[Gracey]

This is a spin off of another thread.

What are some of the STUPIDEST things a doctor/nurse/therapist has ever said to you?

My all time favorite - I'm eight months (EIGHT MONTHS) pregnant with child #2 and a nurse actually asked me, "How do you know you're pregnant?"
Really? Seriously?

When I was in hospital... 9 months... 2 weeks pregnant... 4th day of being induced... I ripped the IV out.. told dr.. "I am going home".....

he said "fine, you will need to sign a form that you are going this against dr advice"...

me I said "bring it on, I am never having this baby"...

help me pls... lol.... how many days.. were they going to try???? he relented.. and broke my water.. so the labor... intenisfied...

but gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... did he really think he could.. win a "stare down.. with a desparate pregnant women??"

I was at my urologist's office going over my new patient paperwork with the nurse. She asked me if I have ever had any problems with my prostate. I actually answered 'yes!' and she proceeded to ask me for details.

Umm.. I've been female my entire life.

[bebop]

lol too funny!!

[Gracey]

One of my all time other favorites is. . .

Upon telling a paramedic who has responded to the call for help for ME that I'm allergic to bees (as I'm in the midst of an anaphylaxis reaction and struggling to breathe) he says to me, "Well, what happens when you get stung?"

Prior to a major surgery... the doctor said..

""""""""""""Trust Me, a walk in the park""""""""""""""""""""""

woke up in recovery... he had made 3 major.. errors..... Yazza..

soooooooo..... I run for cover.. if any dr.. says "trust me"

In summer last year when I was at my worst I ended up in crisis being assessed as to whether to stay in hop or not....I was at the end of ny tether, threatening suicide and banging my head literally against the wall, the patronising idiot in charge told me to grow up, sit down and there was no need for this behaviour

why do they put these a s s holes in charge??????

they gave me a strong sleeping tablet and sent me home

sigh ........

[Danialla]

As I was being prepared for brain surgery, a middle aged man was "trying" to insert an IV line into my hand. As the line, which was VERY loose, was being taped to my hand I asked him if he was a student......no he replied I am a dentist ??!!

Needless to say when the doctor in the OR asked me if there were any questions before they put me under, I pointed out the rather precarious placement of the IV line he said they would definitely fix it! It wasn't there when I woke up.

Seems the guy was a dentist in the continuing education program, just learing how to start IV lines. Gotta love those teaching hospitals !

I did receive wonderful care!

Take care everyone.

Oh my goodness....

[(JD)]

When I was 7 months along with my first child, I went to see a new ob/gyn in my home city. AFTER the full exam, and sitting in his office, he began to explain things and as part of it said, "by the time you're 6 months along, you'll have your bill paid." I went speechless (yes, me.) I looked at my spouse, and back at the doctor who then look at me, looked at my spouse and said, WHAT? And my spouse said, "She's seven months along!" The doctor, obviously shocked to not have realized this (I was in great shape btw) said, "Stand up! You're tall, aren't you?!"

[ECHOES]

When I lived in NY I was seeing my psychiatrist on the day before he went away for some holiday or another....

He said to me, "I wanted to make sure I got to the chance to see all the sicker patients today, before I went away."

WTF?!?!

I had gotten pink eye. My eyes were blood red, itchy, crusty, with discharge coming out of them.

I went to the doctor to get drops for this.

The doctor said, "What's wrong?"
I said, "I have pink eye"
And in all seriousness, while looking at me directly, he asked, "Well, what makes you think that?"

My son... gets poision ivy really really bad.... he usually gets steriods...now that he is an adult...

anyway when he was about 13...I took him to a new family dr.... transition from peds...

I didn't mention poision ivy - they didn't ask... why we wanted appt assuming it was a new patient to the practice appt......... so when the dr.. looked at the bottom of my son's foot.. he said... "wow you have some nasty warts we are going to have to remove"...

about peed my pants... it was poision ivy.... causing.. blisters... hehehehehehe..

the dr.. was sooooooooooooooo embrassed.....

[nothemama8]

many years ago when i was in State Mental Hospital , I had a psych nurse who I grew up with ( Hospt. is in my home town) tell me are you sure you have mental illness you look so normal, almost peed my pants

[AAAAA]

My most recent “OMG you have to be kidding me moment” in the medical profession was a few months ago. I couldn’t get in to see my regular doctor and took an appointment with another that I’d seen for sinus infections and such.

I’ve been REALLY depressed before, and I was heading in that direction and wanted to get help before I entered the danger zone again. I was taking Effexor, my Rx was almost finished for the year and it wasn’t working on the depression anymore, plus the sexual side effects were getting to be too much, so I asked her to switch antidepressants.

She took out the little questionnaire that they give you to find out “how” depressed you are. I gave her little “vanilla” answers like “I think the trigger this time is that my daughter has gone off to college and she’s the first one to leave the house.” On and on with the questionnaire we go, and I’m beginning to think “hmm, I should have been a little more honest with her, she’s going to think I don’t need them at all.”

She did the math at the end of the questionnaire and looks at me and says “I can’t write you a prescription for antidepressants, you’re TOO SEVERLY depressed for me to treat.”. ?!?!?! She said “I cannot in good conscience write you a prescription for antidepressants, you’re too severely depressed, it’s outside my comfort zone to treat you.” I said “ok, don’t write a prescription for a new one, just write a refill for the Effexor that is going to run out next week.” She said “No, I can’t do that, if I write you a Rx and you go home and harm yourself, I’d never be able to live with myself.” I said “I’m not suicidal and I’d very much like to keep it that way , which I don’t see happening without ANY antidepressants!” She said “I’m sorry, I just can’t do it.”

THEN as I’m getting ready to leave she says (SWEAR TO GOD) “Do you feel that all of your concerns were addressed today?” UH NOOOO!

[wickedwings]

OMG! LOL! i love this thread! thanks, i needed this one! ummm, i've been through soooo much medically. i can't think of some crazy doc stuff that they said to me. i've had a psychiatrist label me as as mentally challenged when i had been in college studying biology! lol. i was going to be a scientist!

Oh my goodness... is all I can say... gezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[(JD)]

I had several neurologist appointments one year, in attempts to find someone cogent enough to come on my team for health support. They were all arrogant idiots, imo but this one took the worker-comp-paid-off-cake:

I filled in the paperwork ahead of time, and waited and waited. They took 2 other walk in patients ahead of me, I guess already paying full price patients? I don't know. So finally it was my time.

He took me directly into his office and began asking questions. Obviously, he hadn't bothered to read his own questionaire. I was in a pain flare at the time, and had trouble sitting, and sitting and chatting. He was busy spouting off on various ideas he must have had in his head, I guess trying to actually earn the money for the time spent? He then said, well, after examination of you I find that you don't really have any pain problem.

I was so upset! I said, YOU HAVEN"T EVEN EXAMINED ME!

Oh? No? Oh... well come into the exam room and let me see...

Of course, I had to comply or he would have been able to say I refused, and that would have stopped my benefits. But of course I didn't do anything extensive with him, having already seen his "hand" and knowing he had already decided not to treat me.

I hear ducks in the background...quack quack quack quack

[January]

I had a gastroenterologist tell me that if I didn't have a "Type A" personality, I wouldn't have colitis. He made it sound like an accusation.

I looked at him and said, "Well, you have a Type A personality or you wouldn't have made it through med school and you don't have colitis. Right?"

He turned pink and nodded yes. I walked out of his office and never went back.

Oh, another one told me, "You wouldn't have panic attacks if you just weren't so smart." That one was just sooooo special! I looked her and thought, "They pay you to be this stupid."

[Gracey]

ROFLMAO . .yes my dear, "they" pay LOTS of people to be that stupid!