Embarrassing Doctor Stories

I had an abdominal hysterectomy and had self-administered morphine on a drip, you just pressed the button and a skoosh of lovely morphine went into your veins. Anyway on Day 2 I was still quite out of it and a very stern nurse arrived with two others to check on me and said 'you haven't moved once since you came back from theatre, you really must move around'. I looked at her and said 'I'm not going anywhere madam'. One of the nurses turned her head away so I think she was smiling. Stern nurse said nothing.
But I think nothing will embarrass me again, after I couldn't pull up my pants after going for a wee. I had the drip stand attached to my cannula with all the various potions going in and couldn't bend down because of the hysterectomy wound. The nurse helping me into the bathroom bent down and pulled my pants up for me like I was a toddler.

I was given an enema with my first when I arrived at the hospital, but not with my second as they changed the practice in the 7 years between them. Tbh I preferred it with the enema, didn't have to worry about shitting myself during labour and the first post-partum poo was easier.

One of the primary school teachers all of my children had does this, actively ignores any parent she sees out and about in town. The teacher lives a five min walk from school but still drives in in order to avoid having to chat to anyone.
I understand she doesn’t want to stop and chat but a little acknowledgment wouldn’t hurt!

Oh I would cringe so bad!

Last time I went to the dentist I bit her finger! I didn't mean to, but she was pushing down on the bottom of my mouth to check something and my automatic reaction was to close my teeth together, on her finger, and she yelped!

Back in the 80s my uncle had a bad throat infection.

I asked him how he was getting on and he said it was no better and he couldn't swallow the tablets he'd been given they were so big.

I asked about them and he said they went very foamy in his mouth and he didn't know what the plastic thing was for. When i looked at the box they were vaginal pessarys.

@CatherinedeBourgh no she definitely recognised me! I don't know anyone who walks with their head turned to one side when walking past people.

Or she's face blind. Means you can't recognise people when you see them out of context, and is much more common than you'd think.

And not necessarily a bad thing for someone who deals with people's more embarrassing problems...

SSAFA nurse on the one home visit after first baby told me of a new mum who was worried about tiny bruises on her baby's chest. When she watched the mum dress the baby after an examination she saw that the mum was fastening the babygro by pressing down on each fastener rather than lifting them first. Problem quickly solved.

I once had a gorgeous trainee doctor sit in on an appointment, I was thanking my lucky stars it was just to tell me a back X-ray was fine and nothing embarrassing!

@Nouvellenovel yeah I bet she's been harangued in the past

😂😂

She probably thought you were going to ask for medical advice.

I live in Aus and have a genetic form of melanoma in my family. Absolutely petrified of it because I have seen the devastation it causes. I went to the dermatologist when I was mid-30’s who was very impressed with my skin, telling me that it was obvious that I used sunscreen religiously and it was paying off as I looked younger than most Aussie women my age already. I was feeling fabulous about this. While riding the high, I asked him to check a weird mole on my arm to be told, “That’s not a mole, that’s an AGE WART!” Talk about bursting my bubble!!!

I was waiting for you to say "And then I started singing the Laura Branigan song".

"Gloria, Gloria! You really don't remember?
Was it something that he said, Are the voices in your head calling Gloria?"

Da nuh nuh, Da nuh nuh

Happens to the best of us. In the olden days they use to give you a suppository before labour

I used to love that cream! It made your skin all luscious and yes, quite shimmery.

PMSL at the shimmery glowing baby at the doctors 😆

That's lovely 🥰

I once saw my gp for a serious of health issues. She had been great. Happened to bump into her in Tesco, went to say thank you for all your support. She looked at me, lifted her head up to look the opposite way and totally blanked me. Reminded me of my dd saying'I'm not talking to you!' When she was little.

That's awful and it's so hard to get a new dentist too.

I was newly married and all of a sudden had terrible burning when I peed & frequent urination & was just miserable all together.
I lived three hours from home so I called my kindly older doctor and explained all my symptoms.
He said, “You’ve got ‘honeymoon cystitis’ my dear - slow down and sit in a warm tub.”
I had to ask him what honeymoon cystitis was.
I was so embarrassed. I’d been going to him since I was a teen.

Its happened to me too. Iv broke several

This reminds me of a thread quite a few years ago, where a heavily pregnant lady with young kids chatted out of the women’s changing women’s into the pool area for her horrified husband to point at her and shout out “your minge! “
She couldn’t see below her bump and had forgotten to put her bikini bottoms on

During a smear
Nurse talking to ‘it’
‘Come on dont hide from me, turn around, thats it, tilt this way for me’

I was like, is there a baby in there that i dont know about

Omg this made me lol! 😂😂😂

DD managed to get a piece of wood in her eye when she was about 3 years old. She would not let me near it to try and get it out and I eventually called our local minor injuries (sadly now closed) and asked if I could take her in for them to try. We arrived I explained how distressed she had been when I tried. DD hopped up on the bed with a smile when the nurse asked, lay back calmly and kept her eyes wide open and let the nurse remove the tiny piece of wood with no problem at all.

A few years later XH called me in a panic one morning when DD had been staying at his. He had noticed a lump on her side and was taking her to the GP later for an urgent appointment. I was at work, asked him a few questions; no it wasn’t painful, yes she had gone to school happily until her appointment, lump was hard not soft. I suggested it might be DD’s lower rib, which has always stuck out a bit more on one side. Nope, he was sure it wasn’t that and it must be something serious. He called after her appointment to update me that the GP had indeed diagnosed it as her perfectly normal rib.

During a doctors appointment to talk about stomach issues, my stomach made a huge squelchy gurgling noise that sounded just like a loud fart.
I was mortified and tried to explain to the dr that I hadn't farted and it was just my stomach but she didn't look like she believed me 🙈