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.
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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.
CAUTION: This post hits hard! That being said, you might find serious motivation from this post written by a young, wizened soul with dwindling time left after some heartbreaking news. Our hearts go out to them. They make a moving case for enjoying our time here with a passion.
Anti-Vaxxers have developed quite a reputation in the past few months for being responsible for the spread of preventable diseases like measles. You've probably heard about them.
As for this interaction, yeah it's a childish joke but you've gotta live under a rock to fall for it. And this dude did. Hook, line and sinker.
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.
