I am a retired physician. I was interviewing the parents of 2 boys brought in to get prescriptions for their “learning disabilities”. They were new to the community, and none of the 4 family members looked too bright (or clean). I was asking if there was a family history of any neurological problems. The father replied energetically “I was born with 2 dead brain cells”. Luckily I was looking down at my notes and was able to stifle a laugh. I excused myself from the room to get myself under control. When the family was gone I told this story to one of my partners. She said she once had a father who reported that he was stillborn!
Fun fact: when they evaluate you for psych, they don't care if you're delusional. They only care if you are a danger to yourself and/or others. Since the guy wasn't trying to hurt himself intentionally and had been educated on how what he was doing was harmful, as long as they believed he wouldn't do it again, he would be cleared to leave.
My teen child has Opposition defiant disorder but because she doesn't think this is a problem and refused meds and counseling I was told there is nothing I can do unless she hurts me or herself. Isn't that the point of seeking treatment early when you notice a problem before it gets to late?
When I've been evaluated for psych I'm asked if I hear voices if I said yes I would be deemed mad however if I say god speaks to me then that's normal!
@@harleyme3163 Suicide isn't part of Darwin's theory of evolution or survival of the fittest - you can still produce offspring before you kill yourself.
I had a patient come in asking for a full body scan because her "nerves and skin are wrong." She also said her insides were coming out. She had a long history of meth use. I asked when she last used, and she responded "this morning. It's not that. I use it every day, I know it's not that."
I’ve heard the other side of the IED story. I used to work directly with wounded warriors and there were various organizations that help out. One such volunteer was lamenting about all the Soldiers injured from IUDs 🤣
My doctor has a poster in his office that says “Please, don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree”. There’s nothing wrong with looking things up to educate yourself, but you need to look at valid medical research and not voodoo.
As a nurse I've seen so many things from different patients. One guy wanted us to just glue his gun shot up, we explained he needed surgery he was like oh no I've been shot before so I'll be fine... So many things to many to on about but believe me it's never ending.
@@habeckkentrn lol I refused to let them sew my arm up. Then about 20 hours later I was sober and asking them why they didn't see my arm up and they said I just wasn't having it hah
I was never told by an eye doctor that constant exposure to sunlight would cause cataracts. They never really pushed for me wear sunglasses. All I ever heard was, 'cataracts are inevitable as you age.' Never any info as to why, until my sister's eye doctor explained this to her. We're in our 60s :(
I somehow knew that I should wear sunglasses outside and wore them from teens on. People accused me of trying to look like a movie star. Laugh was on them later on in life.
Wait, what?? I never heard that! I thought sunglasses were just so people could drive, or cause squinting was uncomfortable after a while, and the harsh sunlight can give you a headache!! I had no idea it could actually harm your eyes! (In any case I'm a big goth and a little shy of 40 and my health is poor... Eyes and skin are doing fine thanks to staying out of the sun, using sun cream every day, and having reactions lenses for most of my life!)
Except, I've lived in Sizing for 35+ years and never wear sunglass - they're always in the other jacket :) actual, never really wire them in other places either usually due the sand reason (absent minded, lazy, and too cheep to plug $20 on another pair). 68 and dint have fattest. Firm believe that genetics plays a much larger role in this type of thing.
A few years ago, I was interviewing a rather overweight female, prior to a surgical procedure. I was informed that she was allergic to anything healthy, vegetables, fruit, etc. The only thing that she could eat was chocolate.
Ran an STD clinic in the Army. Had a guy come complaining of the usual symptoms for gonorrhea. Did the typical exam which includes taking a specimen and checking it in the lab. Yeah he had. When I told him what he had he became angry and belligerent demanding there was no way he had gonorrhea. "I'm a married man and only have sex with my wife!!". Finally had to call in the the Dr. in charge and let him handle it. This guy was a Major and couldn't put two and two together and come up with "oh s**t".
I saw a man who came in because he was having foot pain from his diabetes. He brought a Tupperware container with him. They were his toes. They fell off. He waited 3 hours in the waiting room without telling anyone.
This just shows how poor health education (and education in general) is in the US. And that people prefer to solve medical problems at home because of how expensive healthcare is in there.
Partially yes, partially no. I work at the VA where healthcare is free for veterans, and they're still just as non compliant. Same thing when I was AD Navy, medical care is free with Tricare. It doesn't matter if it's free or paid for, some people just don't wanna listen 🤷♀️
@@DontScareTheFish yeah on prescription of 60 kemo pills is…. Just wait 10,000 DOLLARS a heart transplant 200,000 DOLLARS UK basically everything free just pay tax
2:52 oh dear god you've unlocked memories of dealing with that stuff in IT... "Are you 100% _absolutely sure_ your recent problems are being caused by what I fixed _days ago_ and not you deciding to run _five additional instances_ of (program)?"
Optometrist here and I've been practicing for 10 years and have also met most of these patients 🤣 I think one of the most fun stupid questions have been asked was I had a mid 20 year old woman whose Chief complaint was " When I close my eyes I can't see"
20 years ago, when I had just gotten my doctorate and am at mixer at my apartment complex a young pregnant teen approaches me. She says, "So you are a doctor. I need to ask you something. I have had sex with 4 different guys tonight, will it change who my baby daddy is?" While I know the answer, I took the cowards way out. I told her I was not that sort of doctor. My sociologist self felt the need to get far far away from her.
@@MoodyBluesRequiem80 I understand why he was uncomfortable explaining it to someone he barely knew even though I personally believe that it's a crime that a sexually active adult doesn't know the basic biology of reproduction.
When I was a resident, I had a mid 20’s woman complain that she had been married for a year and couldn’t get pregnant. Upon further questioning, it was revealed that her husband had left the country the day after their wedding and they hadn’t been together since. I had to leave the room to not laugh in front of the patient. Then I got a nurse to speak with the patient. I told the nurse that the patient didn’t have any medical problem, she had an education problem.
In some countries the standard of medical care the US has for most the population would be criminal. It's an extortion racket. I've actually heard dentists say "good dental care is how the people that matter identify each other" and that missing, broken, or misaligned teeth is how to identify those leeching off the rest of the world.... IMO crime against the wealthy or anyone that extorts people of their wealth for medical care beyond their control shouldn't be a crime. In fact..i have a condition to where I am unable to help or serve as an eyewitness to any act of violence upon the wealthy...I just didn't see anything
Maybe if doctors LISTENED to patients, and stopped looking down their noses at patients, and were less arrogant, and less dismissive, patients would feel they could be honest. Doctors demand respect from patients, whilst treating patients like insects to be stamped out. You don't have the balls to reply in a civil manner, do you?
I’m in my 40s and have bifocals. Also I’m on Metformin, but I don’t have diabetes. I am just barely pre-diabetic and have fibromyalgia. Doctor prescribed to keep me from going diabetic and because there was some new research showing it helped with fibro pain.
You do realize that the ONLY research for this was 6 people and anecdotal reports from doctors. What I'm saying is: there is no definitive proof this is actually helping Fibro pain, and it DEFINITELY hasn't investigated the potential long term damage for taking a drug that is NOT been cleared by the FDA to treat that health condition. I also found conflicting reports on taking something so Strong as Metformin, for a prediabetes condition. I'm suggesting you get a second opinion on these medications. The only reason I said anything is because my spouse is Type II, because they refuse to eat properly and take care of their helath. My spouse went through several different diabetes medications, leading UP TO Metformin.
You had better keep regularly monitoring your blood sugar levels, particularly before breakfast. So you can see if the Metformin is helping normalize your blood sugar or else causing it to drop dangerously low. (Roughly 90-120 mg/dL is “normal” but ask your doctor)
Also being prescribed a diabetic med to prevent you from becoming diabetic if you are just barely pre-diabetic is suspicious. I would think strongly that the doctor would instead advise you to have a regular exercise and nutrition regimen. I’d suggest you follow up with a different doctor’s opinion.
@@Tribecasoothsayer I am pre-diabetic. And we monitor my blood sugar every 3 months. Plus I use my gf’s old monitor to check weekly. Numbers are good and it is helping with my pain levels.
metformin is currently undergoing another trial in its apparent ability to significantly increase life expectancy. Given the substantial historical data showing this, along with the fact that submitting an application for (an already approved) drug to the FDA costs many millions, I would stay on it.
Case 1 is a clear cut case of enabling! I’m also an RN, and I’ve witnessed similar incidents in the clinical setting and in homes! I’d love to hear the end of the story, because I can only imagine what it was like to fight the patient, let alone all of his “well-trained” family members! Let me add that I’ve also battled obesity..not 400#, but I weighed enough! I can guess how he must’ve fought to preserve his addiction.
I'm 58 and have had to wear corrective lenses (glasses/contacts) since I was 7. That was my first eye exam. Honestly I most likely needed them sooner. Had to have bifocals at 25. I had to get trifocals/transition at 38. Age doesn't always factor in when it comes to your health; no matter the problem. Believe me, I've been a medical anomaly my whole life. Visual problems have been the least of my worries. And that's with having 3 tumors(3 different times) inside my right eye socket . The human body is amazing!
I was severly farsighted, and needed reading glasses, but then I couldn't go from writing on my tablet, and the looking up to the chalk board.... I was in bi focals at 15.
Grandfather rarely had sunglasses on, I wear them a lot. I wanted to get sunglasses with my prescription so it's easier to deal with. Gramps was against it and was sorta arguing with the optometrist. He then told him flat out that sunglasses prevent cataracts. His face was priceless, the guy saw me almost doubling over with concealed laughter behind gramps. Gramps had cataract surgery up the next week. That I drove him home and helped treat him at home. He hasn't complained since XD
As someone who is horrifically near-sighted (think hand-width in front of own nose before everything turns mushy) I cannot understand people who fuck up their own eyes at all. I hated going to the eye doctor as a twelve year old, but I did and followed instructions. I am now in my mid-thirties and my eyes haven't gotten appreciably worse for the last three sets of glasses I bought. (first was because my eyes got worse, second was because, well, last growth spurt, third because I broke them last because I broke them again.) Listen to your eye doctor, people!
@@ankhpom9296 There's been some research on that. 30ish years ago, myopia (nearsightedness) was practically unheard of in Chinese youth. These days, most every Chinese youth have it. The change was the amount of time spent outside as children turn from play/sports to study. Turns out that sunlight tells eye-balls to stop growing. If they don't stop, the person gets myopia.
Yeah, my dad swore that it was a lie about smoking giving you lung cancer. His proof? Someone he knew died from lung cancer, and had never smoked in his life. That's all he needed for "evidence"
@@melissacooper8724 He said second hand smoke was a myth. Plus, his friend wasn't really around smokers. I told him not ALL lung cancer was caused by smoking, but he wouldn't believe it. He was very dense in some things.
Frankly I'm surprised I'm not dead from all the second-hand smoking I did as a kid. I kid you not the first thing my sperm donor did when I came home from the hospital as a newborn infant was try to light a cigarette in the living room.
My sister is just like the mom at the eye doctor. She brought my nephew because he failed his eye exam in school and she got the glasses but he lost them 2 months later so now she said he doesn't get glasses, he doesn't need them. She believes all doctors are full of crap.
Sounds like my mom. Our doctor said my brother had double pneumonia. He ended up having to call police to get him to the hospital, all because my mom thought she knew better. She was abusive.
My grandmother was born in 1885, when doctors probably didn't know as much about medicine as the average fifth grader. "Doctors don't know anything" was her constant refrain. I kept telling her things have changed, but she never did believe me. She was a belligerently non-compliant diabetic and would sometimes be blind in the morning. She'd behave herself for a day or two before an appointment, and then think she'd fooled the doctor into thinking she kept to her diet. She didn't. But she'd chortle, "See, doctors don't know anything".
@@LadyAnneJT my grandmother was born in 1894 and everything to her was a cold. If your knee hurt, it was a cold, if u broke your arm, it broke because of a cold. They get their mind set and there's no changing their minds!
We have a lot of stories like this in my line of work. Try sitting there and interpret for a person who goes into the doctor and find out they have diabetes and that it's now gotten to the point where their kidneys are only functioning at 12%. They put the patient on dialysis she misses multiple appointment doesn't want to go doesn't want to follow the diet that she needs to take and all of the other nonsense that she doesn't want to do. And then called out over the course of several years to interpret her dialysis sessions as well as every time she would miss an appointment she would go to the emergency room. And every time we would tell her no you don't come to the emergency room when you miss an appointment you come to the emergency room if it's an emergency. She complains about the itchy skin because the fluid is just building up in her body her legs are twice the size they were the last time I saw her. She's complaining about this and we have to explain yet again for about the tenth time you have to go to your appointment if you don't go to your appointment this is what happens if your body cannot get rid of the fluid on its own. About a week after the last time she went to the emergency room she had a full-blown tantrum about the fact that they informed her that she was moved down on the transplant list because she was not following doctor's orders. Well duh they're not going to give you a kidney if you're not going to take care of it. I literally had to explain to this woman what has to happen for her to even get a kidney in the first place someone has to either donate it that is an exact match to you or they have to die and then it can be given to someone. Story number 2 different client different problems she refused to stop sleeping around with multiple partners simultaneously. She ended up catching genital warts and herpes and they put her on medication for both. She insisted that she no longer had either one of them because she took the medicine they gave her. 2 hours later she still didn't understand with multiple people coming into the room to explain to her that that's not how it works and you have to continue taking your medication she didn't want to hear it so she stormed out and demanded that I helped her make a phone call to her insurance to switch her doctor. You just can't make this s*** up.
Every Type 2 diabetic that is non-compliant is a lazy idiot. I was 170 kg, 27 years old, fat as all hell and got diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. I lost about 25 - 30 kg over 6 months. Adopted a healthy eating plan. Got my fat ass moving and I was no longer diabetic and i am 130 KG. The goal is to lose another 15 KG. The most impressive part is the nurses said "I wished all diabetic patients were like you."
@@JustAGuy93-G I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. I work in surgery and I have been involved in literally hundreds of diabetic related procedures. I wish more people had your self discipline.
had an eye doctor prescribe me with bifocals at age 14. i didn't need bifocals. they actually made me throw up because of how disorienting it was. sometimes doctors make mistakes too. it was kind of annoying hearing that one eye doctor act as if they're always right.
Sorry to be distracted, but this game's portrayal of Bryce Canyon is very nice. I love that part of North America, the Colorado Plateau and the area vaguely surrounding it.
My grandfather needed to be intubated and I broke the news to my brother. He was a little confused when I said our grandfather was going to be incubated (yes, like with friggin eggs)!
I have been sitting my ass on the chair and studying till I can't even stay awake anymore for the past 2 years, and I still have 1 year left, in my 3 years of high school, all that so I could become a doctor (neurosurgeon to be specific), and these stories kinda feel like what I'm going to experience lol
My opthalmologist calls the (non-contact) tonometer the "expletive generator" because the little puff of air can make people jump and say a rude word! :)
My story isnt the dumbest but one of the saddest. Parents who didn't speak English well brought a baby into our clinic. Dr. with help was able to communicate with them well enough to get thru the exam. Ear infection and wrote a prescription for antibiotics. 3 days later they brought the baby back in as she was even sicker and crying in pain. Turns out they didn't understand that the liquid antibiotic was supposed to be given to the baby orally. They had been putting the antibiotic in the baby's ear.
That's sad. When you have someone who doesn't understand English, you'd best have someone who can explain everything in detail to them in their language.
Retired veterinary receptionist here. This actually happens a lot in vet practices. No language barrier was involved. We actually started demoing the first dose in the office & changed the prescription labels to read "Give 2cc by MOUTH every 12 hours". Scary stupid.
Worked ER. Had a woman come in 3am complaining of ‘weg (Leg) aches’ for 5+ months. When asked specifics on the aches she replied, “my wegs hurt bc I gots the walkin’ Numomia” Chest Xray clear, labs normal, no swelling or edema….? She was released later that morning saying that she was gonna sue us all because her ‘wegs still hurtin’. You can’t mKe this stuff up.
My uncle, an anti-vax covid denier, is currently in hospital having had his arm amputated at the shoulder for sepsis. Allegedly, he hurt his hand on Christmas eve and was rushed into hospital on Boxing Day but I've a feeling he'd been ignoring it for far longer than that.
I've had a time with doctors. When I was in the ER one night, I felt dizzy and strange. My weight would go and down 10 each time I took it. I went for a walk a few hours prior and then realized that I needed help. Since I'm a psych patient, I get butt-fucked every time. If you want to be treated horribly, have a mental illness. Anyway, I asked the people in the ER if they could check my heart. EKG, nothing there. I became irritated, and I was like, it has to be a valve. Later, a doctor found my murmur, but I was too out of it and freaking out by then. She wanted to do a echo test.. However, I was committed for asking for heart surgery. I couldn't stop moving those like 60+ days on the ward, had bizarre blood pressures. And I was orthostatic or something pos, I think, or neg. Plus, my white blood cells were high. They found the lesions in my brain three years later. "Shot through the heart, but you're too late, you give love a bad name." I've gone through years of agony. I'm not fond of doctors. Keep your clipboards and online educations to yourselves.
I would like to point out that you can be put on Metformin even if you do not have diabetes. It's pretty normal if you have PCOS or if you are obese and they think you may develop diabetes in the future.
Yeah, but in these cases the use of metformin is off label and the patient should give his or her written informed consent for the treatment, so it is unlikely he /she doesnt know the reason for using it
@@mariapittalis2147 You would be surprised by what doctors DON'T tell the patients. My husband is getting ready to start dialysis because the kidney doctor did not tell him he had Chronic Kidney Disease, nor was he told what it meant, how serious it was, or anything else. i figured it out through Google searches using his test results. When I asked the doctor if he had CKD, he turned, looked at me and said, "Yes! In fact he has advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.". He was stage 3 at that point. I started asking questions but still didn't know the absolute seriousness of it. My husband thought he was seeing a Kidney specialist because he has clusters of cysts on his kidneys and the cysts were being monitored, (polycystic kidney disease). Luckily, his insurance company is aware of many doctors not informing their patient's like this and put together a program for their CKD patients. It has been a Godsend for us. He has a nurse and a caseworker who comes to our home and goes through everything with us. We didn't know about the different stages, options, diet, nothing! He was in stage 3 six months ago and because he was not told and did not take extra steps and measures, he is now stage 5. For those who don't know, that's end stage.
But it's medically risky to start at high dose, top of the line, EXPENSIVE medication, instead of trying lower dose, less expensive meds to treat prediabetes. Using Metformin for ANTHING besides diabetes is technically, illegal, because it has not been through the FDA testing to PROVE the drug is effective for treating these other problems, and it has NOT been proven to not cause any damage for long term use, for problems other than diabetes. Gabapentin is a seizure med. By accident they realized it treats pain. It became the go to pain med to avoid opiates; it still is. DESPITE, mutliple class action lawsuits for brain damage, that the patients won; AND a mulit million dollar fine from the FDA for marketing Gabapentin as a treatment option outside the original scope of the FDA approval. $10M in fines and damages were just pocket change compaired to the billions they make on selling Gapabentin as a pain treatment. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Talk to several doctors before taking a medication that is being crossed prescribed.
Dispensary tech here. It's somehow comforting to hear that the dumb people I deal with on a daily basis are just as dumb in front of much more highly trained medical professionals than me. Some aren't even that dumb - they just have no common sense. The number of people I have to handhold just in selecting a bandaid size or something so basic is wild.
One time, when I broke my leg, on the day I was set to leave, the doctor gave me a list of things not to do while my leg was in a cast. I know the basics, and I thought this was just going to be a quick conversation about the dos and don'ts while my leg was healing. The doctor tells me I can’t stand, walk, or bend, and I don’t put any pressure on it. I’m just thinking, okay. But he continues to say I cannot run, skip, hop, jump, kick, dance, or zombie walk-basically, a list of things that would involve standing, bending my knee, and putting pressure on my broken leg. The doctor also said I had to list several exercises and gave me a list of “romantic” positions to avoid. It turns out he and other doctors in the hospital had several patients who used the phrase “the doctor said that I couldn’t do A but not B.”
All the ones about eyes make me sad. Using the same disposable contacts for ages not even taking them off... And the home made cleaning solutions! I don't even use the bottles to the end.
Water is actually a super rare allergy, but I don't think Sprite would be answer, lol. It's more of an exposure allergy; I forget what the treatment is.
Maybe they've had experiences with incompetent/lazy doctors in the past, and in their own past experience, they actually _have_ known more, so they're only proceeding based on personal experience. I'm a bit of a Karen myself at the doctor's office because of past medical neglect. If I could tell my past self anything, "it's better to make your doctor prove you wrong than blindly assume that they're right."
The type of ppl that think they know more/better than the Dr are often narcissists. They'll often see promotions for the "natural treatment", and visit chiropractors, have reiki sessions, take vitamins etc and believe that the practice of modern medicine is just the government's way of trying to take control of them.
Ok. The water allergy I can totally get. I, actually, have the same problem....sort of. We lived in the city so only had access to chlorinated city water. My parents already knew I couldn't swim in public pools because I had a reaction to the chlorine but when I complained about stonach pains after drinking house water they thought I was making it up so I could have milk instead. I also break out in hives if I get rain water n my skin, especially if it hasn't rained in a while. I have very 🖕ed up skin, it's sensitive to everything.
I'm similar. May suggest try bottled mineral water. I can't drink tap water, rash up at rainwater, shower water, my own tears.. really itchy. Been drinking buxton water for years now.
Yea... But an actual water allergy should be verified by a doctor and in the doctors notes/ medical record. Experiencing symptoms like that should be a reason to let a doctor look at it because maybe it can be treated. Balm for the hives, maybe some desensitization therapy and investigations if the allergy/sensitivity is caused by some other issues/disease... But I guess that's something that is dependent on the level of insurance. I'm lucky to live in a country were everything necessary is covered no matter what type of insurance one has. Allergy assessment, treatment or desensitizing are necessary procedures. They would be available to anyone, except public care might lead to some weeks or months waiting for an appointment if it isn't urgent.
I've got a stupid general practitioner one for ya. I had a patient come in bc his physician told him he needed to be checked for HPV warts under his tongue. The area she pointed out was normal anatomy called a fimbriated fold. It's the little frill of tissue that runs under your tongue. This guy was freaked out for weeks over nothing
Ooh, I'm the bifocal dumba$$. At 48 I declared I didn't need bifocals. Bought 2 pairs and a bunch if contacts. So now I can wear em and see things far away, but I trip over everything. When my pride heals, I will try again with less ego. Lol
I've been in bifocals since 15 years old. I'm farsighted, but then developed some severe astigmatism that affected my distance vision. I can see far away, but things don't line up properly. My trick to acclimating to bi focals or tri focals or progressives: DO NOT WEAR YOUR GLASSES STANDING UP FOR THE FIST TWO WEEKS. Wear them sitting down for one week, preferably at home for a few hours a day. Don't just sit there watching tv, you need to move around in your chair to get your eyes acclimated to the feeling of looking through rushing water, that skews the focus as you move around. You need to look down at your desk, then up at the tv, the over to the window. This is muscle memory, just like training for a tri athalon. The second week: start standing up with them, so you get used to the feeling of looking through rushing water skewing the focus of everything as you stand up. Stand up two or three times in a 15 minute time frame. Sit down, and look around the room with the glasses for thirty minutes, then try standing up again. By then end of the second week, you can start walking in your new glasses for short distances over the weekend, and start wearing them full time the next Monday. Be mindful: if you get dizzy, or light headed of nauseous- TAKE YOUR GLASSES OFF for a few minutes, let your brain reset normal, then wear your glasses only while sitting for that day. That is the key, if you feel like tossing your cookies, you're pushing too fast, and just slow down.
I recently had a breakthrough with flossing. Always want to, but my sleep schedule is messed up so I usually wind up EXHAUSTED while brushing my teeth so all I can get myself to do is brush - it’s that or nothing at all. Recently, a lightbulb went off in my head. I could floss… in the mornings! Immediate success 🤦
There are also dental picks of various sorts, and also little sticks with floss at the end. I hate floss because it tightens up and makes my fingers turn blue. (I also had a cat get into the bathroom trash once, and ended up needing surgery because she tried to swallow discarded floss. She recovered, but it was quite the scare.) I use Brush Picks toothpicks instead of floss. They're narrow plastic picks with a fuzzy end and a pointy end, and they work very well for me. I keep some in the bedroom and some in the living room. There is a lot of choice these days.
@@jonesnori also a good idea to keep a bunch in different places. I love hearing how different people make sure they floss - it’s great for me! Maybe I’ll keep some in the kitchen so I always have them available after meals
think it would probably make the world a better place if we all were just ya know… informed and reasonable. It kinda makes me wonder how many deaths would be prevented just by being less stupid. Being less stupid would probably be a solution to allot of problems wehhhhhh
That poor guy also taking the birth control, at least he was in a progressive headspace. The female birth control could have messed him up if he kept it up long term, but it is very nice he was willing to also do something instead of having his girlfriend do it alone.
I left a pair of 2 week contacts in for 8 months, and they dissolved. Not saying anybody should leave their contacts in but I've done this for 16 years and the worst thing that happens is that my eyes can get really dry at night time when trying to sleep with them in. Obviously, take them out if they start to bother you and leave them out until your eyes feel better. These horror stories are mostly people ignoring the obvious signs of an issue and doing nothing about it.
When you were talking about kids shoving basically anything into thier orifices, I can can relate when I was 7 I once shoved 2 tiny rocks in my ear i had to have a doctor remove then after that I never did it again.😅😅😅
Got a fun one. Context, I work in urology heh. Patient uses a catheter to empty his bladder (he uses a latex tube multiple times a day and inserts it into his bladder) well he kept telling me the whole visit “I keep getting UTI’s” at the last second he mentions “well I don’t got no lube so I just lick the cath before using it” my heart fell out my ass 😂 well sir, that’s where your UTI’s come from.
@@elizabethsullivan7176 Oh yes, we all were tempted to laugh at you folks for believing the lies, but then thousands of young people died from heart attacks following the Faucii Ouchie; and thousands more have permanent heart damage, so we can't really laugh about the truth, you fought so hard to debunk.
The puffing machine, as far as I know, doesn't test for glaucoma, but rather for eyeball shape. The specialized machine that did test for glaucoma in the optician's office that I went to was the size of a refrigerator and would bathe the inside of the patient's eyeball through the pupil, the black dot hole in the center of the eye that works like a camera aperture, with lime-green light to do a photographic scan for discoloration patches inside the eye. I know because I also have a family history of glaucoma after my mom's maternal grandfather developed the disease. He didn't get diagnosed until 1976 because he was living in an RV trailer and had memorized the furniture layout, then Mom and her parents took him on a trip to Alaska and he mistook a floating log near a ferry they were riding on for a man overboard. Also, suppose that patient that wasn't understanding his own family history of glaucoma is reading this. In that case, he shouldn't be fighting to avoid the diagnosis because it might get him a medical cannabis card.
The air puff tests the pressure within your eye. Abnormal pressure indicates problems, such as glaucoma (where the pressure inside your eye increases). So, yes, it is testing for glaucoma.
@@DerpDevilDD When diabetes is out of control, the pressure in the eyeball changes. The puff test is to make sure the pressure inside the eye is at normal levels for diabetics.
@@Kiwi_Tea Ah, I see where the disconnect is. The puff test checks for glaucoma. A type of glaucoma is caused by diabetes. So, it's still testing to glaucoma and not diabetes, but diabetes can be the reason for the glaucoma.
"I'm a medical professional. Stop acting like you know better than me". Well, to pretty much every "medical professional" that I ever consulted, I'd answer to "start acting as a medical professional, then". They never know anything, give you meds that only make things worse, give worse advice than youtube, rarely ever explain anything and more often than not are annoyed if you don't treat them like God All mighty descending from the sky with a halo over their head and shoulders. I have many stories like this one: My mother was a smoker and had her arteries full of blockages. So, she went regularly get checked by one of these hart specialists. I once saw a video about vitamin C as a nutriment many people lacked, especially smokers, as it is used for many things in the body. I didn't even know she had that sickness. She randomly took some for three weeks until her next consultation. She had no blockage left. What was the reaction of that maniac? Did he asked her how she did that? Did he rejoice for her better health? Did he give her his apologies for failing to understand what she actually suffered from? No, none of these. He scolded her for being cured. That's only when I learned that vitamin C is used by the body to build and maintain the arteries and stuff, ensuring their flexibility, which in turn prevented things from getting stuck in there. Vitamin C is very cheap (you can get 1kg of high quality 99+% pure vitamin C for around than 40€), you virtually can't get intoxicated with it unless you take hundreds of grams of these a day and he know she was a smoker. It's the very first thing he should have tried to help her.
How, in the peak of advanced medical care, have people legitimately believe is all a con or bad for you until their death? Its even worse when kids are involved. Dying so young and not knowing why because mommy was afraid autism. Smh
We paid for progressive lenses for my daughter once when she was about 7. Turned out, she prefers the bifocals that are covered by insurance anyway. We haven't had to pay for her glasses since. We did have to pay for them when she was a toddler. The ones that came with insurance were NOT toddler proof. She broke them almost immediately. We got the free replacements and she broke those too. Then we had to pay for plastic frames that kids can't break. Those should be covered. The free ones are useless.
3:50 Some eye doctors specifically recommend an optometrist to take their own values and use those. Sure, use the doctors prescription as a starting point - they are good values. But a doctor checks mainly to see anomalies that need medical intervention. An optometrist has more routine and focus to dial in the prescription and knowledge what it is optically and physically possible to grind into glass and how his (paying) customers respond to different option.
Had a friend who wore contacts. She’d keep a pair in 24/7 for a month at a time. Also didn’t practice good eye hygiene. Really did a number on her eyes over time. She then tried to blame the doctor for not prescribing the “right” contacts.
Disgraceful,as doctors we have a duty to care for the sick.It’s not up to us to be judgemental and make fun of people or their lives . Who the hell do these people think they are? Their job is to care and are paid to do so. Did I hear that a person with severe cardiac problems thought he had indigestion,he won’t be the first.Or the first who died.
Work in an ambulance or ED long enough Someone eventually refuses oxygen claiming an allergy. Usually screaming it at you. You then need to not laugh at them or you make everything worse
I am a retired physician. I was interviewing the parents of 2 boys brought in to get prescriptions for their “learning disabilities”. They were new to the community, and none of the 4 family members looked too bright (or clean). I was asking if there was a family history of any neurological problems. The father replied energetically “I was born with 2 dead brain cells”. Luckily I was looking down at my notes and was able to stifle a laugh. I excused myself from the room to get myself under control. When the family was gone I told this story to one of my partners. She said she once had a father who reported that he was stillborn!
Most people were born with at least two dead brain cells, what you've gotta watch out for are the people born with only two living ones.
Stupidity and high pain tolerance are a magical combination.
Fun fact: when they evaluate you for psych, they don't care if you're delusional. They only care if you are a danger to yourself and/or others. Since the guy wasn't trying to hurt himself intentionally and had been educated on how what he was doing was harmful, as long as they believed he wouldn't do it again, he would be cleared to leave.
My teen child has Opposition defiant disorder but because she doesn't think this is a problem and refused meds and counseling I was told there is nothing I can do unless she hurts me or herself. Isn't that the point of seeking treatment early when you notice a problem before it gets to late?
When I've been evaluated for psych I'm asked if I hear voices if I said yes I would be deemed mad however if I say god speaks to me then that's normal!
never heard of Darwin huh. well, stupid people tend to off themselve's further NOT contributing the "moron gene" in the genepool 🙂
@@harleyme3163 Suicide isn't part of Darwin's theory of evolution or survival of the fittest - you can still produce offspring before you kill yourself.
Well they would not let me leave, that is what having good insurance does for you.
I had a patient come in asking for a full body scan because her "nerves and skin are wrong." She also said her insides were coming out. She had a long history of meth use. I asked when she last used, and she responded "this morning. It's not that. I use it every day, I know it's not that."
I’ve heard the other side of the IED story.
I used to work directly with wounded warriors and there were various organizations that help out. One such volunteer was lamenting about all the Soldiers injured from IUDs 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ROFLMAO😂😂😂😂
That’s a cute story
My doctor has a poster in his office that says “Please, don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree”. There’s nothing wrong with looking things up to educate yourself, but you need to look at valid medical research and not voodoo.
"Oh, that's Nelson, he lives there"
Excuse me what?
As a nurse I've seen so many things from different patients. One guy wanted us to just glue his gun shot up, we explained he needed surgery he was like oh no I've been shot before so I'll be fine...
So many things to many to on about but believe me it's never ending.
uh did you guys get the other bullets out?
He does have the right to refuse service. I guess you just have to convince him of the necessity for the procedure.
@@habeckkentrn lol I refused to let them sew my arm up. Then about 20 hours later I was sober and asking them why they didn't see my arm up and they said I just wasn't having it hah
@@habeckkentrn More likely, he could not afford treatment.
I was never told by an eye doctor that constant exposure to sunlight would cause cataracts. They never really pushed for me wear sunglasses. All I ever heard was, 'cataracts are inevitable as you age.' Never any info as to why, until my sister's eye doctor explained this to her. We're in our 60s :(
Same here.
I somehow knew that I should wear sunglasses outside and wore them from teens on. People accused me of trying to look like a movie star. Laugh was on them later on in life.
Oh yes indeed, 64 and apart from reading glasses my eyesight is just fine, thanks to sunglasses 😁
Wait, what??
I never heard that!
I thought sunglasses were just so people could drive, or cause squinting was uncomfortable after a while, and the harsh sunlight can give you a headache!! I had no idea it could actually harm your eyes!
(In any case I'm a big goth and a little shy of 40 and my health is poor... Eyes and skin are doing fine thanks to staying out of the sun, using sun cream every day, and having reactions lenses for most of my life!)
Except, I've lived in Sizing for 35+ years and never wear sunglass - they're always in the other jacket :) actual, never really wire them in other places either usually due the sand reason (absent minded, lazy, and too cheep to plug $20 on another pair). 68 and dint have fattest. Firm believe that genetics plays a much larger role in this type of thing.
The one with the kid covered in lice made me shiver at the thought
Ikr, poor kid
Protected voice: “Well GEE MISTER IT SURE PROBABLY COULD BE!!”
A few years ago, I was interviewing a rather overweight female, prior to a surgical procedure. I was informed that she was allergic to anything healthy, vegetables, fruit, etc. The only thing that she could eat was chocolate.
If you think it's hard to get a kid to eat their vegetables, try making a grown adult! 😂
mihael keehl
Well...uh...cocoa is technically a fruit...
@@ferretqueen2908that is true, but it requires additional sweeteners to be anything but bitter.
@@habeckkentrn oh I know, especially if this lady is in America
Ran an STD clinic in the Army. Had a guy come complaining of the usual symptoms for gonorrhea. Did the typical exam which includes taking a specimen and checking it in the lab. Yeah he had. When I told him what he had he became angry and belligerent demanding there was no way he had gonorrhea. "I'm a married man and only have sex with my wife!!". Finally had to call in the the Dr. in charge and let him handle it. This guy was a Major and couldn't put two and two together and come up with "oh s**t".
I saw a man who came in because he was having foot pain from his diabetes. He brought a Tupperware container with him. They were his toes. They fell off. He waited 3 hours in the waiting room without telling anyone.
He should have used Pyrex
@@jamesparson 🤣🤣🤣
I know men can be bad about seeking medical care when they need it but damn. I wonder if the poor guy was just in shock.
I was in a procedure around 20 years ago, where a puppy chewed off a diabetics toes while he slept.
Should have used flex tape
This just shows how poor health education (and education in general) is in the US. And that people prefer to solve medical problems at home because of how expensive healthcare is in there.
YIKES
Pretty much.
Partially yes, partially no. I work at the VA where healthcare is free for veterans, and they're still just as non compliant. Same thing when I was AD Navy, medical care is free with Tricare. It doesn't matter if it's free or paid for, some people just don't wanna listen 🤷♀️
The US does have the best wealthcare system money can buy after all
@@DontScareTheFish yeah on prescription of 60 kemo pills is…. Just wait 10,000 DOLLARS a heart transplant 200,000 DOLLARS UK basically everything free just pay tax
2:52 oh dear god you've unlocked memories of dealing with that stuff in IT...
"Are you 100% _absolutely sure_ your recent problems are being caused by what I fixed _days ago_ and not you deciding to run _five additional instances_ of (program)?"
@8:05, hearing “Woo Hoo!” So many times in rapid succession make me giggle uncontrollably 😅
Not in the medical field but back in my toddler years, I use to think that the x ray machine was a dinosaur and am still terrified of needles
For the longest time I thought a "stretcher" (gurney) was something doctors used to make you taller. Because...stretch out?
aw because of X-ray and t-reX??
@@noor-du8pq to this day it's one of my most unanswered questions for my toddler years
Who isn't afraid of needles? Hmm... I wonder how big fistula needles get?
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 I've possibly got SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) which is probably why I dont do needles very well
Optometrist here and I've been practicing for 10 years and have also met most of these patients 🤣 I think one of the most fun stupid questions have been asked was I had a mid 20 year old woman whose Chief complaint was " When I close my eyes I can't see"
When I close the curtains the room gets dark. Understand? Get out.
hahaha, you shoulda just told her " no no thats nightime" lol nighttime.. open them Daytime! LOL
Honestly I'd be more worried if she said "when I close my eyes I can still see" 😄😄
Every time I close my eyes…I see my name in shining lights…
Sadly not surprised.
20 years ago, when I had just gotten my doctorate and am at mixer at my apartment complex a young pregnant teen approaches me. She says, "So you are a doctor. I need to ask you something. I have had sex with 4 different guys tonight, will it change who my baby daddy is?" While I know the answer, I took the cowards way out. I told her I was not that sort of doctor. My sociologist self felt the need to get far far away from her.
You were right to get far far away from her.....i have no words to describe her.... very dysfunctional....
I would've still explained it to her.
You should have explained
@@MoodyBluesRequiem80 I understand why he was uncomfortable explaining it to someone he barely knew even though I personally believe that it's a crime that a sexually active adult doesn't know the basic biology of reproduction.
@@MoodyBluesRequiem80 not my job or desire to tell a 15 year old girl playing games with men anything but to go away
Just gotta love the
“WooHoo!”
When I was a resident, I had a mid 20’s woman complain that she had been married for a year and couldn’t get pregnant. Upon further questioning, it was revealed that her husband had left the country the day after their wedding and they hadn’t been together since. I had to leave the room to not laugh in front of the patient. Then I got a nurse to speak with the patient. I told the nurse that the patient didn’t have any medical problem, she had an education problem.
Eye: basically dead
Patient: i want glasses
When are we going to get a video where patients can describe their dumbest doctor experiences? Because I've heard some doozies.
Now that you mention it I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video like that but would love to! I have some of my own to tell.
In some countries the standard of medical care the US has for most the population would be criminal. It's an extortion racket. I've actually heard dentists say "good dental care is how the people that matter identify each other" and that missing, broken, or misaligned teeth is how to identify those leeching off the rest of the world....
IMO crime against the wealthy or anyone that extorts people of their wealth for medical care beyond their control shouldn't be a crime.
In fact..i have a condition to where I am unable to help or serve as an eyewitness to any act of violence upon the wealthy...I just didn't see anything
Just left a comment on with two stories of my own about stupid doctors.
Heavens! One second of a pause between the single stories would help.
These patients make the Three Stooges look like complete geniuses in comparison to what I heard in these stories
Maybe if doctors LISTENED to patients, and stopped looking down their noses at patients, and were less arrogant, and less dismissive, patients would feel they could be honest. Doctors demand respect from patients, whilst treating patients like insects to be stamped out. You don't have the balls to reply in a civil manner, do you?
Story #7 is 100% from an EMS provider and is a conversation we all have with patients way too often
I’m in my 40s and have bifocals.
Also I’m on Metformin, but I don’t have diabetes. I am just barely pre-diabetic and have fibromyalgia. Doctor prescribed to keep me from going diabetic and because there was some new research showing it helped with fibro pain.
You do realize that the ONLY research for this was 6 people and anecdotal reports from doctors. What I'm saying is: there is no definitive proof this is actually helping Fibro pain, and it DEFINITELY hasn't investigated the potential long term damage for taking a drug that is NOT been cleared by the FDA to treat that health condition.
I also found conflicting reports on taking something so Strong as Metformin, for a prediabetes condition. I'm suggesting you get a second opinion on these medications.
The only reason I said anything is because my spouse is Type II, because they refuse to eat properly and take care of their helath. My spouse went through several different diabetes medications, leading UP TO Metformin.
You had better keep regularly monitoring your blood sugar levels, particularly before breakfast. So you can see if the Metformin is helping normalize your blood sugar or else causing it to drop dangerously low. (Roughly 90-120 mg/dL is “normal” but ask your doctor)
Also being prescribed a diabetic med to prevent you from becoming diabetic if you are just barely pre-diabetic is suspicious. I would think strongly that the doctor would instead advise you to have a regular exercise and nutrition regimen. I’d suggest you follow up with a different doctor’s opinion.
@@Tribecasoothsayer I am pre-diabetic. And we monitor my blood sugar every 3 months. Plus I use my gf’s old monitor to check weekly. Numbers are good and it is helping with my pain levels.
metformin is currently undergoing another trial in its apparent ability to significantly increase life expectancy. Given the substantial historical data showing this, along with the fact that submitting an application for (an already approved) drug to the FDA costs many millions, I would stay on it.
That plethora of examples in Story 17 astounded me.
Case 1 is a clear cut case of enabling! I’m also an RN, and I’ve witnessed similar incidents in the clinical setting and in homes! I’d love to hear the end of the story, because I can only imagine what it was like to fight the patient, let alone all of his “well-trained” family members! Let me add that I’ve also battled obesity..not 400#, but I weighed enough! I can guess how he must’ve fought to preserve his addiction.
I'm 58 and have had to wear corrective lenses (glasses/contacts) since I was 7. That was my first eye exam. Honestly I most likely needed them sooner. Had to have bifocals at 25. I had to get trifocals/transition at 38. Age doesn't always factor in when it comes to your health; no matter the problem. Believe me, I've been a medical anomaly my whole life. Visual problems have been the least of my worries. And that's with having 3 tumors(3 different times) inside my right eye socket . The human body is amazing!
I was severly farsighted, and needed reading glasses, but then I couldn't go from writing on my tablet, and the looking up to the chalk board.... I was in bi focals at 15.
Grandfather rarely had sunglasses on, I wear them a lot. I wanted to get sunglasses with my prescription so it's easier to deal with. Gramps was against it and was sorta arguing with the optometrist. He then told him flat out that sunglasses prevent cataracts. His face was priceless, the guy saw me almost doubling over with concealed laughter behind gramps. Gramps had cataract surgery up the next week. That I drove him home and helped treat him at home. He hasn't complained since XD
As someone who is horrifically near-sighted (think hand-width in front of own nose before everything turns mushy) I cannot understand people who fuck up their own eyes at all. I hated going to the eye doctor as a twelve year old, but I did and followed instructions. I am now in my mid-thirties and my eyes haven't gotten appreciably worse for the last three sets of glasses I bought. (first was because my eyes got worse, second was because, well, last growth spurt, third because I broke them last because I broke them again.) Listen to your eye doctor, people!
Vision issues? It is genetics.
@@ankhpom9296 Genetics or not, good eyes are worth keeping.
@@ankhpom9296 There's been some research on that. 30ish years ago, myopia (nearsightedness) was practically unheard of in Chinese youth. These days, most every Chinese youth have it. The change was the amount of time spent outside as children turn from play/sports to study. Turns out that sunlight tells eye-balls to stop growing. If they don't stop, the person gets myopia.
Yeah, my dad swore that it was a lie about smoking giving you lung cancer.
His proof?
Someone he knew died from lung cancer, and had never smoked in his life.
That's all he needed for "evidence"
Did he ever stop to think that the person that got lung cancer most likely got it from secondhand smoke?
@@melissacooper8724 He said second hand smoke was a myth. Plus, his friend wasn't really around smokers.
I told him not ALL lung cancer was caused by smoking, but he wouldn't believe it.
He was very dense in some things.
Frankly I'm surprised I'm not dead from all the second-hand smoking I did as a kid. I kid you not the first thing my sperm donor did when I came home from the hospital as a newborn infant was try to light a cigarette in the living room.
My sister is just like the mom at the eye doctor. She brought my nephew because he failed his eye exam in school and she got the glasses but he lost them 2 months later so now she said he doesn't get glasses, he doesn't need them. She believes all doctors are full of crap.
Sounds like my mom. Our doctor said my brother had double pneumonia. He ended up having to call police to get him to the hospital, all because my mom thought she knew better. She was abusive.
My grandmother was born in 1885, when doctors probably didn't know as much about medicine as the average fifth grader. "Doctors don't know anything" was her constant refrain. I kept telling her things have changed, but she never did believe me.
She was a belligerently non-compliant diabetic and would sometimes be blind in the morning. She'd behave herself for a day or two before an appointment, and then think she'd fooled the doctor into thinking she kept to her diet. She didn't. But she'd chortle, "See, doctors don't know anything".
@@LadyAnneJT my grandmother was born in 1894 and everything to her was a cold. If your knee hurt, it was a cold, if u broke your arm, it broke because of a cold. They get their mind set and there's no changing their minds!
"Oh that's Nelson, he lives up there" XDD
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I can't tell where one story stops and another begins
We have a lot of stories like this in my line of work. Try sitting there and interpret for a person who goes into the doctor and find out they have diabetes and that it's now gotten to the point where their kidneys are only functioning at 12%. They put the patient on dialysis she misses multiple appointment doesn't want to go doesn't want to follow the diet that she needs to take and all of the other nonsense that she doesn't want to do. And then called out over the course of several years to interpret her dialysis sessions as well as every time she would miss an appointment she would go to the emergency room. And every time we would tell her no you don't come to the emergency room when you miss an appointment you come to the emergency room if it's an emergency. She complains about the itchy skin because the fluid is just building up in her body her legs are twice the size they were the last time I saw her. She's complaining about this and we have to explain yet again for about the tenth time you have to go to your appointment if you don't go to your appointment this is what happens if your body cannot get rid of the fluid on its own. About a week after the last time she went to the emergency room she had a full-blown tantrum about the fact that they informed her that she was moved down on the transplant list because she was not following doctor's orders. Well duh they're not going to give you a kidney if you're not going to take care of it. I literally had to explain to this woman what has to happen for her to even get a kidney in the first place someone has to either donate it that is an exact match to you or they have to die and then it can be given to someone.
Story number 2 different client different problems she refused to stop sleeping around with multiple partners simultaneously. She ended up catching genital warts and herpes and they put her on medication for both. She insisted that she no longer had either one of them because she took the medicine they gave her. 2 hours later she still didn't understand with multiple people coming into the room to explain to her that that's not how it works and you have to continue taking your medication she didn't want to hear it so she stormed out and demanded that I helped her make a phone call to her insurance to switch her doctor. You just can't make this s*** up.
Every Type 2 diabetic that is non-compliant is a lazy idiot. I was 170 kg, 27 years old, fat as all hell and got diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. I lost about 25 - 30 kg over 6 months. Adopted a healthy eating plan. Got my fat ass moving and I was no longer diabetic and i am 130 KG. The goal is to lose another 15 KG.
The most impressive part is the nurses said "I wished all diabetic patients were like you."
Must be great to be you.
@@EllaBee90 It is, and it could be great for everyone as well.
@@JustAGuy93-G I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. I work in surgery and I have been involved in literally hundreds of diabetic related procedures. I wish more people had your self discipline.
@@habeckkentrn Thanks bud, i appreciate it 😁
4:59 My brother in Christ, you are made entirely of chemicals.
had an eye doctor prescribe me with bifocals at age 14. i didn't need bifocals. they actually made me throw up because of how disorienting it was. sometimes doctors make mistakes too. it was kind of annoying hearing that one eye doctor act as if they're always right.
Sorry to be distracted, but this game's portrayal of Bryce Canyon is very nice. I love that part of North America, the Colorado Plateau and the area vaguely surrounding it.
Hearing "doctors currupt, just want money" hurts
It just hurts
Man this guy yelling and saying woohoo is the best
My grandfather needed to be intubated and I broke the news to my brother. He was a little confused when I said our grandfather was going to be incubated (yes, like with friggin eggs)!
I have been sitting my ass on the chair and studying till I can't even stay awake anymore for the past 2 years, and I still have 1 year left, in my 3 years of high school, all that so I could become a doctor (neurosurgeon to be specific), and these stories kinda feel like what I'm going to experience lol
My opthalmologist calls the (non-contact) tonometer the "expletive generator" because the little puff of air can make people jump and say a rude word! :)
Is that what it's called? I always called it the face sneezing machine.
The lady who wanted the IED got me good lmao
As someone who is legally blind, the eyes stories are frightening.
My story isnt the dumbest but one of the saddest. Parents who didn't speak English well brought a baby into our clinic. Dr. with help was able to communicate with them well enough to get thru the exam. Ear infection and wrote a prescription for antibiotics. 3 days later they brought the baby back in as she was even sicker and crying in pain. Turns out they didn't understand that the liquid antibiotic was supposed to be given to the baby orally. They had been putting the antibiotic in the baby's ear.
Do you know if the baby was ok? I understand that the parents may not have spoken English but that poor baby must have been in so much pain 🙁
That's sad. When you have someone who doesn't understand English, you'd best have someone who can explain everything in detail to them in their language.
Retired veterinary receptionist here. This actually happens a lot in vet practices. No language barrier was involved. We actually started demoing the first dose in the office & changed the prescription labels to read "Give 2cc by MOUTH every 12 hours". Scary stupid.
@@heathermunday6878 it is scary stupid! Don't ask people how dumb they are, they might take it as a challenge!
Worked ER. Had a woman come in 3am complaining of ‘weg (Leg) aches’ for 5+ months. When asked specifics on the aches she replied, “my wegs hurt bc I gots the walkin’ Numomia”
Chest Xray clear, labs normal, no swelling or edema….? She was released later that morning saying that she was gonna sue us all because her ‘wegs still hurtin’.
You can’t mKe this stuff up.
My dad was an MD. One of his patients said he was going to have surgery for a detached rectum!
somehow, that sounds like a thing
Those darn things can get away from ya!!
My uncle, an anti-vax covid denier, is currently in hospital having had his arm amputated at the shoulder for sepsis. Allegedly, he hurt his hand on Christmas eve and was rushed into hospital on Boxing Day but I've a feeling he'd been ignoring it for far longer than that.
I've had a time with doctors. When I was in the ER one night, I felt dizzy and strange. My weight would go and down 10 each time I took it. I went for a walk a few hours prior and then realized that I needed help. Since I'm a psych patient, I get butt-fucked every time. If you want to be treated horribly, have a mental illness. Anyway, I asked the people in the ER if they could check my heart. EKG, nothing there. I became irritated, and I was like, it has to be a valve. Later, a doctor found my murmur, but I was too out of it and freaking out by then. She wanted to do a echo test.. However, I was committed for asking for heart surgery. I couldn't stop moving those like 60+ days on the ward, had bizarre blood pressures. And I was orthostatic or something pos, I think, or neg. Plus, my white blood cells were high. They found the lesions in my brain three years later. "Shot through the heart, but you're too late, you give love a bad name." I've gone through years of agony. I'm not fond of doctors. Keep your clipboards and online educations to yourselves.
I would like to point out that you can be put on Metformin even if you do not have diabetes. It's pretty normal if you have PCOS or if you are obese and they think you may develop diabetes in the future.
Yeah, but in these cases the use of metformin is off label and the patient should give his or her written informed consent for the treatment, so it is unlikely he /she doesnt know the reason for using it
@@mariapittalis2147 You would be surprised by what doctors DON'T tell the patients. My husband is getting ready to start dialysis because the kidney doctor did not tell him he had Chronic Kidney Disease, nor was he told what it meant, how serious it was, or anything else. i figured it out through Google searches using his test results. When I asked the doctor if he had CKD, he turned, looked at me and said, "Yes! In fact he has advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.". He was stage 3 at that point. I started asking questions but still didn't know the absolute seriousness of it. My husband thought he was seeing a Kidney specialist because he has clusters of cysts on his kidneys and the cysts were being monitored, (polycystic kidney disease).
Luckily, his insurance company is aware of many doctors not informing their patient's like this and put together a program for their CKD patients. It has been a Godsend for us. He has a nurse and a caseworker who comes to our home and goes through everything with us. We didn't know about the different stages, options, diet, nothing! He was in stage 3 six months ago and because he was not told and did not take extra steps and measures, he is now stage 5. For those who don't know, that's end stage.
@@mariapittalis2147
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@@tsgrandma9837 that's so awful and absurd...The doctor should have told your husband about the severity of his illness!
But it's medically risky to start at high dose, top of the line, EXPENSIVE medication, instead of trying lower dose, less expensive meds to treat prediabetes.
Using Metformin for ANTHING besides diabetes is technically, illegal, because it has not been through the FDA testing to PROVE the drug is effective for treating these other problems, and it has NOT been proven to not cause any damage for long term use, for problems other than diabetes.
Gabapentin is a seizure med. By accident they realized it treats pain. It became the go to pain med to avoid opiates; it still is. DESPITE, mutliple class action lawsuits for brain damage, that the patients won; AND a mulit million dollar fine from the FDA for marketing Gabapentin as a treatment option outside the original scope of the FDA approval. $10M in fines and damages were just pocket change compaired to the billions they make on selling Gapabentin as a pain treatment.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Talk to several doctors before taking a medication that is being crossed prescribed.
Dispensary tech here. It's somehow comforting to hear that the dumb people I deal with on a daily basis are just as dumb in front of much more highly trained medical professionals than me. Some aren't even that dumb - they just have no common sense. The number of people I have to handhold just in selecting a bandaid size or something so basic is wild.
One time, when I broke my leg, on the day I was set to leave, the doctor gave me a list of things not to do while my leg was in a cast.
I know the basics, and I thought this was just going to be a quick conversation about the dos and don'ts while my leg was healing.
The doctor tells me I can’t stand, walk, or bend, and I don’t put any pressure on it. I’m just thinking, okay.
But he continues to say I cannot run, skip, hop, jump, kick, dance, or zombie walk-basically, a list of things that would involve standing, bending my knee, and putting pressure on my broken leg.
The doctor also said I had to list several exercises and gave me a list of “romantic” positions to avoid.
It turns out he and other doctors in the hospital had several patients who used the phrase “the doctor said that I couldn’t do A but not B.”
All the ones about eyes make me sad.
Using the same disposable contacts for ages not even taking them off...
And the home made cleaning solutions! I don't even use the bottles to the end.
We've had more than one family member ask where they can take a shower. We say, "At home."
4:43 That one caught me off guard.
Lmfao sameeee
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Water is actually a super rare allergy, but I don't think Sprite would be answer, lol. It's more of an exposure allergy; I forget what the treatment is.
I will never understand these people who think that they know more than the doctors
Maybe they've had experiences with incompetent/lazy doctors in the past, and in their own past experience, they actually _have_ known more, so they're only proceeding based on personal experience.
I'm a bit of a Karen myself at the doctor's office because of past medical neglect. If I could tell my past self anything, "it's better to make your doctor prove you wrong than blindly assume that they're right."
The type of ppl that think they know more/better than the Dr are often narcissists. They'll often see promotions for the "natural treatment", and visit chiropractors, have reiki sessions, take vitamins etc and believe that the practice of modern medicine is just the government's way of trying to take control of them.
I'm so poor I didn't even know there was a no line option for my glasses😂😂😂
Ok. The water allergy I can totally get. I, actually, have the same problem....sort of. We lived in the city so only had access to chlorinated city water. My parents already knew I couldn't swim in public pools because I had a reaction to the chlorine but when I complained about stonach pains after drinking house water they thought I was making it up so I could have milk instead. I also break out in hives if I get rain water n my skin, especially if it hasn't rained in a while. I have very 🖕ed up skin, it's sensitive to everything.
i hope you live in Arizona or somewhere like that.
I'm similar. May suggest try bottled mineral water. I can't drink tap water, rash up at rainwater, shower water, my own tears.. really itchy.
Been drinking buxton water for years now.
Yea... But an actual water allergy should be verified by a doctor and in the doctors notes/ medical record.
Experiencing symptoms like that should be a reason to let a doctor look at it because maybe it can be treated.
Balm for the hives, maybe some desensitization therapy and investigations if the allergy/sensitivity is caused by some other issues/disease... But I guess that's something that is dependent on the level of insurance. I'm lucky to live in a country were everything necessary is covered no matter what type of insurance one has. Allergy assessment, treatment or desensitizing are necessary procedures. They would be available to anyone, except public care might lead to some weeks or months waiting for an appointment if it isn't urgent.
These make me feel better about my eating habits.
Fun fact: if you eat snacks all day but DO brush your teeth, they're fine. At least mine are.
nope. I was told that my cavity was caused by my diet, and not matter how much i brushed my diet caused it.
@@paladinoestetica the exception to the rule doesn't not necessarily make it the rule.
For the guy "allergic" to water, what's in those drinks he's been living off of? _Water!_
It's possible to be allergic to water
0:40 Allergic to water, eh?
Some people are actually allergic to water, but it’s like One In A Million or something also people can be allergic to cold and heat btw as well
@@Sea-gotchaEven then, it’s usually just a minor reaction (Itchiness and mild swelling) to water that ends up on the skin. Nothing life-threatening.
I had a patient tell me her big blue vein was a bruise from a blood draw 2 years prior.
Thanks for the info on the cost difference of progressive lenses.
I wouldn't have expected it to have been that much.
I've got a stupid general practitioner one for ya. I had a patient come in bc his physician told him he needed to be checked for HPV warts under his tongue. The area she pointed out was normal anatomy called a fimbriated fold. It's the little frill of tissue that runs under your tongue. This guy was freaked out for weeks over nothing
Holy sh*t that well gee willickers part had me loling hard 😭
And that whoo hoo gives me nigahiga vibes lmaooo
Ooh, I'm the bifocal dumba$$. At 48 I declared I didn't need bifocals. Bought 2 pairs and a bunch if contacts. So now I can wear em and see things far away, but I trip over everything. When my pride heals, I will try again with less ego. Lol
I've been in bifocals since 15 years old. I'm farsighted, but then developed some severe astigmatism that affected my distance vision. I can see far away, but things don't line up properly.
My trick to acclimating to bi focals or tri focals or progressives: DO NOT WEAR YOUR GLASSES STANDING UP FOR THE FIST TWO WEEKS. Wear them sitting down for one week, preferably at home for a few hours a day. Don't just sit there watching tv, you need to move around in your chair to get your eyes acclimated to the feeling of looking through rushing water, that skews the focus as you move around. You need to look down at your desk, then up at the tv, the over to the window. This is muscle memory, just like training for a tri athalon.
The second week: start standing up with them, so you get used to the feeling of looking through rushing water skewing the focus of everything as you stand up. Stand up two or three times in a 15 minute time frame. Sit down, and look around the room with the glasses for thirty minutes, then try standing up again.
By then end of the second week, you can start walking in your new glasses for short distances over the weekend, and start wearing them full time the next Monday. Be mindful: if you get dizzy, or light headed of nauseous- TAKE YOUR GLASSES OFF for a few minutes, let your brain reset normal, then wear your glasses only while sitting for that day. That is the key, if you feel like tossing your cookies, you're pushing too fast, and just slow down.
I recently had a breakthrough with flossing. Always want to, but my sleep schedule is messed up so I usually wind up EXHAUSTED while brushing my teeth so all I can get myself to do is brush - it’s that or nothing at all. Recently, a lightbulb went off in my head. I could floss… in the mornings! Immediate success 🤦
Floss in the morning, you could also floss in bed
@@TwistedGlitter that’s true!! Big brained take here.
There are also dental picks of various sorts, and also little sticks with floss at the end. I hate floss because it tightens up and makes my fingers turn blue. (I also had a cat get into the bathroom trash once, and ended up needing surgery because she tried to swallow discarded floss. She recovered, but it was quite the scare.) I use Brush Picks toothpicks instead of floss. They're narrow plastic picks with a fuzzy end and a pointy end, and they work very well for me. I keep some in the bedroom and some in the living room. There is a lot of choice these days.
@@jonesnori also a good idea to keep a bunch in different places. I love hearing how different people make sure they floss - it’s great for me! Maybe I’ll keep some in the kitchen so I always have them available after meals
think it would probably make the world a better place if we all were just ya know… informed and reasonable.
It kinda makes me wonder how many deaths would be prevented just by being less stupid.
Being less stupid would probably be a solution to allot of problems wehhhhhh
"Yeah put the ied in my son" i laughed so hard.
That poor guy also taking the birth control, at least he was in a progressive headspace. The female birth control could have messed him up if he kept it up long term, but it is very nice he was willing to also do something instead of having his girlfriend do it alone.
I left a pair of 2 week contacts in for 8 months, and they dissolved. Not saying anybody should leave their contacts in but I've done this for 16 years and the worst thing that happens is that my eyes can get really dry at night time when trying to sleep with them in. Obviously, take them out if they start to bother you and leave them out until your eyes feel better. These horror stories are mostly people ignoring the obvious signs of an issue and doing nothing about it.
"That's Nelson. He lives up there"
*No, tf he doesn't *
When you were talking about kids shoving basically anything into thier orifices, I can can relate when I was 7 I once shoved 2 tiny rocks in my ear i had to have a doctor remove then after that I never did it again.😅😅😅
Got a fun one. Context, I work in urology heh. Patient uses a catheter to empty his bladder (he uses a latex tube multiple times a day and inserts it into his bladder) well he kept telling me the whole visit “I keep getting UTI’s” at the last second he mentions “well I don’t got no lube so I just lick the cath before using it” my heart fell out my ass 😂 well sir, that’s where your UTI’s come from.
You can tell which people spend way too much time on conspiracy theory websites 🤣🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
The Joke's on you, all of us on the C19 Conspiracy Sites... were right about the whole thing.
@@Objective-Observer 🤣🤣🤣
@@elizabethsullivan7176 Oh yes, we all were tempted to laugh at you folks for believing the lies, but then thousands of young people died from heart attacks following the Faucii Ouchie; and thousands more have permanent heart damage, so we can't really laugh about the truth, you fought so hard to debunk.
@@Objective-Observer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Time to loosen that tin foil hat of yours 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The puffing machine, as far as I know, doesn't test for glaucoma, but rather for eyeball shape. The specialized machine that did test for glaucoma in the optician's office that I went to was the size of a refrigerator and would bathe the inside of the patient's eyeball through the pupil, the black dot hole in the center of the eye that works like a camera aperture, with lime-green light to do a photographic scan for discoloration patches inside the eye. I know because I also have a family history of glaucoma after my mom's maternal grandfather developed the disease. He didn't get diagnosed until 1976 because he was living in an RV trailer and had memorized the furniture layout, then Mom and her parents took him on a trip to Alaska and he mistook a floating log near a ferry they were riding on for a man overboard. Also, suppose that patient that wasn't understanding his own family history of glaucoma is reading this. In that case, he shouldn't be fighting to avoid the diagnosis because it might get him a medical cannabis card.
The air puff tests the pressure within your eye. Abnormal pressure indicates problems, such as glaucoma (where the pressure inside your eye increases). So, yes, it is testing for glaucoma.
@@DerpDevilDD And diabetes damage
@@Kiwi_Tea Are you sure that's not just the retina exam? I've never seen anything about the puff test detecting diabetes/ diabetes related issues.
@@DerpDevilDD When diabetes is out of control, the pressure in the eyeball changes. The puff test is to make sure the pressure inside the eye is at normal levels for diabetics.
@@Kiwi_Tea Ah, I see where the disconnect is. The puff test checks for glaucoma. A type of glaucoma is caused by diabetes. So, it's still testing to glaucoma and not diabetes, but diabetes can be the reason for the glaucoma.
as much as we would love to tell patients that they're dumb, we can't.
WOO~HOO
I just remembered song 2 by blur after seeing this
@Alfonso Roñeras: And now I have that song stuck in my head, thank you so much.
"I'm a medical professional. Stop acting like you know better than me". Well, to pretty much every "medical professional" that I ever consulted, I'd answer to "start acting as a medical professional, then". They never know anything, give you meds that only make things worse, give worse advice than youtube, rarely ever explain anything and more often than not are annoyed if you don't treat them like God All mighty descending from the sky with a halo over their head and shoulders.
I have many stories like this one: My mother was a smoker and had her arteries full of blockages. So, she went regularly get checked by one of these hart specialists. I once saw a video about vitamin C as a nutriment many people lacked, especially smokers, as it is used for many things in the body. I didn't even know she had that sickness. She randomly took some for three weeks until her next consultation. She had no blockage left. What was the reaction of that maniac? Did he asked her how she did that? Did he rejoice for her better health? Did he give her his apologies for failing to understand what she actually suffered from? No, none of these. He scolded her for being cured. That's only when I learned that vitamin C is used by the body to build and maintain the arteries and stuff, ensuring their flexibility, which in turn prevented things from getting stuck in there. Vitamin C is very cheap (you can get 1kg of high quality 99+% pure vitamin C for around than 40€), you virtually can't get intoxicated with it unless you take hundreds of grams of these a day and he know she was a smoker. It's the very first thing he should have tried to help her.
"TAKE COVER, ITS A BOY!!" Got me dead 💀💀💀
How, in the peak of advanced medical care, have people legitimately believe is all a con or bad for you until their death? Its even worse when kids are involved. Dying so young and not knowing why because mommy was afraid autism. Smh
We paid for progressive lenses for my daughter once when she was about 7. Turned out, she prefers the bifocals that are covered by insurance anyway. We haven't had to pay for her glasses since.
We did have to pay for them when she was a toddler. The ones that came with insurance were NOT toddler proof. She broke them almost immediately. We got the free replacements and she broke those too. Then we had to pay for plastic frames that kids can't break. Those should be covered. The free ones are useless.
3:50 Some eye doctors specifically recommend an optometrist to take their own values and use those.
Sure, use the doctors prescription as a starting point - they are good values.
But a doctor checks mainly to see anomalies that need medical intervention. An optometrist has more routine and focus to dial in the prescription and knowledge what it is optically and physically possible to grind into glass and how his (paying) customers respond to different option.
Story 13 gave me chills…how the heck
Had a friend who wore contacts. She’d keep a pair in 24/7 for a month at a time. Also didn’t practice good eye hygiene. Really did a number on her eyes over time. She then tried to blame the doctor for not prescribing the “right” contacts.
his "woo hoo" is the thing that a boy has. As soon I heard "too make his woo hoo bigger" i knew exactly what it is
Number 22 got me laughing harder than I ever had.
Disgraceful,as doctors we have a duty to care for the sick.It’s not up to us to be judgemental and make fun of people or their lives .
Who the hell do these people think they are? Their job is to care and are paid to do so.
Did I hear that a person with severe cardiac problems thought he had indigestion,he won’t be the first.Or the first who died.
4:43 took me off guard 😅
Progressive lenses in your eye glasses actually decrease your vision more rapidly.
Went to the doctor for my very close veins. He didn't know what I meant. I need a better doctor.🤣🤣🤣🤣
~Varicose Veins jingle from Ren & Stimpy intensifies~
Allergic to water? What's next? Someone who's allergic to oxygen?
Work in an ambulance or ED long enough Someone eventually refuses oxygen claiming an allergy. Usually screaming it at you. You then need to not laugh at them or you make everything worse
Every now and then you actually DO get someone allergic to water. It's usually caused by skin contact though.
Fun fact…. Someone CAN be allergic to water. However very rare
4:42 bro was so mad he turned into flowey 😭