Doctors, What's The Worst Self Diagnosis You've Seen?

doctors overdid what's the most incorrect patient self diagnosis you've seen my friend has an incredibly tough alcoholic grandma she ignored a stroke because she thought it was a hangover dang that grandma must have had some rough hangovers saw her patient last night who had been having episodes of wind for six months and had come in because of a particularly bad bout massive heart attack with crescendo angina over the preceding year not that uncommon herself miss diagnosis but kind of takes you aback when you see it fart attack not a doctor myself my grandfather was a doctor and had a patient come to his office complaining of a slight headache his receptionist told him to wait into the waiting room they called his name but the guy never came up to the desk he actually suffered a major brain hemorrhage died waiting to be seen in the chair dang that sucks so close to help yet so far away man who rode his bike a sole method of transportation came in for chronic knee and leg pain he had metastases a with bone lesions all over came in for my legs hurt left with hospice referral as a paramedic I responded to a dispatch for a sick person when we arrived this old guy was clearly having a stroke he said I just hate some bad fish or something before taking a three hour nap luckily his wife finally decided to call 9-1-1 that would have made a funny tombstone though I just had some bad fish or something I personally knew a guy who was diagnosed with lung cancer in college at the age of 22 he was so young and lived a clean life so he was confusing to everyone even the doctors but they progressed very quickly with the treatment and he was scheduled to start chemo he was doing some sort of pre diagnostic meeting and an intern was involved the intern started asking some very different questions and he eventually asks the patient if he had been in Kansas recently it turned out he had in fact spent the previous summer working in Kansas this was a few weeks after it turned out the intern had been writing a paper specifically about localized diseases there was this disease in Kansas that he had focused on it had something to do with hay but it wasn't hay fever the intern was basically telling the doctor to humor him and run this one specific test the doctor agrees and the test comes back with results that show the intern was on to something the patient went in for chemo treatments with a grim outlook and he left with ten pills he had to take over the next five days one week later he was completely fine for what it's worth this was in the year 2001 not a doctor but a psych first-responder patient self diagnosed as dead EMTs didn't believe him he was quite insistent though and wanted an ambulance ride because he thought are dead personal to have one the EMTs argued with him stating that he was both standing and talking he countered that he was in heck in fact he was just pretty high with a bad drug combination I had a fun hour with him while he came down as a medic I had a soldier run up to me and demand to see the PA when I asked why he said his girlfriend has BV and now he's sure he does too I assured him that he most certainly did not have bacterial vaginosis the soldier in question was symptom free and we definitely still let the soldiers see his provider I'm not a doctor but I am a medical professional at a hospital patient came in stating that he had blood in his stool for almost a year and was convinced that it was just because of hemorrhoids he only came in when he started to get abdominal pains turned out to be color rectal cancer moral of the story is if you have blood in your stool especially dark colored don't ignore it I have had an unbelievable amount of patients who think they have stevens-johnson syndrome thanks WebMD when they in fact have contact dermatitis from new lotion or laundry soap I also advise not looking up that condition if you have recently started lamotrigine carbamazepine bactrim or allopurinol and develop a rash definitely call your doctor it may actually be SJS for anyone curious SJS basically makes your skin fall off 10 stroke 10 would not Google again elderly man with dementia brought in for suspicion of toxic epidermal necrolysis a serious and life-threatening reaction where your skin peels off in sheets nope it was a very large burn because they left grandpa alone at the house and he spilled a tea pot on himself in the family and another Hospital were too dumb to figure it out tale as old as time if I had a dollar for every patient who thought dermatitis from laundry soap was SJS I wouldn't even have to work anymore I was rushed to the ER as a kid because I woke up and my face was blue obviously my parents thought I wasn't breathing I made or nine years old and everyone sudden change in demeanor is making me a little scared and I'm just getting bluer at emerge they're running all kinds of tests at on showing you nothing wrong with me until finally my dad realized that I put the brand-new Toronto Maple Leafs pillowcase I just got on my pillow washcloths later I was all a better at least it was a really nice blue he had some belly pain and thought he had a UT also had weight loss night sweats and some other stuff he had terminal pancreatic cancer and two weeks later he is delirious and a death's door I wanted upvote you and downvote the cancer I'm so sorry not a doctor but I am a nurse I recently had a patient who claimed that he used to have diabetes but Jesus cured him of it his glucose was nearly 300 on admission and he was in the hospital for an amputation of a gangrenous toe that didn't heal because of said diabetes I'll never forget the doctor's note that said patient had a history of diabetes but states jesus healed him of that but since his blood glucose was 289 on admission we will treat him as if he were a diabetic I'm not a doctor but I am a medical assistant I did my procedure at a kidney and hypertension center had a guy come in complaining of painful urination and thought he had a UT gave him a cup and told him to pee and set it in the window the lab took the cup and immediately brought him back to a room which was strange BC this place stayed packed and it was all first-come first-serve kind of thing well this guy went BC there was blood in his urine a lot of it this guy was beyond 300 pounds bTW just massive and extremely tall doctors got him in the room and stayed for maybe 15 minutes before we had him transferred to the air apparently he had a fractured dong and had no idea the nurse above me said they lifted his Gus and his entire groin was purple and black and his penis was at a weird swollen angle she said she'd never forget it for the rest of her life the guy never did tell us what happened or anything he acted just as surprised as everyone else TL DR UT turned out to be a broken dong I would say after a couple years working in an emergency room before enduring medical school that by far the most common egregious self misdiagnosis involves pregnancy it turns off patients with active private life coming and complaining of morning sickness and gaining weight and just sure they have some sort of GI issue or infectious disease when it comes around to asking questions oh yeah come to think about it I haven't had my period in 3 4 5 months that's not to mention the people coming in fully in labor and delivering in the IDI truly shocked that they were pregnant at all now I understand people can have irregular periods and there are many cases where the patient is reasonable in not guessing what's going on but there is a large group of patients who missed a lot of obvious hints denial ain't just a river in Egypt I guess and I do have empathy for patients in situations where they really don't want to be pregnant and so perhaps or subconsciously blocking it out of their mind but a medical mystery it is not not a doctor but is somewhat related this one night I started getting some excruciating cramps that was so bad I had to wake my mom she asked me where the pain was and I pointed out the right side of my stomach and instantly she tells me to get in the car and we go to the air if she thought I had appendicitis we get there I'm hooked up to morphine and they get an x-ray I didn't have appendicitis I just had to crap real bad opposite here woke up and asked my mom to a go to the ER for stomach pain I'd been having for hours she said no it's rude to go to the ER with a tummy ache we finally went in the morning I would have done that told you so dance if my appendix wasn't killing me at the moment the doctor announced my disclaimer I meant diagnosis not disclaimer no two people a good friend and my sister's fiance who complained of back aches like they pulled a muscle pancreatic cancer went from pain to them passing away in less than 90 days if you have a pain that just doesn't feel right go see a doc we want you here I once thought I had a perforated colon because my poop was bright red I spent an hour on the toilet in pain googling symptoms and then I remembered I got higher the night before and crushed a bag of flaming hot cheetos you swear you're crapping out your intestinal lining then realize it matches your fingers okay so why do you think you have glaucoma well back in 2002 I got shot right here and it was a clock I'm not creative enough to make this crap up okay that's amazing like it's borderline dad joke I had a very nice gentleman come to the IDI with severe weakness going on for weeks it all started with chest pain a couple of months earlier he thought he was having heart trouble and he knew you take aspirin for a heart attack so he took a couple aspirin every day for the next few weeks the pain got worse and also started affecting his legs while walking then the weakness started then he pooped blood a lot of it that's what prompted the emergency department visit when I checked his labs his HGB was in the four range which is low enough to make me raise my eyebrows normal is 13 15 you'll start feeling weak tile around 10 usually stir his symptoms including chest pain weren't from heart trouble they were from severe anemia turns out he had a small bleed from his colon and taking aspirin which things your blood and makes you bleed more turned it into a large bleed so I get him tanked back up with blood we do a few tests including a colonoscopy to see why he was bleeding in the first place and whoops we find locally advanced colon cancer thankfully it hadn't spread anywhere so he eventually ends up get surgery and chemo and last I checked he's doing great so this guy was incredibly lucky by misdiagnosing himself with coronary artery disease he took a totally inappropriate medication which caused a side-effect that set off a chain reaction that led him to me and his diagnosis with cancer at an early enough stage to be cured if he hadn't taken that aspirin that cancer could have sat another year or two undetected and continued to spread at which point it would have been incurable and he'd likely be dead right now a wrong self diagnosis that turned out to be a good thing we don't read those very often when my husband was eight years old he campaigned about having intense pains in his stomach and became so lethargic that her couldn't be woken up his doctor said there was nothing wrong in that he had growing pains for two years it turns out his gallbladder had stopped working and would only function correctly a few days out of the month after the doctor refused in a referral to another doctor for a second opinion his mom took him to the emergency room and within 15 minutes he was going into surgery to have his gallbladder removed to top it off they jump packed him with so many pain meds that he became so constipated and he couldn't use the bathroom for two weeks he complained about his stomach hurting again and the nurses never once asked him when his last BM was claiming that they forgot he had to receive an additional surgery later that week in which he had 15 pounds of fecal matter removed from him talk about a crappy time I forgot to pay the hospital bill not a doctor but I did this to myself once I was in high school walking to class when I got a sudden sharp pain in my foot I was running late and didn't have time to deal with it right then but I only really felt it while I was walking it faded quickly when I was still and even then it was minor enough that I figured it would go away on its own after a couple of weeks of dealing with it I mentioned it to my mom who thought it might be gout I was a really lazy kid so it was a definite possibility we go to the doctor and he does an x-ray and it turns out I broke one of the bones in the ball of my foot in short I broke my foot and tried to walk it off or two weeks pediatrician here a lot of parents come in thinking their child has cancer because they won't eat anything actually they just don't like vegetables and are eating themselves to obesity with the crap you substituted with all the parents never learned how to properly cook vegetables and make them not taste like plain but I didn't like most vegetables until my sophomore year of high school because that was when I learned how to cook them myself and actually use gasp spices n crap physician assistant that works in the emergency department here had a woman around 45 years old come in with her mother for a complaint off a spider bite to her back it was actually an abscess no big deal that's pretty common people think abscesses are spider bites all the time I am sized and drained it and sent her home on antibiotics pretty standard procedure told her to come back in two days for a recheck when she came back it was looking better she into her mother thought it was something serious because it still wasn't all the way gone yet but it was healing well and there wasn't much to do she and her mother came back again another two days later and told me it was definitely gangrene I tried to reassure them but they both kept arguing with me that I didn't know what I was talking about it was obviously a healing abscess and was looking a lot better looked nothing like gangrene which they had googled had to get two of my colleagues to come in the room to reassure them but they still didn't believe us think they ended up going to another hospital TLDR woman came to the three times for an abscess she thought - has gangrene not a doctor I was the patient got incredibly drunk one nights and decided to finish off the night with an amazing Taco Bell feast woke up the next morning with an incredibly bad stomach ache this continued for about three days and I was constipated the whole time my room mates all pre-med or nursing thought it was just the Taco Bell causing some issues but on about day four I couldn't take it anymore and had one of them drive me to the hospital he continued to call me a B and said they are just going to tell me to take laxatives while at the hospital they noticed my appendix was incredibly swollen and about to burst and was rushed into surgery on my way to surgery a doctor came running and screaming to stop and he show the x-ray to the surgeon and they decided it wasn't the appendix that was the problem but my intestine somehow my colon folded into itself like a sock and causes incredible swelling and build-up ended up going on antibiotics and morphine for a couple of days and got to miss all my exams other than anatomy the dick had made me take a longer more difficult and extended response only exam I have no idea how this happened and the doctors tried explaining the possibilities but I was too freaked up on morphine to understand I remember them asking me if I recently went to Haiti or the doctor about three years later I started to have similar pain and went to the doctor immediately and this time they just took my appendix out TL DR thought I was constipated from Taco Bell doctor said my appendix was about to burst then another doctor stopped me from going into surgery and said my intestines folded into each other that sounds incredibly painful missing exams is just a cherry on top morbidly obese lady terrified she had a lump in her breast demanded to be examined immediately rib schizophrenic guy thought his lungs were rotting but it was okay because he just get a new torso from NASA he's not even American I don't know why NASA would give him said non-existent torso also I'm not really sure what sort of official organization we'll give out torsos but I'm not convinced a Space Agency would have been my first choice if asked psychologists here saw a leathery woman who drank three pots of coffee a day to cure her anxiety with shell problems were this easy to fix my grandpa was drinking three six pots of coffee a day in his late forties and started having heart problems it was skipping and he felt weird eventually the doctor got him to cut down to one two pots day mother brought in her third child kids listless pale muscle tone his poor mother claims kid has news so doing my checks asking about food and home environment mother tells a little kid is lactose intolerant so we only us Armand run a panel not only is the poor little two-year-old not lactose J tolerant Dhanbad mother has been starving his poor brain of nutrients by feeding him only vegetables but no protein or protein based items like legumes Kitty's developmental delayed because she saw an internet article on it ended up calling CPS on the bee and having all of her three children removed had a daughter with bulimia it was horrifying still pisses me off when I think it about good on you for calling CPS I'm not a doctor but when I went to see a physician a year back for my shaking problem I have severely shaking hands I was told that it was a short-term problem that would likely go away in my late 20s I told him I was on medication and he dismissed it as an unrelated issue recently I went to a different doctor he assessed my symptoms jolting limbs twitchy face shaking hands locking jaw etc turns out I have tardive dyskinesia which is a very rare side effect of one of the medications I was on it is irreversible after age 25 if I had listened to the first doctor I would have permanent brain damage as young as 25 years old not a doctor but I went to the hospital about five weeks ago with what I thought was testicular torsion my God told it was orchitis and was prescribed antibiotics for a week and was told it would feel better within days pain got worse and so did the swelling turns out it was testicular torsion and was operated on and sent home without my left testicle because the doctor was so certain as was just an infection and didn't feel it was necessary for me to have the appropriate scans to double-check which I later get told that it should have been the first thing he should have done in the first place so now I'm 20 years old with a missing testicle and about a week now from full recovery Frick you doctors sing you incompetent whilst in for those wondering or assuming I'm from the UK not the US although suing does sound super American well now others can avoid him thank God he doesn't have one of the most common last names in the world not a self diagnosis but I had been seeing various doctors for months with what they thought was post viral syndrome or depression depending on how the doctor felt that day then after being out in the Sun one day I developed a malar rash and my husband decided it looked like something he had seen on a medical program called lupus doctors laughed me and him out of the consultation room for months I was too young not the right race no family history etc etc turns out they decided eventually to order the right blood tests and I have lupus I do love doctors but realize now that often their guess is as good as mine ever since house people self diagnose lupus a lot congratulations on getting it right this story involves me the idiot patient my co-workers the concerned family the patient first doctor who diagnose did wrong and the adopters who got it right so I'm at work and I have this pain on my right side it's kind of just a stabbing weird pain when I breathe and I can't take a crap like something is blocking it I go over to my coworker and I'm sitting on her desk rubbing it and she says what's wrong frist sbox I mentioned that I haven't been able to poop in this pain and another co-worker pops up and starts poking at my abdomen and says if it bounces back it's appendicitis and I need to go to the doctor I'm like dude it's probably just gas but office Mon loses it and tells me I have to go get it checked out so I go to patient first and they run my blood and feel my abdomen and the doctor comes back very concerned Christus box your white blood cell count is really high I want you to go to the ER right now so in my car I go to the air via people take me back and they run my blood and they are like crap for stiff box your count is super-high let's get you some scans so I've been here for four hours doing all these scans waiting for crap to come back and everyone has been poking and prodding at me and my side really frickin hurts and I'm thinking I'm going to have to go in for emergency surgery finally a new doctor comes and is like good news we're releasing you okay yet you don't have appendicitis it's just a grapefruit-sized tumor on your ovary here's a referral no bedside manner that dude had not a doctor but a doctor diagnosed my wife with her STD chlamydia may be huge fight wife was emotionally crushed she accused me of cheating fricked up I punched her symptoms into WebMD and told her it was probably kidney stones turned out to be kidney stones no a doctor but a pharmacy technician had a patient yesterday tell me they went to Urgent Care and the nurse diagnosed pinkeye the patients didn't feel right about that and went to the eye doctor eye doctor told her she had an ulcer on her eye and if it went untreated pro-police she would lose eyesight and possibly the eye I went in a boating trip off the coast of BC we went through various small channels of water and docked somewhere where we could go kayaking on the open water we took turns managing various aspects of the ship doing menial tasks such as watching for logs or otters and crap in the water that might frick up the propeller or helping out in the extremely loud engine room this was over the course of maybe three weeks on the last day of the trip everyone started to get seasick myself included we flew home the next day and when we landed I felt fine for maybe two hours waiting in the airport and driving home I started to feel worse and worse to the point where I was laying in the backseat of the car and we had to pull over maybe 50 feet from my house to let me throw up I had had migraines before and it felt just like one fast-forward to later that night and it was so bad this me train that even the little light coming in from the slit under my door caused incredible pain we went to the emergency walk-in the whole time I was there I had to have my right eye covered or the pain would overtake me they prescribed something I can't remember which but it had no effect at all the next day the pain was still there so bad during the day that I actually tried to claw my eye out whilst trying frantically to get a hold of my parents to take me to hospital once they finally took me to hospital they admitted me and took me in for a cat scan they found that I was suffering from sinusitis this sinusitis had led to pressure on my optical nerve which in turn caused a blood clot to form I was in hospital for two months under strict quarantine whilst the doctors pumped me full of blood thinners and an antibiotic concoction that they made that killed all my white blood cells when released they had me outfitted with a pump that pumped medicine through my arm and directly into my heart through a vein I don't think anyone could have caught that diagnosis from light sensitivity and a headache but I'm awfully glad I went to hospital and that the Children's in that city is one of if not the best in the world the trip itself cost about $8,000 and the treatment probably far more thank God I live in Canada if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 25min 46sec (1546 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 25 2020