Doctors, Whats Your ’Thank God They Came in or a Second Opinion’ Moment?

doctors of reddit what's your thank god they came in for a second opinion moment i have a story of a friend who was severely mismanaged i've probably posted it before but i'm too lazy to look for two years my friend had been going to her gp complaining about migraines bouts of severe vomiting and dizzy spells every time he would order blood work then tell her she was fine one morning she woke up and after a steamy morning with her husband could barely stand she was so dizzy and had such a bad migraine she told her husband not to worry sent him to work and had her neighbor driver her to the emergency room she doesn't remember arriving when she got there she started acting erratic they had to sedate her and sent her for a ct scan of her head there they noticed a huge mass in her brain the hospital wasn't equipped to deal with that so they sent her by ambulance to the nearest hospital that could a four-hour drive away this hospital immediately sent her for an mri it wasn't a mass they could actually see the mass growing as they did the mri no she was having a massive stroke she was immediately taken in for surgery they put in a stent and had to remove most of the left side of her brain as it was all dead afterwards she was in a coma for nearly 72 hours they were uncertain if she would wake up and if she did if she would ever recover thankfully she did it took almost a year of physio and speech therapy among a few others but she has made almost a complete recovery they even had their first child eight months ago turns out she had incredibly high cholesterol with all the blood work that was done her gp should have caught it when she confronted him he told her that her diagnosis was wrong that she hadn't had a stroke and had made it up she went after his license please tell me she got it i've had a couple of gems but the one that really sticks out in my mind actually happened about a month or so ago a young mother brought in a six-year-old to emerg she was super nice and apologetic because she thought that she was wasting my time because she said that her son had started to develop different spots all over his body and she has no idea why my initial first thought was chickenpox so i had some swords and shields up ready to go for the anti-vaxx debate but she claimed that she had her son vaccinated at all stages up to that point and upon closer inspection they were mass of clusters of warts not uncommon but because of how rapidly that they were growing i ordered some blood work to make sure there wasn't an underlying cause as kids immune systems are pretty well equipped to handle that sort of thing and i'm really glad that she brought him in because he had a severely low white blood cell count which revealed a primary immune deficiency disease my daughter has warts all over nothing has been successful in removing them they just keep popping up everywhere mid 30s man walks into my office with what looks like a black eye and a broken blood vessel in the front of his left eye he went to his primary and it was simply assumed that he got punched or hit or something and he was dismissed he was noted to have high blood pressure but a script for medicine was written and a follow-up in a few months gentleman comes in to see me to get another opinion on the matter and i look at him and immediately start the line of questions how long has it been there do you have a headache and when you plug your ears with your fingers do you hear a whooshing sound he had a cavernous sinus fistula ccf i sent him directly to the emergency room with his family of four in tow and he was in the or within an hour of arriving saved his eye and possibly his life that day the best news he was a kitchen guy at my local diner which i frequent and they still treat me like royalty though when i come to eat they all remember the time i saved one of theirs this is what i wish i had gotten a second opinion story i had a doctor in high school who was unconcerned when i suddenly developed vertical double vision which was freaking out everyone in emergency where i had gone initially and lost 60 pounds for no reason it was only a year or two later when i told him that my arm would fall asleep much faster than normal when i raised it to ask a question in class that he thought there might be something wrong with me mri ordered brain tumor found i've heard people say sudden unexplained weight loss is always a red flag sucks no one picked up on it my grandmother had her hip replaced but the hip always hurt to her she waited a year hoping it would go away but it never did she asked multiple doctors and did multiple x-rays but doctors said the replaced hip was fine we finally made her go to her private clinic in my hometown and the doctor saw that the replaced hip was fine and dandy but the bone around it looked like it was a tad bit eaten by bacteria so the new doc did an operation and there was so much pus in the leg it was insane if my grandmother waited any longer her blood would become infected and she would have died thank goodness she went to the clinic a tad bit eaten by bacteria my dad a pediatrician specializing in neuro issues was seeing one of his patients at the hospital got dragged into the niko unexpectedly by a nurse who insisted a baby wasn't well the attending doc insisted the kid was fine and just tired from a difficult vacuum assist delivery my dad could tell the baby wasn't okay and managed to talk the parents into a brain scan the niku doc insisted my dad was nuts to the parents dad was right and the kid had a brain bleed and was rushed to surgery the baby would have died without the nurse bringing my dad in and the parents listening to him as is that extra time almost certainly caused brain function a nurse in the nicu caught that one of my twins had a severe beauty she caught it based on his eating patterns i'm grateful for those parents the nurse brought your dad in i doctor here i had a patient i saw several months before they came in for their visit but well less than a year which often means something could be wrong in this case as it turns out nothing was wrong with her by way of complaints she just wanted to get updated before getting some new glasses we decided to just run the regular gamut of tests anyway just because we might as well while she was there she was a 50 year woman fairly normal exam perfect vision retinas showed healthy but something about her pupils really bothered me before i dilated we chatted about it and i asked her if she banged her head or anything weird and she said no but suddenly reveals this crazy history of an old meningioma a type of tumorous brain growth she had removed a few years ago she had decided to emit this from her history with us so she didn't feel it was important but we went and put it into the charts anyway turns out she got a ct done two weeks prior to her exam with me which she says turns up completely normal i tell her she should tell her doctor about this anyway just to cover our bases fast forward patient shows up in my office ecstatic to tell me that my examination revealed that her tumor had returned with an incredible vengeance she had no idea was totally asymptomatic and the ct she had prior to me showed what was very literally the size of a speck of dust which the radiologist dismissed as artifact on her return to her doctor they decided to rerun the ct to cover their bases and they found a quarter-sized tumor within two weeks the tumor went from the size of a dust particle to a quarter she was rushed into emergency surgery as the tumor was growing super fast and was close to her blood vessel which could cause a massive stroke she had it removed that day and returned to me after recovery to tell me of what got discovered as a result of my testing she is now a long time regular patient i have been seeing for about 10 years for anyone asking about the pupils they were asymmetric and the larger one reacted less robustly compared to the fellow eye this was a marked change from her previous examinations when no pupillary defects were noted 22 yo guy came in after seeing his primary at another hospital his mom was my patient and asked if i would see him i am an internal med doc he had told his doctor he had a headache i did the usual full review of symptoms since he was new and he also marked his left testicle had a lump dib examined he had hard small lump on testicle knew right away likely had metastatic testicular cancer one stat brain scan and testicular ultrasound later confirmed it asked him if told other doctor about the lump and he said yes but the other doctor told him it was normal he lived by the way but it was close a few times so fellows if you know to lump on your testicle ask for an ultrasound and don't be embarrassed to bring it up for anyone who are concerned after examining yourself there is a small soft area posteriorly that should be similar on both your testicles known as the epididymis that is normal a hard lump on only one side only is not monthly self checks between ages 15 34 can be done but since rare 5 stroke 100 0 0 0 not a general recommendation i think the other doctor should get his testicles checked too if he thinks lumps are normal i had a guy coming for a second opinion after the first place didn't bother asking any medical history of course i took his history and asked more questions as we went i remember telling him something felt off and we needed to run a test so i ordered a peripheral vision test when i got the test back i was shocked by the most classic tumor pattern i'd ever seen two weeks later he was in surgery to get it removed a month after this guy was back in my clinic thanking me totally different guy personality was a complete 180 energetic and happy here's another one i thought although a bit more sad but also good at the same time here's a cautionary tale why urgent cares should never treat eye issues lady was referred to me after two weeks of treated for a red painful eye the pa and mds that saw had tried allergy meds and antibiotic is thinking it was allergic or bacterial conjunctivitis or hoping it was mild viral that would resolve on its own so i took one look at her and knew it was a herpes simplex infection in her cornea she was in pain and had been mistreated for two weeks got her on antivirals but after discussing how it was odd she didn't have any active herpetic sores but had a really bad cough that the assad was just pneumonia and would go away with antibiotics i told her to get it checked with a pulmonologist because it didn't sound like pneumonia and it wasn't getting better i saw her three months later to monitor her corneal appearance and she came in using a wheelchair turns out the pulmonologist was blown away that there had dismissed her she had a really rare small cell lung cancer the reason the herpes infection manifested in the first place was her immune system was compromised she told me the pulmonologist said i'd saved her life because they caught it early it's been a bit over a year she's still undergoing treatment but her spirits are strong and she's optimistic as is the pulmonologist one of my sister's friends was diagnosed with cancer at age 10 they were advised to pack up their stuff and move across the country to go to a specialist because they would have to stay there for at least a year they even had to hire a private plane so she wouldn't get sick on the plane from any passengers well before they left they got a second opinion saying it was pneumonia then they got a third that again said it is was pneumonia now several years later she is healthy and never got cancer treatment and has been tested for cancer regularly i have been diagnosed with cancer several times but all have been wrong thank god dermatologist here i have seen probably five instances of my other doctor told me it was fine that were melanomas a lot of times people don't want a full skin exams there are lots of perfectly sane reasons for this time perceived cost history of personal trauma however i routinely find cancers people don't know they have keep this in mind if you see a dermatologist for acne and they recommend you get in a gown not a doctor but the patient went to my family doctor with the worst headache of my entire life she dismissed it telling me it was a tension headache and that i should take a tylenol and lay down in a dark room over the course of the next month i saw her a total of 13 times each time with worsening symptoms first it was dizziness then vomiting then eventually i could no longer see out of my right eye every time she told me it was just a tension headache or a weird migraine gave me a prescription for painkillers and sent me on my way and the final straw was when i was no longer able to walk properly i would try to take a step but all i could manage was this weird shuffle she reluctantly agreed to send me to a neurologist the next day i showed up at his office and was in there for less than a minute he took one look in my eyes and immediately called an ambulance turns out i had hydrocephalus my ventricles were 5x the size they were supposed to be and my brain was literally being squeezed out of my head go figure frickman i hope you reported your family doctor for medical malpractice bit of a weird one because the request for a second opinion came from an intensivist and i was a contributor to their treatment plan i work in poisons control had a call from a green but very astute young doctor with a middle-aged female patient presenting with a vague 36 48 hours history of malaise confusion hypoxia from hyperventilation and hallucinations on workup was noted to have pulmonary edema lung fluid buildup metabolic acidosis acute kidney injury sinus tachy and raised crp in wcc suggestive of infection but no temperature the initial diagnosis was sepsis this kenai doctor pretty fresh out of med school decided to do a salicylate level on this lady because the hyperventilation paired with metabolic acidosis and arche was enough to prompt her suspicions of aspirin poisoning even though they could just as easily be explained by sepsis as well the level came back high not huge bit high which prompted her to phone me for a second opinion on how relevant the finding was in terms of the patient's clinical picture simultaneously the patient's family investigated the property and located numerous aspirin blister packs suggesting she had been dosing herself for chronic pain which was present in the medical history chronic salicylate poisoning is insidious and has been referred to as a pseudosepsis in the medical literature as it often causes similar features comparing a high level in chronic poisoning to the same level in acute poisoning features are much more severe in chronic poisoning that is pulmonary edema hypoxia rqetc there is a disparity we recommended certain treatments all hail sodium bicarbonate and the patient made a full recovery after a two-week hospital stay whilst there was no question an infective cause was present and contributory i was impressed with the green doctor's intuition and willingness to consider other causes i feel like it greatly improved the patient's treatment had a patient coming for therapy after his pcm yelled at him for being a hypochondriac and saying his symptoms were all in his head and that he was just trying to fish for disability his symptoms were pretty obviously neurological so i referred him for an mri to my shock he had only ever had x-rays sadly i had to tell the 19 year old man that he had multiple sclerosis with great satisfaction i got to tell that pcm he done goofed and that i would be talking to our mutual chief of clinical services about the incident symptoms were all in his head to be fair it was all in his head and possibly spine weary took me a few years to finally get my mri and multiple sclerosis diagnosis it is a b to get taken seriously for so thank you for that a nurse here had a lady in for simple pneumonia her 13-year-old son was getting bored so i showed him some equipment i connected a simple heart monitor to him and discovered he was in a complete heart block i printed a strip and showed it to the doc hum we suddenly and unexpectedly got a cardiac patient this is some grey's anatomy crap i'm an emergency medicine doc in the midwest usa the patient was transferred from rural nowhere to our tertiary care facility big hospital with every specialist cole was of really bad quality but the transferring physician described a 21 year old male that had rapid heart rate and breathing rate low blood pressure low oxygen confusion and a severe opacification on his chest x-ray on the right side diagnosed pneumonia he gave him a ton of fluids started antibiotics put him on a ventilator but he wasn't getting better and wanted to send him to us sure send away an hour later the gentleman arrives and looks young fit and not the type to just drop dead from pneumonia we roll him onto our stretcher and find a huge stab wound on his back the x-ray finding was his entire right chest full of blood we put a tube in it gave him back some blood and he had to go for surgery to fix the bleeding lesson look at your patient you would think a patient would start with the well since i was stabbed i have been feeling from the time i was 13 i had a growth on my thumb it became so big that it affected my piano playing i went to the doctor about it and he diagnosed it as a wart that had been there for nearly a decade he used acid on it that hurt and did nothing he used an electrical instrument to burn it that really freaking hurt and again did nothing i moved to the uk and was at a dinner party a friend was hosting she was a nurse and many of her friends were nurses and doctors one of the doctors a surgeon saw the wart on my thumb and became very excited he called to his wife a nurse to come see he told me that he couldn't diagnose me because i wasn't in clinic but to make an appointment with my gp i did and was diagnosed with a neurofibroma a type of tumor that develops around a nerve i had surgery to remove it it was the size of a lima bean thankfully it was benign but no wonder the water treatments hurt like a synovic i have had water removal on the soles of my feet i let them grow too far into my feet so i had to have multiple treatments finally a huge needle with wart poison was stuck deep into the biggest one killed every wart on both feet as well as a small one on my finger that was fun as a shy teenager a bit of background in my field of audiology we have people licensed to diagnose not only hearing issues but balance disorders and other factors impacting listening and understanding we also have another field who popped up when it was not considered as ethical for us to treat those more serious hearing issues that is with hearing aids that they don't need the same doctorate level training just barely high school or some college depending on jurisdiction so i had a patient come in with a serious difference between left and right hearing and this in itself is considered a red flag because both ears are exposed to the same things over time and there are very few explanations as to why one would get so bad the patient could hardly understand words on that bad side and the better ear was pretty good overall just minor hearing loss perhaps age related immediately upon seeing these test results the ant and i agreed to send this patient for an mri of the head because something was off the patient confirmed no mri or medical treatment had been recommended in the past and only hearing aids by this lesser trained hearing aid dealer working for a popular us chain the patient had been wearing these hearing aids already for a few years the mri results came back massive tumor on the hearing nerve the hearing aid dealer is being investigated currently for malpractice or more specifically a violation of state laws regarding red flags anyone asking what happened with the patient i'll paste what got buried below i don't usually get to see these cases if they get sent for surgery i'm not in a big metro area so the very specialized ants neurotologists have their own audiologists to handle post-op testing anticlimactic i agree i'm not a doctor but my father was told a few years ago that he had bladder cancer they were going to have to remove the bladder and some other bits and pieces and that this doctor just just the guy to do the surgery for him they started talking to him about where he wanted his port installed for his pee bag that was the first time i remember seeing my dad cry luckily he has several clients who happen to be retired doctors and have become good friends over the years one of them took it upon himself to review the tests and recommendations and told him that the doctor who recommended the surgery was either mistaken or lying to get himself more work he went with my dad to several appointments with other doctors and in the end they were able to treat the cancer without removing any organs and it has stayed gone for several years now my dad has a much better quality of life than he would have if he had listened to the first butthole and doesn't have to walk around with a bag of pee hanging off of him we are all so grateful to his doctor friend who stepped in to help wife went to a for pain in her pelvic region ultrasound showed a mass probably an ovarian cyst they said it will pop in time leave it alone went to the doctor about a week later had a surgery to pull it out maybe a month later did a biasy on the mass it was ovarian cancer she is now cancer-free but wtf i literally just posted a comment about this because it happened to my friend her doc just kept telling her it was ibes unfortunately they didn't catch a time but i know it's very hard to diagnose i'm glad your wife is now cancer-free can i go ahead and speak on behalf of my doctor 19 meters at a time 33 now i felt sick for about a week flew like symptoms didn't want to eat just felt bad all over one day at work i feel a very uncomfortable cramped tear in my abdomen so i go to one of those 24-hour clinics at this point i'm slumped over can't stand up straight without insane amount of pain just generally uncomfortable and hating life after a few hours at this clinic they say you probably have kidney stones go home drink fluids sleep it off this seemed fine to me i was ready to go home and listen to the doc all was good but my girlfriend at the time didn't last much longer than that wasn't a fan of this diagnosis and drove me to the er against my wishes of course after a few minutes at the er they determined my appendix has ruptured and i'm going septic apparently i was pretty lucky to not have died though i did pick up bacterial pneumonia while in the hospital so the recovery kinda sucked now i just have a crazy six seven inch scar on my belly to remind me to not avoid hospitals when i'm sick former volunteer here an elderly gentleman was brought in by his concerned adult children for chest pain he wanted to believe his primary doctor that it was just some gas or heartburn but his son just had a gut feeling and made him go to the ear with everyone so he could get checked out heart attack was imminent like we weren't sure if treatment would take effect in time to prevent it declared code blue all hands on deck place went from a quiet emptier to sheer chaos in a few minutes there is no doubt in my mind that that gut feeling saved his life 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: 24min 52sec (1492 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 11 2020