It's the medical question we've all been wondering about. For the sake of wondering out loud, this doctor asked where you'd have to defibrillate a centaur. It's at least fun to know that doctors can still be weird. For medical stuff, here are stories of the dumbest things medical professionals had to explain to people.
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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.
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.
Doctors, Nurses, certified nursing assistants, pharmacists, and anyone even tangentially related to medicine constantly have to talk to people who have no basic understanding of how their own body works. Patients will do stupid things, lie, and even deny the most WTF stuff. It's kind of sad to think about where we'd be without medical expertise, and it's flabbergasting to see what people think is healthy behavior.
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.
When Pam Mingle retired and decided to chase down her dream of writing romance novels, her daughter was a bit shell-shocked by the developed. I mean, quite the way to ease into your retirement! And her wary daughter was quickly converted into a full-fledged fan after realizing that there was so much more to this romance novel genre than she previously thought.
Twitter user @stephhegerty, falls down a rabbit's hole about anti-vaxxers. She went to Italy where it's become a particularly big issue the last few years. Huge contributors to this big issue being those pleasant things like the rapid spread of misinformation. Catch the rest of her findings over here after you're done checking out her Twitter thread.
Doctors, nurses and technicians see some wild crap every day. It's not just all the injuries, it's the stupid things people are too embarrassed to mention. In case you were wondering, it's a bad idea to lie to a doctor. For more, here are some times medical professionals saw right through lying patients.
Doctors of Reddit are sharing their experiences on the job with anti-vax parents. The resulting stories are all kinds of troubling. The stupid is strong with some of these parents. Let's just leave it at that.
AskReddit is full of oddities. This thread of Redditors sharing the strangest thing they've ever experienced is another example of how outrageously weird people can get.
