Medical Workers Reveal Cases That Started With Seemingly Minor Issues

Pregnant patient came into the hospital with the sniffles.

Mother and baby passed away in less than 18 hours from a (likely) rickettsial disease.

Patient got a coronary CT as a cardiovascular risk stratification tool and as a result of a false positive the patient ended up requiring a heart transplant.

Edit: coronary CT was read as having a high risk blockage. Patient went for angiogram, gold standard for diagnosis coronary artery blockages, which showed no blockage. Unfortunately patient suffered a procedural complication called a coronary artery dissection that required open heart surgery to fix. Patient did poorly in surgery. Went into post-cardiotomy shock. Went on ECMO. Got listed for and eventually received a heart transplant.

Worked with a young teenager once with a spinal cord injury from jumping, feet first, into the deep end of a pool.

Nec fas secondary to a thrombus in a young carpenter’s hand. She’d gotten decent sized splinter in it at work, pulled it out, and finished the work day wearing leather gloves which were moderately (standard) work-site dirty and too small for her.

Ignored the increasing pain for far too long bc she a) thought she was making too big of a deal out of nothing b) figured it was just normal pain and the pain meds weren’t working and c) previous negative experiences in hospital. Understandably.

Older men who climb to the roof without any safety precautions to do "a minor thing/work up there" just like they used to do back when they were younger.

Someone with a shellfish allergy ate a crawdad. Admitted for 5 days of treatment. He likes the taste.