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 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!

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

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 .

@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.

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

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

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.

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...

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 🤭

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 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

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

No it wasn’t🙄

she asked a medically appropriate question IN A MEDICAL APPOINTMENT

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.