“I left that doctors appointment in tears and feeling like a horrible human being.”
Now, Quora users aresharing the most ignorant thing they’ve heard from a medical doctor.
The stories will make you sighheavily:
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“I was a young, happy 10-year-old girl who had never thought about her weight.
I wore comfortable shorts and wore tank tops all the time.
One day, I went to our family doctor for a standard check-up.
The doctor took out a weight chart.
‘Then she pointed at another point on the chart and said, ‘And youre way over here.
you oughta stop eating so much sugar and start exercising more.’
“When my daughter was 4, I took her to her yearly check-up.
I told them she was still peeing at night so I was putting her in Pull-Ups.
I felt like a horrible mom, so I stopped putting them on her.
I would help her change, strip her bed, and remake it.
Some nights, I would just make her a bed on the floor.
A year later I went to a different doctor and told her of our dilemma.
She asked why I wasn’t putting her in Pull-Ups., ARGGG!
After that, we all slept through the night, and life was so much sweeter.
She did, thankfully, grow out of it at age 8.”
“I grew up on a farm with roosters and chickens and got attacked by one.
I ended up getting really sick, so my mother took me to urgent care.
My mom told the doctor I had gotten badly injured and she was worried the wound was infected.
The doctor asked how I had gotten hurt so my mom told him.
The doctor, for whatever reason, thought that was hilarious.
He bent over laughing.
“That my mammogram showed no signs of tumor.
I read the report, and each breast had the exact same description.
The doctor had written the same report about both sides of my breasts.
I got a sonogram and my right had three malignant tumors that had spread to my lymph system.
I was in stage 3.
After chemo, surgery, radiation, and nightly meds, Im going strong.”
“A doctor told my cousin, ‘Your period cant hurt that badly.’
She then went on with years and years of painful, almost debilitating periods.
They were so bad, but she thought it was normal because that is what she was told.
When she went in for the results, the doctor told her she needed surgery ASAP.”
Sharon was also sick with strep throat at the time.
“I went to the doctor for test results back in the day.
The doctor walked into the office and began by saying, ‘Ive got some bad news.
You have cancer.’
The doctor then addresses me as ‘Brian.’
My name is not Brian.”
“The local doctor in our small town did not believe I had asthma.
I had been diagnosed when I was a little baby.
I had to take a day off work every month to see him before he would refill my medications.
I ended up going to another doctor who confirmed I had asthma.'”
“My daughter wasn’t doing well.
She was very pale, bruised easily, and was always tired.
So I took her to the doctor.
He tried unconscionably hard to pressure me into having her committed to an institution.
“I remember shadowing an RN during my clinical days.
She asked me to walk with her to visit her ultrasound technician friend.
I was confident I could utilize my Spanish in medical terminology.
However, a doctor stepped into the conversation and stated that I was not in a position to translate.
The doctor stated he knew Spanish ‘very well.’
“When I was in my mid-20s, I started gaining weight.
A LOT of weight.
So, my doctor put me on a diet.
I followed it religiously (weighing my food out to the gram).
He then asked why I wasn’t following the diet he gave me.
I told him I was but made the mistake of mentioning how hard it was.
I was able to get him admitted to a different doctor for observation.
Seeing the residents come in with disinterest after interviewing us was tough.
All that changed after a pediatric gastrointestinal specialist finished his examination.
He diagnosed the problem as an abdominal migraine.
