What is the worst case of you being right and the doctor being wrong? 

My friends dad thought he knew better then my doctor. I had cancer. I told my friend, and she told, well, everyone. I was shocked when I visited her, and her neighbors, when they heard my name, start to give me condolences. Next day, her parents came. And her dad start to telling me, how his aunt “cure” her uncurable cancer by drinking tea from dandelions roots and eating some mushrooms. Then he said I should stop my chemo and try this. “What harm would it do to try? It’s natural.” He said. Well, stopping my treatments of fast growing tumor? It would k!ll me! I continued with my chemo, then radiation, this shrink my tumor in half, and could be removed. I had to learn to walk again, but I’m cancer free for 2 years now. And no roots needed

I know chiropractors aren't considered real doctors but one I went to when I got diagnosed with scoliosis still baffles me to this day. He tried to tell me that my rib pain was not real because "The ribcage is not connected to the spine."

The sulfa story reminds me of all the times my mom didn't believe me. I'm notorious for having weird medical issues so she eventually had to start believing me and even researching things herself when doctors refused to listen. I had a severe sulfa allergic reaction as a baby so I don't remember it but I almost died and I've had a number of doctors try to prescribe it despite me saying I'm DEATHLY allergic to it. But I can't count how many times I've had to beg and plead for mom to take me to the doctor when something was wrong. Numerous cases of strep throat, ear infections, and sinus infections, including one that lasted an entire YEAR before we found out it was a cracked molar from a poorly done wisdom tooth extraction. There was mono that kept me bedridden for two months, a "sprained" ankle that turned out to be a tumor inside my fibula, a pulmonary embolism that I spent weeks trying to get any doctor to take me seriously. The icing on the cake was spending 25 years with severe endometriosis that neither my mom when I was young nor any obgyn when I was an adult would listen to my complaints, even though I had every single classic symptom. So yeah, if your child or patient is complaining about something LISTEN TO THEM. It might turn out to be nothing but it could also be life threatening.

My grandfather was diabetic and got sick in 2017. The first hospital we went to they found a lump in his lung and DIDN’T INVESTIGATE IT, calling it “nothing.” We got a second opinion from another hospital and they diagnosed it as stage IV lung cancer. Unfortunately by the time we found out it was too far spread. They tried everything they could but eventually we made the decision to take him off life support. My dad asked him to blink once if he wanted us to keep fighting or blink twice if he wanted to be with my grandmother, who’d passed away the year before. He blinked twice. Day of the 2017 solar eclipse. They took him off life support and maybe fifteen minutes later he was gone. This all could have maybe been prevented if the first hospital had actually done their job. If you find something in the lung that isn’t supposed to be there, IT’S NOT NOTHING. We wanted to sue them but another family member stopped us. This hospital has had issues for years. I’m still so angry about it seven years later that I don’t bother saying the name of the hospital out loud.

The thing about "crying wolf" is that while most people get the intended moral that you shouldn't repeatedly pretend something bad happened to get a reaction out of people (because if there's a genuine crisis and you call out to others, they might dismiss it as another antic of yours), but I think the same story also shows that you should never, NEVER completely dismiss someone's concerns - you can never know whether it's something truly bad. The consequences of believing them when they're pretending are generally harmless compared to the possibly disastrous consequences of ignoring a serious issue. Being a prankster or an attention seeker doesn't make anyone immune to sickness, injury or experiencing terrible events in their life, and unless you really do not care about what may happen to them, ignoring their calls for help may have you regretting your whole life

My I was right and doctor was wrong story was severe endometriosis. I was in severe debilitating pain, I would double over in extreme pain. My OB kept testing me for pregnancy despite me being adamant that I wad a virgin. After pregnancy was ruled out, she kept insisting that it was either bad period cramps, anxiety and stress, or attention seeking. Wouldnt do or test anything as I was only 21. I got a different OB and he ran an ultrasound when it didn't show anything, he scheduled me for an exploratory laproscopy. Turns out I had the most severe case of endometriosis he had ever seen. I ended up having a complete hysterectomy leaving only my ovaries. TLDR I had severe endometriosis and my 1st doctor didn't believe my pain to be real or possibly pregnancy despite being a virgin. 2nd doctor listened and discovered horrible endometriosis and I lost my uterus, cervix and tubes.

I got one that still pisses me off: During lock down I kept contacting my doctor at the very least once a month, because I *knew* something was wrong with me. Doctor kept saying "it doesn't sound serious. You have nothing to be nervous about". And didn't want me to come in to check me.. I had cancer. And I noticed almost immediately. My doctor however refused to check me till I had been contacting them for 8 months and threatened them with legal action. The cancer was now so big that they could physically see it.

Misleading title. Made me think this was going to be about the rare case where the patient legitimately knew better, rather than the usual case of the professional being right and the patient just going "nuh uh."

I had a doctor tell me that my post c-section pain just required me to have "more sex." It was over 10 years later that I had exploratory surgery to find endometriosis. THAT doctor acted like endometriosis wasn't actually causing my pain even though it can cause EXTREME pain. He begrudgingly prescribed me birth control that ended my monthly cycles and I haven't had a problem since. Women are GROSSLY dismissed by doctors. I got diagnosed with IBS 4 times before, on my 4th ER visit for pain in 3 weeks, a doctor gave a damn enough to do a single God damned test. That led to a celiac disease diagnosis. I was also told I was having anxiety attacks for years before getting diagnosed with a heart condition. I HATE doctors.

Mother thought there was something wrong when I was a baby, took me to Doctor 1, who said there was nothing wrong. Wasn’t satisfied and took me to Doctor 2, who just said it was a new mother being worried. Took me to Doctor 3, who finally diagnosed the Meningitis.

a doctor had mistaken my dad's appendix bursting for food poisoning. we took him to the ER once his stomach pain was unbearable and we were told had we waited 3 more hours, he would've passed.

I’ve got so many for this topic. Here’s the top 2, curtesy of my grandmother. This one is Drs wrong, patient right : My grandmother was a registered RN with 40 yrs experience. In her 50s she was having agony in her torso that she was convinced was gallstones. Her Dr told her it wasn’t. Second and third opinion, same thing. Had been working through the pain for months. Literally working. She was lifting a patient and something happened in her body. She told my mother it felt like giving birth, but it was only on the right side of the torso. This woman had 5 kids btw, so she knew what she talking about. Her co-nurse on the floor told her to go to the ER. ER told her it sounded like appendicitis. She insisted it was gallstones because she didn’t have her appendix anymore. ER ignored her. Long ass story short…. After her 3rd argument with the on-call ER Dr she insisted on an abdominal ultrasound or she was going to raise hell (not an idle threat). One abdominal ultrasound later she learned she had 15 gallstones with over half of them “large” and one partially stuck. This one is Dr wrong, mother wrong, father right-ish: When my grandmother was a child (she couldn’t remember exactly how old, between 6 and 10) in the 1920s/1930s she was doing her house chores one morning and collapsed. Now, her family lived in rural backcountry Mississippi very far away from neighbors. Her mother had no medical knowledge other than ice and heat help with pain, so my great-grandmother heated water on the stove and laid my grandmother down on a pallet in the kitchen while she called the family Dr. Family Dr was not in office and she was advised by his assistant to take my gm to the pediatrician the next town over if she was “overly concerned” but “it sounds like she had tainted meat or bad water.” The Dr’s assistant (I have no idea if she was an actual nurse) told my gg to watch out for chills or a fever and to call back if either started. This is how my gm ended up writhing in agony on the pallet, soaking through her clothes and vomiting a couple times while her mother just did the house chores and cooked supper. At day’s end, her father returned from the fields/rail work (not sure which he was doing that day, he alternated) and his first words to her mother were “Good God, woman, I could hear her shrieking from the pump. What’s wrong with (gm’s name)?” Her mother explained while her father, who had slightly more medical knowledge, checked my gm’s pulse and gently pressed her sides to see if he could pinpoint the pain. He could not. But apparently she shrieked so loud that he picked her up, pallet and all, and carried out to the bed of the truck. Her mother kept saying “it’s just food poisoning, she’ll be okay” and her father apparently replied “It’s something else. I’m taking her to the hospital in (town two towns over, about an hr drive).” My gm was fully alert the whole way and said her main memory of the event is how all that traveling in agony on those backcountry dirt and gravel roads made her pain so much worse because the of the jostling and uneven ground. She didn’t remember arriving at the hospital, but found out later that she was slipping unconscious just as her father carried her into the building. The emergency Dr told her father she needed surgery to remove her appendix immediately. She got it. She was never told if it had burst on the drive or was simply about to do so and the surgery was preventive care. Father phoned mother to explain and mother phoned family Dr’s office in the morning to report the outcome. Family Dr apologized for not being available and admitted that he had heard the story from his assistant and also thought it sounded like food poisoning. He praised my gm’s father for his late night drive and apologized for the misdiagnosis.

I feel for the poster who has PCOS and Endometriosis. I too have both. It's incredibly painful when the cysts rupture. I was put on Metformin which helps some. I still get cysts but the pain only lasts a couple days.

Great Video. Here is my little story about being right and my doctors being wrong. At 17 i developed severe Pain and hearing loss in my left ear, with frequent (near monthly) middle ear infections. I am talking the whole shabang, fever, dizziness, balance problems, dropping bp to 90/40, etc. But, due to my history of being prone to middle ear infections since i was a child, my 4 HNO Doctors just wrote it up as reacurring Middle ear infections despite me never having lost hearing over one. One Day, i passed out at the lathe at work (thankfully i fell backwards and NOT into the spindle which was rotating at 4500rpm at the time). My Boss called an ambulance and in the hospital they looked into my medical history. The Doctor then came in with the 4 Ct Scans of the last 6 months and showed me the tumor that was growing in my ear and earing away at the bones causing my problems. I am not a medical specialist at any stretch and i could see that there was something wrong on the Scans. Luckily it was not too late to operate and the tumor was removed. Now i have an titanium implant which replaces 2 of the 3 Ossicles in my left ear which the tumor completely destroyed and still hear about 60% on that ear. The Doc said if it did go unchecked for 2 or 3 months longer, the best outcome was me loosing my hearing on the left side completely, the worst case would've been that the tumor ate through my skull into my brain.

15:00 nah, she IS a bad mom for this. OP's low self esteem is very clear. It's the same as in abusive couples where one partner sees themselves as bad and the other is a saint for "putting up with them". The mom is no demon but she clearly failed a lot as a mom. I hope OP can gain enough self respect one day to make peace with this.

213 hours without sleep? Get this person's name into the Guiness book of world records.

The story 55 lady’s osteoporosis definitely contributed to the frequent broken bones, it is essentially a severe loss in bone density so your bones can’t handle much force before snapping. I hope the meds she eventually took helped her a lot because it’s awful to have a structural dependence on something not structurally sound inside you.

"You have every symptom of Lyme Disease but you just don't test positive" CDC has refused for decades to admit that the Western Blot and the ELISA test for Lyme have false positive and negative test results and that you can in fact have Lyme disease with a negative test result. It allowed the Lyme to do permanent damage to me for over 3 years and I still suffer from it 25 plus years later.

So.... I gotta say, this video's title is largely disconnected from the narrated stories here.

I wouldn't trust a doctor who dismisses you without doing tests tbh Maybe its super easy to treat but you wont know that without a diagnosis

Just because you love your mother and she's done some good doesn't mean she wasn't insanely neglectful.

The surgeon who botched my grandma's colon and lead to her death (as we all felt he f-ked it up. there was just that gut feeling after the doc came in and nonchalantly said "She's gone." as if he didn't give a sh#t about bedside manner.) I wish Gpa would have filed malpractice, as the guy 3 months after gma's death.. had is license revoked for over 10 Malpractice lawsuits recently filed against him in one year. Gpa could have afforded a "Big booty" nurse during his downward spiral mentally. (my grandad was a bit of a pervert lol though Grandma was his censor until she passed.) I miss em both. RIP

The video title seems... confusing. It sounds like it's about stories where the poster was actually right and the doctor was wrong (like story 2), not mainly about stories about the patient insisting they know better and being dead wrong.

Girl I went to high school with had to have her gallbladder out when she was like a junior in high school. You're never "too young" for a type of illness.

Thinking about that time my friend's psychiatrist put them on a massive dose of SSRIs without building up to that point slowly. Friend was concerned about the dosage being WAY higher than the starting dose but the psych said it was fine. They were hospitalized with serotonin syndrome. Serotonin syndrome is what happens when you overdose on SSRIs because your brain is flooded with so much serotonin it becomes toxic. The psych then acted confused as to why the dose was so high and pretended that they didn't prescribe it that way and my friend must have overdosed on purpose. They got the prescription information that proved it was dosed way too high and the psych basically just shrugged it off without so much of a sorry.

OG Narrator being in 2 videos in a row. Insane!😊😊😊

My mother also suffered from doctors doing the 'fat first' diagnosis. She was sluggish, had no energy and was alternately getting migraines or throwing up. 2 doctors said it was her weight. One suggested she was pregnant. A post-menopausal 60-something year old. Eventually while she was with her husband while he was in for a checkup for non-hodgkin lymphoma, HIS doctor took a look at her and said, 'one of your eyes is drooping. we need to take you to the Emergency Clinic'. She wasn't having a stroke as it turned out, but as it turned out she had massive tumors in her brain that were non-cancerous. They were putting pressure in places that would affect her health. She got treatment for it and funny-enough, lost weight immediately after. Fat-first treatment kills so many people every year

Not really doctor being wrong (more of just delays) but: I had a jaw surgery in 2021 to correct my overbite. They sawed through my jaw on the left and right, moved it forward, and put it in place with plates and screws. Recovery was normal at first. I even got to meet my new puppy while I was on the liquid Oxycodone 🙃. The issue was this: the left cut never healed properly and actually stayed open. It got slightly infected so I went to the ER to get antibiotics. This is the part that still makes me a bit uneasy. I asked the nurse practitioner for Prednisone because it was really swollen. She said yes. It must have been pretty bad otherwise I would have looked like a drug seeker. A couple weeks later I went under for a second time to have the plates removed on both sides (the right was still open, just not as bad as the left) and the cuts properly sutured. I'm completely recovered now for anyone wondering. No problems ever since basically.

None personally, I've always been lucky when it comes to illness and doctors, my partner on the other hand-- When they were still married to their ex, my partner was rough housing with their three boys outside and hopped down from a rock. They rolled their ankle hard, falling to the ground. They figured it's probably sprained, but don't think it's much worse than that until they try to go to work in the evening and can't walk without excruciating pain. They go to the doctor the next day for x-rays. Doctor says "not broken, just a bad sprain." Partner isn't convinced, but the doctor is firm and sends them out with some painkillers. Over the next couple of days, the pain increases. It's obviously not just sprained, and they're starting to think it's broken. Go back to the doctor to get a second look at the x-rays. The nurse looks at them and is like, "oh, shit, yeah, that's totally broken." She goes to talk to the doctor who comes back in, looks at the broken bone the nurse points to and shakes his head. "Nope, that's not broken. It's just a sprain. Stop wasting my time." They never went to that doctor again. The bone was broken. My partner now occasionally has their ankle just give out on them. The stupid thing is that this doctor is still practicing in our area.

Not like I wasn’t before, but hearing these made me REALLY appreciative that my dad is a (competent) general practicioner and fussed over my and my siblings’ health constantly while we were growing up

My doctor is like a uncle to me. I’ve been seeing him for my medication for as long as I know and he is very straight with me. My mother likes the idea of me being a extremely fit I don’t so I don’t really listen to her. I knew I was overweight and didn’t believe it was bad enough. Well it was bad enough for him to say that I’m getting fat and to fix it. Shocked but I knew he wouldn’t care what my family wanted so I knew he was telling the truth

Had a persistent nosebleed, so was in and out of hospital for cautery treatment. Would stop for a bit (hour or two?), then come back. Got stuck on tranexamic acid for over a year because they thought it was a blood clotting issue. Over a year later of a persistent drip, drip, drip nosebleed... got a competent doctor that thought to actually just check higher up for a rupture. Lo and behold, could have just been cauterised a year before without screwing my high school finals (GCSEs here) up from having to stay out of school.

I am a doctor. We definitely do make mistakes but most of the time we are genuinely trying to do our best for our patients. What I’m hearing a lot of is something that we struggle with in the profession. “Those convinced against themselves are of the same opinions still” is a saying that certainly seems to apply to a majority of these cases. It applies to a number of my cases as well on a near daily basis.

"your appendix ruptured during labor and infected your ovary. The other one didn't mature correctly, so this will likely be your only child". My mom's doc after my eldest sibling. She had my sister 370 days later

i love the fact these videos seem to keep getting longer, i love the tons of content, i like listening to your videos when stressed or when i wanna relax, since its calm, and quite interesting most of the time

The problem isn't the doctor saying "you need to work on your weight for your health" and the astounding frequency with which women are told"you're just a fatso" when they're drying off and seeking treatment for something Else

15:00 I don't care what OP says. If your child is bleeding non-stop and refusing to eat, and you *still* refuse to take them to a doctor, that is neglect. Two things can be true at the same time. It can be true that OP wouldn't be alive without their mother while also being true that the mother is a horrible and neglectful mother. These two things are not mutually exclusive and the way OP talks about their mother is almost identical to the way I sometimes talk about mine. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't be alive without her, she's saved my life a few times, she helps me with a lot of stuff, and she's the reason I have anywhere to live because I can't get disability benefits for whatever stupid-ass reason the government gives, but that doesn't mean she isn't also hateful and abusive. She cares about me, most of the time, but there are some times when she very obviously does not, and has told me before that she would refuse to take me to the doctor if it turned out I needed a certain medical treatment that she didn't agree with.

My grandpa was like that. He said he was fine on the phone and a day later he was hospitalised. (He lives far away from us). I was fretting about what was wrong with him, because it appeared his heart meds didin't work. My mom came back from the hospital telling me: " Well in order for the meds to work he would have to take them." Turns out he wasn't taking any of his meds. He died two years ago from heart problems. Edit: He was 92, though. So he didn't die young.

Body positivity can become toxic, when people refuse to try to be healthy because “it’s ok to look this way.” It’s not about the looks, it’s about your heart being surrounded with so much fat in your chest cavity that it can’t pump enough blood. If you’re able to lose weight and your doctor warns you to, you should try your hardest and your doctor will be trying to help you :)

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My dad had lymes disease as a child and almost died, that doctor that lied to his patients makes me genuinely sick- I feel so bad for a families that they had such an awful “doctor”

Over 10 years ago I finally ended up with a major back surgery leaving me with Harrington rods and a cage as part of my spine had crumbled. For over 6 months prior to finally getting in for surgery I had been complaining that I couldn't walk, my leg was asleep and would not wake up, I couldn't get in and out of the tub by myself, I couldn't stand up straight anymore, I was in sever pain, and I was in and out of every hospital in my city. I live in a fairly large city, so yeah I'd been to about 7 hospitals and to my primary care doctor. I couldn't get up the stairs from the room my mom rented, I had become homeless because of this, and getting me back down after my last doctor's appointment wasn't happening. The thing is the doctors told my mom it was psychosomatic or I was drug seeking, I'm going to be 100 here and admit I was an addict, I told one doctor who said I was drug seeking I had just got done doing something better then they would ever give me to go home with, I didn't care about their drugs I wanted to know what was wrong. I had a nurse refuse to help me dress or walk out once discharged and I couldn't do it by myself- I struggled to do it until another nurse took pitty on me and came in and helped me. The first nurse now forced to help me out whispered with the cruelest tone id heard from a nurse that I could walk just fine and needed to stop wasting other people's time and resources that could be put to real use, why didn't I go is and do them all a favor. They had my mom convinced it was all an act and my mom was so cold to me because I was also in a battle to get my daughter back from the state. She thought I was doing all this just to get out of what I needed to do to get my kid, I told her to just drop me off where I knew there was an empty trailer I could use for shelter, I knew if she did I would die there cause I could not walk anymore, I was at her and everyone around us mercy and they where all told I was faking so I went sometimes over 24 hours without anything to eat or drink. Especially after my last doctor's appointment where I was taken to a detached garage and given an air mattress with plywood stood up around it and a tarp over it's top to help keep me a little warm as it was now going into winter. I had a case worker come out to see me after that last appointment and they found me shivering laying in my own piss refusing to talk because I was so beat down by all these professionals treating me worse then mud on their shoes. She finally got me to talk, she noticed I could still move my legs but I could not support myself if I tried to stand. She called an ambulance and followed me to the hospital, she stayed by my side until I was finally admitted. Finally a week after being admitted the doctor on my floor called in a neurology consult. They did one simple test with my foot and the response was clearly indicative of a spinal injury. He told them to MRI my spine to which the doc said they had and it was fine, he said what part. They had only done an MRI of my lumbar spine as I still had control of my legs and bladder- though I couldn't get to a bathroom cause I couldn't stand up or walk hence why I had peed myself prior to being admitted, he told them to check my thoracic and less then 30 minutes after my MRI I was being transfered for emergency surgery because my t8 &t9 were missing. I get to the other hospital but don't go into surgery because the surgeon refused until knowing why this happened. Come to find out I have a staph infection in my spine- not normal osteomyelitis that shows up on cultures- my infection didn't show up on any of the cultures taken, as they had taken them almost every ER visit I'd had over the last 6 months or so. So finally after a bone biopsy, 2 weeks in the neuro ICU , and 16 hours in surgery, 6 months in a physical rehab home I got some of the worst news of my life. They didn't think I would walk again- I do, for years I was slower then normal but could still walk a decent amount with little to no assistance. I couldn't care for a small child on my own anymore however, and so I signed my rights away allowing her dad's sister to adopt her. But up until about 3 years ago I got around fairly well, now I use a 4 wheel walker, and starting about 2 and half years ago my walking has gotten harder and harder. When they did an MRI it was found I have a tumor in my hip joint that is growing and pushing my hip out of place and tumors growing INSIDE my thigh bone- can't remember what it's called at the moment- with no space for them to grow so they are slowly breaking my bone. It's been 2 and a half years and I am JUST NOW getting to find out if it is cancer or not and what they will be able to do. My appointment is in 2 weeks for my MRI then I'll finally see orthopedics to get my answers. My primary care couldn't believe I still hadn't gotten my biopsy results- waiting for that MRI to see orthopedic to get those too- and so she just informed me it came back inconclusive. I know things aren't right inside me and I'm sick of doctors putting me off. If it hadn't been for herbal treatments and natural healing I would be in big trouble. Modern medicine has completely let me down. I didn't have to end up so broken but they refused to listen. They treated me and even told me I was a waste of their time because I was an addict. I got clean for a long time, but any one can only take so much pain and so I was pulled back into what I had hoped to put behind me. My current primary care is also a natural path and balanced the two schools of medicine which is what I believe most doctors should do and when your patient says something is wrong listen to them.

The title is the exact opposite of the actual prompt. On a positive note, it's a great example of how slight changes can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

I feel story 32 so hard. It took me YEARS to be diagnosed with the exact same things. Everyone just looks at you and goes “if you would lose weight, you’d be fine”. Weight issues are a common symptom of these disorders. It’s so annoying. It also belittles the efforts to those people who are actually trying to lose weight and getting no where because of the messed up hormones.

I remember complaining about my limbs hurting alot (like I'd limp because it hurt) since I was a kid. My parents brushed it off as growing pains. One time it hurt so much, I couldn't walk and my mum had to bring me to get a X-ray done to see what was wrong. Bones were fine. Still had pains everywhere, when I'm 20+ and finally have the autonomy to decide which doctor to see, I went to see one and told him my limbs still hurt a lot and no longer growing, shouldn't be growing pains. Turns out I have hyper joint mobility and my bones frequently dislocate, aggravating my fibromyalgia.

15:30 I get that OP doesn't want us blaming the mother but it also sounds like their family has a history of making bad decisions. So the safe thing to do is ignore their beliefs and continue blaming the mother.

I walked right up to the line between “prediabetes” and just being outright diabetic. I asked to start on metformin, a type II diabetes medication that’s been around forever and the main side effect is, ah, “loose stools”, which didn’t seem like it would be a big problem for me since my digestion runs slow. My PCP wanted to put me on a weekly injection I would give myself, which I’m pretty sure was that “Ozempic” stuff no one can find anywhere anymore and which often causes gastroparesis, so I’m glad I didn’t go that route! She has my H1C hemoglobin checked regularly and it is in the healthy range, so we are good to go. She told me that some people won’t do something as simple as what I do; take a pill twice a day; I haven’t really changed my diet much, aside from switching to whole wheat carbs. My cousin has pretty much the same issues I do; those associated with rapid pregnancy weight gain and then not managing to get it back off; but she has done nothing to address the issues and will probably die before her mother does. She’s 61.

ER Doctor said "UTI" ..... I suffered for 2 straight years before Crohn's Disease was eventually treated. Thanks Doc. Lectured me like a child on "bladder placement" rather hearing about how my intestines felt like they were strangling each other and the severe pain I was having. No more ER for me unless close to death or something.

My former doctor did the exact same thing regarding EDS. I gave her my concerns as well as the family history and the fact that my brother had the same symptoms as well, since there's also a genetic component with some forms of EDS, and she wiggled my finger and told me I don't have it. 🤦 That was just one of many in a long line of dismissing me and ignoring my symptoms, not to mention the fact that they apparently forgot that I can read the notes that they send back and forth to each other in my digital chart, and they were VERY unprofessional. Needless to say I won't be going back ever again.

14:20 And _this_ is why I refuse to admit to anyone in my family having faults (besides myself, of course).

I have one from this week! My heart rate has been jumping between 70-160 bpm. It has been getting worse lately to the point of almost passing out so my friend called the non emergency line and they sent an ambulance. The first thing the paramedic did was have a go at me as my service dog was in the room then without any tests told me I just have anxiety then told me I have a poor diet. He also kept misgendering me. Several tests later and it turns out I have a heart arrhythmia. Now have a cardiology referral ✨

Mine was similar but different. It was me being right and my mother who is a doctor being wrong. She thought I was becoming anorexic because I was not eating (I was not eating cause I had not gone to the bathroom in almost a week!). I told her and begged her to hear me out that something was wrong but it was not anorexia. Finally she agreed to take me to the hospital and got to hear from the doctor at the hospital how stupid she was because I almost died because of it. (I had dengue, my white blood cell count was low and I was extremely dehydrated hence why I wasn’t able to go to the bathroom). It felt so good to hear that I was right and that I was not anorexic… to this day I have no idea why my mother who I am low contact with though I was anorexic.

A neurologist told my hubby he has OCD. Ummm my niece does, my hubby doesn't one bit. A pain specialist told him he has Manges syndrome. His torso is long which leads to massive back issues.

vid reminds me of an argument i had with a classmate following a sudden turn in my health during my second semester. i was, doubled over in pain and unable to eat. had a very high fever due to chills and sweats, and hadnt been able to sleep. classmate had the wonderful idea to say "Oh its just midterms, stress'll do that". No, it was an intestinal blockage due to stress that had come close to back flowing and causing infection. Thank god my mom had more sense than my classmate, though i wish i didnt have to suffer the 30 hours of this, and before you ask. i was given an anti-biotic and strong laxatives and after 2 weeks was right as rain as my body cleared out and healed. I changed my major at the time because what i was going for was going to run me ragged and i did not want a repeat of this.

My pediatrician had to flee from Long Island to Upstate after he misdiagnosed the more dangerous meningitis as "flu" and triggered a FICKING OUTBREAK in the JHS. THREE DIED. Somehow he kept his license.

what angers me is when the doctor is so biased and wont even check if something else is wrong if a patient is overweight

Story 23: lavender & chamomile for relaxation, serious drugs for cancer

ITT: Women not being believed 😢

Placenta abruption during pregnancy that kept being diagnosed as typical pregnancy issues bc I was a 1st time mom. Id chosen midwives who delivered at the hospital but they kept blowing off my concerns, the on call midwife even screaming at me at 3am that they’d just attended a hard delivery & I needed to just go to the er or wait until their office was open the next day & HUNG UP on me. the reason I’d been calling at 3am was bc I had to crawl on my hands and knees just to go to the bathroom, was puking from pain and bleeding. I KNEW we were dying. By the time they caught it 50% of my blood had pooled in my abdomen, resulted in emergency C-section + we lived BUT OB on call that discovered the massive amounts of fluid on the outside of my uterus said he had never seen a case of placenta abruption that advanced where both the mother and the baby lived.

Newsflash, completely normal weight people can have sleep apnea. And I don't mean people who got it when they were overweight and then lost the weight. It's not solely a "fat people problem".

My mom had alergies and she knew what it was like. While i was in the hospital, and she happened to be there (only reason im alive), i took some medicine and instantly had an intense alergy since it was pumped into my blood, my mom instantly (having a fair amount of medical experience despite not being a doctor) stopped the medicine from pumping into my body and yelled for help. the doctors kept saying it was some other disease as my throat was closing and i was starting to be unable to breath, only for my mom to finally -after almost hitting one of the doctors- get them to give me a different medicine that helps with alergies and other things. I instantly after taking it felt fine, but even then the doctors insisted that it was the other disease, which btw, i didnt even have any signs of.

TLDR at the bottom In highschool junior year we were playing flag football. I was catching up to the ball runner about to yank his flag(so my fingers were splayed out reaching for it) when he abruptly stopped and changed directions. Some shyt apparently happened and basically i was like "ow this hurts." I thought i had also jammed my finger, and debated letting someone pull it...good thing i didnt... What had actually happened was my ring finger on my right hand had bent backwards and touched the first knuckle on my pointer finger, my finger had been broken at the joint, and the bone had rotated 270 degrees inside the skin. Luckily for me it also actually pinched a nerve because i didn't feel anything all day, even though i was also actively (although gingerly) using my hand(luckily i am left hand dominant so i could still write) Apparently the dr was geeking out, because he had never seen anything like i had done to my fonger in his life. 😂😅 Anyways...It was also really fun when the pins they had placed to help keep the bones aligned started to come through my skin, and so i went in and they did an impromptu removal where i could hear the forceps used to rip the pins out slipping off the pins and clicking back together...i almost passed out because i was hyperventilating. Oh and the icing on the cake was the school never informed my mother i had injured myself enough to require a dr. She was not happy about that. TLDR: almost let someone "fix" my "jammed" finger when i had actually broken it in a crazy way that made my dr geek out.

When i was 11/12 ish, i had a pain in my neck that grew everyday for about 3 months. First, i thought it was sore from a workout, but i found it odd that it was progressively getting worse. Of course, i complained to my mom several times over the course of 3 months and eventually took me to a "family friend" doctor. We tell him what happened, and he prescribes me antibiotics, no tests or anything. I finish the antibiotics in maybe 2 weeks (? I dont remember) and ofc it didnt do anything, so he prescribes me ANOTHER antibiotic (like it was gonna help??). Anyways, later i was home about to take a bath, i lean back and i hear a HUGE crack, followed by EXCRUCIATING PAIN. I was stuck in the tub for about 20 mins, i had to fill the tub all the way up to make myself float so i could turn myself over and get out. I tell my grandma while sobbing and she just says to move it around cz its the muscle, IT DEF WASNT THE MUSCLE. My younger brother just ignored me the whole time and my parents didnt do anything. I couldnt sleep, i didnt even know how to lay down for the first 2-3 days. I would literally sit with my elbows to my knees and hands supporting my chin/jaw area. Sometimes i would fall aslep couple mins at a time like that. I skipped school for 4 days, on friday my mom forced me to go to school. Bus ride in the morning was terrible, it was so bumpy it was so painful. I dont remember the day but when i got back on the bus to go home, some guys accidentally pushed me and i started sobbing from the pain. My stop was 2nd to last stop so it took about 45 mins to get home and thankfully i managed to calm down and find my bag by that time. Couple days go by and my mom finally takes me to an actual hospital. Wait about 5 hrs in the waiting room, recieved a neck brace (which i was confused about at the time bcz i was gaslighted for so long and i thought it was overkill). I got several scans done and the doctor says something along the lines of "her neck is completely broken, theres a pingpong sized tumor eating away at the bone. I honestly dont know how shes alive, let alone walking". I spent maybe 3 months in the hospital, got a halo (rods screwed into my skull to keep it stable, i was awake for it and it was terrible) and the surgery took 8 hrs to complete. I wore a neck brace for 6-8 months and minimal physical therapy, my mom didnt take me to the place, a nurse came to my house to check on me twice. Im 23 now, getting therapy for cptsd and i firmly believe that some people are just not meant to be parents

its super annoying but they dont usually just stop at a pregnancy test. they usually just check so probably they dont get in trouble and do damage to those who may actually be pregnant. it happens sometimes.

The story about the woman pushing for three hours and refusing a C-section is crazy to me. At that point, your doctor's should step in amd step up for the well-being of the child. I was in labor for 48 hours, 18 of which my water was broken. I developed an infection from my water being broken for so long. I had to have an emergency C-section. But they monitored my son's heartbeat and whatnot from the beginning of the induction up until the doctor's decided it was time to do a C-section.

Fun fact, sleep apnea isn't only caused by weight. I have an elongated soft palate that that covers my airway when I sleep.

When you hear that soothing voice 🥰

Oh the broken finger story near the very beginning was similar to something that happened to me when I was 12. I took a basketball off my right hand which jammed my middle and ring fingers. My father told me they were just jammed and popped them back into place right then and there. My parents weren't going to take me to get them looked at because they thought I was faking it until my hand swelled up two times its normal size by the following morning. My middle finger was broken in one place and my ring finger was broken in two places. It was a 2 month recovery and I now have permanent ligament damage and only about 80% mobility/flexibility in those two fingers.

I work at a factory that makes medical equipment parts. You wouldn't believe how many of my coworkers are antivaxers.

Story 23 (I think) reminded me of something my sister who’s a doctor mentioned learning while in residence: sometimes you can convince religious people who say that god will take care of their illnesses by saying “do you think maybe god is trying to save you via this medical intervention? Do you think maybe god gave us doctors the knowledge to help heal you on his behalf?” 😂 even though she doesn’t actually think that way apparently it’s worked more than once!

Genuinely when I hear these stories about doctors telling parents to just 'make them drink water and rest' to their very sick kids my internal response is. 'So when my child dies because of your lack of care how much malpractice money should I sue you for?'

7 years ago, I went to an emergency mental healthcare place, voluntarily. Here’s your mental illness, take these meds. Recent mental health crash, five months ago. Saw emergency therapist, it’s bpd. I’m very manic still.

I took my 6yr old daughter to 3 different drs within 5 days. All told me she had a cold and would be better soon. After the 3rd dr said the same thing, i took her to the hospital because i didnt agree. They wouldnt listen to me when i said it wasnt a cold. She passed away after her organs shut down from septicaemia due to an ear infection they didnt believe she had.

My mom noticed a bump on her hand with swelling, went to a doctor at hospital and she said "it's just your muscles cramping you'll be fine" my mother then went to our family doctor (rip) and he said "thats not hand cramping go to the hospital." Yeah turned out she had cancer, she fought it for 2 years and sadly passed when I was 10, I'm 18 rn and we were told if we caught it sooner she might have made it. Same doctor also misdiagnosed my auntie (also cancer) and is label "baby killer" by almost everyone for basically letting a baby suffocate right after it was delivered. Screw her, and I still can't believe she's not fired 😔

Seeing story 18 as someone who was the baby that got stuck is a little wild, luckily as soon as it was obvious I wasn’t coming out the normal way I was cut out and I was completely fine aside from a black eye from where I got stuck

Medical advice I've given is explaining what I knew about a general procedure like colonoscopy to help someone be less scared so would go see a dr

1:00 as someone who had lyme borreliose i hate this guy. it is a serious illness that is hard to diagnose even without malpractice.

A big issue with being refused testing (or tests coming back negative) and being recommended weight loss instead (such as in story 26) is that many tests done for screening several illnesses simply don’t work on many overweight individuals. Long lasting inflammation, insulin growth factor, and altered hormone levels are all side effects of obesity that can give false negatives and false positives to diagnostic tests, especially cancer tests. Being told to lose weight in response to a cancer scare isn’t necessarily the doctor saying “I blame your weight for your illness” it’s usually “you need to lose weight before we are able to find your illness”. Disclaimer, I am not an expert on human health, I have more experience than most by being in a forensic occupation, but most importantly I have several peers who *are* experts in the field of medicine and greatly enjoy learning the details from them.

6:05 working i diabetes research. i am tempted to say "scratch the mostly" we know a lot about riscfactors and how to prevent it regardless of those. and certainly how to treat it. (compliance is key)

3:50 no thats manslaughter

I learned in this video NEVER TRUST CLINIC DOCTORS

My mom probably saved my life by pushing for a MRI. When I was in 5th grade I was in a horribly loud class and I often came home with a headache. I also suffered from migraines when stressed. Toward the end of the school year I had a near constant headache and must have missed 3 weeks of school. My mom brought me to a doctor and the exam revealed nothing. So my mom pushed for a referal to get a MRI done. The doctor gave it to her, even though I had nothing more than a headache. The MRI revealed a brain tumor and apparently I was really lucky, that it was caught so early, because it is usually only caught when it’s 5-10 times the size and causing sever problems.

Story 11 8:41 i can relate. I found out I had ulcers about 4 years ago. They gave me something to drink, i went to work threw up and there was some blood on it. My boss saw that and rushed me to the hospital. They gave me some better stuff and a work note for a couple days. Now i cant have as much hotsauce as i want.

Doctor to my father, your pain is all caused by weight. Dad admits hes over weight but disagrees as the pain doesn't line up that way to him. The 3rd doctor actually listened, but it was too late he died of cancer in less than 3 months after the doctors ignored him for a year.... i sometimes wonder if the first or second doctor humored and looked if he would still be alive. But I'll never know. All i know is i fear being ignored by doctors

On the topic of being overweight I also think it’s sad that people don’t think that being overweight is bad until they hit the morbidly obese point you already have 1 foot in the door by then. Also I’m sorry to that one OP that was diagnosed with PCOS and doctors were testing only for thyroid but also note that there are other consequences to being obese than just hear disease… PCOS is one of them. So the doctors werent necessarily wrong in thinking ur issues might be due to your weight (also to be honest the reverse is true as well where PCOS can cause weight gain). Unfortunately, when it’s weight gain causing the onset of PCOS, even losing the weight doesn’t get rid of it.

Story 2: Narrator said 7 YEAR old and the child weighed 9 pounds at death. I have to assume he meant 7 MONTH old.

you know what i now find odd an funny, i'm type one diabetic... anytime something goes wrong I know I have no clue and I know i'm just messing something up and it's likely my fault. Still don't care enough to really try but I don't act like I know better than the doctors, only time I feel I might know more is about what happens to me when my blood sugar fluctuates, because it tends to change a bit from person to person.

Often it seems health problems lead to weight gain which then leads to more health problems.

If a doctor tells me I need to loose weight he has to tell me how. I have at least 3 diagnoses which all adds to the weight problem and tried nearly anything. Nothing worked! And when I told a doctor exactly that he was like: but I didn't know your medical history. Yeah, that's what's the problem. You don't care!

The one about "crying wolf," Id still take that seriously. Not a bad parent, but she didnt do the smart thing then.

story 53 was so heartbreaking oh my goodness. What a selfish monster that man is.

I convinced someone diabetic to stop drinking soda… she cannot grasp that regular gatorade is just as bad for her because of the sugar content in spite of the fact it’s more hydrating than soda. She now insists it’s healthier and dismisses all of my explanations that I mix the *half-sugar variety* with an equal amount of water, add salt, and drink it this way because I specifically need more electrolytes than the average person does! That is literally what my dietitian suggested together with various similar recipes made with different fruit juices, because I lose water very rapidly due to no longer having a colon.

You can be tested to see what you're allergic to. There is a blood test that can be done for foods and respiratory things. If there are others, I'm not aware of them. So there's the dangerous way of finding out you're allergic to something like what happened to the OP who defended their mother, and at least a blood test or two. I don't think they cover all allergies but you could talk to your PCP about ways to find what you're allergic to if you have that worry.

10:53 ive had issues with opioids in the past and these drugs mixed with tylenol are way more serious than you think, because an overdose of tylenol will kill you slowly and painfully by destroying your liver

I asked my doctor if i could see someone to discuss meal planning and nutrition when I got my diabetes diagnosis. The doctor says "you know how you're supposed to eat; you dont need to talk to someone else." Which yeah but I'm asking for help?

there was one time a few years ago i went to the ER for potential seizure activity since i get a really bad headache and extreme tiredness if im having one and the ER doctor just said it was a migraine and guess what it was in fact not a migraine

Story 30: the moment OP said the doctor asked for a 2nd blood test, I knew it was gonna be about him assuming she was pregnant and not taking a negative test for an answer. A friend of mine went to ER, because her symtoms kinda seemed like pregnancy, it took 8 freaking negative pregnancy test and her blowing up at them before they tried testing for other stuff.

the thing is with body positivity vs health issues stuff. If a medical doctor ignores other things and only focuses on weight it can be fat phobic. A lot of fatphobia is based in anti black racism as well. The issue is when fat people are judged for being fat even when that has nothing to do with anything. I have gone in for a sprained ankle due to falling down the stairs and was ignored by my old pcp because she was convinced the swelling was from weight despite me explaining i had tripped over a cat and fell down the stairs. IF YOU ARE NOT A DOCTOR YOU DONT HAVE TO TELL FAT PEOPLE TO LOSE WEIGHT. YOU ARE NOT HELPING. Especially strangers. just let people live damn

I was disbelieved twice…..both doctors sucked 🤣 I ended up proving I did in fact break my ankle to one of them and years later found a second GI doctor who found what was making me so sick….turns out the first GI doctor who called me lazy wasn’t right

If you do nothing to help yourself then ask for a miracle you don't deserve a miracle