“Medical Professionals, What Is The Stupidest Misconception A Patient Has Had About The Human Body?” (30 Stories)

A couple was pregnant and didn't understand why since "they were taking the birth control pill". It turns out it was the guy who was taking it.

I asked an elderly patient to show me how she gives her insulin. She said, I need an orange. I said why? She said well, I draw up my insulin in the syringe, inject it in the orange and eat it! That’s how the Dr showed me to do insulin!

I can’t begin to tell you how many dudes have argued with me that they’ve had hysterectomies. And I’m like you mean appendectomy? And they are absolutely adamant that they had a hysterectomy.

I offered a diabetic a tissue after doing a finger prick to mop the the 2 drops of blood on his finger. He looked at me like I was an absolute idiot, said "you don't know very much do you" and sucked the blood off his finger. Then spend the next 5min 'educating' me that because he was a diabetic, he needed all the blood he had. Therefore he needed to 'put it back into his body' rather then wasting it by putting it on a tissue. He was under the impression that if he just drank his blood it would go straight back into circulation.

Working in an ER as a nurse practitioner. I had a patient’s granddaughter, who was pregnant, ask me if she dyed her hair would it also dye her baby’s hair. Made my day!

My dad doesn't have a clue on anything that happens in the body. I told him I work in a tissue lab and he asked "oh are you developing new Kleenex?"

When I told him that I work with body tissue this man really said "oh, I don't think I have that. I just use Kleenex"

I had a father of a baby absolutely beside himself because his newborn baby had no teeth

Baby came out face down ... father freaked out his child was born without a face. We had a good laugh after.

“Did you have anything this morning for your fasting blood draw?”

“No, just tea with honey, and a glass of orange juice.”

"What do you mean, I can't eat an entire fruit cake? Isn't fruit supposed to be healty?"

-Diabetic type 2 with a blood sugar level of 450 mg/dl.

Pregnant girl who were on the pill, asked why she get pregnant, discovered that one day she takes it, the next day it's her boyfriend and so on ...

That's not what we mean by "sharing cost"

And another one, she pulls the whole box of pills (Yes all 28) in a bottle of water, and take a sip once a day.

Pharmacist here. I had a patient call me and ask me why their medication wasn’t working anymore after they had stopped taking it.

I’m a dentist and the thing we get all the time that I hate is parents not caring about their child’s decay because ‘they’re just baby teeth’. Losing baby teeth early causes all sorts of problems aside from the pain and trauma but in addition to that I often have to explain to parents that the adult teeth that erupt at age 6 are meant to last forever. They’re always oblivious.

I had breast reduction surgery. My husband went to the pre-op appt with me. The doctor was explaining the surgery and mentioned they would remove my nipples. My husband asked where they were going to get new ones from.

12 years later and we joke about wondering where the nipple locker is.

One time I had to explain to a parent that the “bump” on their child’s foot they were worried about was an ankle.

I had a colleague in her thirties with children who had come to the UK after marriage - she asked me one day if you could use tampons before you were married. She honestly had no clue about her own anatomy.

Had a mother ask if it was true that the soft spot of her baby’s head was “like a whale blow hole” that he could breathe out of. Apparently her own mother had told her that.

Sometimes in pregnancy women’s bellies can gain a little bit of hair, I assume from extra hormones etc. During a routine prenatal check a partner asked if it was the fetus’ hair poking through her skin.

Holistic doctors have convinced a lot of people that adding BLEACH to their drinking water will cure chronic diseases.

Literally a high enough dosage to stain clothing being drank through a straw.

BEST part is there's no convincing them otherwise.

I’m in the mental health field but I met with a client who was worried that if their relative had a heart transplant would the relative still love and remember them. The logic being that the feeling of love lives in the heart.