therapist stabilize you, then you get taken to a CT scanner where a tech takes the pictures and between 1 and 3 radiologists read the pictures. Then you will likely need to be seen by multiple specialist surgeons including neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery and take up an ICU bed, and basically cost the system countless limited resources and man hours all because you're too fucking lazy to put your belt on.
Infinity Stones How lazy are you? Putting on a seatbelt literally takes no extra time and make your odds of surviving or only being mildly harmed in an accident exponentially greater. You can also be a serious risk to others in the car if you are in an accident and you get hurled through the air because of the speed. It’s not only selfish but directly stupid not to wear a belt.
@Infinity Stones The healthcare industry does not struggle financially it struggles to keep up with demand. Human hours, medications, and hospital beds are the resources that are scarce, not money. The system is stretched thin enough without entitled assholes like you out there.
“A vaccine turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?”
“... I got better.”
That is what I was looking for in the comments.
sHE tUrNed mE InTo A nEWt!!!!!
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‘Tis but a flesh wound
I needed this
I recall years ago a doc saying that depriving my great grandmother of her singular daily smoke woukd be too stressful for her as she was so routinous and 93.
My brother has understood this to mean that giving up smoking is dangerous.
People are just wonderfully dumb.
Yeah, at this point long-term damage doesn’t mean much.
The appendix/scrotum one is real dangerous. You NEED to tell your kid the truth about surgeries like that, otherwise they're going to think it's impossible for them to get appendicitis and might ignore the symptoms.
I've recently become paranoid about appendicitis. I have a high pain tolerance and I'm afraid I'll ignore it thinking it's not serious because "it doesn't hurt too bad" and then wait for it to go away😟😟😟
@@SharRawr Appendicitis pain first off to be pretty dull and in the middle of your gut (imagine a pain circle around the belly button). Then after a bit (hour or so) it will get sharper and more painful, the pain will also move to the lower right side of your gut (near the tip of your hipbone that sticks out). It will also hurt to move your thighs up in the air when you're laying down. dont get too paranoid lol, it can have effects on how you precieve pain.
@@med8615 lol thank you!! No one ever describes the pain!! They always say it hurts and I'm sitting here thinking "WHERE?!".. 😂
@@SharRawr lol all good. also a low grade fever is a good indicator it's appendicitis and not a random cramp.
Yeah. Also, I feel like that's the one story here that isn't actually stupid. Like the parents implied it was appendicitis to their kid and never told him the truth, so it makes sense for him to rationalize where the scar was. Especially since he's a kid who wouldn't know better. It wasn't his fault.
Person: I'm sick
Doctor: you have *insert sickness here*
Person: nO i DoNt, YoU dOnT kNoW aNyThInG aBoUt MeDiCiNe
Person; I know my body!
Kinda hard to pity someone who would trust a witch and an online test.
You have no idea what kind of background they grew up in and what crazy shit was told to them though. Their ignorance could easily be a result of their parenting
Some are that much of a moron. As a Witch, ones that do shit like sell a 'fix all's s a scame and just want your cash and hopes you die from their fix. I hate the onea that do that. I will always say, 'never stop doing as your Doc has told you. '
Loki's Witch I’m actually genuinely shocked about that guy who died from HIV because a ‘witch’ told him to stop taking his meds. Every witch I’ve come across have only ever said something along the lines of ‘my services is NOT a replacement for medical advice or medical care’. That ‘witch’ that was referenced in the video is most definitely a charlatan.
@@juliannecolosi271 i think so too. Poor man. Sucked that he did it
@@beardlessdragon Sure, but they obviously had internet access and were actively doing some kind of "research" so there's really no excuse for not learning from the massive amount of freely available and well verified information that is all over the place. You can be "handicapped" by your upbringing but you can't use it as an excuse forever once you enter into greater society.
Didn’t know meth users and heroine users hate each other. Then again I don’t do either.
I’m not sure but they do mingle sometimes from past experiences (dad did both)
Thanks for your comment I couldn't figure out what was the h and m
@@BansheeVanRaven bruh
@@booty_hunter4207 yeah I know. Im used to sex stuff being censored not drugs
They hate each other because they see themselves in the other, they see how low and pathetic they have become. Simple plus ironically enough they tend to steal lot of the same shit so in a weird way its competition also. And before anyone says I'm wrong or an idiot no I'm not my sister her boyfriend and my neighbors were a mix of heroin and meth heads glad I left when I did last I checked other neighbors kept having stuff stolen or broken into random fight people coming and out at all hours and some addict got shot, so needless to say I have experience with both
I would have called cps on the mom whos daughter had an egtopic pregnancy!
The daughter could have died.. leaving the ER like that and not getting help :( Guess we won't know what happened then.
I know. I’ve had one at 15 and if my parents weren’t progressive and accepting I’d be dead
Yeah I'm pretty what the mom did was illegal and the hospital is also at fault for not stopping her. Patients have a right to refuse treatment but that doesn't mean parents get to make that choice for their kids.
@@saammmy7 parents do get to make that choice though. If the child is under 18 (or other specific age), parents make medical choices instead of them.
@@Etianen7 they shouldn't with anyone over the age of 10
Wait what happened to the 14 year old? Did she have ectopic pregnancy? That's a life threatening illness, did she get treatment later on?
I hope she got treatment . . .
She... Probably died tbh 😢😭
She deeed
Said she did.
"Mr, your blood pressure is too high"
-"It's okay, that's why I have my blood pressure medication"
"No, we need to up the dosage"
-"No we don't, I already have medication"
"Yeah but not enough"
-"But I have medication"
"Look, your blood pressure levels are too high. The medication works by lowering it. If it's still high, we need to up the medication"
-"No, you see, I already have my medication"
simple metaphor a boat with a hole filling with water. the current med amount was a drinking glass that worked for a bit but the leak is worse/the glass isn't quick enough so we are going to give you something bigger like a bucket
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You don't have ENOUGH medication, since your blood pressure is still high even with it.
@The nobody shit isn't fucking funny anger intensifies
And back and forth and back and forth.
I’m convinced every single one of these encounters took place in the US
Most of them at least. May be a few UK, but most likely US.
SamusLovesMilk same
Same...
Well I'm not suprised at all if that's the case
as a volunteer of the US, I strongly agree with this statement.
Registered Nurse here, I was talking to my Aunt and Uncle about my chest X ray results saying that my lungs were clear when my uncle corrected me and said lung. He said everyone has one lung. He showed me his actual chest X ray film showing he had one lung. I said the image one taken from the side so only one lung will show from that angle. I tried so hard not to laugh. Lol ; )
😭😭 oh my. I wouldn't be able to hold in my laughter
@@Shadow_1923 I know! Lol ; )
Technically they both still show from the side pic ;)
@@KirstineDamgaard well one is behind the other though. Lol
n go oh absolutely but at times you can actually distinguish them from each other, even if one is “hiding” ^_^
I worked as a dental nurse and had a mum come in with her 2 small children at the end of the appointment the dentist usually applies fluoride to the child's teeth the mother refused insisting that it would make their teeth weak and fall out so curious i asked what her children use to brush their teeth and this lady says Colgate so i ask if it is fluoride free and she tries to explain to me that toothpaste doesn't contain fluoride and insisted i was incompetent and unfit for my job
17:26 , being someone with chronic pain, when asked if I have pain elsewhere, I always ask "out with my usual pain?" because yes I'm in pain elsewhere, but no I'm not hurt elsewhere. I have pain unrelated to the current situation.
I have chronic pain too so when asked if I have pain elsewhere I always reply with "no more than usual"
I hate being asked about pain when I go to Wound Care (off and on - long-term diabetic with lymphedema). They INSIST on a 1-10 rating and REFUSE to answer whether they want my normal standard live with 7+ level pain included.
oh my god that vertigo joke would have been genius if it had been intentional
As for the 'know your body' thing, sometimes it pays to listen. Just to list a few;
-Aunt felt like something was wrong. Dizzy, nauseous, not good in general. Doctor's tell her she's just sick and to go home and rest, despite her protests that something wasn't right. Turns out she'd had a small untreated stroke that later caused a brain aneurysm.
-My own leg got messed up during some drunken Nerf gun hijinks for a friends birthday. Me being me, I tried to jump through the fork of a willow-like tree instead of around and my foot got caught. Cue a huge crack in my knee cap and then the most intense pain I have felt in my life, including the time I was 12 and my arm was broken for 3 days before mum took me to the doctor. I couldn't move. I finally got helped up and got an ambulance called, went to hospital and they did some scans. They assumed because I was drinking I was exaggerating. Did some 'scans' and told me I was completely fine and just drunk, walk home and sleep it off. WALK home. I couldn't bend my leg for upwards of six months, it was so swollen at the knee cap I need knew pants (not a huge skirt gal) and the pain was just.. wow. But I pushed through because "nothing was wrong with it". Fast forward a few years and my new doctor notices my kneecap is a little wonky. Long story short, I have a badly healed untreated dislocated kneecap, a chipped rotator cuff and a couple badly healed snapped tendons. Made sure they got the scans this time.
- High school boyfriend couldn't eat, I had to help him to the bathroom etc. He got so weak he couldn't leave bed without me (he was 18. Here that means he'd graduated high school a year ago, while I was 17 and still finishing grade 12, so he had his own place and lived alone, except when I'd visit every spare moment) Managed to get him to a hospital. They told him he had the flu. Did that a few times, take him to hospital, they tell him he's got the flu, he gets sent home. It got worse and worse until he had to fly back to his mother's a few states down because it was so bad now I couldn't manage high school, work, study and looking after him all at once. She took him to the hospital down there once he arrived. Cancer. He had fucking cancer. He's been dead now for about six years.
Sure, some people might be faking or think they know what's going on when they don't. But never dismiss a patient. I'd rather you test for something and be wrong, than not test for something when it turns out you should have. Better safe than dead.
A vet told me once that she’d been about to sedate a horse with xylazine when the owner goes, “oh and xylazine doesn’t work on him, you have to use rhompun.” They’re the same thing.
I had a patient swear up and down that he will not take Lipitor, only Atorvastatin... ... They're the same thing, and he insisted such even after I explained he's been taking this a while now and it was the same medication the nurse the night before gave him.... Still refused it in sistant he did not take it...
Once, I went to the hospital with a STABBING pain on my lower abdomen, and the docs couldn't find out what was wrong. I was sent to a lab for an ultrasound and the lab technician (a trainee) told my mom I had polycystic ovaries. The truth is, my appendix had burst a few days earlier and peritoneal fluid was flooding my organs and necrosing part of my intestines and he actually couldn't even see my organs so he just guessed. We went to another lab not covered by my health insurance, with a trustworthy lab technician and he gave the diagnosis for peritonitis (IV) and I was rushed to the OR. My surgeon told my mom that if I had stayed like that for another day I would enter sepsis and most likely, die.
LOL!!!
“A vaccine turned me into a newt!”
“A newt?!”
“....well I got better”
Couldn’t help but finish that Monty Python ref.
11 cups of coffee is to much!
Chuckles, I’m in danger.
Sandra Viknander Cups? Cups are for wimps!
Only a REAL man would drink the pitcher! *chugs entire pitcher of coffee* OoOOooHhhhh, I don't feel so good... 🤢
I had a patient tell me that their dentist said that their x-rays contains 0 radiation and were appalled that x-rays at other hospitals and medical clinics contained low levels of radiation.
Muser4Life Should tell them about Tesla spend quarter of an hour trying to x-ray his brain.
8:23 my sister was having some type of seizure once (the doctors still arent sure if its seizures or something else... shell all of a sudden start talking nonsense, then sprint, then fall to the ground and her hands and body go completely stiff, her eyes roll back, shes unresponsive). This was the 1st time it occurred, so my mom yelled for me because she didnt know what to do. I decided since it looked like she was sleeping, putting an ice cube on her spine would shock her nervous system back to reality. It 100% worked, but dont ask me why. It was an impulse decision and im not sure why or how it worked, but im definitely not going to run around throwing ice on people having seizures
It might be a situation of adding a extreme irritant waking her up, likely when she became unresponsive the episode was over. There's a possibility a sternal rub or those smelling salts in some places (especially blood donation clinics) would have a similiar effect.
_"I wonder how many botox patients don't know what it is..."_
I'm going to guess, "All the ones who haven't seen those commercials about it".
Or just about all of them.
As a person in the food industry, it's my job to prevent people from taking a lethal dose of botox orally..... also called botulism
15:10 “Do you want me to use my own judgment, or to pull the tube out? I can’t do both of those. ;3 -w-“
i'd like to specify, that as a patient, i *do* know my body. I'm having gynocological pain, two doctors have told me it's either cysts or endometriosis and i need to have imaging done, and my gyno (WITHOUT DOING IMAGING) told me, oh no, it's definitely a GI problem. go to a physical therapist, i clearly can't help you. I feel stupid, because everybody (including my mother) says, oh she's the doctor she knows better than you. but im having textbook symptoms and have had two other doctors tell me to go to her to get imaging done, so i feel stupid for feeling stupid.
There are certain cases like yours where the doctor is the idiot. I had something that may have been Adenomyosis (said to be cousin to Endometriosis), & somehow lucked out with an OBGYN who new her sh*t. Way too many women end up with the doctor being dumb or stuck in the 50s, sometimes both. My mom had it worse than mine so her 2x a month periods were also extremely heavy. She had docs say that since she didn't show up as anemic "it can't be that bad." She finally got a good Gynecologist (father of a high school friend of mine) who actually took her seriously. I hope you can find more success with a better doctor.
Honey..find a new obg..yours is lazy and that could compromise your health permanently!
@lizzy rosario Gotta agree. I was having heart and lung issues and saw my pediatric family doc... ran a stress test and my heartrate was 160 resting. It went over 206 and they had to stop the test. Testing people were very concerned. Doc said that's normal for a 15 year old.... later on went to another genetic doc for a possible genetic disorder. She diagnosed me with a rare but potentially life threatening disorder and did extensive genetic testing that took 3 months... gave it to my primary & she literally throws it across the table & says "This means nothing. You're fine."
Patients who stop taking their medication are up to 80% patients with very high blood pressure. But then I myself have problems with the blood pressure as there is no possibility of medication. I have very low blood pressure (around 90/65) All I wish is to take some medication so it will be normal..
Edit Extremely low -> very low
Wrong number on the diastolic so not 90/75 I meant writing 90/65.. Im sorry for that.
I used to to take florinef/ midodrine (not at same time) to help but the side effects were too much for me. Im not a doctor but just sharing part of my struggle with low bp. Lowest it’s been is 57/43. I also have conditions that affect my heart so thats a factor. Increasing salt and water will help
@@ohweea There was a medication that worked a bit but did not boost blood pressure so much but it is no longer to get hold of in Sweden. So when I faint or feel I'm doing so I get to take an EPI Pen it gets the heart pressure raises. My lowest is 62/46. Not so fun when you are 183cm long very far down to the ground.. ;)
Miss Goofy dang you’re tall! Try salt, electrolytes and water. Does help enough to notice but nothing significant. Im barely 160cm 😭 coconut water is better than gatorade but you *cannot* drink a lot or you’ll have too much potassium.
@@ohweea I love to be tall, so many who look up to me hihi.. My blood pressure problem is an "reaction" after My gastric Bypas surgery, I went down from 142kg to 62kg over 18 months. But I have learned that Don't stand up too quickly. If I do it, it looks like I'm very drunk for a minute until I can sit down. Can be a bit embarrassing when you are the shop or out walking in town
Miss Goofy lmao me too people stare at me when I stumble. Losing weight does indeed lower your blood pressure dramatically. When I weighed less it was a lot lower than it is now.
13:02 Don't blame the patient for that. It is far from common knowledge that many acute pains have their origins in completely different parts of the body.
This is pretty true. As a massage therapist, I often have to explain that sometimes where they feel pain may not be where the problem is, so that's why I make sure to check the muscles in areas that often can refer to the painful spot.
When my doctor explained to me that pain can radiate to other areas I understood it because the nervous system can be a bitch sometimes
I never knew this until I learned about deferred pain in my Human Anatomy and Physiology class. The pain can be felt at one spot even though the actual point of harm/irritation/inflammation can be somewhere far away from that pain spot
I went to the doctor a while back with some lower abdominal pain on left side and the doctors ran all sorts of tests for appendicitis before checking anything else cause that's where appendicitis symptoms would usually start ... nerves are weird like that
Yep. Knee pain can actually be an issue with the back or hip, shoulder pain can be a heart attack, "kidney pain" can be a back issue...
Gallbladders CAN and DO grow back. Source: Endogenous human stem-cell biologist.
I have spasms in the gallbladder and it feels exactly like gallstones... It's a fricking terrible pain, I will give birth to a child without pain relief (again) If they can guarantee that I will never again get an attack ...
@@CarolineOfSweden I'm continually surprised to hear that gallbladder attack pain is worse than childbirth, because I've been told so often that childbirth is one of the worst pains you can ever experience. I had a series of four gallbladder attacks before getting mine taken out. I guess that means I could handle the pain of childbirth?
@@ladyi7609 It is ambulance in and they have tog buckle me to the bed in the back, otherwise I jump around the ambulance. You can not lie still or sit still or stand still you have to be in MOTION, but it MAKES the pain just as bad so had it workt I had gladly fainted of
ladyi7609 I had gallbladder attacks when I was 14. My gallbladder was filled with polyps, my gallbladder had died, and had grown adhesions to surrounding structures. VERY very painful. I have yet to give birth to a child, so I can’t vouch for that claim, but I’ve always heard people say they’d rather give birth than go through that pain again.
@@bearsbeetsbattlestargalactica6 I had my gallbladder go bad too. From 14-20 I had to deal with it cause my doctors told me I was too young for that issue and it was just a minor ulcer from school and stress. Turns out my gallbladder basically grew tons of stones, then exploded then I went septic. I had 'attacks' that felt like the WORST muscle cramp ever. To where I was crying and I couldn't eat for days at a time, not even water. I've never had kids either..but I would rather get shot or stabbed than have to deal with that pain again ;.;
Everyone just KNOWS that they’re right and everyone else is wrong.
They may not have the correct information, but at least they're not in doubt :^)
@lizzy rosario Well, I'm very sorry to hear that you have had problems because of your family doctors, but not all of them are like that. My family doctor is one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met, and she's helped me (with help from my therapist) get through my depression with medication.
Aye, that one about Nonna's caffeine addiction. I was in major denial about how legitimate caffeine addiction was until I fell pregnant with my 3rd child and went cold turkey on coffee. 3 day long headache that just kept intensifying, sweats, shakes.....went away within 10mins of having a coffee (which I had because it had been the only change to my diet)....cut down carefully after that. It's no fun
My mom refuses to believe antibiotics dont cure viruses
Nightshade Kelly In my family we debate antibiotics. I’m sick (mental health issues, but I have a really weak immune system), my dad has diabetes type 2 and my mom has cancer. So we’ve had people get really sick and the more antibiotics you take the worse they will work in the future. Last time we were debating if my mom with an infection level of ~60 should take them or not. (Your normal is supposed to be 0, can be 4 or so and you can still be healthy). She didn’t end up taking them. My dad is the record holder _without_ antibiotics at ~120, I’m the record holder _with_ antibiotics, I had sepsis and it was up at 462. And I don’t know why I feel inclined to share this. Families with illness have to make light of it, I guess.
have her take biology classes she will find out that bacteria is a living thing and viruses are not considered a living thing by most for a few reasons that i cant recall all the details about so i wont be able to name them but its like middle school stuff so its not hard to look up
Viruses cant be killed since they arent technically alive
8:00 “not compatable with life”
“When she FINALLY died,-”
Me- FINALLY FOOL WHAT,
My older sister, maybe like 8 years old, once went to my friend's dad for an eye exam. She insisted that she needed glasses and couldn't see correctly. When in reality, she just wanted to wear glasses cause they looked cool. My friend's dad and my mom played along that she had really poor eyesight and whatnot. Then at the end, the game had stopped and my friend's dad was like, "You passed your exam better than most patients do. Maybe just wear some sunglasses if you like their appearance?" She was so embarrassed.
When the robot says Botox it sounds like buttocks 😂
I wish someone would dilute my buttocks.
That explains why my patient got mad when I gave them "buttock in the face".
i have myopia and my family is convinced it's because i use my phone.
they also think that if i wear my glasses all the time then it'll make my eyes worse (that's false, i researched it a lot).
Yikes! Hopefully you're able to wear your glasses fully enough & that your family can eventually understand their folly.
Sarah Crittenden i mostly just wear them for school, because i can still see things close to me, but sometimes i can't read what the board says during class. but i do wear them to the movies and sometimes out in public.
apple Friend of mine (in her 50s) won't wear her glasses in public. Was with when she had to pull out a magnifying glass to read a leaflet - said I thought wearing her glasses might be less conspicuous. She agreed with me but .. no.
It took my parents nearly a year, and a conversation with an optician, to believe me when I said I needed glasses..though, I don't really blame them..
When I was 8, every school morning during breakfast, I would say I needed glasses because I couldn't see the clock on the other side of the kitchen. On days off, I ate in the living room. This clock was the only thing I had an issue with. I had zero problems in school, even when I was moved to the back of the class. Yet, I was adamant I needed glasses. My parents didn't believe me, saying that it was just me being tired in the mornings. Just after I turned 9, I was called for a routine checkup at the optician. Mum got told that I needed glasses, and had likely needed them for a few months at that point.
Thing was, when it came to where I sat for breakfast on school mornings.. at no other time did I ever sit there.. so all we had to rely on was the fact that I complained every school morning.. Though, I did get to say a big "I TOLD YOU SO" to my parents XD
@@ianmoseley9910 This is something I don't understand.. people who need glasses for the majority of their activities, not using them. I have been wearing glasses 23 years now. At the start, for the first few months, yeah, I didn't always wear them.. but I was like, 9 and getting used to them. Once they became a habit, that was it.. Now, at 32, I only remove them for a shower, swimming, bed, or looking at something up close like a book or a screen. By up close, I mean within 6in of my nose.
interesting thing about the one at 9:23. I'm sure things have changed since the early 2000s but when my mom was pregnant with me, the doc told her to cut down smoking, but that she shouldn't quit because the stress of withdrawal could harm me. Again, I'm sure far less doctors today would say that, but maybe it was advice from her mother?
Actually a while ago I was in a psychiatric hospital (I have depression) and there was a woman there for whom it later on turned out that she was pregnant, she was a heavy smoker too and the doctors actually did tell her to reduce the smoking to get her body used to having less nicotine flowing through her, bc it actually does harm the baby if she'd stop right away
If I were a doctor and I can’t convince anyone that something is good within 4 days, I’ll just let them go with their ‘Treatments’
The med student at 11:07 is so totally wrong. I'm a medical physicist and know for a fact that cancer cells and regular cells don't have the same resonance (that's the word he was trying to describe) frequencies. Cancerous cells and healthy cells have a different structure, different sizes and stiffness resulting in different resonance frequencies. If you know the right frequency, you can target the cancer cells and by increasing the amplitude of the frequency you can make the cancer cells vibrate really fast, overheating and killing them without damaging the healthy cells. Look up "hyperthermy" or "hifu therapy". These methods are already being used in several places (around europe, I'm from germany). But obviously that's nothing you can/should buy from the internet lol gotta be done by professional doctors/physicians/radiologists.
It's been used effectively for prostate cancer as long as the patients meet certain requirements, like it staying localised and the prostate is not enlarged. It is still a directional beam and can do damage to the surrounding tissue. The advantage is that there are less side effects that radiation or surgery, although studies are still on going. It's more commonly used for face lifts, but still has side effects. By no means is it settled technology.
Not a single link as evidence, probably all made up to make yourself some money
3:17 I heard this as “I think about five or six different _beatings_ were held with her family”
Man, I'm not fit to be a doctor. I wouldn't be able to handle that amount of stupid... o__o
I remember having shingles, I never knew there was a medicine for it, we even went to the doctor and they couldn't find out what was causing pain, meaning I had the worst two weeks of my life, they found out it was shingles when it was over
9:40 - ACTUALLY when I was pregnant in Canada around 2006, yeah, we were told not to quit cold turkey and that doing so would cause excessive stress during the pregnancy. The advice was to cut back as much as possible and quit only if no withdraw symptoms are manifesting. The withdraw from cigarettes can cause more problems than the smoking will cause if the pregnant woman was already a long-time smoker.
That particular doctor was actually risking that patient's health by refusing during what could've been a withdraw moment. Depending on how far along she was, that could've put her into early labor, the stress and physical effects of that.
Pretty sure they were talking about smoking cigarettes not crack..... No the withdrawal from cigarettes is not going to cause more problems than quitting smoking, You don't have to take my word for it, ask a Doctor or look it up.
shiflett82 lol
Thats utterly nonsense, ever saw a unstressfull pregnancy?
“Well, to be fair, without pills, he’ll get to see Jesus very soon”
WHEEZE
*WHEEZE*
I CAN’T...
On the one hand correcting medical professionals is usually a bad thing, on the other hand I once had a therapist who recommended I try the paleo diet when I talked about forgetting to eat and I later found out that she was an anti-vaxxer. I also had a therapist who, after learning of my diagnoses, told me I didn't look like I had ADHD and went on about how smart autistic people are.
Literally sitting here, with both hands in my hair, pulling it out bc of all the stupidity in this
pre-med student here and I will say that sometimes patients are CORRECT when they say, “I know my body.” I remember once when I was 14, I was having the most incredible abdominal pains that would hit in me huge waves throughout the day. I visited my doctor (a male) and he was asking me a lot of questions about my period. I told him that, as a female, I KNOW the difference between stomach pain and menstrual pain (it’s an entirely different area of feeling?) and that what I was experiencing was stomach pain. he told me that I was still young and that hormones would cause my menstrual cycle to feel differently as I got older, so I was just having menstrual cramps- keep in mind, I wasn’t even on my period at this point. okay, whatever, I went home. a couple of days later, I collapse to the floor in so much pain that my body is seizing and I am feverish. my parents rushed me to the ER where they ran a bunch of tests. turns out, I had h-pylori in my stomach and it had eaten SIX ULCERS in my stomach lining! had this problem continued for a couple more days, I would have had an actual hole in my stomach and died. I had to be on a liquid diet for three months. I KNEW IT WASN’T PERIOD PAIN!
I'm really heartbroken for the girl having an ectopic pregnancy :'( I really hope she got the surgery done somehow...
"Sir, you broke your leg and your foot is literally pointing in the opposite direction" "No I didn't. I know my body"
*infarction
I know this because in my anatomy studies it sounds like “fart”
Thank you, I was going to say that too. The things that make you remember. Lol! As a massage therapist & a nerd, I'd remember the difference between abduction & adduction movements by thinking abducting is the aliens taking you away, adducting is them putting you back because you're too much to handle. 😂
I noticed that too.
Sailor here. At about 9:00. Story about lady who drank 11 cups of coffee a day. COFFEE IS LIFE! THAT'S WHY WE CALL IT LIFER JUICE!
We had a seventy cup pot in our shop. About 25 guys in our division (Assault Div., Eng. Dept., USS Nassau, LHA-4). We went thru that pot about 3 or 4 times a day.
yall have problems
Caffeine is a drug and to much of any drug is not good. But your case is different then hers. She was a little old lady and I'm sure you're all young and in better physical shape then she is. I was in the Marines and got out about 15 years ago, 39 now was 21 when I joined. I have no doubt if I tried drinking what I did then I would feel it a lot more then when I was young and in shape.
@@tonyblake7569 I'm 48 now. There's a lot of things I wouldn't dream of doing now that I did back when I was 20.
Now who the hell jsut straight up refuses they're having a heart attack?
They think denial will make it go away.
"I had my gall bladder removed 20 years ago but it grew back" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 THAT KILLED ME
19:56 "I got better."
"If she weighs the same as a duck...?" "She's a witch!!" 😂
I used to have constant discussions with my doctor about how I don´t eat enough and that´s the reason why I´m always so tired. So I did a little experiment: I stopped taking the meds my other doctor told me to take in order to deal with my anger issues, and within a week I wasn´t tired at all anymore, and I could stand up for myself again. Also, I could let out my anger in small and concentrated dosages instead of blowing up big time once or twice a year.
My mom's friend was having pain in her chest, so she drove to the hospital by herself, and she walked in and said “I think I am having a heart attack" and later when we went to see her she said it was my fault she had a heart attack, because I was living with her, and teased her doughter, and her doughter teased me, even though she was a fat ass that was like 270lbs of pure fat
ICU nurse here, i can identify with so many of these stories. Had a patient who was 33 with severe sepsis (among other things) from extreme drug use. Patient kept saying, "he just needs some rest"..... like no, he's on 3 pressors, he could die at any moment.
8:26 Uh...I think that doctor means myocardial inFARction...
As the old saying goes: "You can't argue with stupid."
8:30 It's spelled *"infarction",* _not "infraction"._
Anyone who doesn't believe me: I dare you to look it up, then reply with the link you found.
probably just a typo
Yeah, but _whose_ typo?
@@Jedidiah_Martin_2 Looks like it's some random Reddit user's typo.
It's not infraction, it's infarctIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON.
....This Leviosa reference working for anyone?
Ha.. Ha.
one time a doctor put the blood pressure thing upside down on my arm lol and tried and failed to measure it. He was a student though it was actually adorable lol
I have zero pity for 99% of these people
Oh my god, why are the wishes of the family more important than the wishes of the patient??
How are they even entitled to that info??
Which country is that happening in again?
No views, but 4 likes? Thanks youtube, very cool!
nsms hyhshs hhahahahha that's really funny
I had a co-worker who said when he was a child his mother made him drink glasses of water that had rusty nails in it. She said everyone needed iron. He drank the water not the nails. He was amazed he survived his childhood.
😳
That idea goes back a long way - strangely enough iron can be absorbed that way, just not enough to really help
My mom actually had cravings for that kind of "rusty water" when she was a kid. She was severely anaemic, and it actually helped. Though, the water was so rusted it looked more like puddle-water. Doc said it was fine though. It happened because of standing water in old, rusted iron pipes.
ngl if you crush iron pills they taste metal-y
Iron in water is not dangerous. Much well-water has iron in it (check if local rivers are a bit rust-coloured, then there's iron in the soil).
As a climate scientist I can relate
I had an employee who had been out sick with a cold or something for a few days. His supervisor didn't like the symptoms and thought something was off and asked if he could require a doctor's exam to return to work. I told him yes. The employee refused. Died the next day. He was having a heart attack. His supervisor was right. He had full health insurance, no reason not to see a doctor.
My local hospital is terrible my neighbor's had extreme stomach pain they him it was just a stomach ache they had heard other stories of the hospital and decided to go to a hospital a town over turns out he had internal bleeding
It's sad what people will do in desperation, denial, and hysteria.
10:30 but there is a lymph gland ar the back of you neck tjat does fill with fluid and does drain.
In fact in a bizarre twist. As I'm writing this it did drain.
Uhhh, I'm pretty sure your cervical lymph nodes are on the side of your neck, and they absolutely should not be draining anywhere out of your skin. They may swell if you have a throat infection, causing the sides of your throat to swell, but they're like under your jaw. And if a lymph node is draining outside of your body, you have a serious, serious, _serious_ problem.
You seem to also have an abscess draining.
@@BothHands1 what about your occipital lymph nodes. Also I didn't say anything about draining outside of your body.
@@BothHands1 no. Lymph nodes drain it's what they do
William Winder the guy in the video had an abscess draining to the outside of his body.
“You’re having a heart attack”
“No, I’m not.”
It's one away from "No you".
I generally trust doctors. That being said, they diagnosed my grandfather with dementia 4 times before realizing, hey he's a diabetic, maybe he just needs dialysis
Are you joking? Diabetics get insulin or oral medications, renal patients receive dialysis. I guess he could have kidney failure from diabetes.......
@@shiflett82 he had everything failing from having diabetes and deciding to still eat tons of deserts and vodka before bed. Regular blood sugar levels of around 300. Was warned multiple times he'd end up on dialysis
My mother was always upset that doctors initially treated my father for TB (this was in the 1950s) but he had lung cancer.
U gotta realize doctors r overworked sometime going days with little or no sleep so they won't always get it right. They r professionals but u still have to ask questions
Every time I watch a vid' like this, I find myself leaning toward the theory that "House MD" researched all of his clinic scenes from medical reports out of real clinics... ;o)
Not related but some women carried uranium rocks around and got radiation sickness.
Sounds like the small village in Brazil where a couple of junkers looted an abandoned hospital and found a broken X-Ray. Sold it to a guy who busted it open and discovered a glowing blue powder inside. He showed it to his family and friends, who smeared it on their faces and sprinkled it in their dinner, believing it would bless them or give them magic. His wife didn't want anything to do with it and thought something was off, so she carried the powder to a hospital in a plastic bag and asked what it could be. The powder was the X-Ray's radioactive source, the man and his family died of raditaion sickness, and as far as I know, most of the town is still undergoing cleanup. Don't mess around with cesium-137.
I feel extremely sorry and worried about those living beings under the care of such stupid people. People should have a licence to adopt pets or just reproduce.
I know someone who believes massage therapy cured his diabetes. Hes dieing from extremely bad diabetes that has been left untreated
As a massage therapist who is a Type 1 Diabetic, this just makes me extra shocked how the hell they came to that conclusion! If massage cured Diabetes, pretty sure I'd be cured by now. The "I can't even" reaction I have to the person you knew's conclusion is stronger than the double facepalm of Captain Picard & Commander Ryker. 😵
Whilst it won't help with diabetes.. a good, vigourous massage will actually help with kidney stones.. we learned this when dad passed kidney stones he didn't know he had, when he went to the toilet after a massage.. he felt them coming out, and heard them plinking into the urinal.. lol
When I worked in dermatology as an MA, this was just a nonstop thing I heard:
"Any history of skin cancer?"
"Nope"
"Okay, any family history of skin cancer?"
"No, not that I know of"
When the doctor comes in and begins examining them, without fail, patients would say something along the lines of, "Oh well I did have a melanoma"
Turns out that, no, looking at their old paper charts from years ago, their father had melanoma, and they had non-melanoma skin cancer.
God, I hate people.
Nice! :3 Early too!
Technically, I’m pretty sure doctors are trying to find a way for two women to have one egg removed each and then combined so that one of them can carry the baby. But obviously, that would need medical intervention.
They can do that. What they do, is they take an egg, strip the DNA out of the egg, discard rest of egg structure. Take a sperm, remove the DNA form that, and stuff the DNA form the egg into it. We now have a sperm with the woman's DNA, ready to fertilize another egg. It's a difficult process though, and I believe it's still illegal for human use.
I've had unknown health problems that I've tried to get diagnosed and I'm genuinely worried that I'm making it all up when nothing shows on results..omg...
Many medical problems are idiopathic and or caused by diet and stress. Depending on what it is, you may be able to treat it yourself without medical intervention.
Me: "I've been diagnosed with Afib"
My Cardiologist: "No, you have tachycardia".
Me: silently decides not to mention that afib is a form of tachycardia and make a mental note to change cardiologists.
When I told my new cardiologist why I switched, he laughed and said I made the right decision. Largely because I do, indeed, have Afib. And it is, indeed, a specific form of tachycardia.
Whatever reason the other guy had for trying to "correct me" (ego, asserting superiority, incompetence, just trying to mess with me, whatever) is good reason not to have him as my doctor.
12:34 as a Catholic myself I facepalmed so hard at that statement
AftrLifKillr how are they an idiot?
My blood sister, AND my sister in law both thought it would be worse for the baby to quit smoking while pregnant. My sisters dr. Told her so. 🤦🏼♀️ this is my sister who is 30, same as her husband who have 4 kids.. and neither work. My mother puts the roof over their heads, heat, hydro, car, and car insurance. But my sister sometimes buys groceries. How could I be soooo selfish and ask her to do more! Can’t even mow the law. Or shovel the snow. 🤬
My mom does ultrasound. She told me that one time a patient TOOK the probe from her hand and started scanning herself, saying that my mom was doing it wrong. My mom said that in that moment she was totally shocked, that a patient would take her equipment from her!
"Yeah but it grew back"
I knew everyone were lizards
I'm a nurse and had a patient tell me I needed to check her oxygen because she hadn't been breathing all night. I also had a patient tell me that a doctor brought her back to life with a coca cola. So whenever she felt bad she wanted me to buy her a coke. Had another patient tell me that 2 5mg oxy's is not the same as one 10mg oxy.
0:31 "She turned me into a newt!" ... *"I got better."*
I got a reverse case here: a doctor got me to do a surgery on my eye that I didn’t even need. I developed a small nevus (eye freckle) and he insisted it was carcinoma because it was a deep chocolate brown (wtf?). I was born with the mark and he ended scaring my mom and telling her I could loose my eye.
He forced a syringe into my eye to apply anesthesia. The spot came back and it’s just chilling there, but now I have a scar in my sclera.
I was eight. I still can’t get over it, since I could clearly see the thing go into my eye and I remember the pain.
Indian doctors right? Never ever trust one trained in a 3rd world "country" it could cost you
m m
no it was in Peru
Also, please don’t call India a third world country, we’re in the process of fixing our corrupt system. Doctors in the south of Peru take advantage of the simple minded citizens, it happens here. While I did tell my mom that it was unlikely it was cancer, she didn’t want to take any risks
I heard, from my instructors, of mothers coming in with their child who had a febrile seizure (this happens and is, for the most part, nothing to worry about. It's a sudden body temperature increase in an infant or toddler that causes them to size). They bring their child in and demand that he/she be given Dilantin. This is a 1st generation anti-consultant that is very rarely used today because of the plethora of awful side effects it causes, and there are usually far better alternatives. I'm just left wondering how they know what Dilantin is and still think their child needs it.
You know, I was feeling shitty because I was having such a hard time with understanding the mathematics behind bacterial titers in microbiology, but after that story about the med student that didn't understand the difference between antivirals and antibiotics, I don't feel so bad.
My ex-husband was a military respiratory therapist and we were both smokers. He told me that quitting smoking kills people for some "blah blah" whatever, I don't remember the details, reason. Some weird control thing for him, I guessas he was prone to lies for control and manipulation for amusement. Funny, I quit cold whenever I was pregnant with one of our three kids and didn't drop dead.
the monkey characteristics one is making me crack up as my little monkey child attempts to climb me for the millionth time today. -- and if that logic WERE true than they should be begging to get the all the jabs because life is SO much easier when your kid(s) can help you carry them. My son is the sweetest boy ever (yes I'm predjudice there) but he has VERY poor coordination and other problems which means carrying him is like carrying dead weight. He'll try REALLY HARD to help but at best he'll strangle you with his arms trying to hold on, he can't clamp with his legs so they'll just dangle. My monkey child weighs more than my son did when he was her age but she is 100x easier to carry because she can clamp on and move with me so my balance isn't thrown off.
I like to amuse my doctor whenever i see him to tell him that "i already googled my symptoms, and webmd says..."
He laughs because he knows I'm joking.
I have nerve damage from a surgeon cutting my nerve when reconstructing my ACL. Surgeon tells me damage is basically permanent. The skin of my shin feels like pins and needles when touched, not a painful feeling.
A decade later I cut my hand on broken glass, split open the webbing between thumb and index. I feel the same pins and needles sensation when I touch my thumb. I determine the nerve in my thumb is damaged. Go to ER for stitches and deal only with awesome nurses that sow my skin together. Doctor comes to talk with me at the end and explain my situation. I nod and interrupt with "Yea, I know" more frequently than would be polite while he explains the nerve damage and that I would need to stretch the skin of the webbing to get full mobility of my thumb back. I could tell I annoyed him, but he really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.
Reminds me of the vet stories where the man always said that the patient died of "stagnation of the lungs".
James Herriot!!!
Back 45 years ago, while in Medical School, I encountered a 15 year-old girl who was in the Clinic for her third abortion. I gently brought up the topic of contraception, which really, really pissed her off: "I can't do that; I'm a Catholic!!!"