"Everyone’s Tired These Days. Get Over It": 69 Medical Workers Who Said Something Completely Out Of Line

I was giving my past medical history to a my new doctor. She said “YOU HAD AN ABORTION?!” with a look of shock and horror on her face, and disgust in her voice. I had been attacked.

I was in the hospital after ear surgery when I was probably around 7 years old. I clearly remember 1 of the night nurses who had to administer my rectal pain meds. She never put any type of lubricant on the pill and literally put her ENTIRE finger up my bum every single time without fault (this obviously wasn't necessary to administer the pill the right way!). It hurt like hell and I felt extremely vulnerable. I was truly scared of her and I had nightmares about it for months after. Also never told anyone before now.

I had a female GP absolutely rip into me for being on dianette when I wasn't intimately active, only using it for acne management.

A different GP put me on it for my moderate acne when on most other pills and I was getting significant facial scarring, and it cleared my skin beautifully.

I sat there, quite distressed and upset whilst she was questioning me about being on this pill and then telling me I had lied about being active when I wasn't to get on it and said she was going to take me off it.

On a separate occasion I was going through a family bereavement just before my exams in my final year at university and I had been advised by the university to submit an extenuating circumstances form as I was very worried about the impact on my examinations, and I unfortunately got the same GP for the doctors letter! She was so abrupt, rude, questioning about why I needed a doctor's note, everyone goes through loss and why should I need a doctor's note for it etc.

I ended up moving GPs because I didn't want to have to deal with her any more.

Xray verified spiral fracture ankle, about to be transferred over very rough rural roads to a surgical hospital. Asked for pain meds, was told I'd had paracetamol. I said yes, that was two hours ago, doctor told me it won't have started working yet.

Had a very hard time travelling three hours to the tertiary hospital. They gave me iv pain relief within 10 minutes 😌

Made a formal complaint and the first doctor lied. There was me and two family members there when she refused me pain meds.

“Are you married? Do you have a boyfriend? What would you think about going on a date?”- my male gynocologist AFTER my exam. I was newly 18 🥴.

ER Doc here. Not me, but one our locums a few years back was an overseas dude, new to the NHS. We'd had a pediatric passing, which was sadly unavoidable as they were too sick by the time they arrived.

He strolls into the family room full of parents, extended family sitting with bated breath for any update but presumably they knew what was coming.

This dude clears his throat, says 'The child has passed', turns on his heels and walks the hell out the door again.

We had some words.

In the 80s I had what I thought might be thrush, and went to a very old GP that I had never seen before. This was in the days before Canesten was available from the pharmacy, you needed a prescription. I told him what was wrong, and he said:

‘All you young girls are the same these days, if you have intercourse with every man that comes along you will get stds’

I was stunned! I said ‘but I have never had that with anybody! I am 15!’ and he shushed me and waved me out of his room with the prescription.

I was so shocked and embarrassed that I never told anyone, I was absolutely mortified.

A pox on that vile man.

“You shouldn’t be having kids if you didn’t want it to hurt” — my **male** anesthesiologist, while he was inserting my spinal block for a c-section. This was after 26 hours of non-productively labor, during which he let my epidural run out 3 times.

Yes I filed a complaint.

Dude walked in exactly 60 minutes after my scheduled appointment. Said "My people messed up your place in my schedule. Women, am I right?" The support staff had taken my vitals and history an hour prior. Didn't even apologize for the long af delay.

Guy also misdiagnosed me so maybe his receptionists weren't the issue.

When my OBGYN was trying to insert a speculum for my exam, she said, "Girl, you're tighter than tight, how'd you even get pregnant?"

That made me laugh so hard, totally unprofessional, but so funny.

"Panic attack? You are too young to have panic attack, what panic attack??"

I was 15-16, getting an endoscopy, worst anesthesiologist ever. Still remember him.

“If you’re gonna do this for a living, you need to learn to lift properly.” A doctor said this to me when he misdiagnosed me with back strain (it was a herniated disc) back when I was a paramedic. He wouldn’t order a CT. A week later, my leg gave out and I collapsed.

I had been in the field for five years and had weightlifted competitively before that. But sure, I just needed to learn how to lift.

Bonus story: I once told my old primary care doctor that I thought I had a certain connective tissue disorder. She disagreed. A year later she said, “do you think you might have (connective tissue disorder)?”.

I was mid sentence explaining why I was there when his cell phone rang. He held up a finger to silence me, answered it, and proceeded to argue with his contractor about the tile color for his kitchen remodel for five minutes while I just sat on the paper covered table.

Was super sick for over a month, no insurance, finally got enough money to go get blood tests at an urgent care.... The doctor was old as dirt and smoked at least 2 packs a day from the sound of his voice... Said he would call me later in the week with results, 3 or 4 days... Following morning at 7.30am he calls me and the first thing he said... "is this, (my name)?" I replied yes and he straight up says... "I'M TALKING TO A DEADMAN..."

WTH?? Both kidneys failed and my creatinine level was 35.4, evidently you pass at levels much lower than this. Which led to 3 weeks in the hospital and 4 years on dialysis then a kidney transplant.

“Do you know…you know…the running?” while making arm motions as though I might not be familiar with the very concept of exercise. He was a psychiatrist suggesting that I exercise and lose weight, I was a fitness instructor at the time. Funny to note, only one of us in that room was in good shape and it sure wasn’t him! Totally normal BMI throughout…but still crazy. Who’d have thought that a little cardio doesn’t erase years of PTSD?

When I was suffering from horrendous pre-natal depression and disabling panic attacks, a GP told me to try ‘deep breathing’ because I couldn’t be prescribed medication.

Thankfully I got in to see an obstetrician, who recognised how severely unwell I was. He referred me to a psychiatrist, who then admitted me to a specialist mother and baby psychiatric ward for a month.

I went to them for a skin condition, they said they didn't know what it was. We kind of sat there and looked at each other for a few moments and he said "what do you want me to do about it?" and I said "figure out what it is??"

But also just remembered sitting in front of anothet doctor, crying and telling him how I was so depressed and couldn't function and needed to see a therapist (in my country you can get a mental health plan with a number of free or cheap visits to a psychologist through a GP) and I could see that he had tuned out and was waiting for me to finish. He then completely ignored what I had said and asked what I was doing about my severe cystic acne because "no doubt if we cleared that up it would make you happier"...

A few years ago, I chatted up the nurse practitioner at the Urgent Care that I went to because he noticed my Cattle Decapitation t-shirt and we started talking music.

His entire professional demeanor dropped after that. Handed me my script for antibiotics and said:

"Be sure to take em with food cause they'll make you poo big time."

I hope he's doing well still.

1. My therapist told me that I’d get better help treating my PTSD by talking to ChatGPT than going to therapy.

2. A gyno at the hospital flicked my forehead and said that my pelvic pain was all in my head and sent me to 6 months of psychosomatic therapy. Turns out I’m riddled with endometriosis. Yay.

I told an unprofessional general practitioner doctor i think i may have shingles judging from my symptoms. he inspected me and said i didn’t.. then said something to the effect of “where on earth did you read that from?” along with a chuckle. i went for a second opinion a day later and it turns i did have shingles..