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Note, I love this doctor he just doesn’t mess around Me: How do I prevent these back spasms from ever happening again, this is awful?
Doc: You’re old and fat. You can’t be younger so be less fat. <\/p>\n
Note, I love this doctor he just doesn’t mess around
Me: How do I prevent these back spasms from ever happening again, this is awful?
Doc: You’re old and fat. You can’t be younger so be less fat. <\/p>\n
Thanks, doc. <\/p>\n
anon <\/a> , Tima Miroshnichenko\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Him: I can\u2019t do that unless your husband signs off<\/p>\n Me: I\u2019m not married<\/p>\n Him: Oh then I really won\u2019t do it. You\u2019ll meet a guy who wants kids<\/p>\n Me: .. I don\u2019t want kids<\/p>\n Him: But what if you meet someone who does?<\/p>\n Me: Then they are not for me?<\/p>\n Him: You are too young. You don\u2019t know what you want. You\u2019ll meet a guy who wants them and you\u2019ll want to do that for him<\/p>\n Me: -_-. <\/p>\n left4alive <\/a> , Drazen Zigic\/Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n I ditched the birth control and the doctor and have been much happier since. <\/p>\n threeleafcloverr <\/a> , RDNE Stock project\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n A few years later, a friend of mine saw the same doctor after her son was born with a cranial deformity. He called the baby a “little egghead” and said “don’t worry mom, he won’t be a mentally disabled”. I think the guy should have been seeing a neurologist himself. <\/p>\n strum_and_dang <\/a> , Vitaly Gariev\/Unsplash <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Onyx_Maiden <\/a> , Tima Miroshnichenko\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n magicfingers73 <\/a> , Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n To be fair, after twelve hours of everyone talking to me like I was going to die, I found it quite entertaining! It was unprofessional, but I appreciated his enthusiasm for learning.<\/p>\n ETA: Yes it was GBS and as of today (May 10, 2021) I am not dead! Thanks for checking though! <\/p>\n mandjari <\/a> , Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Brute238 <\/a> , RDNE Stock project\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n I do not want kids & have even discussed a tubal with my dr prior to this. Bloodwork showed my thyroid levels were very off. Medication immediately had me feeling normal again. <\/p>\n pinky_tea <\/a> , Karola G\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n so I go to make an appt to get my tubes tied or removed. my husband drove me. that doctor refused to sign off on it because, her words, I was only 22& what if my husband& I divorced and I found a different man in my 30s? what if I woke up in my 30s or 40s when my babies were grown and wanted another? she thought I was too young to make such a decision and told us to have my husband get a vasectomy (which he offered to do but since I was the one getting pregnant I wanted the sterilization) I had to make a different appt with the original doctor from the hospital. <\/p>\n dondavies954 <\/a> , Ketut Subiyanto\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n My country(Australia), is essentially free medical care. I was visiting a physiotherapist\/chiro for my pain recently. After the second visit he mentioned that we have a scheme for chronic pain that gives us 6 free visit to a pyshio\/chiro as long as you see a general practitioner and he gives you a reference.<\/p>\n So off I hobbled to my regular GP. Again, seeing a GP here is free. Went in to his room, told him what I was after, and he said he\u2019d need X-rays. Awesome, already had them done. And that they were already in our merged health system.<\/p>\n He looked at the X-rays and decides that my back is fine. And don\u2019t need any physio or chiro work. I looked at him incredulously and asked to see the X-rays myself. He spun the screen around\u2026 sure enough, they were mine. And he didn\u2019t see anything wrong.<\/p>\n Despite some pretty sever scoliosis and other twists and turns.<\/p>\n Walked out, went down the street the next block to a GP I\u2019d never seen before, he takes a look and signs me off straight away and wishes me well. <\/p>\n EmergencyLavishness1 <\/a> , Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Female OBGYN that I had never met, who was on call for my practice right after my water broke during my first pregnancy at 16weeks, over the phone as a consult while I was in the ER- \u201c I know this is a hard situation but unless you agree to a termination I won\u2019t admit you to the hospital even for observation. You should just go home, make a decision, and then call the practice on Monday and tell us when you want to schedule a termination.\u201d I was 23 years old. Thanksgiving weekend just me and my husband. I had just heard my baby\u2019s heartbeat for the 2nd time ever, confirming he (after delivery I found out he was a boy) was still alive. And this \u201cDoctor\u201d told me that letting me stay in the hospital overnight was a waste of a bed because I wouldn\u2019t agree to have a termination less than 2 hours after my water broke. I hadn\u2019t even had time to process what was going on other than I was scared and grieving. She never once asked what I wanted or how I was feeling. She never explained what the risks were or what a termination even entailed. She also didn\u2019t even ask if he still had a heartbeat. I will never forget her name for the rest of my life as she easily made one of the worst days of my life even more awful by not taking the time to treat me like a person instead of just a patient. <\/p>\n justanotherlead <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Doctor: this happens to girls who are too skinny, how often do you exercise? <\/p>\n Me: about once a week and I eat like a horse. <\/p>\n Doctor: you\u2019re fine just you\u2019re going to the gym too much. <\/p>\n Few months later I was diagnosed with a serious neurological condition. <\/p>\n Queen-of-Sheba <\/a> , Drazen Zigic\/Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n My pregnant mom went in to the doctor to get a regular exam done, he feels around her abdomen and asks how far along she was. She answers “5 months!” The doctor then laughs and says “Well don’t start the nursery, you’ll be getting a D&C long before you see a baby” Or something to that effect. She had miscarried her child around 2 months and her body never aborted the fetus, so she didn’t know that she had lost her baby. She is still traumatized about the way the doctor broke the news to her.<\/p>\n My story:<\/p>\n Pregnant with my second baby, I had about 20 postive pregnancy tests and I was almost 11 weeks along, started bleeding so went to the ER. The doctor examines me, I get an ultrasound then we have to wait. Nearly 3 hours later he comes back and says “Good news! It was a positive pregnancy! But there is no heartbeat.” <\/p>\n anon <\/a> , Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n coffeesneeze86 <\/a> , SHVETS production\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n It’s not drastically unprofessional but I have pretty bad arthritis in my cervical and lumbar spine and it gets really old to continually hear how I’m too young to have these kinds of problems. It’s not constructive and just reminds me of the s**t hand I’ve been dealt. <\/p>\n Grateful_Undead_69 <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n unfortunatecrisis <\/a> , pressfoto\/Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n I brought it up during a routine checkup when I was 17, saying that my hands go deathly white and numb in the cold. She told me it\u2019s all in my head. I was 17 and stupid and wasn\u2019t picking up what she was putting down, so I said \u201cno, I can see it happen when I\u2019m cold.\u201d She cut me off and told me again it was all in my head and gave me a condescending look. She clearly just didn\u2019t want to deal with it.<\/p>\n Also my mom had cancer that didn\u2019t get caught until it was stage 4. It didn\u2019t get caught until stage 4 because the doctors she explained her symptoms to would literally say things like \u201cdon\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s cancer or anything.\u201d. <\/p>\n anon <\/a> , Karola G\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n 221 <\/a> , DC Studio\/Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n He flippantly answered \u201coh no, its too late for that now. We wouldve had to have done that *the last time you were here*.\u201d In a \u201cI could not care less\u201d tone. I was sat there, like, \u201cah. You mean when you told me it was all no worries, but didnt tell me it\u2019d be very noticeable? Cool.. cool.\u201d. <\/p>\n dreadfulNinja <\/a> , Los Muertos Crew\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n The doctor was friendly enough, asked how long I has been on the meds, asked where I moved from, what job brought me out here. I explained my situation, told him I had an appointment with a psychiatrist scheduled and needed just something to hold me over. Everything seemed fine. Then –<\/p>\n He laughed and said “well, I mean, it’s not much of a difference if you had to go off the meds! That’s just how women are! Crazy!! Hahaha!! Anyway, here’s your script. Enjoy your job!” <\/p>\n He even teased me with the script itself. Jokingly tempting me with it. <\/p>\n Auto-CAT <\/a> , RDNE Stock project\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n My wife was recovering in the maternity ward after having our first baby. <\/p>\n When it came time to start nursing, we had a tough time latching. And even though it had just been a couple of days my wife was getting frustrated and emotional (hormones, it\u2019s common). We asked a doctor and lactation consultant to help, and they diagnosed that our baby was tongue-tied and my wife\u2019s nipples were too flat\/inverted. Instead of offering to cut the frenulum, or some support or helpful tips, the doctor impatiently said \u201cWell it just seems like you two are mismatched puzzle pieces\u201d then walked out. My wife burst into tears. Her head wasn\u2019t the same for weeks after that and she got some pretty bad postpartum depression. To the point where I was doing all the feeding with formula. To this day, my wife is resentful that she didn\u2019t enjoy the first several weeks of motherhood and attributes it to that stupid comment that the doc didn\u2019t even think twice about. <\/p>\n Our daughter turned out healthy as can be, but there are certain things you just shouldn\u2019t say to a new mom. <\/p>\n BoomChocolateLatkes <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n MotivatedMoo <\/a> , cottonbro studio\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n orangemangroves <\/a> , Mikhail Nilov\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n This is a story about a family friend, and it’s a nurse not a doctor. <\/p>\n Family friends son had covid a few months ago. He goes to the ER because he can’t breathe. He’s sitting in the waiting room I guess waiting for someone to help him? This hospital wasn’t at capacity, they had rooms and ventilators available but they didn’t put him in one for some reason. Probably thought he wasn’t as bad off as he was. He takes his mask off because he can’t breathe, and the nurse yells at him that if he doesn’t put his mask back on he can wait in the parking lot. He tells her between breaths “just give me a minute. I can’t breathe” and she forcibly pushes him out into the parking lot, where he died a few minutes later. <\/p>\n The nurse was fired. <\/p>\n Byzantium42 <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n I was 17 and in hospital with suspected appendicitis. This was the second time I was admitted for it, the first time they had done an ultrasound (apparently standard practice to cover the potential of appendicitis or ectopic pregnancy), but they found that my appendix wasn’t visible. The pain had gone by the time I was back on the ward, so I was discharged and told to come straight back if it happens again and they’ll do diagnostic surgery for me instead.<\/p>\n Cut to a few months down the line, the pain returns, I’m screaming in agony so back to the hospital I go. I was admitted overnight for observations and obviously my parents weren’t allowed to stay. This meant that the next morning when the consultant came to see me, I was alone. I explained what was going on and what had happened last time. He still tried to tell me I needed an ultrasound. I told him no, my appendix isn’t visible on an ultrasound so I need the surgery, and that he could check my record for this. He continued to insist that surgery was too drastic, and that I should have an ultrasound, to which I again refused. I told him that it was a waste of time and to check my file. <\/p>\n His next excuse for trying to deny me the surgery, was this “if we do the surgery, it would require cutting into your abdomen, which could leave unnecessary scars if we don’t find anything. You’re a young girl, what if you want to wear a bikini?”<\/p>\n At this point, I was absolutely fuming, I was in pain and quite frankly, didn’t want to risk dying from having my appendix burst on me. So I shouted at him that I was having the surgery, and he reluctantly agreed. <\/p>\n Turns out, I did have appendicitis, and because I was there in surgery, they were able to remove it there and then and I’ve not had a problem since.<\/p>\n Still to this day, I am shocked that a doctor could be more concerned about their patient having to deal with a little scar, than the fact that they’re at risk of dying from an easily treatable condition. <\/p>\n damncutehills <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n I have stage 4 endometriosis, the endo tissue in my intestines and stomach have caused a secondary condition called malabsorption syndrome. Basically my intestines don’t do their job and don’t absorb everything they should out of food, which leaves me with constant deficiencies. I get a lot of my vitamins injected. <\/p>\n A few years ago I moved house to about an hour away. In happy to travel for specialists, but am hour is a bit of a trip just to see a GP. So I gathered up all my documents, my chronic illness management plan, my reports from my gynaecologist and gastrointerologist and started GP shopping.<\/p>\n I’ll preface this by saying I did end up finding an excellent GP who I am very happy with (although I wish she worked more than three days a week), but wow so many GPs do not like reading things from specialists.<\/p>\n Here are some stand out comments<\/p>\n “In not reading that, forget what you’ve been told, let’s start from scratch, a fresh start!”<\/p>\n “Yes, many women *think* they have endometriosis, they read something on the internet and suddenly they’re convinced. Let me assure you that you will be grateful to not have the pain women who really do have it deal with”<\/p>\n “And what is it that makes *you* think you have these conditions? What you’re claiming to have is pretty serious and requires specialist medical care, I hope you realise that”<\/p>\n “I don’t read specialist reports, I know more than most of them anyway”. <\/p>\n t12aq <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n As a newly graduated doctor, I was shocked at the horrid things my instructors said about patients amongst themselves. Especially overweight patients got the most ridicule and contempt behind closed doors. I understand the frustration of trying to help people get healthy, but the things I\u2019ve heard were just insults for insults sake. For a profession that\u2019s all about caring for people, there are a lot of vile bullies at the helm. <\/p>\n Scyke87 <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Ishmael_1851 <\/a> , Freepik <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Turns out I have a Chiari Malformation and the headaches completely disappeared after a 1 hour surgery. <\/p>\n Minnie9317 <\/a> , Pavel Danilyuk\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n Yes you have a very large hole in your heart and normally I would operate and close it but you are disabled and not worthy of my services. Please leave my office and never come back. (said to my face with my husband sitting next to me and my witness, and he even included it in his report to my GP). <\/p>\n Walk-with-a-cane <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n “You should not be having any side effects from this medication.” <\/p>\n Really? So I’m just making it up? Plus, I’ve never heard of a medication that had absolutely no side effects. Later, I went online and looked up the medication from the manufacturer’s website and it listed dozens of potential side effects. <\/p>\n IrianJaya <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n “I think I have another hernia.” (it would be my 2nd)<\/p>\n “I can’t feel anything.”<\/p>\n “huh, I’m pretty sure it’s there”<\/p>\n “you’re probably just stressed with school or something”<\/p>\n “….ok”<\/p>\n fast forward a few months, I went to see a different GP because it *really* felt like I had a hernia.<\/p>\n “I think I have another hernia”<\/p>\n [other doctor does the hernia check]<\/p>\n “no, you have 2 hernias. One’s quite bad so I’m going to get you a meeting with the surgeon this week.”<\/p>\n Sure enough, I had 2 hernias by that point and needed surgery. <\/p>\n jimsmisc <\/a> , Andrea Piacquadio\/Pexels <\/a> Report<\/a> <\/p>\n MRI for breast cancer. <\/p>\n![\"Male](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6-695255ad8efc1__700.jpg\" "\\"Male")
Me: I\u2019d like to be sterilized as I never want children<\/p>\n![\"Doctor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8-695257f78e427__700.jpg\" "\\"Doctor")
I am a very laidback, patient, happy type person, and continue to be in a relationship with my now-husband (then boyfriend) where we don\u2019t bicker, or take things out on each other etc, we don\u2019t generally lose our temper at each other – we do argue on rare occasion but it\u2019s certainly not anything near a regular occurrence (maybe once a year). When I started a particular type of birth control that had been prescribed to help my adult acne, and I transformed into a raging storm of shouty negativity, it was VERY obvious that it wasn\u2019t normal. I was losing it all day every day, and would explode into rage at the smallest thing. I reported this to my (male) doctor who initially refused to believe me, and then when I persisted, shrugged it off and said \u201cwell it MAY have this effect on people with a propensity towards that behaviour\u201d. Basically saying the only reason I was losing my temper was because that was just the way I was. <\/p>\n![\"Senior](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7-69527253b2128__700.jpg\" "\\"Senior")
I took my 9 year old daughter to see what was supposed to be a highly respected neurologist at the children’s hospital for a consultation about her ADD. First he asked her if she’d ever kissed a boy, and what she would do if a boy tried to kiss her. Then when I mentioned that I was concerned about her thumb sucking, he said, “The boys will like that when she gets older”. We did not continue seeing that doctor.<\/p>\n![\"Female](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12-69525a98e2a0a__700.jpg\" "\\"Female")
I was 11 or 12 and got my finger shoved under a fire door in school. The door had to be opened and closed just to slide my finger out. When I was taken to the nurse in tears I was told “wow that must hurt, I didn’t think you guys felt pain like that” . Im black. <\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5-69525568bd4e8__700.jpg\" "\\"Young")
I received a head injury at work 11 years ago, the Dr my employer sent me to said “don’t worry, I’m sure your headaches will stop once you get your pay out”, I was shocked. Still have headaches pretty much every single day since. Yep, you were wrong. <\/p>\n![\"Male](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3-6952548dc8318__700.jpg\" "\\"Male")
I had a very rare complication of the flu and my nerves were getting eaten away by my immune system. I could barely walk and was numb from the waist down. By the time I was transferred to a hospital that could treat me, it was close to midnight and the doctor that admitted me was very young. I was the first person he’d seen with this condition. He kept saying how cool it was to do a neuro exam on someone who wasn’t an actor and when he would see how weak I was he’d be like “Oh wow, you really are weaker on that side, that’s so interesting!”.<\/p>\n![\"Doctor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9-6952583bb82b9__700.jpg\" "\\"Doctor")
Not me, but a friend. She had just gone through a miscarriage after trying to conceive for a while. Since she was quite young, the doctor asked, “well, you didn’t really want the baby, right?”. <\/p>\n![\"Woman](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/11-69525a0be4c80__700.jpg\" "\\"Woman")
I have a long history of depression. I told my GP that i felt off, like nothing interested me anymore, but not depressed. He told me it was because “something was missing from my life, a child.” <\/p>\n![\"Woman](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/14-695273325efa9__700.jpg\" "\\"Woman")
I had a very traumatic birth with my last baby. long story short, she was too big& coming out too fast and she took some parts out with her she wasn\u2019t supposed to. I had to have emergency surgery while she was less than an hour old to stop the bleeding. the surgery ruined my uterus, and the doctor told me since I have a history of large babies\/ fast deliveries this would definitely happen again and not to conceive again. <\/p>\n![\"Doctor](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/16-695274cbb9f2b__700.jpg\" "\\"Doctor")
I\u2019ve had a terrible back, with associated terrible back pain since my early teens. <\/p>\n![\"Senior](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17-695275a4b259b__700.jpg\" "\\"Senior")
Me: I have bad balance, I keep walking into things and I get headaches. <\/p>\n![\"Smiling](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4-69525508f22f2__700.jpg\" "\\"Smiling")
My mom and I had similar stories:<\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/13-69525ad1d9da8__700.jpg\" "\\"Young")
My husband has an inverted cross tattooed on his back. 20ish years ago, seeing a doc for chronic back pain, he was told the pain he felt was probably his punishment for the tattoo. <\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/15-695273f1e8773__700.jpg\" "\\"Young")
“Medically, I know there is something going on, but as far as a diagnosis the most I can say is ‘you’re a mess’.” that was the literal diagnosis “You’re a mess”. I got a hospital letter with that diagnosis. I mean, I respect his admission that he didn’t know what was going on (I have a rare bleeding condition) but that diagnosis did not help. <\/p>\n![\"Female](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/18-6952767fcaa44__700.jpg\" "\\"Female")
I have raynauds phenomenon, which is basically an overreaction to the cold where my blood vessels in my extremities constrict too much. <\/p>\n![\"Female](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19-695276c9b4d44__700.jpg\" "\\"Female")
When I was younger I went to a doctor over severe panic attacks and depression, she told me my problem was that I had it too easy living off my parents and that I need a good kick up the bum into the real world. <\/p>\n![\"Middle-aged](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10-695258fdd4d20__700.jpg\" "\\"Middle-aged")
I tore a muscle. The doctor said it wouldnt effect mobility and it was no worries. A couple of months later I asked if it could be attached, for cosmetic reasons.<\/p>\n![\"Female](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/25-69527b22b7677__700.jpg\" "\\"Female")
I was in my late 20s, and I am a woman. I went to an urgent care after I moved for a job. I needed to get a 30 day refill for an anti-depressant because I was having difficulty getting a doctor locally quickly. I was stressing out because I didn’t want to slide backwards with my mood or go through withdrawal and my script was running out.<\/p>\n![\"Elderly](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26-69527c8cf1837__700.jpg\" "\\"Elderly")
This happened to my father. My father had recently gotten surgery to remove his prostate, because there was cancer in it, and had started getting radiation treatments to eliminate any remaining cancers. After the treatments started, my father started feeling intense pain in his bladder. He started having trouble peeing, and eventually had to resort to catheterizing himself ever time he peed. Occasionally he wouldn\u2019t be able to hold in his anymore, and would set himself. He complained to his doctor, the one who removed his prostate, about it multiple times, but the doctor didn\u2019t believe. Eventually the doctor agreed to do exploratory surgery on my father but he found nothing. My father was still in great pain, but the doctor told my father that this was all in his head. My father, not satisfied with that answer, eventually got the doctor to do a second exploratory surgery. During that surgery it was discovered that a clip, from the machine the doctor used during the prostate surgery, popped off into my fathers bladder, and the doctor left it there without realizing. Then, because of the radiation treatments, the inside of my father\u2019s bladder was effectively fried. It\u2019s been about five years since then. My father still has to catheterize every time he goes to the bathroom. He\u2019s constantly in pain, and can no longer work a proper job because of the damages to his bladder. Because of all the scar tissue built up in his bladder, my father is at risk of kidney failure. Luckily, a doctor we spoke to recently says he should be able to help my father, but it\u2019s going to be a long road. The current plan is to permanently remove the scar tissue in his bladder, and then install a valve that will let him pee like a normal person again. We are also suing to doctor who did this to my father, although it\u2019s been five years and progress is slow. My father is one of the best people I know, and deserved none of what\u2019s happened him. Hopefully he\u2019ll be able to get these surgeries done sooner rather than later, but it\u2019s definitely going to take a while. Sorry if I got any term wrong, I don\u2019t have that much medical knowledge. <\/p>\n![\"Close-up](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/28-69527fbfb3e5d__700.jpg\" "\\"Close-up")
Not me, but my friend\u2019s grandma died from COVID suddenly last night after contracting it at the hospital when she was there for a surgery. The doctor\u2019s exact words to her family were \u201cGet the body out of here, we don\u2019t want it laying around.\u201d Very strange. I know they can\u2019t have bodies contaminated with COVID in one place for a long time, but this was minutes after she passed, and I think they could have handled it better. <\/p>\n![\"Female](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/23-6952793626c73__700.jpg\" "\\"Female")
I work 3rd shift so I always try to schedule my appointments in the morning after I get off work. One time the only available appointment was at 3 PM, right in the middle of my sleep time. So I set an alarm to wake up super early roll out of bed and go for my appointment. First words out of her mouth were “wow, really going for the homeless look today huh?” I was there for a follow up to see how my antidepressants were working. Thanks, doc! My depression is cured! <\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/29-69527fa9f2bba__700.jpg\" "\\"Young")
I was 15, dealing with what everyone said were chronic migraines. Couldn’t find a treatment that worked, the only thing that made life bearable was standing up (note that migraines usually feel better while laying down). After a last ditch effort from my pediatric neurologist to find a different cause (spinal tap), she told me that most women deal with this and it would go away when I had children. I had also been told during the course of finding a diagnosis that it would be extremely difficult for me to conceive and carry a fetus to term (kind of correct, I’ve had 8 pregnancies with 3 live births). <\/p>\n![\"Young](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20-6952776609b63__700.jpg\" "\\"Young")
I have a genetic predisposition to hernias, so I’ve had several. Went to a new GP in college cause I felt like I had another one.<\/p>\n![\"Male](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/22-6952785e87518__700.jpg\" "\\"Male")
“Your breast tissue is extremely dense, which I’m sure your husband enjoys but it’s making it difficult to get a good view.” <\/p>\n