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Twitter user @AdamWeinstein went ahead and detailed his unbelievably frustrating experience trying to navigate using his health insurance. He ends up having to jump through all kinds of frustrating hoops. Definitely gives off the impression that the insurance is doing anything but helping his cause. 

It doesn't get much more heartwarming than this story about a mom surviving a terribly frightening stroke. She manages to get just the kind of clutch care that she desperately needed in a life-defining moment. 

Magnets, how do they work? All the time, and very powerfully. Here are some very expensive mistakes that resulted in people and things getting magnet-ed all up in there. For some more misfortune, failures, mistakes and messes, here are unfortunate moments of failure and chaos.

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.

Nurses put up with all kinds of stupid BS while on the job. 

Twitter users are sharing their most expensive experiences with getting healthcare in America. Some people might say it's the most backward thing about America.

We're talking medical bills as big as houses. The resulting insights from people about the kinds of medical bills they've received, are filled to the brim with obscene amounts of money. 

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. 

This diabetic man found himself face to face with a coldhearted and vindictive Karen who seemed hellbent on making other people's lives around her miserable. Sounds like the typical Karen move. Fortunately he was able to take his revenge on this Karen who wasn't medically qualified at all, and said that he wouldn't receive his benefits cause he "didn't take medication" for diabetes. 

Long story short, the Area Director eavesdropped on his meeting with Karen and ultimately caught her acting way out of line. She was nothing but a spineless coward when having to deal with the blowback for her actions. 

What a powerful and hilarious way to handle the paralyzing nuisance of a wave of intrusive thoughts. Nobody likes to hear that voice in the back of their head telling them to check the garage door or stove for the third, fourth, eh fifth time, cause you can never be too sure. In this case, the Tumblr thread works to assign funny personalities to those troubling intrusive thoughts. Seems like a pretty effective way to handle the situation. 

You can't cure stupid but you sure can manipulate it. This fourth year med student's classic encounter with a ridiculous anti-vax parent is all kinds of gold. They handled the situation beautifully. 

It's almost always a bad idea to lie to a doctor. Like, if you're in the hospital for a legit reason, it's always a better option to actually tell them what happened to you. And if you're in a doctors office for a totally illegitimate reason. idk what to say, man. Anyway with that out of the way, here's some juicy times people lied to doctors and faked illness for various reasons. If you want even more of a sad thrill, here are doctors telling stories of their most dangerously stupid patients.

We can get so caught up in sharing the wild times anti-vaxxers filled the internet with bizarre acts of seemingly mindless ridiculousness. Like that time we saw someone ask about an "outdoor bedroom." Yes, that happened. See here. With that being said, let's steer our focus to the times medical professions DID get through to anti-vaxxers, and ultimately change their minds. They turned fails into wins!