They some of the hardest people to cook for are chefs. A lot of the time that pressure falls squarely on the shoulders of the person who thinks they can prepare food for someone who does this for a living. That being said, how hard must it be to service another doctor? The entire time all you might be thinking is, "Am I doing this right? They'll know if I'm doing it wrong. Is there supposed to be this much blood?"
Fortunately, it's not always like that.
Reddit user, u/Szeth_son_naruto, wanted to know what it's like when you're on the other side when they asked:
Doctors of Reddit, what is it like when you go to the Doctor's?
Leave Town, Probably
season 13 episode 22 GIFGiphyI'm a junior doctor in a small town. It's a little awkward as I know most of the doctors, and the ones I don't are often married to ones that I do know.
I'm currently working in the same practice as my GP. If I needed anything particularly personal I would probably go to the next closest town, although I have friends from med school who work there too.
Boom. Done.
I bring a print out of my medical history and hand it to them to save time, they always say, "wow, thanks. Okay, what do you want?"
"I need a Rx for this amount of insulin for my diabetes. Do I need a referral to anything?"
"Podiatry"
"No"
"Patient refuses podiatry referral, extensively counseled."
Then we shoot the sh-t.
Imposter Syndrome
I'm an optometrist. I avoid mentioning I'm a doctor when I'm at the doctor because I'm pretty low on the totem pole of prestige. Optometry school, while challenging, isn't at the same level as medical school. I enjoy having the title, it just feels like a reach to portray myself as having gone through the same grueling life to get here. However when it does come up, it's never been a pissing contest or "who do you think you are?" conversation, it's been very pleasant. Idk, some sort of imposter syndrome I guess.
A Break In The Day
For real, I just walk to the other side of the hall and shoot the sh-t with my friend. It's a legitimately enjoyable break in my day.
Short And Sweet
The visits are usually pretty short and self-directed. If I'm worried enough about something to ask for a test or lab, they'll usually order it out of courtesy. When I'm there with a family member or one of my kids, it is often just to bounce ideas off another doc to make sure I'm not over or underreacting.
Loss Of Control
bart simpson episode 21 GIFGiphyI hate going to the doctors but that's probably my own issues with regards to control that is the issue. But whenever I go to the doctors, I really prefer that they NOT know I am a physician. I get a clearer explanation and I find that there are assumptions made if they find out. I work in the the operating room and there is a "joke" that the most complications happen to doctor's wives and "VIP"s because you do things outside your normal safe practice to try and accommodate. All I want from a doctor is to be treated like everyone else because I know that means I'll get their best.
Be As Clear And Specific As Possible
As an EMT who had to be treated by EMT's in a different state, I kept thinking, "Oh God this all seems so wrong. They're not following the standard operating procedures of my department. I can't tell if they're doing things the right way." But i tried to bite my tongue and let them do their jobs unless they tried to do something that I knew was going to harm me. There were a few times where I thought "they should have examined/asked about this," so I made sure to bring up thay information.
I've also been on the other side, treating medical professionals as an EMT. Things generally go a lot more smoothly because they know all the relevant information, they know when to say it, they know how to say it (specific medical terminology), and they tend to keep calm.
A regular person might say, "I fell and it hurts."
But a medical professional night say, "I inverted my right ankle, felt a pop, and noticed immediate swelling and contusions. I have bone tenderness at the proximal base of the fifth metatarsal."
Saves a ton of time.
Take No Medical Excuses
It depends. It has it's good and bad points.
My orginal family medicine guy took a hands off approach to management, physical exam and labs. It seems like he simply trusted me to do the right thing, but I kinda felt like we were going through the bare bones motions to get my employee health points.
The relationship fell apart when I injured my hand and went to see him. He was like it's just a sprain, ice it down, no xray. I didnt believe him, argued it, and felt a bit dismissed in the end, so I pulled strings and got an xray. The hand was broken, badly. I fired him as my personal physician for that one, because, who knows how long he would have kept letting me work with my injury.
New doctor is tough on me and actually makes me answer to him regarding my lab results (cholesterol, sugars, ect.). Definitely a no bullsh-t, no excuses approach, which physician-patients are good at giving.
I think I would rather have a physician that isnt afraid to treat another physician, than a wimpy doc that let's you get away with things, is hands off and is too trusting.
Duh. Treat Them Like The Professionals They Are.
leaving homer simpson GIFGiphyI go in with my one to two complaints, succinctly give them the details that are relevant, answer their questions as able and take their advice on testing and follow through with the testing and treatment they advise. If I feel it is off the mark or I wish to have other testing done I ask about it and see if it is appropriate.
While only I know my normal best my doctor is an expert I seek out for guidance and help and I value their advice and ideas. No doctor should treat themselves by themselves.
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Redditor Eyeso-pain- wanted to discuss everyone's scandalous moments of pride without care, so they asked:
"Redditors, What’s the most nsfw thing that you have done and don’t regret?"
Just telling a cold, hard truth is my mic drop.
Felt good.
Let's Chat
Pay Me Season 4 GIF by The OfficeGiphy"Talked with my coworkers about our salaries."
ThaBossnian
"In all seriousness in the US under the National Labor Relations Act you have the right to discuss your salary with your coworkers and (legally at least) HR can't do a damn thing about it."
elementus
Hey Ladies
"This is tame but funny. Worked at a call center with other cubicles all around me. I went online to try and interpret a dream I had the night before. I typed in what I thought was Dreammoods, which is a dream dictionary but I must have skipped a letter because nude Dream girls started popping up on my screen and I could not get them to stop. It was rapid fire pop ups of Naked dream girls. LOL. I died."
RedHoneyBadger6
Smoking Hot
"I was living with my sister and her husband while in college (they lived just a few blocks from the school) one day while they were gone my gf came over wearing a sexy outfit. We were in the living room, making out furiously. She had just taken her skirt and top off and I heard a key in the lock."
"I was still dressed and booked it into the kitchen like I was grabbing sodas from the fridge and engaged them in conversation while standing in the doorway between the kitchen and living room as she quickly got dressed out of sight."
"She looked smoking hot in that outfit, and that was the sexiest thing she’d ever done until after we got married."
Storyteller678
NDA
"Slept with a hotel guest all over the hotel and it was caught on camera, including on the clock. Because of the NDA we all had to sign, and their post on Instagram about how marvelous the hotel was to their following, I got away with it. But it was a funny meeting where my remediation was 'don't ever freaking do that again... but nice job.'"
DrJOsterman
Some outfits make magic.
I like Home Depot
Heart Love GIF by Lowe's Home ImprovementGiphy"Had sex on the dishwashers in receiving at Lowes, with my fling at the time. That fling and I have been happily married for 12 years."
glittereddaisy13
Let's Play
"Went to a pro dominatrix. I apparently didn’t regret it since I’m seeing her tomorrow as well. Honestly it was a lot more chill than I expected. She was more than happy to just talk. Genuinely seemed like a nice person which put me at ease. I think it was mostly what I expected..."
Project_Legion
It Was Fun
"Was flirting with this person at work for a really long time but never did anything because work relationships are just too much drama. One day the power went out and I used a flashlight to get to the water machine in the big, infrequently used storage room that it was kept in."
"I’m sitting at a desk in the corner, reading my phone in the mostly dark, enjoying the quiet like a weirdo when she wanders in. We talked a bit and joked that it would be fun to go in the closet and have sex and if we thought anyone would find us. It was fun and no one found us."
Nippon-Gakki
48 Hours
"When I was in the army I decided to take a bus home from central Texas to northeastern Pennsylvania. It was a 48 hour trip. Somewhere south of Washington DC a woman gets on the bus and sits next to me as it's the only available seat. We start talking and hit it off."
"Later that night when it was nice and dark we sneak into the bathroom on the bus and get it on. We were supposed to get together later in the week but plans fell through. I heard from her once after that when she mailed me a letter with a photo of us someone took for us. I never heard from her again."
solemn_penguin
Plus 2
Ariana Grande Singing GIF by The VoiceGiphy"My fiancée cheated on me 2 weeks before the wedding. I shagged both of his brothers no regrets."
rowenaravenclaw0
As savage as that move is... should y'all be married?
Do you have any stories to get off your chest? Let us know in the comments below.
Redditor unripenedboyparts wanted to hear about the horrors we've all been witness to, so they asked:
"What is the creepiest thing you’ve seen in the woods, or in the mountains, or in deserts, or caves, or in small towns, or in big cities, or in hotels, or in remote or rural areas, or while asleep, or home alone, or while on large bodies of water, or while on an aircraft or a nautical vessel?"
I don't camp.
I don't hike.
I don't do wilderness.
And this is why...
Textures
Life Smash GIFGiphy"Coming out of anesthesia from open heart surgery, every time I closed my eyes I could see a perfectly formed brick wall inches from my face. I could see the texture of the bricks through the paint, the mortar, all in perfect detail. Every time I changed rooms, the wall would change colors."
GlobalPhreak
The Wolf
"I was up north. Far North British Columbia, Canada working in a (oil) rig camp out in the woods. I was working as a cook, I went out one afternoon for a smoke on the back deck. It was about 2 o'clock n the afternoon. It was a very quiet, still winter day. It was snowing those kind of big snowflakes that make it look like the world is moving in slow motion."
"So as I was standing there smoking, just staring off in the distance not looking at anything particular... you know looking left right, up down at my feet whatever. I felt something looking at me. Then I looked straight ahead. About 30 feet or less in front of me was the tree line of the forest, and directly in front of me in-between two trees I see the most gigantic wolf I have ever seen."
"This thing sitting looked like it was the size of a man standing. It was massive, sitting there and just staring right at me. We locked eyes, then I looked away for a split second and then looked back and it was gone. I don't know, it just gave me the weirdest feeling. It was definitely like, "hey.. I see you, I could eat you... butttt I won't, k byeee"
"Something I'll always remember."
vatersgonnavate
It’s absolutely unnerving...
"I live in a really remote part of Alaska. I think the scariest thing I’ve ever encountered is how silent the woods/tundra can be in the dead of winter. I’m talking like 'I feel like I am about to go insane' quiet. It’s absolutely unnerving. I become hyper aware of my heart beat and my breathing sounds like a f**king airplane taking off."
"And I know a lot of people will say 'it’s because a predator was near by' nah man, some places up here just have nothing. That’s what really freaks me out. I am absolutely alone in this one spot. I could drop dead and no one would ever find my body."
idontcareilikedogs
The Sow
"I rounded a corner in a trail in the Appalachian Mountains and came face to face with a sow black bear and her cub. Same situation, we locked eyes, she seemed to convey - look dude, I can un alive you in a second, but I’m not about it today so just be patient while I dig these bugs outta this hillside. I sat and watched this bear and cub for prob 20 mins at a safe-ish distance."
m0992104
Who Are You??
Video Games Gamer GIF by Call of DutyGiphy"There must be wilderness dwelling gamers out there, because I found a pile of xbox games in the mountains. Like two dozen in a pile in a remote location."
LittleBkGuy1
Those gamers are sneaky.
It Flies
David Choe Love GIFGiphy"Hallucinated a flying whale alongside the night time flight from Alberta to Ontario when I was 12. It was snow white, seemed friendly enough. Roughly the size of a blue whale."
jakebreakshow
Onto the Rocks
"It happened when me and my parents were on vacation to some place near Spain when I was still little. We went to a little beach at some coastal town where I then immediately jumped into the sea with my swimming goggles on. I then crawled on to some rocks and walked around until I noticed a crab sitting on the rocks."
"I then traversed them carefully while trying to catch it, but it kept crawling away. This continued until I then followed it to a point where the little bay I was in ended and the open ocean began. So then little me decided that it was a good idea to jump into the open water to see if there was anything cool down there. I then jumped in, and I was immediately hit with the cold temperature of actual ocean water."
"But the worst part was that even with my goggles on, I couldn't see anything down there. I was met with a giant black void. No fish, no plants, no rocks. Nothing. I then immediately turned around and began swimming back as quick as I could. And since that moment I haven't gone beyond the shallows ever again."
Successful-Seaweed12
Orbs
"This was almost a decade ago; I live in a town outside of Phoenix, AZ. It was late in the afternoon as the sun was starting to set. I went out in the backyard to smoke a cigarette and play fetch with my dog. As I was throwing the ball I noticed a small orb shoot from the ground directly into the sky."
"A few seconds later another one followed, and another, and another, and another. It didn’t stop for a few minutes. At first I thought it was a Roman candle but I just couldn’t hear but you’d normally hear them fizzing as the fly. I couldn’t hear anything. It was dead silent. To this day, I still don’t know what those were."
ThurSTIII
Appendages
"When I was a kid in the early 80's my parents had a house they rented out to people. We were cleaning it out after a set of unsatisfactory tenants and I was going through the kitchen cupboards making sure they were empty. I saw a mason jar tucked way back in the corner of one of the top shelves so I hopped up on the counter, stretched my arm, grabbed it and hopped back down. When I looked at the jar I saw a finger floating in a clear liquid. I set it down on the counter, walked out of the kitchen and called, 'Mom, I found a finger!'"
Narmer_3100
Jiggles
earthquake GIF by James CurranGiphy"I was on a fishing boat just off the Pacific coast and there was an earthquake. The water jiggled a bit as we heard a boom and a quick shake. Only time I was on water during an earthquake."
teebpix
This is why I don't fish. Not even on dry land.
Do you have any bizarre experiences to share? Let us know in the comments below.
