Doctors, Who Was The Biggest Faker You Met?

doctors over at it what's the biggest case of faking it you've ever seen taking trauma called during surgery residency had a prisoner come in after a fight and claimed he couldn't move or feel his legs all the ct scans and mris were normal but we would shield his legs so he couldn't see them and poke them with needles and other sharp objects with enough force to cause pain he never flinched or moved his legs at all he was diagnosed with aurora spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality he stayed in the hospital for a week no improvement always had one guard with him one night they were down in the lobby watching some television but the guard needed to use the restroom the patient said where could i possibly go i'm paralyzed guard left him alone for two minutes patient last seen sprinting down the road naked butt cheeks flapping in the breeze made it to her city four hours away by car before he was caught again i have never seen anyone fake it so well truly playing the long con he should have waited until he was released for not being a public threat dermatologist here patient was convinced she had a melanoma and needed a bioz and would need to be on workers comp i told her it looked like ink from a marker she demanded a bassy i wiped the area off with an alcohol swab and showed her the incan that there was no spot on her skin anymore she stormed out threatening to sue i'm just glad i cured her melanoma i'm just glad i cured her melanoma but but she didn't want to be cured you charlatan had a patient come and for a fall who now couldn't move their legs at all did a bunch of tests didn't find anything the patient was not at all phased by suddenly being paralyzed which was the first red flag didn't really believe anything was wrong but the patient was still not moving their legs my options are to admit for a huge workup or get them to walk so i update them saying everything is fine tests are negative you can go home patient gets up gets dressed and walks out without a word not a doctor but worked in healthcare for nearly 20 years while taking a break from the iq due to it being emotionally draining i worked in home health for a bit i had a patient who clearly had munchausen syndrome on a daily basis she would call her insurance to see what things would be covered if she was diagnosed with this or that she called her doctor's office an average of five ex during my shift with her she would report all kinds of non-real symptoms she pestered the doctors into do exploitive laparoscopic surgery of course nothing was found one day i walked in and she was rubbing her incisions with rotten cabbage trying to get it infected she wasn't seeking pain meds except to sell really she was just as happy with antibiotics or stool softeners anything as long as they wrote her a prescription and she got to go to the pharmacy where she did a whole song and dance for them too claiming allergies and reactions she always increased the exaggeration of her story too one time she fluttered her eyes after making sure i was looking and said she lost consciousness in that half a second she called the doctor and claimed she lost consciousness for five minutes she called the insurance and claimed it was 10 minutes she called the pharmacy and claimed it was 30 minutes then she called 9-1-1 and told them she woke up on the floor after losing consciousness for four hours the worst thing about her was she was a mom her son was 28 at the time and by all the stories of his childhood illnesses and all her saying how he is severely disabled i knew she basically fricked up his childhood with munchausen by proxy she portrayed him as being severely disabled and that's why he would never find a wife i met him he was healthy and of average intelligence he wasn't looking for a wife he was gay but she refused to accept that working with her was so miserable that i took a couple years off from any and all healthcare after that we had a patient faking a seizure so my supervisor told one of us to get the brain needle the patient made a miraculous and swift recovery without intervention that's the best part about most of these stories when they make up some form of fake machine so that the patient stops faking cracks me up every time young 1820 woman went running into small rural hospital pretending to have abdominal pain police officer had tagged her going 40-plus km over the limit which was stunt driving as per the new law in ontario impound and license suspension automatic cop followed her into her and apparently said he'd be waiting for her when she left locum staff such as myself were housed at a small bee and be about 15 minutes away and the year had pre-printed order sets to be done before we arrived when i arrived she flat out admitted that she just came in because she freaked out and didn't stop i told her we'd give her 45 minutes to call her parents family before i booted her except bhcg came back positive and subsequent ultrasound came back showing extremely early ectopic officer figures out something is up when he hears their ambulance call carmen over radio she was completely asymptomatic and just worked out that she dodged both charges and a life-threatening issue by accident it was definitely a wtf moment a little more info small rural hospitals in northern ontario often service areas from more than an hour's drive away and still only have a catchment area of two zero zero zero three zero zero zero people when on call it was just that we would do our days in the community clinic then maybe hospital rounds then go home and be on call we wouldn't be at the hospital there wasn't an on-call room where you would stay for example there were lots of times that you'd go a full night without being woken up or maybe just a call from the acute care impatient wing locals were short-term contracts for places that didn't have full-time medical staff for whatever reason it's hard to attract clinicians if you don't even have broadband internet in the community they generally pay very well pediatric neuropsychologist got a referral for more or less consolidation care patient was 13 wheelchair bound required therapeutic oxygen seizures arthritis musculoskeletal problems suspected autism completely non-verbal severe behavior challenges the list goes on he was being followed by at least eight different specialties clearly none of whom were communicating with each other and med list was 18 prescriptions long including some incredibly heavy duty stuff opioids antipsychotics and epileptics that sort of stuff got kicked to me after his umpteenth trip because the adopt felt something was off and he needed someone to look at the whole picture factitious disorder by caregiver or munchausen by proxy all of the original symptoms were parent reported going back to about a year old it had possibly started with a febrile seizure fever-induced seizure in infancy but this was never witnessed by anyone but mom she it's unclear she had been telling docs different things she was convinced her son had all these disorders told him he was going to die any day he got a make-a-wish trip donations etc he was removed from her custody and taken off most of his meds within a few weeks he was out of the wheelchair playing basketball no oxygen super talkative and friendly no behavior problems he did have a pretty significant intellectual disability but there's no way to say if that was organic or the result of the prescription cocktail he had been fed all his life hopefully with some good therapy and a stable home he can continue to make progress physical therapist here working mom comes into the clinic with her infant in a stroller she's limping like she's got a nail in her foot wincing in pain and tears in her eyes she's crying during her visit with the pt none of us think she's faking it she limped out of the clinic i glanced out of the window and saw this woman bounding down the sidewalk hips swaying full stride going places we were all fools whenever we had kids usually teenagers playing up their symptoms to extend their hospital stay we would order them into a healthy lifestyle lights out at nine no screen time for two hours before bedtime healthy diet chock full of fruits and vegetables screen time limits minimum number of laps around the unit per day to get in their exercise they got better so much faster with our healthy lifestyle tips my brother was an emt for two years and he told me this people will try to use the ambulance as a means for transportation from fulton to oswego because the hospital is in oswego by faking seizures sometimes when the head empty guy was feeling fun and knew that the person was faking he'd say something like man it's weird that he's having seizures but not peeing himself apparently the person would kind of snap out of it for a second weigh up the repercussions then either pee themselves or stop faking i thought that was hilarious sorta along the same idea working at a pharmacy we saw a guy come in to try and get a refill on some pain meds that had no refill after pleading that his ear really hurt we told him again we couldn't refill it one of the other employees saw his step into a side hallway and take a pencil and jam it forcefully into his ear repeatedly drawing blood he calmly left and went to the air he came back a few hours later with a prescription for pain meds it amazes me that people will risk permanent deafness for a fix yes i get it i've never been addicted to drugs stop bringing it up you're like unbroken record this patient comes in for back pain with weakness of the legs gets a full workup with mri standard blood work and then some immunological things to look for stuff like myosthenia gravis no neurological or immunological explanation for the weakness patient is seen by physical therapy and they are of the opinion that the patient is holding back intentionally go to see the patient at the end of the day and prep them for discharge patient is infuriated that they're being discharged yelling and screaming about how they aren't better how they're disappointed in the institution blah blah blah they said one particular thing that still clearly stands out three four years later i can't believe you're sending me home already i haven't even told my family i'm here and now you're going to send me home before they even have the chance to see me my attending and i leave the room to arrange things with the nurses we go back in and the patient is out of bed and standing up in the middle of the room miraculously the patient is able to walk with zero assistance when they had so much difficulty with any assistance over the previous two days at that point they were enraged was in rage we went into the room without knocking they were discharged home after a conversation regarding abuse of medical services had a patient when i was an intern feigning blindness she would constantly be playing on her smartphone only furiously trying to hide it when someone from the care team came into her room the best was when my attending one day strolled pst her room and threw his hand up in a highly exaggerated hello wave she started to throw her arm up to about caught herself halfway through then threw her hand back into her lap and pretended to be staring off into nothing i would never have expected pretending to be blind to be such a commonly fake tissue but reading this red has changed my mind on that nurse for an ophthalmologist here had a 21-year-old new patient claiming to be completely blind from a sudden and severe glaucoma diagnosis from a previous unknown doctor would feel around while walking tried to keep eyes rolled back into his head the whole nine yards he said he is a famous youtube rapper that is now unable to make videos or earn a living i exclaimed to have heard of him before and very excitedly asked him to search and show me his youtube channel on my phone so that i could subscribe he took my phone out of my hand and effortlessly found the youtube app and typed away in the search bar oh and of course his eyes were back to normal and focused i am amazed he didn't ask for a discount or to have a free checkup for some exposure one time my roommate who is an iq nurse came to see one of my indoor soccer games during the game a player on the other team went down hurt and starting screaming in pain and swearing and rolling around while holding his ankle before he was eventually helped off the field he then limped over to where the fans sat and watched the rest of the game brooding in silence before he left early after the game my roommate told me he was going to go over and see if there was anything he could do to help until he saw that the guy was limping on the wrong leg i miss the days of my childhood watching my dad play indoor soccer it's so fast paced and really fun when it's local rec leagues tangentially related he had to stop playing because he legitimately injured his knee big time was told this one by a fellow nurse i used to work with when we had a psych floor it's not unusual for psych patients to stash things in various orifices this one woman was convinced she was impregnated by a ghost-like figure but no one would believe her so one day she started complaining of massive pelvic and uterine pain she called them contractions so the doctor goes to do an exam the doctor feels something larger in there so they prep a table to get the object out which was quite large so the wonderful third year helping with the procedure starts hearing this woman complain of contractions and yelling things like should i push i'm gonna start pushing doctor trying to work forceps around this woman's parts as to not hurt her finally goes got and as he starts saying it he pulls out a baby doll head only the poor med student did the wobble went all flush had problems keeping balance and about took a dive i was told he didn't live at down the whole rotation i know that isn't right but it's the funniest thing i've ever read i'm crying laughing i once saw a patient who had been faking paralysis of the legs for years used a wheelchair never walked etc old records showed extensive imaging neurology consults and other tests that proved the patient had full function of all extremities family friends were just going along with it not sure if it was really conversion disorder or if the patient had some secondary gain issue that's so baffling i'm a part-time wheelchair user and i don't know why anyone would choose to make the world more inaccessible to themselves not a doctor but i'm a uk-based midwife had a patient who had been in and out of hospital throughout her pregnancy with episodes of heavy bleeding this was her sixth baby so she was a fairly well-known patient in our unit the issue was no one had ever seen her actively bleeding she'd call saying that she had bled down the toilet but flushed it and all the examinations we did came back completely normal with mostly no evidence of any bleed whatsoever on occasions during speculum examinations we'd see the smallest amount of blood i was caring for her during a shift where she yet again called to say she was bleeding walked into her room and found her jabbing around her tee with a sharp object to make herself bleed she had been doing it the entire pregnancy the reason she gave because she had five noisy children at home needed some rest and knew we wouldn't admit her to hospital if it wasn't for a good reason she would do it any time her being discharged home was mentioned we ended up having to complete a perinatal mental health referral and consult with the safeguarding midwives as she was putting herself and baby at risk of serious harm there's a lot of questions regarding birth control and questioning her parenting so thought it best to add this patient was not by any means a benefits seeker they were a hard-working and loving family that had full-time jobs she had been booked in to have her tubes tied but found out a week before the procedure that she was pregnant with this baby if she just couldn't cope during the pregnancy and became very mentally unwell she did not realize the implications or understand the face that she was causing massive harm to herself and her baby she was referred to our perinatal mental health team and treated for psychosis they also had a lot of input after she had her baby she ended up having a c-section and was sterilized at the same time at her request by all accounts she is doing very well now also thank you very much for the slivers imagine being so exhausted with your family that you feel the need to stab yourself in the tea yikes i hope that woman found the help she needed ophthalmology technician people pretend to be blind all the time go to check their eye pressure with the tonic a device you poke them directly into the eye with and they go what the frick is that thing obligatory not a doctor i'm a nurse we had a guy who had to come in every three months to get a medical certificate to say he couldn't work out his retail job due to severe disabling back pain he was receiving large amounts of insurance money for this condition after the doctor had done his usual examination and questions and signed it off the guy asks the doctor to check his shoulder which doctors and asks how he injured it guy says playing rugby for a competitive team really says doc how long have you been playing for them guy who's been playing and training the whole time doc puts this info on insurance form doc loses his crap in staff room laughing next week the patient loses his crap and reception because his insurance has been cancelled haha i used to know a guy who badly injured his back at work and got lifetime compensation it really freed up a lot of time for him to train for cross-country ski races guy came to her i was a nurse at the time for stomachache when asking him about history he randomly mentions a fight with his girlfriend where she left in a tizzy and he fell asleep on the couch 20 minutes later when we see the ct he has a satellite cable remote wrapped in a condom lodge in his rectum i suppose he intended to frame her didn't get to hear the conversation he had with the doctor i was curious how he was going to explain why she was nice enough to wrap it in the condom i am a nurse but not a doctor i had a patient who worked in a hospital janitor so he knew enough to fake a bit he was seeking pain meds complaining of chest pain wanting morphine he was worked up for everything cardiac and was fine then he tried to claim gi discomfort when he was being discharged cleared again for everything faked chest pain again cleared again now he's my patient i'm a new face he's telling me he's having abdominal pain i call the doctor knowing this guy's history he says he'll be up to see him soon this patient wants a ginger ale some stomach ache i decide to go to lunch my co-worker comes into the lunchroom disgusted this guy had taken a dump in a basin and then dumped the ginger ale over it and tried to tell her he'd had feckle vomiting he obviously needed dilaudid right now for the pain i walked into his room and sure enough a pile of crap in a puddle of ginger ale i told him i'd have to take away his food and drinks and we'd have to put an ng down suddenly he changed his tune he admitted to faking it why do these people do what they do in the story opioids till about feckle vomiting a nurse bringing a patient back to a room who said he had kidney stones i had him stop at the bathroom and get a urine sample dude comes out with with the specimen cup that literally has a piece of concrete in it looked him in the eye expecting some sort of joke he was serious i threw it away and walked his dumbbells back to the waiting room to contemplate his stupidity when i was a medical student i worked in the pediatric side of the emergency room and we would give popsicles to all the kids one afternoon an eight-year-old came in with his father and i asked what was wrong the kid couldn't remember what he complained about to his dad and the dad couldn't remember why he brought his kid in the kid's mom was a nurse she was working at another hospital at the time and she was the one that would keep track of these things anyway after a few minutes trying to figure out what was going on the kid asked so can i have my popsicle now the kid was 100 healthy unfortunately we reinforced bad behavior and both the kid and the dad subsequently left with popsicles my cousin got glasses her seven-year-old little sister also wanted glasses because she thought it was so cool to wear them so she started telling her teachers she couldn't read what was on the chalkboard and she'd squint at home and go incredibly close to the tv to watch things because she said she couldn't see things clearly her parents got worried and took her to the doctor she read everything wrong on the vision test everyone seemed convinced that she needed glasses but the doctor was a little concerned because the tests indicated she needed really thick glasses and usually that wasn't the case unless there was a family history of vision issues her parents both had 20 stroke 20 vision and her sister only had astigmatism they all realized she was faking it so the doctor told her parents in front of her that she'd need some pretty intense eye surgery so she'd be able to see without glasses they even wheeled in a machine to make it convincing to say they could do the surgery right then and there she freaked out confessed to faking it all and started to cry she got grounded for a while years ago i had a patient who had been rear-ended in an auto accident a few weeks before i saw her she had a history of lupus she was decked out in the usual and crippled paraphernalia crutches neck brace elbow braces wrist braces knee braces and could barely walk i saw her a couple of times and she showed no improvement one saturday i was on call but had to take a backstreet's route to the hospital because of an event taking place on the main thoroughfare i apparently drove through her neighborhood because wonders behold there she was wearing old lady spandex power walking down the sidewalk holding weights in both hands i did not call out to her next week she was back in clinic with her i'm crippled get up on again hum a few weeks later i got the subpoena for the deposition and it all became clear i'm a surgery resident when i was on my trauma rotation we had a patient comment after an mvc with question that maybe the patient had seized and that had caused the accident so he's in the trauma bay and starts shaking the trauma nurse goes oh this isn't a real seizure and the patient stops shaking sits up turns to the nurse and yells you don't know a freaking thing about me same thing happened to me when i visited a jail patient was in seizure i looked and said she is probably faking she promptly stops seizing looks at me and says i'm not faking and continues to seizure not a doctor but i was in the one night and there was a seeking drug addict who literally only acted in pain when there was staff around you ever see those videos where the little kid is fine and then they spot a parent and then bull then immediately stop and be fine when the parent is out of view exactly like that sat fine no movements or wincing or noises then wailing when a nurse was in the same vicinity then back to fine when they left a few weeks ago i had a vulva barsie i was petrified of this procedure and i didn't know how to ask the doctor if i'll be given pain meds because of people like this there is no way to even frame the question without sounding like a drug seeker i ended up not needing anything at all but still figure it's a legit question but you can't ask it not a doctor but nurse i once read a specialist consultation report and at the end of the report the actual diagnosis given was fictitious ailment i had a patient when i worked in a haiku that was sedated and an event a family member showed up out of nowhere and was staying day and night i got pretty suspicious of them because they were clearly lying about knowing this person just talk to the fake family member about how it must have been sad since they just celebrated their birthday a week or so before getting ill this person said it was a wonderful party and such to which i replied their birthday hadn't occurred yet and won't for months turned out when security came it was a homeless person who snuck in and found a room with a sedated patient and decided to make it a place to stay needless to say security to enter the aiku was absolute crap it's pretty smart though if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] so bye for now

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Length: 25min 41sec (1541 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020