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One of the golden rules of life? Doctors are merely human. They don't know everything and they make mistakes. That is why you always want to get another opinion. Things are constantly missed. That doesn't mean docs don't know what they're doing, they just aren't infallible. So make sure to ask questions, lots of them.
Redditor u/Gorgon_the_Dragon wanted to hear from doctors about why it is imperative we always get second and maybe third opinions by asking... Doctors of Reddit, what was the worse thing you've seen for a patient that another Doctor overlooked?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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<p>I can't tell you how many times I've sat back and chose not to speak up when medical professionals just started rambling. How dare I speak up. What do I know? I flunked chemistry and got through Geometry with a "D". But a few times there were issues left not discussed and there were problems. Just listen up to some alarming experiences. </p>
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Grandma Wins
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<p>As a child, my father had really large eyes, too large. My grandmother was concerned, but the doctor kept brushing it off as normal. That anxiety-ridden woman got her herself and my infant father on a train to SF to get to an eye specialist, against all others advice. My dad was diagnosed with primary congenital* glaucoma and his eyesight was saved. Go grandma!</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpfpgsi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KittenCatAttack</a></p>
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The Mummy Appendage
<p>When I was a resident, an 80yo female was admitted from the nursing home for confusion. Workup showed some mild UTI and we were giving her antibiotics. The nurse mentioned that her toe looked dark and asked me to look at it. The toe wasn't just dark, it was mummified. It looked like dry beef jerky. I touched it and pieces flaked off. So the patient from a nursing home, had a mummified toe, probably for months, that no one knew about. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpg00qn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Dr2ray</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The CT Save
<p>Here's my story:</p><p>A guy came in to our ICU and was very septic but still talking. He had visited his primary care MD with complaints of a sore throat for a couple of days. Dismissed without any intervention since he didn't appear to have strep throat or the flu. At this point he was having pretty severe abdominal discomfort, so we sent him for a CT scan. As the scan was finishing, he coded and had to be intubated, multi-organ failure, etc. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The CT scan was horrible - he had all kinds of stuff all over his peritoneal cavity.</p><p>His wife told us that he had choked on an ice cube the day before he saw his primary care MD. Evidently he swallowed a whole double half-moon shaped ice cube that perforated his esophagus with a HUGE linear 4.25 inch tear, allowing a significant portion of his swallowed food and drinks to get in to his peritoneal cavity instead of his stomach. </p>
<p>To make things worse, he had some reflux that allowed stomach acid to get in there as well (likely while he was sleeping).</p><p>Once we realized what was going on, he went for extensive washout and exploratory surgeries to repair the damage to his esophagus and other organs. Thankfully, he made a full recovery, but he was very close to not making it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpg0lo5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">brianlpowers</a></p>
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Patches
<p>When I was an ER nurse we got an elderly lady in for altered mental status from a nursing home, when we undressed her to put her in a gown and hook her up to the monitor, I noticed no less than 5 fentanyl patches on her, guess I discovered the cause of the AMS. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpg1lml?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ChewbaccaSlim426</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Use your Words
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<p>Lord healthcare is a minefield. If you want to keep living, survival requires communication, and if you can't do it... get an advocate. Clearly I'm not the only one going through this miasma. Wait until to hear the rest...</p>
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Mad Cow Realty
<p>During my residency we had this lady in her 60s who was getting progressively more forgetful, just overall declining and getting less and less able to take care of herself. She had been seeing her pcp who diagnosed her with dementia. And she saw a neurologist who agreed. She was not really able to provide an accurate history. <span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>After talking to her family and friends it became apparent that her symptoms were progressing unusually quickly. I remember seeing the point where her new hair growth met her bright red dye and also her grown out nails with hot pink polish thinking, wow, it really wasn't too long ago that she was not only taking care of herself but like, going to get her hair and nails done. The lady in front of me was so far from that. </p>
<p>The neurologist I was training with recognized this, had her admitted and did every test including lumbar puncture. Workup eventually showed Creutzfeld Jakob disease ("mad cow") which there is unfortunately no treatment for. She died a few months later but at least we were able to prepare her family that she would only continue to decline so they could make arrangements. Really sad situation. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpfqcc2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">apoptoticmeow</a></p>
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After Birth...
<p>I used to work in maternal-fetal medicine, and every single week, we would have women referred to us "because the doctor couldn't see something clearly with the baby and wanted to double check." Nope, they just didn't want to have to be the ones to tell you that your baby had a complex cardiac defect or multiple anomalies indicative of a genetic syndrome or any other of a large number of horrible things that can happen during fetal development. Still pisses me off when I think about how many women waited weeks for more information because their doctors were cowards who couldn't tell them, "There's something seriously wrong here." <span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>"I can't see it quite clearly," didn't sound serious, so the appointment wasn't made with any urgency, and now you're 24 weeks pregnant with a fetus that will not survive infancy, and have no options but to carry to term and hope for a quick and painless death shortly after birth. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gphpa9e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">thrway010101</a></p>
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bad doctors
<p>I'm not a doctor, but a RN. This happened to me, but isn't nearly as bad as most of the stories on here.</p><p>When I was in college, I got to where I couldn't swallow. It started with difficulty swallowing, progressed to me having to swallow bites of food multiple times/regurgitating it, and then got to where all I could swallow was broths and mashed potatoes with no chunks. I went to the doctor multiple times, and was told every time it was acid reflux and part of my anxiety disorder. <span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I lost 30 pounds (was only 120 when this started) and was just generally miserable.</p><p>Finally my grandma was tired of watching me be sick all the time, so she called the GI doctor herself. They said we needed a referral, but she explained the situation and they got me in the next day. Did an endoscopy and my esophagus was 95% occluded at the gastroesophageal sphincter.</p>
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<p>For some reason, some of my primary doctors notes ended up in my discharge paperwork (I guess they had to contact her to get my information) and she had told them it was acid reflux and basically I was being over dramatic. She stated she did not recommend them to do the procedure.</p><p>Needless to say, I switched doctors. Awful. Was not a fun year. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpfohh8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ohoyminoy</a></p>
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The Valve...
<p>He put the pacemaker lead in the subclavian artery (and across the aortic valve into the left ventricle). The proper approach is: subclavian vein to right ventricle). And then he didn't notice it for over a year. I saw the patient (a 25 yo woman who didn't need the pacemaker in the first place) when she was in congestive heart failure. <span></span><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_16" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The pacemaker lead had destroyed the valve! A surgeon and I had to do surgery to remove the pacemaker and lead. <em>Then replace the aortic valve! </em>Totally inexcusable. Well, 50% of doctors are below average, but everybody thinks theirs is in the top 10%.<br></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpfqikq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">dofeveg655</a></p>
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Bitten
<p>Rattlesnake bite. On a 2 year old. Patient and dad out in the fields near a small town that is several hours away from the nearest big city, where I work.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_18" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Dad takes the child to the ER in the small town with an obvious snake bite, doctor there says "eh it's ok she probably didn't get envenomated." Doesn't give the patient antivenin, which they had at that hospital, and instead of electing to send the child to us by helicopter, he sent her by ambulance. Several hours later patient shows up to our hospital coding, and ended up dying.</p>
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<p>Probably didn't get envenomated?!? What the hell kind of stupid fool idea is that. If a tiny child gets bitten by a rattlesnake, you assume they've been envenomated and you treat them as though that had been. That means antivenin, physiological support, etc. completely absurd.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lw2g2z/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_worse_thing_youve/gpg2v1h?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">USMC0317</a></p>
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<p>So what have we learned? Medicine is a collaborative effort. We don't have to know everything, but we have to be vocal. More than one opinion = saving lives. More often than not... YOURS! </p>
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When it comes to the life of a patient, precision is one key factor of utmost importance.
<p><strong></strong>So when a surgery goes south, "it happens" is never a viable excuse.<br></p><p>Not everything that goes wrong while in the OR, however, is not always the operator's fault.<br></p><p>But patients and family members would be unlikely to blame unexpected failure solely on fate.<br></p><p><strong>Wanting to know about the perspective of surgeons, <span></span>Redditor <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Neotoric/" target="_blank">Neotoric</a> asked:</strong><br></p><blockquote><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"Surgeons of Reddit, what was the biggest mistake you made while operating on a patient?"</a></blockquote>
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"The Reality Of Being A Surgeon"
<p>"Actual surgeon's take: Got into the wrong intermuscular plane during the initial approach to an anterior based hip replacement and damaged the patient's femoral nerve. They have permanent paralysis of their quad as a result."</p><p>"The reason this thread is mostly full of joke answers and third-party retellings is that mistakes like this can be hard to talk about, even behind an anonymous throwaway account.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p> Every time you put on the gown and gloves, there is a small, needling part of the back of your mind reminding you that there's a real chance you may be about to ruin someone's life. It may not be this time, it may not happen in any of the 12 other surgeries you have scheduled this week, or the 50 this month, or the 50 next month, or the 50 the following month... Major, life-altering mistakes are extremely rare, but with enough time and a big enough sample size, rare things happen all the time."</p>
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<p>"That's the reality of being a surgeon. People put their life and well-being in your hands and at some point you are going to betray that trust and hurt someone. It is going to happen. There is no amount of preparation or care that can prevent it - if you chose this life, you have chosen a life where at some point you are going to lie sleepless in bed at night wondering, 'I wonder how Mr./Mrs. X would be doing now if they'd never had the misfortune of meeting me?'"</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi1arpw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">surgthrowaway</a><br></p>
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A Patient's Perspective
<p>"From the patient side, that is so spot on. I had a surgery and the only issue was a post op complication in which I felt abandoned. It was not life threatening, but it was difficult. I never blamed my surgeon, but his demeanor changed some after so perhaps he blamed himself. I should send him a card thanking him for what he has given me."</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi1n30v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank">glaive1976</a><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The Double Mastectomy
<p>"Not a surgeon but I am a histotech (we work in the pathology lab where all the specimens are sent)."</p><p>"A surgeon did a double mastectomy based off a different hospital systems pathology report. Basically the report said she had the kind of breast cancer where both breasts need to be removed."</p><p>"But we found zero cancer in either breast."</p><p>"He was sh**ting bricks so we submitted both breasts IN THEIR ENTIRETY... That's a <em>ton</em> of blocks and it's unheard of to submit all the tissue like this but he needed to find cancer."</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>"I've never seen a surgeon stand there and watch the pathologist like this guy did. He was cussing up a storm the whole time and screaming about 'this is why I never take outside pathology reports!'"</p><p>"Turns out the other lab had mislabeled her specimen so some other lady got the all clear who had cancer and she lost both breasts when she didn't. All around horrible situation and the surgeon was sick over it all."</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi17gy8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank">anutteranceofshush</a><br></p>
Wrong Knee
<p>"Med student here, I was watching a knee operation when the surgeon suddenly stopped, looked towards the staff absolutely shocked and asks 'this is the wrong knee, isn't it?'"</p><p>"Basically he was told to operate the wrong knee and halway trough he realized it was too 'good looking' to be the knee that needed the operation. Luckily there was no permanent damage done, the team reknit everything together and rescheduled the surgery."</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi0orlw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank">Icnaredef</a><br></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>"Not a surgeon, but I had a screw put in to hold together a fracture in my wrist. At the last moment before surgery, the anaesthetist told me I could have the surgery with a local rather than general anaesthetic as planned. So I let her make the call for me to be awake."</p><p>"During the drilling my surgeon started complaining at length of why he hates the drill he's using and how it's inferior to the other type or brand. It was apparently the only one he could find at the time and he didn't want to reschedule."</p>
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Screw It
<p>"Once the screw is in, the surgeon says to close up. Someone asked if the screw should protrude as much as it was, to which he responded 'no, but we can get away with it, and you never want to take a screw out and put another in as you essentially wear the thread of the bone '. Then silence for about 10 seconds while I feel them shifting wrist around followed by 'actually we better put a smaller screw in.'"</p><p>"When I was in recovery the surgeon was suprised how quickly I woke up and had a slight look of suprise when I told him I was only under local. Next thing he said was 'surgery went well..."'</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi1fj0e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank">voltorbz</a><br></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Cheap Glasses
<p>"Not the surgeon, and I'm sure not even sort of his biggest 'mistake', but this was one of the more bizarre things I've witnessed in an OR. Surgeon brought a bad pair of glasses."</p><p>"So here we are, total hip replacement. Surgeon is going to town with what I lovingly call the human grater, which is a doohickey to make sure the new hip socket will fit in. Picture a cheese grater wrapped around a golf ball on the end of a power drill. It's not pleasant."</p><p>"Anyway. Dude's grinding away at the feller's hip and sudden yelps in surprise and stops, backing quickly away from the table."</p><p>"We're all like, the f*k?"</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>"His glasses spontaneously broke in half. They were the type that didn't have rims, just lenses with a bar across the nose and bars for the ears. So the metal crossing the nose snapped at the screw."</p><p>"Surgeon quickly starts stripping off his gown, etc., (had the full face shield get-up, ortho ORs are... splashy) and leaves the room. Comes back with a roll of tape. Him and the circulating nurse can't get them fixed, so he just holds them to his face and has her run the tape around his head a few times."</p>
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<p><br>"Then suits up again and goes back to acting like nothing happened."</p><p>"All-in-all added like 10 minutes to surgery time, at least that I could catch directly. Hadn't been with that surgeon before, but I can't imagine that was his best performance afterward. Seeing as how his glasses were taped across his eyes at weird angles."</p><p>"But yeah, don't buy $5 readers for the OR."</p><p>– <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi0y88a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tie_dye_guy</a></p>
Mcvet
<p><br>Veterinarian here. We do quite a few surgeries so I hope this counts a real response.</p><p>"Mistakes" likely happen all the time. From nicked blood vessels to skin/organ tears. Most are probably fairly minor.</p><p>In the veterinary world, I've certainly heard stories of male animals having an abdominal incision during a neuter since someone thought it was a female for a spay. </p><p></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Wrong limbs can be amputated. Surgical instruments and sponges/gauze can be "forgotten" in patients. There are many pre- and intra- surgical checklists to help prevent these and I am sure it is even more developed in human medicine.</p><p>Fortunately for me, the biggest surgical mistake is probably a suture slipping when removing an organ resulting in minor internal bleeding....fairly easy to find the bleeder and get things stopped rather quickly. Or having a small bone break when repairing another fracture. Things happen. We address it and learn from it for all future patients.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/WildlifeDoc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WildlifeDoc</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi0sujd/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p>
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Basic math
<p><br>My mother's surgeon: "Well, not doing basic math correctly and sewing up a woman having spine surgery with 2 sponges still inside of her."</p><p>My mom was 20+ years sober so she refused most of the pain meds. When they had to confess they f--ked up, she had a mental breakdown facing all that pain again.</p><p>She got a lawyer and they settled ASAP, about $50K. Mom thought that was fair, but my godfather is a retired federal prosecutor and said it would have been $100K easy with another attorney.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cinemaphreak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cinemaphreak</a><span style="background-color: initial;"><em></em></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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NegligenceÂ
<p>When I was in school I had an instructor who took a job as VP of patient care at a big American hospital. She said there was a patient who had been on the unit for a year and the hospital was footing the bill. When they told her why it was just about the worst thing I've heard:</p><p>He was in for a brain surgery and they had removed the a large section of his skull to access the brain. Then they dropped it on the floor.</p><p>They tried to clean it up and they apparently gave him lots of post op antibiotics, but he inevitably developed encephalitis or meningitis or well probably infection of the whole head.</p><p>Not necessarily the surgeon who dropped it...</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Thepoopsith/" target="_blank">Thepoopsith</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kpwzi4/surgeons_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_mistake/gi1lh8a/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Doctors Break Down Which Terrifying Diseases Aren't Paid Enough Attention
December 28 | 2020
Image by Rafael Juárez from Pixabay
For the last year the world has only been able to focus on Covid. It has been the main and often only disease we discuss. Of course we had reason, being trapped in our own lives by a debilitating illness will hinder many a conversation, but we can't forget that there are many more diseases out there that we need to not ignore.
Redditor u/Azooz7up wanted to hear from the medical professionals about what health issues we need to know more about by asking.... Doctors of Reddit, what is a disease that terrifies you but most people don't care about?
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Rodents and Plague
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Pre-existing....
<p>Doctor here. Strokes</p><p>Risk factors include most of the "prexisting condition" that nobody seems to care about (hypertension, diabetes, smoking). And once you get a stroke it's can be extremely debilitating and life changing.</p><p>I have seen people go from "but grandma was fine just a touch of the sugars" to "grandma now can't move, talk, or feed herself".</p><p>The fact that 1) your life can change from 1 minute to the next and 2) the fact that you are basically a prison of your own body after wards is just terrifying to me. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggv6d6f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Loose_seal-bluth</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Syndromes
<p>There are two.</p><p>'Locked In Syndrome' would be so utterly tedious you'd want to die, especially if it was misdiagnosed as a vegetative state.</p><p>Severe 'Central Pain Syndrome' is so awful people with it frequently do end their lives. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/gguy373?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> Dr_Evils_Med_School</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>A colleague of mine treated a woman who was diagnosed with Locked-in Syndrome. What made it worse is that she (the woman with the syndrome) was a nurse at the hospital she was admitted into. It was just so sad. Being aware of what's going on around you but unable to move or speak. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggv3qfo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nuggysnuggly</a></p>
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Common yet Severe Changes....
<p>Doctor, currently in residency.</p><p>I'd agree with prion diseases that were already mentioned but a terrifying one that is not as known is HSV1 encephalitis. Caused by the herpes simplex 1 virus which is incredibly common (mainly known for causing cold sores).</p><p>HSV encephalitis affects all age groups and almost always leaves people with significant neurological damage or personality changes. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Unstoppable....
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Get Dry
<p>Alcoholic hepatitis (acute liver injury from alcohol) and cirrhosis (chronic liver injury).</p><p>We do not really have any treatment for it beyond steroids (that only sometimes help) in the acute period and supportive care. Not entirely clear why particular alcohol toxin exposures result in the acute injury (i.e. some people may be heavy drinkers for a lifetime and have no major acute hepatitis episodes, whereas other people aren't even heavy drinkers and just one bad binge send them over the edge). Our ICU is often filled with chronic liver cirrhosis patients awaiting transplant and the vast majority do not make it to that point . </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggv1wiz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"> clangalangalang</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/clangalangalang/" target="_blank"></a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Mercy for Uncle
<p>My "uncle" (more like a godfather if my culture did those) died from CJD in 2009; and he was actually a doctor, so he knew exactly what to expect. The only "mercy" was that it worked fast, about 8-9 months from diagnosis to death. My father has been suffering from Alzheimer's for almost a decade now, and in a strange way I'm jealous of those whose loved ones go quickly. Hopefully you know what I mean, as I imagine anyone who's dealt with Alzheimer's should. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggvheiz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LollyHutzenklutz</a><span></span></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
the hunger
<p>Med student here. Leach-Nyhan Syndrome is something I wouldn't wish on anyone. Most people have never even heard of it before. It's an error in purine metabolism. This syndrome has a ton of symptoms and co-morbidities, but one of the most shocking is self-mutilation. These babies often eat their own lips, fingers, and hands. They also tend to slam their heads against objects. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>They often have to be restrained and either have their teeth removed or wear a mouth guard, older people with the disease often ask to be restrained because they have no control. What makes this disease even worse though is these individuals are not insensitive to pain. So they feel the pain as they in lack of a better term "eat themselves." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggvb3b4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PhD_in_life</a></p>
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While in Trauma...
<p>Trauma surgeon:</p><p>Simple bad luck...</p><p>I see so many people die falling from standing... not really a disease but I have seen things as simple as stepping off a parking block lead to someone losing their leg.<br></p><p>Or a 13 year old girl get scalped when her hair got caught in a go cart engine fan.</p><p>Fall from deer stand.</p><p>Fall through your roof onto your wife while you were both up there looking for the leak.</p><p>Nephew accidentally shooting your penis and scrotum while looking at a shotgun.</p><p><strong><em>Edit: </em></strong>My two actual disease I don't ever want Fistulizing Crohn's disease.</p><p>Necrotizing pancreatitis especially from something like gallstone pancreatitis. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggvdra7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Dysdiadochokinesia</a></p>
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Losing the basics....
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<p>I've already seen the involuntary twitches and restlessness of my mom while she sits and watches TV. Definitely don't want to get tested to find out whether I have it or not. I used this example in University for context. Write your name down on a piece of paper and then try doing the same thing while constantly shaking your arm. Something as simple as writing your name or dialing a telephone become nearly impossible tasks.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj1lsj/doctors_of_reddit_what_is_a_disease_that/ggvebrr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">WereAllThieves04</a></p>
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If you ever find yourself administering first aid in a chaotic emergency situation, here's hoping Hollywood movies and middle school rumors aren't the only things running through your mind.
<p>Nobody knows exactly were common medical myths get started. But one day, it just seems that everyone shares belief in some oddly specific fact about human health and illness. </p><p>And it's a miracle that most of these totally misguided "facts" are harmless, interesting descriptions more than advised remedies.</p><p>But there are some myths that could be a real problem and endanger the health of the countless people that believe them. But thanks to Reddit, the record was recently set straight on at least a few of them. </p><p>locks_are_paranoid asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"What medical myth do people still believe?"</a></p>
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Anything to Make it Stop
<p>"Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejlibo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">VodkaMargarine</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"A guy actually tested this! For over 60 years Donald L. Unger cracked only his left hand to prove that cracking knuckles doesn't cause arthritis." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejnji5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SourTomato123</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"The person who first said this, did so likely because the sound is f***ing irritating." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gek7dg6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Schneetmacher</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Stop Peeing People!
<p>"People always want to pee on you when you get stung by a jellyfish."</p><p><span></span>"It doesn't help. Keep it in your pants and get me some vinegar to pour on it instead." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejiq3z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ConflictDonuts</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"You need heat and/or acidity, depending on the jellyfish. Urine has both, but has neither in sufficient quantities to do anything." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gek9l1n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Malvania</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Don't Underestimate the Pinch
<p>"Leaning your head back when you have a nosebleed. You do this if you enjoy blood running down your throat."</p><p>"What you need to do is to lean forward and pinch your nostrils shut and start breathing from your mouth. Give it 5-10 minutes and the bleeding usually stops then."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gek7zt7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SageOfSixCabbages</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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A Very Important PSA
<p>"All strokes/heart attacks start with the same symptoms for all people. Especially when symptoms are ignored because they don't fit what we've seen on TV/movies." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejo6j3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FakingGumption</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I had a heart attack at 35. I'm a woman. I literally sat on the sofa for 10 - 15 mins working out how on earth I had pulled a muscle in my shoulder."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"As the pain spread and changed I then thought about if I was having some sort of panic attack. I have anxiety so wouldn't be unreasonable."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"It was 2 am, by the time I woke my husband to tell him I was calling the ambulance my whole arm was numb and cold and I couldn't breathe properly."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"It just didn't occur to me that I could be having a heart attack, it didn't appear like any heart attack I'd ever heard off." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gekfhtq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">lynara82</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Nobody Tell Rambo
<p>"You can't suck the venom out of yourself from a snake bite, idk why movies show this." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejsfup?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Datsunking</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Probably because they're movies and aren't required to follow the same rules we are." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gelam9n?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CyanOyster</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Keep the Steak Away from Wounds
<p>"Putting a steak on a black eye helps it heal. Don't do this! It could cause a bacterial infection!"</p><p>"Back in the day, ice was very expensive so they wouldn't put ice on the black eye but instead reach in the cooler and grab the steak because the steak was less expensive than the ice."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejyjje?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Dan514158351</a></p>"I'm Not Toast, Grandma!"Â
<p>"My gramma heavily believes that smearing butter on burns will help it out."</p><p>"If you are curious, no, its not helpful, you are just making your already sensitive tissue more tasty to the bacterias that will probably try to infect your burn."</p><p>"I am 5 pictures of infected burns away from making her see how bad of an idea it is."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejtwv0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Mikratos_</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Inside vs. Outside
<p>"Being thin is the same as being in shape" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gek11id?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Ahyeeoobee</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My stepdad was as thin as a bean pole and from all outside appearances seemed healthy. In fact, his diet was sh** and he rarely exercised."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"He died two years ago at the age of 37 as the result of a heart attack. He had coronary artery disease that wasn't discovered because no one thought to look for it. Still hurts." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gekmsoh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">debonair_dahling</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Weight Loss is Not a System of Lasers and Shrink Rays
<p>"That you can lose weight from a specific part of your body" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejs7xj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheYungestYonk</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Spot training, and how it doesn't exist, is the biggest thing I've had to educate middle aged women on when doing any sort of physical training." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/geke285?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">JeetKuneBro</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I wish but having done the whole weight loss thing, pretty sure genetics have something to do with where weight disappears/appears first, last, faster, slower."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"It's definitely interesting to watch the changes happen over time but yeah turns out you can't just do a ton of sit ups and expect ripped abs. It'd be so nice to be able to pick and choose cause sometimes I just want to skip leg day." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejy71d?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TechToTrail</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
A ClassicÂ
<p>That deoxygenated blood is blue. It's actually a darker red than oxygenated blood." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gejrkak?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">NeutralityTsar</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Actually had this argument with my sister in law who is an actual nurse in a hospital! I'll never go to that hospital." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gek8u9e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">deeboe</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Easy way to check this - Get your blood drawn. The inside of the tubes are vacuum, the blood coming from the veins is a dark red." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k68row/serious_what_medical_myth_do_people_still_believe/gekj6io?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">acoupleabcs</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Doctors Share The Most Unexplainable Miracles They've Ever Witnessed In Their Patients
November 17 | 2020
Life is beautiful and can be full of miracles on the daily. Now I know in this day and age, especially in the year 2020, hope in miracles is a difficult concept to believe in but try, they keep happening. Medical miracles occur regularly, or maybe science is just that certain. Who knows? Every once and awhile people pull a Lazarus. You can be on the brink teetering towards the end and suddenly, a turnaround. Proof that our bodies alone are a miracle. So keep the faith.
Redditor u/poetsnaps wanted doctors and medical staff to give us some hope about life by asking.... [Serious] Doctors of Reddit, what unexplainable miracles have you seen in your profession?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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Awake and in pain
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc4MjYxNC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MTg3OTMzM30.I8G-GSA7KahO_3q5zw8t4wPAmXlRBUVaTtguGJ0IABY/img.gif?width=980" id="9a6af" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="017eff0f335b0a708e140c99790010e6" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />snakes miracle GIFGiphy<p>Had a woman who was practically unresponsive for days, no sign of improvement, deemed to be end of life.</p><p>Arranged discharge to a hospice for end of life care, ambulance arrived and transferred her.</p><p>Less than an hour after arriving at the hospice she woke up and asked one of the nurses there for a can of fosters.</p><p>Eventually went home and lived for a few years after.</p><p>Another one, not really a miracle but it scared the hell out of me: I had been off sick with the good old D+V, first shift back we had a new patient arrive a few hours into shift.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Started admitting him, paperwork and so on. Part way through he told me to stand up, looked at me for a while and said "that stomach pain you have been having - I thought it might be your appendix but you had that taken out as a kid in Scotland, never mind."</p><p>I did have it removed when I was on holiday in Ayre - yay butlins!</p><p>Stayed as far away from him as I could after that. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc5faw7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>
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Sealed With a Kiss
<p>Nurse here. When I was a new grad there was this young woman who had a severe brain bleed to the point that we removed two skull flaps to relieve pressure. She had a really bad prognosis. Her husband always was at her side and kissed her every day even though she was unresponsive. One day she kissed him back. I happened to be in the room hanging a med when it happened. It was her first purposeful movement after her stroke. She ended up making a pretty great recovery last I heard. Walking and talking. Came back to visit us with her husband. Will never forget it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc4ljkp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">babynursebb</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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On a Walk
<p>As a student nurse I did a placement on a Neuro floor. Had a guy who had had a sever stroke. Aphasia (jumbled words) and 3 x assist with a hoist. Late one evening dude walked past the nurses station like nothing had happened, my preceptor carefully followed him and asked what he was doing. He said "oh just going for a walk" like it was no problem. We followed him around the ward for a bit and then he went back to bed.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The next day he was back to being a full assist. The guys wife said he would go for a walk every evening before the stroke. The doctors think it must of been muscle memory or some other part of the brain driving him (I'm not sure maybe a Neuro person could explain, I'm a cardiac nurse now! Haha). </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc4s1fm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cherrysleep</a></p>
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In the ICU
<p>I am an ENT surgeon. During my post-graduation we were just winding up at 2 o'clock a busy OPD, the senior resident of ob's hospital came rushing on a scooter to get us. As theOPD was locked the phone was no reply and it was the year 1989. Turned out that a full term woman was taken for caesarean under spinal anesthesia and was later given general anesthesia in which a breathing tube was required to be inserted through the mouth/nose into the airway. But she hid the fact while giving history that due to a childhood injury, her mouth opening was just one finger. So it was impossible to go through mouth and a blind insertion through nose wasn't working. (No flexible endoscope at that time).</p><p> So they called us to do a tracheostomy (making a hole in airway at the front of neck) through which the tube could be inserted. Meanwhile the only oxygen that the pt could get was through mask. Tracheostomy is a 1 mt procedure in emergency but it was easier said than done. The pt was repeatedly arresting and they would do CPR and the moment we began our work, there would be cardiac arrest again. This happened 5-6, times. Ultimately we succeeded in inserting the tube. It seemed a futile exercise to me. Pt. </p>
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<p>Was shifted then to the ICU. The next morning i had a call of some other pt from ICU and went there. A woman came and said, thank you so much, my daughter is fine now! I didn't understand then I went to the bed no. She told me and the pt. Was there, conscious, obeying commands, with no hypoxic damage to brain despite a series of terrifying cardiac arrests. Her daughter from caesarean was also fine and healthy (of course she was delivered before the cardiac arrests.) </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc552mc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">biscuits_n_wafers</a></p>
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Kidneys
<p>I'm an RN, not a doctor. I worked in dialysis for almost five years. People who have acute renal failure (somehow injured the kidney, kidneys got messed up due to an illness, stuff like that) will sometimes get better and be just fine. Chronic renal failure patients (kidneys just get worn out, usually from diabetes and/or high blood pressure) don't get better. Between my main clinic and floating to other clinics over the years I've cared for hundreds and hundreds of patients. Chronic renal patients don't get better.</p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
<p>I got into dialysis because my kidneys were failing and I wanted to know what I was in for. I'd had diabetes for 24 years and high blood pressure for a couple. I was very much a chronic patient. My doctor said I had five, maybe ten years before I'd be on dialysis and looking for a transplant. That was twelve years ago and somehow my kidneys are better today than when I first got diagnosed. The only thing I, or any of the doctors I worked with, can guess is that being in the dialysis center scared my body into somehow fixing them so we don't end up there. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc58doh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rhett342</a></p>
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Turnarounds
<p>Doctor here. I've seen a good handful of miraculous turnarounds, but the one that stuck with me is a little different.</p><p>I was a medical student, and an elderly gentleman had come in with a worsening of his heart disease. Neither the patient or the cardiac surgeons were thrilled with the idea of surgery. So we were treating him medically the best we could, but he wasn't making much progress. While talking with him one afternoon, I discovered that his wife was also very sick, and also hospitalized. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Because hers was an autoimmune problem, and his was a cardiac problem, they were kept apart in two different hospital units. So, we asked around and got approval to transfer his wife up to the cardiac unit into a shared room with her sweetheart. They were both so ill that they couldn't get out of bed, so we pushed them together. After they all got set up, everybody left to do their paperwork, but I stuck around and talked to them for a bit. </p>
<p>They shared with me that they had been married for nearly 70 years, and bragged about each other, and how grateful they were to have shared their lives with each other. They held hands across their hospital beds and expressed a profound contentment with their time on earth.</p><p>The following day, I went to check on them on early morning pre-rounds, but the room was empty. The overnight nurse explained that they had fallen asleep holding hands, and both had passed away in the night. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc7hhzs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DrHayaku</a></p>
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Nailed
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc4MjYwOS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTQ5NTM3NH0.DylpYcyLtBRMiAgCvA20hQ5KVefENdfK1NdxqCFnpV4/img.gif?width=980" id="accf9" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b0667480797a09a24c6261ea16c03a9d" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="300" data-height="300" />Sick Germany GIF by UpReachGiphy<p>Medical assistant here. I saw a nail go through a guy's thumb and to the other side. Glove included. As we were workman's comp/urgent care and he wasn't severely bleeding, we got an X-ray before we sent him to the ER. The nail was a hairline away from the bone.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>His story, paraphrased and in English (he spoke Spanish): "I was using a nail gun at work. I turned off the safety to move quickly and my dumb butt forgot to move my hand."</p><p>The X-ray was freaking awesome. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc4peav?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Professional-Can8235</a></p>
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The Untold Science
<p>It happened to me a lot of times as a medic. But we, as the doctors, have to attribute it to some physical, explainable circumstance. Problem is: our scientific community is very cropped, very narrow sighted and arrogant. There is an untold paradigm: "<em>Anything that happens but I don't understand, didn't happen or must be converted to something I can explain</em>", instead of accepting our science is limited and we (humans), at our current level, cannot understand or explain certain things. Current science doesn't like to expand; the scientists who are revolutionary <em>explorers of the unknown</em> are mistreated, marginalized and are not financed. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc5i5f1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">__F3R__</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Miracle with a Catch....
<p>I was a CNA. For three years I broke my back moving this women in and out of her wheel chair to bed and vice versa. And you know how some people just seem to be heavier than others, even though they are the same size. BACK BREAKING WOMAN SHE WAS. One night I am doing rounds. Making sure no is falling out of bed in this nursing home. Norma had gotten herself out of bed and walked over to roommate and was suffocating her with a pillow because she was a constant screamer. I saved a life that night. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc71lba?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ttbear</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_14" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Life is Messy
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<p>In terms of explanations, loads of things happen I can't totally explain. Good and bad. That's medicine, we don't know everything. I worry a lot about questions like this because it assumes medicine (or science) has some kind of near total knowledge, which is not true. Ie. It assumes that most things are perfectly explained, but instead run the best or most likely odds of certain things happening and if something happens that is less likely then so be it.</p>
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<p>We know lots and lots but we do not know everything. And that is fine! We are constantly learning and trying to advance our knowledge.</p><p>That's where all these probabilities come from. Life is messy, things go unexpected ways all the time. That isn't the same as something being unexplained. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jt7bqi/serious_doctors_of_reddit_what_unexplainable/gc5j6wi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Utheran</a></p>
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