They Know When You're Faking It (Doctor Stories r/AskReddit)

medical professionals of Reddit what's the most obvious case of faking it you've witnessed I commonly have young kids who really want glasses because some of their friends are them they'll come in acting like they can barely see the biggie on the chart I changed some lenses in front of their eyes give them a little encouragement that they can see better and they can magically read twenty stroke twenty with little to no prescription they're not big fans when I tell them they don't really need glasses my friend did the opposite her school offered eye exams and she'd makes sure to be at the back of the line and just recite from memory the letters the other kids had said she was afraid her parents would be mad if they knew she needed glasses we have a patient at our primary care clinic who claims to be blind he always comes in with sunglasses in the white cane we were always suspicious though something definitely seemed off one day someone followed him out of the building he walked through our nearly empty parking lot and down the street a little ways to a car parked out of view of the clinic he folded up his cane got into the driver's seat merged into traffic and drove away called to a bar for a seizure waitress says she delivered his bill and he suddenly went to the floor having a seizure look over at him and he's laying there flopping his arms and legs around as he looks us right in the eye and screams over and over I'm having a seizure we tell him to stand up so we can take him to the ambulance he doesn't starts walking to the door we tell him to hold up gotta pay your bill first man was he mad at us waitress tells us he does this all the time well not today he still took a ride to the hospital though the hospital has good egg salad sandwiches not quite the same thing but in the air a woman came claiming she was in labor so got her on her way to L and D L and D sent her back saying she was faking it and needed to go to the psych ward quick physical exam showed that was false because the baby was crowning sent her back to L&D and from what we heard baby was delivered in the hall on the way there my mom had a patient who said she had passed kidney stones at home and needed painkillers the lady actually brought in the kidney stones as proof patients don't usually do this and the stones were way bigger than people can pass on their own my mom sent them to the lab and they came back as geological origin aka crazy lady picked up small stones from outside to try and get meds I can see some first year calling urology like guys you're not gonna believe this this lady has volcanic kidney stones veterinarian here for something different performed a cruciate repair on a miniature poodle and of course the dog limped post-op became in for radiographs a month later to confirm healing looked great but dog was still limping two months later the owner was furious that the surgery was a waste of a thousand dollars threatened to sue but on examination and re-radiate graphing the leg I couldn't find a thing wrong on a hunch I asked the owner to leave the dog with me for additional tests that would be of no cost to her so she went shopping for an hour but during that time I set up a video camera to record the dog in the kennel run the moment the dog didn't hear the owner or the car anymore boom all four legs working like a charm dog running around perfectly normal called the owner and asked her to return after half an hour set the camera to record again at the moment the dog heard the familiar car returning the limp came back as well I had a fun few minutes explaining to the owner that her dog was faking the sore leg for attention got a usual oh no my fur babies clukey wickham's wouldn't do such a thing so I showed her the footage clearly showing her dog running around fine as well as showing what happened when her car returned instructed her to ignore the dog while it was limping limping Lee went away after a week of not getting attention for it I had a woman come into tridge in labor and delivery we ruled her out for breaking her water she was mad that she wasn't going to get induced and be delivered so after I left the room she flooded the bed the floor and herself with tap water literally gallons and gallons of water it was leaking out from under the door sooo much water it was like that scene in calm heads she said it was a water breaking a game quickly ruled her out and told her she needed to go home she subsequently peed the bed before leaving when I wanted to be a physical therapist I volunteered at one of my local clinics we had a lady who claims she was in excruciating pain she couldn't walk more than five feet without literally screaming and pain in the clinic she couldn't even move her toes without yelling profanities she kept talking about how her meds ran out and needed more she also started talking about how her whole family thought she was an addict but she swore wasn't I started feeling for her a little she seemed nice and like she was going through some mess but then once the doctor walked out of the room her and I got to talking about music I told her my uncle was in a bluegrass band and she mentioned how much she loved bluegrass she loved it so much that the prior weekend her and her husband spent 14 hours at a festival she was tired was carrying chairs around and dancing and they were traveling to go to another one the day after her appointment when I asked her if she had any pain during the festival she said and none at all it was a fantastic weekend and then realized she gave herself up and got real quiet when they told me they were allergic to tylenol acetaminophen but vicodin works really well for them my mom had a frequent flyer at the emergency room she worked at this lady was constantly in unimaginable pain over everything she got a splinter in her finger and that constituted a 10 on the pain scale and she needed painkillers to deal with it she was a known drug abuser as well she had been caught stealing needles and shoving them up under her huge sweaty boobs the only reason my mom found out was because she came back into place the EKG pads and to do so she had to lift her boob up to place the pad when she did the needles rolled out from that point on they had to have a member of security watching her anytime a nurse or doctor left the room she also had a massive arrest record in there were times the cops would bring her to the year instead of an ambulance not a medical professional but work security in an ER once had a guy coming announced that he was going to have a seizure then laid down slowly and comfortably in the floor and didn't start seizing until he was sure everyone was looking at him then when the nurse who knew he was obviously faking they were going to have to run a tube down his throat he was suddenly fine a surprising number of people try to fake being unconscious but there's a simple test for that pick up their hand and drop it onto their face if they smack their own face they are unconscious if they move their hand to the side as it drops they'e conscious I just brush my finger across the eyelashes they will flinch their eyes if conscious paediatrician here so my patient was younger and I think influenced by mom this 13 year old kept getting admitted for complaints that never made sense lack of smell dizziness seizures that would happen while he was walking running heart-felt hot etc every specialist under the Sun had seen him and cleared him he had every test and imaging study you could think of there was a lot of social stuff going on and this was a hard family to discharge he'd get admitted we'd run a hundred tests and as soon as we were about to discharge him some new symptom would come up the worst was once after I had already written the discharge orders and the nurses called to let me know the patient had gone blind I was grouchy that day and wasn't having it I went in with a rolled-up piece of paper I checked his pupils I used a Snellen I went through the whole rigmarole then when I was talking to his mother without looking I threw the paper at him hard and fast he yelped and dodged it I told mom that they were going home so this happened a few months ago on my psychiatry rotation in medical school there was a patient at an inpatient psychiatric facility for suicidal ideation she constantly insisted that she had a mass on her breasts and demanded to be physically examined early by male doctors when the psychiatrist I was rotating under declined to perform a physical exam she asked me to do it during my daily patient interview I also declined physical exam but had a bit of a hunch to check her medical records it turned out she had an ultrasound done a week before that found only normal breast tissue without masses however apparently this this lady had frequented many doctors offices with various complaints of an and specific nature and will usually focus on breasts or vaginal complaints when she visited male 4 offices we diagnosed her with factitious disorder formerly known as Munchausen's syndrome and histrionic Personality Disorder it seems her goal was mostly attention from medical professionals she had lots of issues but we also had to be careful to make sure she wasn't fishing for a lawsuit patients like her are why doctors document everything meticulously dude had severe and permanent back pain he was prescribed vicodin and he mysteriously ran out halfway through the month consistently obviously dude is taking extra write he's acting clueless and he's beside himself when we tell him our suspicions through this entire time his wife is his biggest advocate even when he says I don't really need it I'll survive his wife is having none of it she is his biggest support ultimately we decided to take away the vicodin and his wife immediately thunder's I need my frickin vicodin Oh yours huh she sold herself out I had a patient who was supposedly comatose but was giving a few mixed signs when it came to making a definitive judgment there is a test called a drop arm test where you raise the patient's on over their head and drop it a noncom ATO's patient will move their arm on their own to avoid hitting themselves in the face but I had a different idea with the nurse in the room I said okay our defining test if his arm stays straight up unassisted he is comatose I let go of his arm and it stayed totally upright the guy did himself in I told him shortly after that the gig was up and he had no medical reason to be admitted he was raising his hands for permission to come out of the coma done my grandma used to work with a lady at a hospital funny enough that would always say she got an on-the-job injury and needed to take a few weeks workmen's comp a doctor there would somehow always give her a note and she would get a free week or two vacation come back for a month and do it again obviously milking the system one day her boss said okay but there's nothing for you to do here on light duty usually we'd send you home until you're better but we're going to have you come in until you're better but there's nothing for me to do she said he told her I know bring a magazine or something it'll be a long day sitting in the break room she lasted two days and never pulled that stunt again when I was a labor nurse the emergency room sent up a gal who said she was in labor she was a sturdier lady so it was hard to tell no prenatal care no fetal heart tones did an ultrasound she'd had a hysterectomy she and her partner insisted we were wrong because they prayed and knew they were having their miracle baby good luck with that mom no miracle baby here there was no womb at the end we had a patient common on a worker's comp case with severe injuries to the chest he states that while working in a grocery store parking lot a female deer spots him from a distance and decides she wants him once she gets close to him she kicks him in the chest several times and then headbutts is kneecaps in once he's on the ground she stomps on his chest and head he wakes up several hours later and immediately comes to us not only was his story completely ridiculous but he didn't have a single mark on his body no bruising no swelling no broken bones just nothing he rated the pain at a tense stroke ten without a single scratch on his body needless to say he got his claim denied firemen x-ray tech and when I was a student these two people came in a man who was pushing a woman on a wheelchair with an ankle boot they both looked like junkies anyway they came in with a prescription for an ankle x-ray they asked if she has to take off the boot and I said yes because obviously it would superimpose on the anatomy she all of a sudden starts crying saying that it was too painful no tears the man said she broke her ankle in three places some time ago and her ankle becomes curved when she takes the boot off okay dude ankles raised are easy take off your shoes and socks three views boom done but now says she cannot get on the exam table and she needs people to hold her ankle together we literally had four x-ray techs working this high-profile case one to hold the digital cassette one to hold her ankle in place one to hold the chair we had to put her ankle on and one to push the button to shoot we did this all while she was screaming in pain and she even said kill Emmy please see the funny thing all this raise showed no abnormal findings no old fractures no screws or plates of any past surgeries literally a perfect intact angle they wanted painkillers for sure they looked like drug addicts and had a plan to get more so annoying I did that home health care for my neighbor who was a quad she basically needed everything done for her from scratching her face to going to the bathroom because she couldn't move her arms or her legs her medical history was super inconsistent like she was a child when the supposed injury happened but the paralysis didn't set in until her early 30s which made me very curious she also had perfect feeling in her body and I caught her wiggling her toes and fingers a few time I did some digging and found out that her quadriplegia was actually a last-ditch effort to get sympathy from divorce lawyers when her ex-husband left her she went from walking when the papers were served to a wheelchair when the trial came around she was so dedicated to the scam that her muscles actually atrophied and she became a real quad now she gets sympathy wherever she goes and can play the disabled card whenever she doesn't get what she wants you become a good manipulator when your mouth is the only thing you can move had a patient arrived to my unit thrashing around on the stretcher and saying I'm having a seizure I'm having a seizure transport and I moved her into her room and I told her to call me when she's done amazingly she was cured not a medical professional but when I was visiting a small town in North Carolina I had to go to the because of a kidney infection and I remember out of nowhere they did this thing where they placed her fist on my kidney and lightly punched it with their other hand and the pain was so searing and awful that I just screamed and cried they told me it was to make sure I wasn't faking it for the medication had someone fake seizures would be talking normally stop shake briefly stopped and then peek at me to see if I was watching I believed it initially until I called the MD and they came in while the patient had another seizure doctor picked their arm up over their head and instead of the armed falling on their face it changed course to avoid slamming into their nose got called for a seizure to a park well known to be full ly homeless drug addicts we walk up and there is a man laying in the grass in no distress as soon as I say hi there he starts shaking his whole body and yells oh no help me I'm seizing and his friend says I think you need to give him some 8 oven for the seizures had a PT common with uncontrolled diabetes he was type 1 his BSL was really high a couple days and it was back under control and he was ready to be discharged when they went out of control again those patting continued about 7:00 a.m. one morning his girlfriend fronts me needing a note for the judge he was supposed to be in court at 8 a.m. he'd been eating wild amounts of food to try to get out of going to court then wanted us to fix the situation with one-hour notice we did nothing he went home about 11:00 a.m. not exactly faking it but funny story when I was working in the hospital a patient screen with his vital parameters started showing dangerously low levels of oxygen in blood which basically means somebody is suffocating in a way so all alarms go on and the nurses and one doctor rushed to the patient's room while the CPR mode is active surprisingly the patient was looking all well and didn't show any blue skin sign of the oxygenate blood he was even smiling so everybody just confusedly went on with their business except for this one sister that grinned at the old man raising her finger say no mr. Smith did you hold your breath again to see how fast the oxygen levels dropped and he just started grinning like a five-year-old and nodded had a prisoner once that was faking full amnesia including name I told him there was a nerve in his ear that if he put his finger in his ear and couldn't remember his name that he was for sure faking because it even works with severe dementia a finger in ear remembered name finger out of ear can't remember who he was instead discharged back to jail oh gosh I'm a paramedic and can't count the number of patients I've had that fake seizures or faked being unconscious it is absolutely sickening a lot of times it's for family sympathy but sometimes it's just for attention and it's insane the one test I do that always gets the unconscious ones is the gurney drop I sit behind them for a minute long enough to let their guard down then I push the lever that drops the head off the gurney back so they go from sitting to laying in a split second that moment when their upper body falls out from under them will always elicit the oh crap response where they throw their arms up and open their eyes hello friend oh you have been visited by the cozy poppers of lazy Sundays upvote now you may never have a good relax ever again thanks for watching if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 18min 28sec (1108 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 13 2019