Admittedly, very few of us always read the package leaflet with every standard drug or are really well versed in medical questions. What some doctors tell about their patients on Reddit makes us shake our heads and doubt common sense. A few examples of really stupid things doctors have heard from their patients please? Here you go:
1. Two times six makes twelve
"A patient of mine believed that swallowing two vitamin B6 pills would result in a B12 pill."
2. Natural bleeding
"A mother and a grandmother brought their twelve-year-old daughter / granddaughter to the emergency room because it was bleeding. Not because of an injury, the poor girl had only had her days for the first time and the mother simply didn't want to explain what happened and why it happened and that it would go on for a long time (as mother and grandma knew very well). "
3. It is better not to deflate
"One of my patients desperately tried never to let a blow out to the point where she got tremendous pain. She did so because she believed there was only a certain amount of air in a person and if you let out too much , you would collapse like a balloon. "
4. Pregnant despite pill – so that's how it works!
"I had a patient who was pregnant despite the pill. She was desperate and just didn't know how it could have happened, so I asked her how to take the pill. She replied that she always took one before sex "I said she had to take the pill for 21 days in a row and then pause for 7 days during the period. Then she replied: What? Should I put one in my vagina every day?"
5. Face mask for diabetes
"I was called to a diabetic. It was an elderly gentleman who was lying on the bed when I arrived and had what looked like a white mask on his face. When I asked what that was about, his family explained the man was diabetic and they had been told to give him something sugary in hypoglycemia. Nobody mentioned that they should put the sugar in his mouth. So they put a sugar-containing frosting paste on the poor guy's face Lubricated. Shockingly did nothing. "
6. Is smoking really that harmful?
"In a lung clinic, a patient asked me whether his lung cancer could come from smoking 50 cigarettes a day. He was unsure whether they counted at all because he shot them himself."
7. An effective protection: marriage
"I asked my patient if she could be pregnant. She said no. Then I asked if she was sexually active, which she said was in the affirmative. When I asked why she thought she couldn't get pregnant, she said: Because I'm not married. "
… ? Sorry, we would normally classify these statements for you at this point. But, for once, we no longer know what to say. So for once this text is left without any additional words. Don't blame us ?♀️?♀️
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