Embarrassing Doctor Stories

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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?

I was 10 days post op from a tummy tuck and in the shower I noticed some black around the midline of my wound.

It was 8pm so I phoned the ward. Nurse was reassuring that as I'd had my stitches out only 3 days ago that any issue/skin death was in the very very early stages but that I did need to come in.

Packed up the small kids and husband drove me 60 minutes to the hospital where my surgeon met me having come in from home.

60 second examination- it was surgical marker pen. Apparently that stuff takes longer than 10 days to come off since you can't scrub it.

This is horrible.
If you had c section your internal organs got a good shake and it often leads to women being gassy or uncomfortable. It was 100% not your fault, how unprofessional of them!

If it was post op they should have just taken catheter out which is much easier than putting it in and normally done by any available midwife or nurse.

Tbh I would scream back shut the fuck up so you have done amazing.

I had that too baby was all quiet for hours and as soon as i was attached to the monitors, she was kicking constantly and had hiccups too which was picked up in between. The midwife then said not to worry about wasting time as it's better to be safe than sorry.

Regardless, it’s not nice to have someone repeatedly farting in your face!

She wasn’t doing it for shits and giggles 🤭 poor lass couldn’t help it

I suspect it’s where she had a tear during labour and she needed stitched up. Or an episiotomy

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.

This has happened to me too except I wasn't laughing, I was just laying there and it just shot out! The nurse went "ooh you've got strong pelvic muscles, you won't have trouble giving birth!"

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 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?

Sometimes the string curls up inside and is difficult to reach, so you think there’s no tampon there

@MumblesParty ohh I see, phew that has never happened to me. It's scary that could happen! 😱

In hospital recently, very disorientated with medication. The nurse had elevated the headrest to approx 30° and I slept with my head at the foot of the bed.

Someone came in at 6am and woke me, still very woozy. I mumbled "don't worry, the doctor will be here soon". He said "I am the doctor" so I said oh and started to wake up properly and try to sit up.

There was a pause then he said "do you realise you're sleeping upside down?"

He must have thought I was seriously stupid.

Convinced I had ringworm that kept coming and going. Went to the GP when I had active ringworm circles on my legs. Turns out it wasn’t ringworm but the impression on my skin of the bath math suction pads. I only noticed them after a bath and we kept the mat in all the time as it was a very slippy bath!

When I was a young teen, I found a lump behind my ear. I freaked out. Showed my mum, she felt it too. She freaked out. She took me to the GP right away, both of us convinced it was a tumour. The doctor felt the lump. Looked at me. Then took my hand, raised it to touch behind the other ear, and said, "That's your skull."

@orangeleopard that wasn't very nice of the nurse, you couldn't help it

I asked a pharmacist for some ‘anus olé’ and she replied ‘do you mean anu sole?’

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Crying at this

For some reason I'm imagining Manuel from Fawlty towers

^^ ...with a castanets flourish!

At my first smear I was quite nervous. I inadvertently tensed and the plastic speculum broke inside me! The nurse then said, "Well, that's never happened before".

I nearly died of embarrassment.

My DP went to get a lump on his testicle checked, the Dr said to get it out and lie on the couch. He took his trousers and boxers and lay down, she came round the curtain and said oh no you just needed to pop it out of your boxers. He was pretty embarrassed but laughs about it now

My cousin was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. Turns out she was just constipated.

Not me but I'll never forget a story I read on MN about a woman in a rush for a doctors appointment to look at her sore knee. She quickly shaved that leg and left the other one. So of course the doctor wanted to compare knees and she had one smooth white leg and one forest 😂

My mum brought my toddler brother in to see a consultant urologist about his undescended testicle. As soon as she undressed him, they both watched it pop down right in front of both of them. It's been 40 years and she's still salty

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When I had my first-born, it was winter and freezing.
One evening, she started screaming and I noticed a rash on her body that looked quite livid and seemed to be spreading.
In a panic, I called the doctor out ( it was in the days when your own GP did house calls )
The doctor duly attended, took one look at my baby and said 'may I suggest that you turn the fire down, open a window, take some of these layers off the baby and give her a drink of cooled water'.
It turned out to be nothing more serious than a heat rash due to the furnace like temp in the room and the amount of clothes I put on her for fear of her being cold, not meningitis or measles etc, as I thought.
I felt two inches tall. Fortunately he was a lovely old school doctor and completely understood.