Embarrassing Doctor Stories

I think I'd be a bit shocked if someone clearly told me they were on a drug for schizophrenia when their record in front of me makes zero mention of it. Perhaps not blurting out a totally incorrect medication when asked that question would be more sensible than getting stroppy when a nurse response with shock.

No it wasn’t🙄

she asked a medically appropriate question IN A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT

I have never lost one but I ALWAYS tuck the string up there

Apparently I’d broken mine at sometime but didn’t know I had. I was in my 40s when I had it removed. I had been waiting for about 15 years, but 3 babies and a divorce got in the way. Recovery time was about 3 months, with the aid of a cushion. I’d check to see about yours. It’s a coccygectomy. Good luck!

I e just found this thread!! You had your coccyx removed?? Is this actually possible? I broke mine and told no one when I was 18 and have been in horrendous pain ever since!! Doc says nothing he can do as it's healed sideways and the ligaments that hold it are like cement now

PLEASE take care with frequent changing of tampons. You can develop potentially fatal TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME by not taking care. A friend of mine lost the tops of all her fingers from TSS

I did this too! Rushed my cat to the vet after 'discovering' a strange lump on his head. The vet very politely didn't laugh at me as he explained it was his skull 🤭

I knew of a woman who insisted in taking her teenaged son to Accident and Emergency due him having gotten wound glue in his eyebrow when having a cut glued a few days prior. She had called in advance and was advised that it was very busy and they would have a very long wait as it was neither and accident nor an emergency.

She insisted it was as he 'had his school photos that week' ignoring all of the advise on how to remove it herself, she took him anyway. Where they (relatively) promptly shaved it off...

Oh god, I've never been happier to wear glasses 😬saying that my mum managed to get stung in the eye because a wasp somehow got behind hers.

It's strangely reassuring that someone else has a similar story 😂

That's happened to me too. Got a bacterial infection from the bloody thing!

@muddyford reminds me of the time a fruit fly flew into my eye and only reappeared the next morning despite my best efforts, cue conjunctivitis a few days later.

I had to explain at the pharmacy twice, both times they were looking at me like I had two heads.

I snapped a dog biscuit in half and a big crumb shot up and stuck to my cornea. When the eye A&E doctor asked how it happened I could hear him chortling all the way down the department .

Surely to god this must be made up but it's an amazing punchline

I have one from when I was (nursing) training. I was on what was then (1970s) long stay Geriatric ward, the consultant was incredibly pompous. She kept sheep,in the middle of a ward round, she was telling us all proudly, about this orphan lamb she was feeding. I kept a very straight face, and asked her "breast or bottle". Nope,it wasn't me who was embarrassed!

You win!

I keep sheep and also used to be a blood donor,I went to one session during lambing time after a too cursory wash after lambing a ewe.The nurse took a step back in horror as she saw my blood stained arm as I hadn't washed high enough. I also used to have a couple of dogs and kept having food stolen by them but after a red ram's raddle block was stolen I realised only one of the dogs was a thief,the one who produced bright red poo.

Part of me did think that it was a bit off but luckily DD found it funny so didn't say anything.
I think she kind of blurted it out rather than deliberately said it. She was very sweet and just a bit over enthusiastic more than anything else but yes I agree she does need a bit of training on patient confidentiality

That's not very funny, really. I hope the trainee soon learned the very basics in how to talk to customers. Did they apologise?
Nothing to be embarrassed about obviously, but it's still private.

@Tooshytoshine That is absolutely hilarious!

Also a Pharmacy one
DD19 had cystitis and as its hard to get a GP appointment I found a pharmacy that can prescribe antibiotics. DD phoned to check beforehand and then we went in.
Trainee Pharmacist on the till asked if she could help (there were a couple of other customers there and 2 other members of staff). DD mumbled that we had called about antibiotics, Trainee started looking through scripts, DD said "no, I phoned to see about getting them prescribed"
Trainee pointed at her and exclaimed in a loud voice -UTI!!!!

Not actually doctor by pharmacist story... my boss went into the pharmacy and found the girl in the white coat, doing something by the shelves. She thought she'd rather ask quietly there than at the busy counter - "excuse me, is there anything you can recommend for me to use as I have a discharge and I'm very itchy down there". The girl in the white coat said "you should ask the pharmacist. I work in the beauticians next door"

My mum is chatty and will talk to anyone and everyone. She was in the waiting room of the drs years ago and saw the woman who lived across the road. They had spoken a few days ago about a bird that had flown into our front window and my mum was nursing it back to health in our garage. (It was fine just stunned).

The conversation was across the busy waiting room and loud enough for everyone to hear. The room fell silent when the neighbour loudly asked me mum "how's your thrush?" And my very innocent mother answered "had a bit of a bang and now it's gone, thanks."

🫣

At med school. During my gp rotation, my gp mentor ended up removing my coil as only a few in the area did it. We did talk about the obvious conflict, but I had no choice really as I needed it out.

ChickenMaths · 05/06/2024 20:16

Not me but I remember a poster on here who went to the dentist. He said 'suction' and she thought he was talking her, so she sucked his finger.

sorry attempting to “quote’ to praise this hilarious post !
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