People's Dumbest "I Don't Need A Doctor" Moments

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mattstaff
Jul 31, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

Unfortunately, the internet breeds a whole lot of aggressive moments of pure and utterly profound ignorance. Many of us can fall prey to those times when we look to the internet and its collection of definitely unqualified "medical professionals" to provide advice on issues that are definitely in need of medical attention. Maybe these stories will make you feel a bit better about your own mindless moments in the realm of needing/not needing medical advice. 

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    Font - manlikerealities · 11h 2 Awards When I was a medical student I met a woman who was heavily interested in homeopathy and natural healing, who started drinking her own urine. You can often drink small amounts with no issue, but she was drinking only urine. Urine has a high salt concentration, and she ended up dehydrated with an acute kidney injury. O 6 Reply ↑ 2.5k 3 + ...
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    Font - Pygmalion335• 9h 2 2 Awards I'm not a doctor, but I did take my very elderly Nana to the hospital after I showed up to her house and found her slurring her words and behaving very strange overall. Now, my Nana is a major hypochondriac and when she was admitted the first thing she told the doctor is that she believed she was experiencing the beginning signs of Parkinson's. It turned out that she had mixed up a bottle of non- alcoholic wine with a bottle of regular wine, had drank the entir
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    Font - paintedsnapper · 4h My dad is an ER doc. One of my favourite recent stories of his of the teen girl with blue legs. Teen girl and her mom had been waiting at the ER for 6 hours when he came on shift. He read the chart before he came into the room that she had blue legs and was otherwise normal. When he looked at her he didn't see blue around her mouth etc that would indicate lack of oxygen and her levels were normal. Just bright blue legs. He goes over to her with an alcohol swab and wipe
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    Font - mango_invasion · 3h 1 Award Not a doctor. As a transplant recipient, I have to take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of my life. There are studies that some people do come off them completely, but it's such a huge risk to take that it may trigger organ rejection. A family member of mine still can't grasp how a life saving surgery provided by western medicine which initially saved my life, is still keeping me back from living my life. He suggested that I get off my immune suppress
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    Font - woodshores · 2h I am not in the medical field, but during my time as a student with acquaintances in the medical field, two stories marked me: A woman kept getting pregnant within months of delivering the last baby, so her physician told her to take the pill. She comes back pregnant. The physician asks "But didn't you take the pills?" "Yes I added them to the food before serving the whole family".. Another one was a woman who came with a baby suffering from a weird skin condition on this
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    Font - reverendmalerik • 7h Conversation I had with a doctor a few days ago: Me: "So I was told that if I can identify what food I am eating that is giving me gout I can avoid it and won't have as many flare-ups, is that right?" Doctor: Literally laughs out loud "aaaaaaaaaaa no. Evidence for dietary based management of gout is very sketchy at best. Take the pills. Where did you even hear that?" Me: "Your nurse said it to me...?" G Reply 4 1k 3
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    Font - Brandonando1998 · 11h Not a doctor, but I have had an instance where somebody told me something stupid that they read on the internet. A couple of years ago, I was dealing with some mild back pain. I texted a friend about it, and after 30 seconds she replies telling me that I have spine cancer. After telling her that there was no way that I had "spine cancer" she continued to insist that she was correct and that her mom was a doctor so she knew these things. smh G Reply 4 634 3 ...
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    Font - kutuup1989 · 3h I had a friend about 10 years ago go to a "faith healer" for wrist pain from drumming and asked me to go with him. It was the dumbest shit I have ever seen. He paid her £200 to literally just wave her hands over his wrist for 20 minutes while some pan-pipe music played. Funnily enough, it didn't cure his carpal tunnel syndrome. Who would have thought?? It did make me wonder whether l'm missing out on an easy scam if people are THAT gullible, though XD G Reply 4 145 3 ...
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    Font - RAZORthreetwo · 5h My grandpa, this is before internet, heard through grapevine that putting warm oil plus garlic combo in ear can make ear squeaky clean. He put hot oil plus garlic in ear, and add the habit of cleaning with toothpick. Now he has no eardrum in one ear and partial hearing in another. This was before internet, it was the quack therapy, people still give this kind of advice with guarantee. His personality has changed completely. 6 Reply 4 96 3 ...
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