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

A doctor once told me “you’re too young to be this tired” like exhaustion has an age limit. I smiled in the room then cried in my car after.

“You’re only starving yourself to make yourself popular at school” (I was painfully shy/ had no interest in being popular/ had a raging eating disorder).

I only see people with real problems…

It was a psychiatrist and I was a teenager with SI.

A medical student once advised me to use an alcohol-based antiseptic wash as an intimate wash, which was obviously, bad advice.

When I was 16 or so, my mom took me to the doctor because I had a bad cough. She asked if I smoked cigarettes, and I told her yes. She then hit me on the head with my chart, and shouted "stop that!" My mom and I were both so shocked.

I went in because I felt a strong chest pain the night before that almost had me calling emergency services. The next day I had trouble getting a full breath in but even then, went to work all day. After work I went to the hospital to get checked.

Doctor asked if I had taken any painkillers to help. I said it wasn't really any pain but rather flu like symptoms and difficulty breathing fully. She rolled her eyes at me.

Anyway, result was a collapsed lung and I was put in an oxygen mask right away. Stayed in the hospital for three nights and four days.

Oh I was reminded of another… I was in a horrible car accident my senior year of high school- about 2 months before prom. My face went through the side window due to impact. I was in the trauma room, immense pain, shaking, in shock with BP 60/30 and very low pulse. I was not doing well. But being the silly, young girl trying to make sense of anything going on around me, I asked the nurse how bad my face looked. She told me it looked like hamburger meat.

It did, and I’m sure she was busy trying to concentrate, but it was an awful thing to say to a scared kid.

My old doctor had a 1 star review on his google page because a patient ( who was a woman ) said he came into the room and said very loudly

“SO I HEAR WE HAVE A YEASTY BEASTY”.

I went for dysphagia. Explained the problem. He then took a phone call, it was his wife who wanted to go over the grocery list. He went through what he wanted for about 10min. Hung up and said to me “what are we looking at again?” Went through the problem AGAIN. Without even examining me he said “I think it’s all in your head”. When he did feel around he found a lump on my thyroid!! Never felt so dismissed and invalidated in my life.

Not me but my Nan has Alzheimer’s and she was in the Ed and she does this thing where she says

“somebody help me”

The curtain was closed my dad was there.

And this doctor walking past Mocked her

Fortunately, my dad knew the doctor because he works at the hospital as a cleaner and he reported them and we believe if they did what they said they did came down pretty hard on him.

"It's impossible for a teen to be stressed, what are you stressed for? They don't have any reason" - my general doctor before some MRI showed my chest muscle can get swollen and hurt if I get stressed.

It's a miracle that she even ordered that imaging because she was too reluctant and still insisted "I had no motive to suffer from stress because I was a teen.".

Went to GP. I had previously been anemic and had taken large doses of iron to bring up my ferritin levels and noticed unexplained weight gain (been skinny all my life and now suddenly almost overweight within a few months). Asked for a thyroid test.

“Iron has nothing to do with your thyroid”

I cited a mayo clinic article that taking large doses can impact your thyroid and that it’s best to check it

“I’m not a vending machine- you don’t need the test just eat better”.

Mine told me losing weight would fix everything I came in for. I came in for an ear infection. She connected those two things in a way I still cannot explain and then wrote me a diet pamphlet instead of a prescription.

I had a minor surgery a little while back but for some reason I wasn't waking up quickly in post-op. I found out later they sternum rubbed me insanely hard bc my chest was swollen and bruised purple, almost hurt worse than the surgery site lmao.

Anyway I slowly started waking up to my sister and the nurse arguing because the nurse was really upset I wasn't waking up and wanted my sister to basically dress me in the bed and drag/carry me out somehow. Guess she thought I was faking or something? I have no clue but my sister was really heated and still gets mad if you remind her of it lol.

I also have an ongoing issue with extreme chronic fatigue with nausea/dizziness/cold sweats/etc. I've seen a pulmonary doc who told me to just sleep less and a cardiologist who basically told me to stop being lazy.

It's hard not to feel hopeless nowadays.

"There is nothing wrong with you, you're just stressed and imagining a problem."

It was lupus. Took 3 years and me fighting like hell because I KNEW i was not ok and it wasn't just in my head.

I had rough PPD following the birth of my children. My final pregnancy I was suffering with pre natal depression and was trying to talk to my doctor about support following the birth.

His reply ‘you’ll be too busy to be depressed’.

I was a medical student and on one my rotations the attending questioned me about my love life, he was shocked I didn’t have a partner.

I also have a disability and another attending forced me to use a wheelchair instead of my usual walker. I quickly switched to another cohort because of the discrimination.

The written report said “Looks well. Lucid alert and cooperative. Well-hydrated, anicteric and no distress. Walks like John Wayne”.

Not a doctor but a nurse. Woke up after open heart surgery for removing a tumor and close up a hole. My first question was how it went and the response was ”They couldnt find the tumor so maybe its somewhere else in your body right now”. She also forgot to gave me pain medication to bridge the local anasthesia so i went into full cramping mode out of pure pain. They had to push morphine through my vein in the neck so I could start breathing again.

-Advised me against a covid vaccine.
-Told me I should have grown out of my ADHD.
-Suggested an x-ray for my clavicle pain “ in case you have a tumor or something.”
-Told me a GLP one would turn my eyeballs into jelly.