40 Times Medical Professionals Said Something That Left People Speechless

I was getting an EKG, sitting there with my full titties out, and the doctor tells me i remind him of a girl he used to see in college

“You just hang on right there we will get you a wheelchair and admitted to the hospital. We have to do a colonoscopy, but don’t worry I will knock you out before sticking a camera up your a*s”

When I was like 20, my endocrinologist took a good look at me and asked "are you okay with your face being so asymmetrical?"

I had never really noticed it before, but boy have I noticed it since!

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to show everyone pictures of your tonsils.”

According to her, I had the most disgusting tonsils she had ever seen in her years in the business, and gosh darn she wanted to show them off.

Male gyno looked at me, smirked and said 'look at you laying there all coy' before he stuck his fingers up the business end for far too long. I was terrified and froze.

I lodged a complaint and got a pathetic reply back. There are no female gynos in my area.

Dr: “you look great! How did you lose weight?”
Son: “eating disorder; anorexia”
Dr. “Well keep doing whatever you are doing, it’s working great!”

When I was 12 I had a dentist say "Hold on I think I might be counting wrong, you shouldn't have those yet... okay never mind those are definitely your wisdom teeth. Your mouth is just huge I guess." They said it was the youngest they've ever seen anyone get their wisdom teeth. They called in every dentist in the building to come look at my mouth.

"If you ever tried to have a baby, the kid would snap your pelvis in two and rip you in half." Said by my gynaecological surgeon. He said it in the most casual manner. I was mortified!

ETA: Thank goodness I was there to get a hysterectomy, haha!

I snapped both of my Achilles while finishing off a set of heavy leg presses with calf extensions. I didn’t close it all of the way and the sled crashed down on me, pinning my legs next to my head. (Yes- I was dumb not to use the safety pins! They weren’t there (they constantly disappeared to other machines) so I was lazy for not using them and paid the price.

The doctor looked at my scans and said “these are mirror images of each other. You must have good form.”

You can't use antidepressants forever.

Well i've been very depressed forever, so what do I do kill myself?

Was living in a foreign country and had a cold / flu type illness. Went to the doc and he comes in eating a bowl of cereal. Already weird. Checks some things and says “do you know what AIDS is”? I’m in complete shock and say yes, I do. He follows up with “It’s a virus and there is no cure”. Goes on to explain why there is no cure, all while I’m seeing my life over as I know it. Finally ends with, “but you don’t have that virus, you have a different one, much more common and treatable but I wanted you to understand why an antibiotic wouldn’t work”.

Still in shock I’m like so I don’t have AIDS then right? He goes, no and walks out.

What a roller coaster.

EDIT: This was in Switzerland about 15 years ago and I’m American.

Yes, he was slurping his cereal the whole time.

EDIT 2: He did explain the difference between HIV & AIDS. Guess he just wanted to come in hot and get my attention.

Thanks all.

Every 5 weeks like clockwork, for 18 months straight, I had tonsillitis. It would lay me out for 3 to 5 days straight, and it was pure misery. The doctor who would be doing the surgery suggested we hold off because, "we wouldn't want to take out something God gave us."

Was on a 72hr hold following an attempt on my life on the anniversary of a traumatic event, and had a nurse ask if she could pray for me. I'm not religious but I thought it was nice and it was like 2am and I was tired so I said sure. She proceeded to pray out loud for like 30 minutes asking Jesus to forgive me for the huge sin I had committed. Not the direction I thought she'd go lol, but just said a very awkward thank you after and went back to sleep.

My son is about your age and single, do you want his number?

- Gynecologist

Things I have heard during pelvic exams:

*”s**t.”

*”wow.”

*”okay, you’re a girl.”

Bear in mind I am a normal, healthy, cisgender woman with the regular parts in the regular places. I have just had some whacky doctors.

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edit 2 so glad one of my highest rated comments is about my vag

“You won’t find a penis in there”. From my OBGYN.

We thought we were having a boy according to the ultrasound, but apparently she was calling for a strike right down the middle. After she was born, my husband was looking around at the afterbirth when my doctor said that.

“If you want to help people, don’t go into medicine. As a doctor, I’m nothing more than a people mechanic, and much like a car mechanic, I patch people back together well enough to get them out of the door until I see them again. If I could go back, I’d run as far away from medicine as I could.”

Edit:

Whew…this gained more traction than I expected.

For context, this sentiment was offered to me by a 70 year old, 40+ year tenured physician who was on more boards than I care to list and was a very well-respected surgeon. As many in the comments have stated, his distaste for the job had very much to do with the long list of hoops that he had to jump through in order to order and perform even the most basic treatments, and yes, the endless charting was exhaustive to witness, much less perform.

He also went so far as to send a hospital wide email asking any physician who had the time to sit in a meeting with all of the pre-med people who had dedicated the most time to shadowing for a brief back and forth.

Asked a few questions along the lines of “Whose unhappy with their job…how many have been divorced…how many think you’re over-worked…how many would go back to med school…especially with the debt load today….” and a few more questions that painted a very (at least with this test group of 40+ people) realistic picture of how unhappy they all were.

At least 80% raised their hands in favor of the most negative option presented and briefly attested to how bad and hard the job had been, and of those that were heavily in favor of the job, I’d say at least 80% were quite obviously there for the money and nothing more.

I still have an immense respect for those who choose to work in healthcare, but I’m also glad that I steered away from it; especially when I consider that I would’ve entered residency in the midst of a pandemic….whew!!!

Was a teen and seeing my pediatrician. There was a baby or infant in a another room wailingits head off. After a few minutes, my doc said, "don't mind him, we just lopped his leg off."

Went in for my checkup 6 weeks after my second kid and the intern who was shadowing my OBGYN made the comment “oh, hey, you’re looking great!”

Not to my face but to the bottom half of me.

“Is that your brother?” - asked by a nurse about my husband, who was in the room while my tits were out and I was getting an ekg.