The Shocking Moments When Doctors Questioned Patients’ Birth Stories—And Left Them Bewildered.
“you’ve put on so much weight since the last time, I was going to ask you to open wide and say ‘oink’!”.
Not weird, but when Diet Coke started using aspartame (it originally used saccharine for a year or two) I asked my doctor if aspartame was safe in his opinion. He said he did not know, however after another 30 years and we all might find out if we get bladder cancer. 30 years later, I got bladder cancer.
I had a psychiatrist tell me I was “cute” when I was angry and that’s why no one takes me seriously.
Had Brain cancer diagnosis last year. Had to get a big hunk of my brain removed to get the tumor. Surgeon said before the surgery “you know a lot of people when this is over get to live a good long life like another 30 years!”
I’m in my early 30s… meaning I get the privilege of maybe making it to 60!
He was actually a great surgeon if not one of the absolute best at what he does, but I don’t think he registered my age compared to his usual shpeal. I find it funny but it was like oh… neat?
When I went to renew my birth control pills at the ripe old age of 35, I was promptly told “well you may as well have it all taken out if you’re not going to use it”. Presumably he meant my womb… (?).
I was 24 and dealing with a headache that lasted 8 months and 3/4 times per week would turn into a full blown migraine with auras, numbness, loss of speech. You could see and feel veins on the side of my head throbbing 24/7.
My doctor basically treated me like I was over exaggerating, even though I was coming into her office every two weeks crying.
Every two weeks she would just tell me to cut something out of my diet and then come back again. The third or so time I was in her office she said “Stop drinking coffee for two weeks and come back.”
I said, “I don’t drink coffee.”
She replied, “okay, try drinking coffee for two weeks and come back.”
My boyfriend at the time had to stop me from swinging on her.
“If this is an improvement from normal life then you just get used to it” i was bleeding for over 2 years from a failed implanon .
I once had a doctor use body fat calipers on me and tell me i was morbidly obese.
Except I was sitting down (youre supposed to use them standing up), 5’8″ and 120lbs, and also only 12 years old.
And i had another doctor who literally told me he thought i had a stroke and made me get an MRI just because i told him i had anxiety and sometimes dissociated.
The neurologist i went to literally looked at his notes and started laughing because it was such a dumb recommendation. .
When I was pregnant I had my first ever yeast infection. My friend brought me to the hospital, because I was complaining about all of the moisture in my [underwear] and she thought my water had broken because I was a very high risk pregnancy.
The doctors got me legs up on the stirrups takes one look at my vajay and goes “EWW!” She then left the room or so I thought and I say to my friend “oh my god did she just say eww? That’s so embarrassing” but no the doctor had not left the room she had simply gone behind the curtain and then came back and said “I’m sorry did I say that out loud I have a problem with that and I’ve been getting in trouble”.
It wasn’t my doc, but the ER doc. When he finished examining my 15 year old daughter, who asked me to take her to the ER for tummy pains, the doc came into the crowded waiting room and loudly asked me, “sir, you know your daughter is in labor right? That she’s going to have a baby, today, right?” Thanks doc, for your sensitivity and tact. Btw, no, I didn’t know. I’m a bonehead, I know.
“Why are you crying?”
While explaining that my birth control implant was making me have the worst mood swings I’ve ever had, I wasn’t sleeping, had splitting headaches, and local pain at the insertion site.
“No we don’t do physicals despite you not having had a physical since you were a kid.”
“No we won’t screen you for cancer despite your grandpa having colon cancer. You aren’t old enough to worry.”
“We have to treat you like a new patient because you haven’t had any visits in the last 3 years.”
I hate the American medical system. I’m trying to get ahead of my health issues and they keep playing.
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