Healthcare professionals see a lot. For whatever reason people try to trick doctors, nurses and technicians, whether it's an adult trying to scam the system, someone trying to score a prescription, a kid taking a lie too far or some general WTF-ness. Here are more times healthcare professionals saw right through lying patients.
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You don't need to be a doctor, nurse or midwife to know where babies come from. That said, some people are way too old, and in some cases have too many kids, to not know the most basic information. How are people so bad at this. It's okay when kids ask hilarious questions in sex-ed because they're just learning, but this is too far. People have strange relationships with their doctors, going as far to deny really WTF stuff.
Twitter users are getting real creative and dark-humored in what they're coming up for, when it comes to the kinds of things you'll never hear said in a hospital. It's funny, we don't think about how fragile that atmosphere really is when it comes to how selective people should be with their words.
Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share those strange things that their bodies do that aren't quite right, but don't necessarily warrant a visit to the doctor's office. The resulting insights might do an effective job at reassuring you that our bodies are actually just bizarre machines that come with their own series of weird glitches; but aren't life-threatening.
Reporter Marshall Allen shared a recent viral Twitter thread about a story he covered that makes for one true emotional rollercoaster. This story involves a shady personal trainer/terrible dad who spent years posing as a doctor and billing the nation's top insurers, while scamming millions in the process. It's being referenced as a case study in how health insurers make it easy to scam millions off of people. All around a deeply unsettling story.
Depending on what country you live in, "just go to the doctor" is a sentence that's much more complicated and expensive than it sounds. Apparently, for author Mary Robinette Kowal, the experience in Iceland was surprisingly simple. Like, holy crap, same day tests?
When you're not in your right mind and on incredibly powerful drugs, there's no knowing what you're gonna say. You might confess your love to a nurse, imagine you're in a spaceship, or just freak the hell out. What might be awkward or scary then usually turns into a pretty good story. Here are more crazy things people said under anesthesia.
Well that's a tense moment when you realize your success might have been influenced by your heart medication. That said, it would be the perfect excuse if he had been knowingly illegally doping. Eh, we take his word for it. Weird problem to have. Sometimes, however, people do lie to their doctors for a multitude of reasons. Here are some stories from doctors who saw right through lying patients.
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This is a bit of a waking nightmare. You ever get those earbuds lodged firmly in the back of your ear, and experience the moment of panic when you're not sure if you'll be able to remove them? NO.FUN. To make matters even worse, this swimmer found themselves staring at the terrified face of a puzzled doctor, when they went in to see what's what.
Nothing gets the blood boiling hotter than seeing some rich kid get a better opportunity with the help of daddy's money. Here are some of the more entitled and out-of-touch applications people have reviewed. Luckily, most of these spoiled kids didn't get in. For more stories of rich kid syndrome, check this out.
