Why You Should Always Listen To Your Doctor... - (r/AskReddit)

medical professionals have read it what was a time where a patient ignored you and almost died because of it when I was in medical school had a gentleman in his late 60s come in for chest pain found to have a large heart attack very impressive steamy and led by EKG refused the emergent cardiac catheterization go through the arteries and put a stent to open up the vessel of the heart so he could bring his car home and planned on taking an ambulance back to the hospital he was in the parking ramp and it cost $20 evader Park came back by ambulance in full arrest no pulse and ID doc had to call his son and explained what happened he was like yeah that sounds like that he's always been cheap at a throat cancer patient we offered him surgery to remove the tumor it was a fairly conservative surgery he left because he didn't want a mutilating surgery and his daughter-in-law had been studying magnet therapy and she was quite good with it his words he came back a year later and was out of reach from any treatments his cancer was so advanced that there was nothing we could do for him we had a college student come into the ER and had a wonderful case of appendicitis he needed to get surgery ASAP a surgery is way easier and safer if done before it ruptures he called his parents to let them know and they told him to refuse because he had a test upcoming of the week and they didn't want him to miss it he left the ER against medical advice while we were all telling him that if your appendicitis gets worse and ruptures it can definitely lead to death the kid luckily comes back about 10 hours later after it ruptured he gets the emergency surgery and the amount of time he got to spend in the hospital probably doubled had a repeat patient not quite frequent flyer status as a medic that would always call for a severe allergic reaction to shellfish every other month or so she had always had the allergy and knew her reactions were getting worse after a year six or seven calls of this silliness my crew and I stayed in the hospital here with her and talked at length about the situation since she'd always stay mum about how it kept happening she told us she comes from a patriarchal culture and her father made this amazing seafood soup if she didn't eat it and force her body not to reject his gift to the family she would lose her car firm or whatever punishment her father deemed necessary we pleaded with her to do whatever it took to show him it was deadly and carry her epi pens with her fast forward a few years when I altered course into nursing and joined that a saw a familiar bloated face turns out she had gone off to college in another state and hadn't been home for a while but had visited her folks for a holiday of course she had the soup and despite hitting herself with the eep-eep and when her throat started tightening the reaction continued her mom who I had never seen before told me she tried to eat it fast and rushed to the bathroom where she was found on the floor medics couldn't tube her in the field so tried medical management until they could drive her to our doc performed at rachie artemiy at the bedside and she went to the I cou took a week for her to recover and I was told by the IQ nurses that her father finally got it that her allergy was a real medical condition I've read that the most common reason for a surgery to be Reaper formed as the patient not following doctor's orders during recovery doctor says don't ride your bicycle for six weeks patient hairs don't ride your bicycle until you feel you can didn't die but we'd lose an eye as a result young kid 20 with bad diabetic retinopathy from uncontrolled DN type one had eye surgery to remove blood and scar tissue from inside the eye we told him to take it easy for a few weeks he went to Six Flags Rolla coasters are bad retina completely detached I got soft and painful had to be removed not a med professional but my answers and I'd like to share her horrifying story she once had a patient young guy in his early twenties who had very poor hygiene didn't shower regularly didn't brush his teeth wore the same clothes for days on end etc I liked he one day came in with a nasty rash on his lower abdomen slash pubic area that was starting to show signs of infection she provided antibiotics and instruction and extensively stressed to him to improve hygiene and keep the area clean otherwise it'll just keep coming back or get worse well as the story goes he didn't pick up the prescription and apparently choose to just keep putting her Andy Gould argument on the area she later found out he ended up in the ER after going into shock at work turns out he ended up getting gangrene in the area and it had spread to his penis and scrotum which had to be removed my dad tells a story of morbidly obese woman who came into his clinic and after an exam told her simply if you don't make drastic changes to your lifestyle and diet and start losing weight you are going to die she was dead within the week her family tried to sue because my dad was clearly a witch doctor and cursed her to death it was sad all around I'm a nurse and I had a very polite and lovely patient trying to remove all manner of chest tubes and dives after a motorcycle accident he was obviously delirious from the pain medicine the head injury but very nice still I left him in the care of my cow walker for my lunch 10 minimums into my lunch break I see him stagger past the break room door like something out of The Walking Dead trailing blood everywhere only to collapse out cold a couple of seconds later said he needed the bathroom idk how the [ __ ] he pulled his own chest tubes out removing them always makes me cringe let alone doing it to himself he was put back to bed this time and the iku and got some more sedation and even though him ripping it all out set him back a couple of weeks he still discharged and came to say hi in thanks on the way out the happiest delirious patient I ever had what a bloody trouper ha ha we had a bomb in the niku who would constantly kiss her premature baby on the mouth several nurses educated her around why that's not safe for the baby and thankfully documented their teachings this was during cold and flu season and became even more concerning when the mother was coming in with cold like symptoms coughing sneezing and obvious congestion she still continued to kiss the baby right on the mouth the baby was almost ready to go home by this time but got extremely sick the baby ended up on a ventilator and had quite the extended stay with many many close calls it happened so often it was almost a non-issue we were basically just shrug our shoulders and and say well I had a patient who kept adjusting her insulin dosage against my advice because she was terrified of having her feet amputated like her mom so she had several occasions of dangerously low blood sugar one of which put her in the eye ku had a lady who had the opposite problem raging diabetes but in deep denial so she would never take her insulin so she was in the iQue multiple times for the diabetic ketoacidosis had a ton of patients on dialysis who skipped dialysis for whatever [ __ ] reason didn't feel like going had a fight with boyfriend who was her I'd took a vacation to a city without a dialysis unit et CTC so they would come in with their electrolytes all [ __ ] and had to get emergency dialysis in patients had a billion old fat men with chest pain for weeks refused to come into the hospital to be evaluated for cardiovascular issues and either die at home or come back a week later with extensiveness half of my patients with copped were still active smokers despite my exhortations one had burn scars over a third of his body from the last time he smoked around his o2 tank had patients take extra doses benzodiazepines xanax valium etc and end up in the hospital with overdoses not necessarily the patient but the care takers at the facility where the patient was living I used to visit different board and lodge for Silla teas for adults with mental illnesses and meet with clients to discuss their mental health help them set up job interviews therapy sessions and help them set up their medications for the week if they were unable to do it themselves most of these facilities were places for people who had left the hospital and were deemed independent and stable enough to have the freedom to come and go as they pleased in a shared living situation much like a door despite having a place to stay and food provided they were usually pretty fully supervised by the mental health staff workers there I often hated these places because while they were ideal for some people who were truly getting back on their feet and thrived off being able to live a semi-normal independent life they were wait 2 lakhs for many of the Sycamore isolating patients who were not at all well and slipping under the radar some of this included them not taking their medication as directed which was one of the requirements for keeping their housing but unfortunately it was not strictly enforced there was one man who had paranoid schizophrenia who was extremely quiet and kept to himself I had met with him a few times and he seemed to be going downhill in his appearance and general mood I spoke with his doctor and urged the facility staff to closely monitor him and his medication intake as I saw in his logs that he often skipped coming out to get his medication at all I was told that they were going to be sitting down with him to remind him of his living agreement and that he had 30 days before losing his housing if he wasn't met compliance I was also told that his psychiatrist was aware and they may be sending him back to the hospital that week apparently this never happened and he went out into the community and acquired a knife and used it to slice up his roommate while his room had slept he carved him from mouth to ear and stabbed him in the stomach several times the man survived the attack but the man who had gone off his medication claimed he was being poisoned by his through the window a Kunis for anyone with a violent incident like that on their medical report it is incredibly unlikely he will ever be able to find a better rehabilitation house ever again that will accept him the system basically screwed over two people that day as the man who was hurt was already there for PTSD and as you can imagine it not only scarred him physically for life but exacerbated his illness with more trauma some related posts from older threads / u / Stata reset here doctor in training have already had three children died during my pediatric rotation from preventable diseases and their complications parents opted out of vaccination all three pairs regretted it after the death it's become harder for me to have polite discussions about immunization because the conspiracy theories about vaccines are killing children I get so furious every time it comes up / u / - I'd sit here if you have old people in your house or you are regularly in the house of an old person pay attention to and get rid of small area rugs carpet runners et Cie they are terrible trip hazards and a broken hip is generally the beginning of the end for anyone over the age of 70 / u / juggernaut underscore thoughts sit here I work as a nurse in a hospital and I can tell you that the best way to prevent Copts is by just not smoking Jesus Christ it is a terrible way to live out the rest of your life where every breath is a literal gasp for air my grandeur as a patient come straight back if you have any chest pain he didn't go back and this is what followed blood clot traveled to his brain three strokes bleeding on the brain - more - strokes paralyzed left arm and right foot Broca's aphasia he went from being a man nearing his 80s who was old-school he worked as a school crossing guard grew all of his own vegetables fed the birds built tables biked six miles on the weekends walked everywhere and was still able to play darts despite his eyesight being that of a visually impaired nut because he knew the board so well he went from that to living in a care home and unable to talk as he lost his stubbornness nope he won't do his rehabilitation and so even though he could get his speech back to a decent degree he doesn't want to do the therapy and using communication cards humiliates him so we are left trying to decipher random eyebro movements so we can guess what he's trying to say one of these days I swear on my own bloody eyelashes that I'm going to shake him until his teeth rattle him and his brothers there all the bloody same my uncle grandis younger brother didn't go to hospital at all and was found on his bedroom floor whimpering he had flippin sepsis I'm not a medical professional that I used to get allergy injections to build up my immune system because of the crazy amount of allergies I had I would get these injections every week and I was instructed by my family doctor and the allergist to wait in the waiting room 30 minutes after the injection in case I received the reaction well one day I decided I didn't want to wait anymore also because it had been a few months without a reaction and left immediately after my appointment I went into anaphylactic shock not even ten minutes later it was crazy because I didn't even know what was happening at first and didn't even know how to use an EpiPen I was assistant manager of a group home we had a resident who had epilepsy and was also very reclusive he would get agitated if we came in his room or even knocked on the door however policy said he had to be checked on every 30 minutes because of his seizure risk that wasn't being done so I brought this up to the manager she said she was aware but it was okay to bend the rules because he would get really upset when we checked in on him I really wasn't comfortable with her answer but I was young and assumed she knew better than me when I was on duty I checked on him every 30 minutes and he would yell at me but I didn't let it bother me about 6 months later after I had been reacting to another group home he had a seizure alone in his room and was found dead a day later now I'm older and a little smarter when I find a problem like this I stick with it I don't let people too me out of it not again rest in peace D gone but not forgotten patient was supposed to have starved for eight hours for her morning scheduled breast surgery during the procedure she regurgitated what can only be described as as a full partially digested English breakfast with identifiable sausages egg beans and possibly black pudding up into her unprotect in Airway and attempted to inhaled a lot managed to prevent the majority of it going down but she needed HD you care for a day or so for her lungs to recover from the stomach acid me didn't almost die but I was very very sick I went for a mini vacation in Batam Indonesia where Avila had a private pool throughout our 48-hour stay I spent more time in the water than out that time I wasn't in the water I was in our air-conditioned for a room with just a t-shirt now damn over my swimsuit in the day it was blazing hot and at night it was super windy because it was near the sea I'm also as Matic while it's mostly under control I usually get a tight chest feeling when I'm ill and haven't had a full attack in years I fell sick after the trip high fever runny nose cough I'm also a health care professional I studied life sciences and dynastic testing I'm hardly bothered and can take care of myself when I get sick eventually the fever went away and I was left with a cough the week after the vacation I was still having a cough and we went to play paintball completely overexerted myself running ducking pulling what-have-you after the game we went to a friend's place to have lunch and chill I fell asleep but woke up coughing with the feeling of something being stuck in my respiratory tract I thought it was phlegm went to the bathroom to cough it out but nothing was happening I lost track of time and apparently I was in the bathroom coughing away for about 30 minutes friends asked if I was alright and I just kept saying the air it's just a cough I think there's some phlegm stuck and I'm trying to get it out finally went to see the doctor my regular GP the stay turns out I was having a very serious asthma attack I just couldn't recognize it because I haven't had one in many years worst thing is this was the same doctor who told me to always carry my inhaler around just in case that I just wasn't diligent about it until now my friends would yell it's just a cough I'm fine whenever I make even the smallest cough or sneeze now that I think about it I actually could have died [Music]

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Published: Fri Feb 07 2020