Page 19 | Embarrassing Doctor Stories

OooSorryDoctor · 2024-06-04T19:55:27+00:00

Lighthearted….. I went for a 4 mile walk the other week (5 weeks postpartum and not 100% my idea) and could barely walk the next day. Cue painkillers and a day in bed, until a mysterious rash appeared in the exact spot my knee was throbbing. Husband was concerned and said he’d never seen a rash like it, so better submit a picture to our local GP practice. Long story short they called me in for an urgent appointment and within seconds I was diagnosed with a heat rash from using a hot water bottle 😆 cue a very embarrassed me apologizing for wasting her time 🙈🙈 Make me feel less embarrassed, what’s your best facepalm doctor story?

dawnc27 · 05/06/2024 08:53

butterpuffed · 05/06/2024 08:27

This is similar but I was embarrassed on behalf of the doctor who kept pronouncing my tablets as Clop~i~DOG~rel . They're pronounced Clo~PID~ogrel . I got the giggles and he asked if I was nervous
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i wasnt right in how i pronounced it then when my mum was on it, tbh i only said it that way as it tickled me but we all need a laugh at the time

Starlight1979 · 05/06/2024 08:49

PeppermintPorpoise · 05/06/2024 00:21

Oh you mean when I rushed toddler DD to A&E sobbing and gagging because her legs had gone blue and it was the dye from her very cheap jeans?

😂I am absolutely howling at some of these over my morning coffee - brilliant 😂

MaidOfBondStreet · 05/06/2024 08:46

Never use your flannel for a quick once over before a smear test. Especially when the kids have had a glittery bath bomb the night before 😂

Destiny123 · 05/06/2024 08:46

butterpuffed · 05/06/2024 08:27

This is similar but I was embarrassed on behalf of the doctor who kept pronouncing my tablets as Clop~i~DOG~rel . They're pronounced Clo~PID~ogrel . I got the giggles and he asked if I was nervous
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That's a North / South divide thing... mum works in pharmacy in kent so hence I learnt my lingo from her... went to med school in Yorkshire they say they it the opposite. Now in London and hear both versions all the time

Starlight1979 · 05/06/2024 08:45

ItsNotInMyMind · 05/06/2024 07:43

Took my dog to the vet because I found a lump and it was his microchip 😬

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😂

Calliopespa · 05/06/2024 08:44

Projectme · 05/06/2024 08:24

she opened a new one/packet!!

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phew! 😅

Destiny123 · 05/06/2024 08:43

Ghost92 · 05/06/2024 07:41

I did the same thing! When my son was four I felt this lump and really freaked out about it, took him to the GP and she said, ‘That’s a normal part of his anatomy. Feel the same spot on your head? It’s normal.’
I was so embarrassed and felt awful I had wasted her time but she was really nice about it! I cringe every time I think about it!

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Don't worry happens all the time we dont mind. I spent ages trying to find a breast lump in a lady I couldn't find anywhere. Asked her to show me what she meant.... was a freckle

Starlight1979 · 05/06/2024 08:42

NeverEnoughPants · 04/06/2024 21:41

Someone I know (it wasn't me, I promise!) went to the doctor one morning in a panic. He was on new medication and has misread the dose - instead of taking it once a day, he has been taking it three times a day (which was what his other meds were) and he had been shitting very bloody stools. He was panicking that he had overdosed and something was seriously wrong.

Thankfully, the bloody stools were not linked to the meds, and the overdose wasn't going to be a problem. In fact they weren't bloody at all. He was a big fan of beetroot and had got some from his allotment-owning neighbour a day or two before...

Oh I've just posted my beetroot story too - good to know I'm not alone 😂

Starlight1979 · 05/06/2024 08:41

I didn't actually end up making an appointment (thank god!) but one time I went to the toilet for a wee, looked down into the bowl and it was bright red. I was absolutely terrified. Went into a state of panic, was sat in a Google black hole about what large amounts of blood in urine could be (my mum had just been diagnosed with cancer so I was even more terrified), was about to ring my GP when my (now ex) DP walked in and I told him. He just went "Is it not from that beetroot we had at lunch?" Panic over 😂

pinkgin79 · 05/06/2024 08:39

MudandParsnips · 05/06/2024 07:19

About 10 years ago I started getting a red, dry rash all over my face. I started taking photos of it in different lights to show the doc for when I booked an appointment, but to save having horrible rash selfies, I saved into into a different folder on my camera phone. It was about this time that phones started to self make little montages with tacky music and weird colour filters. Lo and behold, when I opened the folder to show the doctor, my phone started playing a pre-reocrded video of my rashy face spinning into focus with some gentle pan-pipe music playing. I immediately tried to stop it it, but the lovely doctor didn't even laugh, he probably thought i had deliberately done it and just said 'aww, that looks really sore!'. Mortifying 🤦

This had my howling!

GirlOfThe70s · 05/06/2024 08:38

I had been having internal examinations and was used to being told to lie with my legs raised, knees open and 'floppy' to the sides.
I then had a hysterectomy and had a follow up appointment with the surgeon (very distinguished gentleman with a Harley Street office).
I took off my trousers and pants, and of course carefully folded up said pants and hid them on the chair under my trousers (he's going to look up my fanny, but god forbid he sees my pants!).
I got on the bed and as he came round the curtain I obediently raised my opened legs and let my knees go floppy to the sides. He said 'no need, I just want to feel your tummy first'.
For some reason this really embarrassed me as if I was saying 'here it is! as soon as I saw him.

butterpuffed · 05/06/2024 08:27

PurpleChrayn · 04/06/2024 22:23

I once mispronounced the name of the drug "pimecrolimus" as "pimmer-CROLL-imus" about a hundred times in a GP appointment, trying to sound knowledgeable. When it was his turn to talk he pronounced it "pim-EH-cruh-LIE-mus." Mortifying.

This is similar but I was embarrassed on behalf of the doctor who kept pronouncing my tablets as Clop~i~DOG~rel . They're pronounced Clo~PID~ogrel . I got the giggles and he asked if I was nervous
😄

pinkzebra02 · 05/06/2024 08:26

Going to see a doctor on 3 separate occasions with 3 separate highly common, highly identifiable and highly treatable problems and not being accurately diagnosed even one time. Embarrassing on their behalf.

Projectme · 05/06/2024 08:24

Calliopespa · 05/06/2024 08:21

Eww did she disinfect the speculum after it went on the floor?

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she opened a new one/packet!!

MissL21 · 05/06/2024 08:23

Well, I was 39 weeks pregnant. Was absolutely so fed up of being pregnant and was up for anything to get baby out! DP and I got down to business.... and oh my days, the amount of fluid that appeared, absolutely soaked the bed .we thought my waters had broke... we debated phoning for a few hours, waited to see if anything happened. Nothing did, so we then panicked that if they had, baby is at risk of infection. I phoned the midwives... FF a few hours, turns out 'sexual fluid' can increase hugely at the end of pregnancy. Luckily I had a good relationship with my midwife and we had some great banter about it but my god, I wanted the ground to swallow me there and then!

Calliopespa · 05/06/2024 08:21

Projectme · 05/06/2024 08:18

haha, same happened to me when I was having the coil fitted. The doc, nurse and me were laughing so much I'm not sure how we got through that appointment tbf 😂

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Eww did she disinfect the speculum after it went on the floor?

Mynaddmawr · 05/06/2024 08:21

You'd think once would have been enough, but on several occasions when a doctor has turned away and asked me to remove clothing, they have then been embarrassed to turn back and find me with no clothes on. In my defence, for a breast exam/vaginal exam, is it not quicker and easier to just strip off the relevant half rather than cover up with little paper modesty sheets until the last minute? Clearly I have no shame

Projectme · 05/06/2024 08:18

teksab · 05/06/2024 00:18

Nurse made me laugh during a smear, speculum SHOT out and clattered to the floor. Then took ages to stop laughing enough to get it back in.

haha, same happened to me when I was having the coil fitted. The doc, nurse and me were laughing so much I'm not sure how we got through that appointment tbf 😂

Calliopespa · 05/06/2024 08:15

Cmonthetampons · 04/06/2024 21:18

I was in for a routine smear. Did the usual preamble questions... when was my last period... about 10 days before.

Started the smear, she's having a good look and wiggling the speculum around and says "I think there's a tampon in there... has that been there for 10 days." FML. Off she went to find something to remove it with while I lay there and died.

You were lucky it didn’t stink. My friend had this happen and went to the gp because of a mind-bending pong from her nethers.
She thought she had a dread std until the gp hauled out a tampon . Her period had stopped four days earlier and she forgot she put in a “just in case” tampon right at the end as she was going to an event. She said she honestly thought her bits had started rotting from the smell. GP apparently looked sick.

Mummatron3000 · 05/06/2024 08:14

MudandParsnips · 05/06/2024 07:19

About 10 years ago I started getting a red, dry rash all over my face. I started taking photos of it in different lights to show the doc for when I booked an appointment, but to save having horrible rash selfies, I saved into into a different folder on my camera phone. It was about this time that phones started to self make little montages with tacky music and weird colour filters. Lo and behold, when I opened the folder to show the doctor, my phone started playing a pre-reocrded video of my rashy face spinning into focus with some gentle pan-pipe music playing. I immediately tried to stop it it, but the lovely doctor didn't even laugh, he probably thought i had deliberately done it and just said 'aww, that looks really sore!'. Mortifying 🤦

Hehehe this really made me giggle!

Applebum · 05/06/2024 08:12

These are brilliant. I hereby nominate this thread for Classics status!

HeartandSeoul · 05/06/2024 08:12

Slightly different tale here, in that it is regarding a dog and not a human! A friend’s dog had been playing with their other dog, but she appeared to be experiencing some pain after the event. When the pain didn’t ease after a day or two, they took their dog to the vet, where they were charged a few hundred pounds just to be told she had trapped wind 😬!

hopefulmum46 · 05/06/2024 08:07

LongLostSock · 04/06/2024 22:03

My dog did this! While out she got into the beetroots (rescue and previously a stray so ate anything) and started passing blood. Very expensive vet visit!

My own is went in labour with my 2nd dc, I was told to not push and to pant to try and save my previously torn vag and arse. I stuck my tongue out and panted like a dog.

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I'm a vet and once had a patient who did this when I was a fairly new graduate. Came in saying urinating and defaecating blood. I thought it must be some kind of weird clotting problem so did blood tests. Owner then brought in a urine sample which confusingly didn't show any blood despite being red. Yes, it turned out on further questioning that the dog had been eating a load of beetroot!

Cmonthetampons · 05/06/2024 08:05

Firefly1987 · 05/06/2024 01:03

I don't understand how this happens (although I worry about it every month) do you just not notice the big string hanging out when you put a new one in? Or do you cut the string off for some reason? I feel like I need to know because I always wonder if I left one in but then I think how?

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I can't remember if it was maybe the last one I used. There was definitely no string though!

JonnyTheDogFacedBoy · 05/06/2024 08:03

MudandParsnips · 05/06/2024 07:19

About 10 years ago I started getting a red, dry rash all over my face. I started taking photos of it in different lights to show the doc for when I booked an appointment, but to save having horrible rash selfies, I saved into into a different folder on my camera phone. It was about this time that phones started to self make little montages with tacky music and weird colour filters. Lo and behold, when I opened the folder to show the doctor, my phone started playing a pre-reocrded video of my rashy face spinning into focus with some gentle pan-pipe music playing. I immediately tried to stop it it, but the lovely doctor didn't even laugh, he probably thought i had deliberately done it and just said 'aww, that looks really sore!'. Mortifying 🤦

This one really made me laugh, can just imagine the levels of cringe 😅