Doctors, Who Was the Dumbest Patient You've Had?

doctors of reddit what was your dummy star i am verism at patient experience rn here i see some crazy stuff but one thing that stands out was the time i was admitting a guide to the hospital i can't really remember what for but he was about 400 pounds diabetic heart disease you name it anyhow i'm at the computer going over some admission questions with him and his 10 family members who are crowded in the room with him a few minutes and he starts complaining that he's thirsty he needs something to drink right now so i get on my phone and call the nurse assistant and is here to bring in some ice water as soon as the words are out of my mouth the whole family screams no water he's allergic to water well this is gonna be a problem turns out the guy had been drinking nothing but sprite and sweet tea for years because of his water allergy the next question the wife had was where are we all supposed to sleep the whole family 10 people were planning to stay at a hospital with him you can't make this crap up i work in the air we had a very pregnant patient come in needing stitches and her lady parts turns out she was a realtor and didn't want her water to break while she was showing a house so she put a glass cup in her pants to catch the water instead of using a pad or an adult diaper she went for a glass cup she sat down while showing a house and sure enough it broke and cut her up pretty bad between the guy putting arm blood into his dong and now this i don't think i'm gonna see my genitals again for a couple of days was working at a clinic i was speaking with a non-controlled diabetic patient about her sugar intake and she said she drinks a 32 ounce soda every day i ask her if it's regular or diet and she replies with its half regular i let the ice melt first so there isn't as much sugar in it sorry but that isn't how it works i have had several arguments with diabetics about coke kool-aid sweet tea versus those made with artificial sugar i tell them look don't drink sugar if you have to have something like that use an artificial sweetener no way that stuff is poison it will kill me mom your a1c is 14 sugar is already killing you i have one i got this from my friend who is a doctor on the children's ward in a rural hospital these parents bring in their child whose hair is infested with lice the lice was visible to the naked eye and could be seen crawling on the child's clothing while the medical staff examined the child in order to determine a course of action they discovered the child was covered in a white powder and smelled heavily of chemicals they asked the parents what were the substances in the smells emanating from the child the parent said quite a matter of fact it was savine powder and flea and tick spray they used on their dogs on the family's farm needless to say social workers were notified about this case had a neighbor in rural tn who was convinced that the best way to treat her child's head lice was to comb diesel fuel through it and that doing it in an enclosed living room while smoking cigarettes was acceptable she was baffled when cps took her kid away 70 you female tripped and fell two days ago she came it with hip pain but reports after the full her nose was bleeding she had landed on her nose about a year prior her dentist had messes up an infraorbital nerve block and caused some swelling in that region but that all was resolved but this old lady is now convinced her nosebleed after falling on her face is related to an infection from the dental issue a year ago after multiple back and forth on the issiology of the nosebleed she became the first patient i raised my voice and put down an authoritative no you are wrong just stop it this has got to be the medical equivalent to the update you installed on the computer a year ago is making it run funny get over here and fix it i work for an optometrist and it was the month before school started and a woman brought in her son to have his eyes checked for the first time seems like a pretty reasonable thing for any parent even if he was a little older than usual for a first eye exam better late than never i guess the mom was well spoken and appeared fairly intelligent everything went as normal the doctor examined the boy and ended up prescribing glasses when the doctor was explaining to the mom that her son had to wear his glasses all the time since he's nearsighted and basically can't see clearly past five feet in front of him and will definitely need glasses for school for some reason this caused the switch to flip in the moment she spazzed out on the doctor saying that her son doesn't need glasses and that the doctor is only saying that he does because he wants to sell glasses she says that she only brought her son in because there was some form for school that needed to be filled out and that doctors are all a con artist trying to push unnecessary medications and interventions the doctor tried to calm her down and explain that he's only trying to help them but that she was free to get a second opinion and gave her a copy of the kids prescription and sent them on their way about four months later the lady is back asking for another copy of her son's prescription apparently the first semester midterm results were in and her son failed them all because he couldn't see the board in his classes and needs glasses most of my own stories go along similar lines to patient as chest pain driving a coach load of school children thinks it's indigestion swig's bottle of gabas gun later diagnosed with a huge heart attack my favorite ever story from a colleague a patient comes into a and e with abdominal pain as part of the work up he gets an abdominal x-ray which shows the problem as clear as day the colleague has then proceeded to remove from the patient's rectum an 8-inch replica of nelson's column the statue in the center of trafalgar square london on showing it to the patient the response was oh that's nelson he lives up there i've got two stories that stick out in my mind the first is the mother of a toddler who came into emmerich the kid had cruddy green bloody stuff coming out of his left nostril and a lot of redness and swelling of only the left side of his nose and the adjacent cheek mum was sure he caught a sinus infection and just wanted some antibiotics now i know some kids like shoving whatever will fit into their body orifices and that this was more than likely given the one-sided nature of his condition but mom was insistent that he never puts things in his nose it took some convincing but i finally got her to let me take a look gave a squirt of my dazzle lamb in the good nostril to settle him then dug with some tweezer through the crud until i pulled out a big olay button battery it would have been burning his nose for a couple days hopefully he healed up well side note if a kid swallows a button battery it can do a similar thing to their esophagus this is an emergency and needs to be dealt with asap patient had a hard time getting pregnant finally conceived but miscarried patient has a dnc so she can try again this time with medical intervention that we monitor her blood to ensure the pregnancy hormone is gone before beginning treatment but she keeps coming back with higher levels of hormone docs are worried because she might have some retained placenta or pituitary disorder and this could be super bad for future fertility we call her in for a conversation about the hormone levels not going away after talking together about what might be wrong they are going to go home and think about further tests she says i need to go i have an appointment at the weight loss center for an hcg shot turns out that she is on the hcg diet hcg is the pregnancy hormone and this was after an hour of the doc saying we don't know why you have these constant higher levels of hcg in your blood and we are worried clinical pharmacists here btw with one story in the air and one in the pharmacy one a physician told me this one 16 sixteen-year-old boy presented to the ear with an extremely swollen discolored dong apparently he has been using his mom's insulin needles to draw blood out of his arm and inject it into his own dong he thought that adding blood would help increase his size his dong was terribly infected and he was hospitalized for a week or so two one day in the pharmacy a girl comes to the counter requesting a refill for her birth control we pulled up her profile and realized we couldn't refill it because she just got a 28-day fill less than two weeks ago when we asked what happened to the other one she said she was out apparently both her and her boyfriend were each taking a pill each and was adamant that was how they needed to prevent pregnancy coma apparently he has been using his mom's insulin needles to draw blood out of his arm and inject it into his own dong his dong was terribly infected and he was hospitalized for a week or so frick that is just gruesome 80 plus yo patient who was declining with multiple diagnoses and about three decubitus ulcers daughter was adamant that her father be kept on his strict palliative diet because that would supercharge his healing she had a stack of dark books he simply wasn't getting enough nutrition to heal the ulcers he didn't like the diet at all btw at some point you kind of have to stop being polite and just tell patients family members bluntly that you don't have time for this crap and what you recommend and they can do what they want and just document everything it happens a lot but she sticks out not my story rather my college a patient was admitted for anemia and a localized cancer was found she was referred to surgery so she can get cured from her localized cancer and she started telling everyone that it was the doctors who caused the cancer in that she was doing just fine before coming to the hospital she lectured the surgeon and my colleague who pleaded her to get her surgery so that the cancer doesn't advance and yet she refused saying she knew better and probably didn't even have cancer some people this kind of reminds me of my brother he told me that when he was younger five or six years old he thought that when a doctor diagnosed you with a disease it means that they actually gave you that disease the only difference is he quickly realized this wasn't the case and didn't become a freaking idiot like this lady not a doctor i'm an optician and at this point i was a young lady in my mid-20s i had a guy comment saying he was a doctor and he wrote himself an rx full glasses and he brought frames a few days later his lenses come back he puts on his glasses and he can't see i start going through the possibilities usually with progressive lenses it's an adjustment issue and they need to sit differently on his face he completely refuses to let me adjust them so i check the lenses and the rx match what he wrote i try to explain that there's only two options either they need to sit differently on his face or the rx isn't good he tells me you don't understand i've had eye surgery for a disease that you've never even heard of i offer to remake his lenses to prove a point his new lenses come in a few days later an older co-worker is helping him i told her everything again he can't see she tells him the young girl who tried to help you last time was trying to explain that if we adjust your glasses you might be able to see out of them will you please let me try he lets her and suddenly he can see granted not perfectly because he wrote his own rx and the bottom sentence will explain more turns out fuckwood was a long doctor and not even an eye doctor one picture a middle-aged man his index finger is 5x the size of the rest of his fingers it smells it's leaking pus there's necrotic tissue basically one huge infected cancerous finger he was a firm believer in not taking any sort of medication including antibiotics or chemo died a few weeks later but he did manage to tell us we were all idiots before he passed away two patient was a young child who came in with an extremely high blood glucose level once she was stable we did some teaching and kept her for a few days for observation for some reason every time i checked her her levels would be extremely high although we were appropriately treating her turns out her family would bring her fast food for every meal and hide it in the side table more teaching and resources were put into place three had a mom in hysterics because she was convinced that her neighbors friends stepsons teacher's dog has mrsa so her baby was going to die it took everything within me to not tell her that most of the hospital staff have mrsa but it took three hours for me to finally calm her down after i called infectious control her pediatrician gynecologist and family doctor yes i had to call all these people yes they laughed at me yes she was beside me the whole time questioning their judgment i love my job but at times it makes me crazy just had some amazing people inform me with several scholarly documents that mrsa isn't as prevalent as once thought it's only about five percent in hospital staff thank you wonderful people lol when i read his index finger is 5x the size of the rest of his fingers i legit thought it was five times longer than the rest of his fingers i was like i wonder what disease causes that derp whoa i guess stupidity is relatable nurse here the number of american 20 something males who don't know what circumcision is is ridiculously high but they think that boys are born circumcised evidence new fathers and mothers asking me what's wrong with their newborn sons dong um he still has his foreskin many parents choose to have it removed when the baby is a couple days old it's called circumcision often followed by a parent's question what circumcision that's when i face palm dead serious we talked about circumcision in my grade 6 health class but saw any pictures i am and had absolutely no idea until i was in high school i knew what it was but had nothing to compare it to this was pre google not a doctor but a gastro nurse we had a recurring patient who was just a really very strange lady she had a stoma that absolutely stunk to high heavens because the last 20 years she has not been cleaning it properly every single day her stoma would come off because she was twisting the drain tube and wouldn't allow us to change it so this lady was really rude and would shout at us too and one night shift i couldn't take it anymore and i snapped at her i didn't yell but i was overly stern about the fact that if she did not let me clean and treat her stoma than the mrsa that she wasn't able to get rid of because she refused her biscuit washes would eat her alive in hindsight i didn't handle that very well but she let me change the stoma so this entire ordeal she's yelling at me that her stoma bags are not cut to fit her stoma that they are too small because her stoma is 50 cm by 50 cm to which i corrected her saying that's impossible she was adamant that's how big her stoma was it was a 30 millimeter diameter when i was cleaning the stoma she yelled at me because it was hurting so she wanted to just pop the new one on i explained it was hurting because of infection as she never cleans it she proceeds to tell me that she knows better because she has had the stoma for nearly as long as i've been alive i eventually ended up telling her to shut up and let me do my job which seemed to work and the stoma did not come off again that shift when she was eventually discharged she refused every placement to the point where we almost considered a court order to evict her one of our f1s nearly cried with relief my aunt who has varicose veins pretty obvious to anyone who sees it once asked me why her legs hurt and what those bluish lines under her skin were i almost went on to explain to her about dilated veins when she interrupts and decides for herself that those are her nerves dying nerves and the blue stuff was blood clots inside the nerves i'm a med student i was doing a respiratory system examination on this guy who frequently about once a month gets admitted in the general ward with complaints of breathlessness he's had copd for a couple of years quite bad and he tells me that he isn't going to quit smoking because god told him not to when asked why he tells me that the people who are relying on him for their daily livelihood won't survive if he stopped i went on to ask him if he meant the people at the cigarette factory or the health industry he didn't get the sarcasm though patient comes to the surgery clinic with complaints of mass per rectum now i wasn't there the first time he came but the surgeon wanted to do a couple of investigations and advised him to get admitted the guy decided he doesn't want to couple of months later he comes back to the clinic apparently he went to one of these alternative medicine places or whatever and they had tied this metal wire not exactly sure why around the mass by then this mass has eroded through it and was bleeding and had gotten much bigger turned out to be a cancerous growth i was a unit secretary and nurse aid on a radiation oncology unit in the early 2000s we had a patient show up through the year and was admitted for emergency radiation treatment she had a massive fungating mass in her mouth that had consumed half the head when the radon dock tried to examine her and open her mouth her remaining teeth fell out into his hand it had eaten through the bones of her face invaded her eye socket everything doc said it was the worst case of mouth cancer he'd seen according to her husband she had a small lesion on her hard palate and upon receiving the diagnosis of an early stage squamous cell carcinoma she decided to treat with essential oils and things like frankincense because chemo was poison her husband said he had tried to reason with her but she was adamant about the natural treatment she died in agony shortly after you know i usually adamantly refuse to allow my happiness to be disrupted by stuff on the internet but it's stuff like this that makes me feel justified in allowing myself to be triggered when i see someone i know on facebook posting horrible misinformation from somewhere like natural news not a doctor but i'm a medical technologist there are plenty of i am very smart moments but this one was recent did a finger stick for a patient ensured the little car stopped bleeding and then put a band-aid on it told her to collect a urine sample for testing test came back strongly positive for plus reading for blood she complained to the doctor that there is no way she has blood in her urine and that the blood from her finger stick must have entered the urine throwing off her redding she said it was my fault that i did her blood test before her urine test and i obviously made a mistake she repeated the test later in the afternoon still at four plus came back a week later still at four plus the look on her face when i told her sorry mom your result is still positive was priceless okay but for real please stop sneaking blood into people's urine for your sick big pharma money grabs not a doctor but a patient whose mother was like this the doctor had to speak to me on the side because of it my grandmother has crohn's disease very very badly it skipped my mother and her brother when i was 15 over the course of six months i went from being five feet nine and 190 pounds to being 110 i was a skeleton extremely anemic and coughing up blood my mother was convinced it was something else i forced her to bring me to a doctor and she spouted off all these possibilities she then talked about watching yahood not even googled yahoo about genetics and such and crohn's can't skip generations well the doc said just in case we're gonna run some tests long story short i have crohn's in my throat and small intestine so does my cousin it just skipped a generation to think your mother didn't even google that's where she went wrong my dad is an emergency nurse he experience he is the same thing doctors in the ado maybe more so because he is the one in the rooms more often anyway here's a good story from him i had a patient coming with several pages he printed off the internet he kind of slammed them down and said this is what i have he had bloating nausea vomiting diarrhea bloody stool and fever among other things he insisted he had schistosomiasis he was being a real jerk about it like we're wasting time since he already knew what he had so i asked when did he get back from africa and he said africa i've never been to africa what the heck would i be doing in africa i proceeded to tell him that schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease one gets while swimming in the nile river or other rivers in developing countries like in southeast asia he got p offered me because he thought i was being a smart butt he got seen and diagnosed with gastroenteritis the stomach flu the bloody stool he had hemorrhoids not a doctor we had a patient come into our hospital with anorexia requiring treatment which as usual she didn't want however she appeared to be eating her prescribed meals after a few days it becomes clear she's not putting on any weight but the room is clean and she's supervised for her bathroom visits so we know she's not flushing it away turns out her family are going though some tough times and her dad's down on his luck and out of money so when he's coming to visit his anorexic daughter in hospital every day he is eating the food prescribed to her because he can't afford to feed himself mealtime is unsupervised if there's a family member there dad was blocked from visiting when the daughter fessed up that's all around sad not an md i'm an rn that works with oncology cancer patients some of which are on clinical trials i got a patient and before starting his chemotherapy reviewed some of his lab work with him i told him his glucose level was 73 normal range is usually between 70 100. he got really upset at this point and asked him what's wrong your labs are within range and he said i need it to be zero i said what why would you want your glucose to be zero he said he's trying to meet requirements for a new clinical trial that requires his glucose to be zero i told him i don't know what clinical trial you're trying to get into but if your blood glucose with zero you'll be dead or dying he was not convinced because i'm just a nurse so i sent a message to his md asking them to educate their patients better i had a 350 pounds patient late 30s brought in by his sweet old mother because she was concerned about his recent sweats and shakes tell me about his high iq of over 140 i just nodded and ordered a blood panel when i got back in the room with the results he was trying to tell me how he knows more than me about everything to do with medicine i told him i was diagnosing him with new onset diabetes he couldn't tell me anything about the pathophysiology of diabetes then i asked him which iq test he took and how old he was when he took it he said it was an online test a few years ago like on facebook he didn't know what a stanford bin it test was anytime someone refuses to vaccinate their kids here's just a small sample of some of the reasons i've been given one causes autism two made from aborted babies three big pharmacy scam for unnatural five my kid cried when you gave him his vaccines last time six i never got these diseases as a kid so my kid doesn't need the vaccine seriously freak you people i feel sorry for your kids also don't forget i've done my research followed by a strong smell of smoke that emanates from them because cigarette smoke isn't dangerous to kids i've seen that more times than i'd like to admit 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 55sec (1495 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2022