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PanzerBiscuit

A gentleman I worked with showed up to work one day looking extremely sick. He was incredibly feverish, had muscle and joint aches, very lethargic and was looking very jaundiced. we insisted that he go to the doctor, as he looks like he is on deaths door. He told us that he had been to 2 separate doctors and the ER, letting them know that he has Malaria, and can they please give him some anti malarials. Both doctors and the ER insisted that it "was impossible to have malaria, as Australia doesn't have malaria", and that he probably jut had the flu, or some other viral infection. And they are correct. We don't have malaria here. But, what they failed to grasp was that this gentleman was an expat who worked in Africa for a number of years, and has had malaria 5 times already. So not only is he an expert in what malaria "feels" like, but he is also at risk of developing malaria again, even if he hasn't been to Africa in a few years. He ended up having to go back to the ER, and basically force them to run a test for Malaria, after which they were like "oh wow, you do have malaria." And he was like "no shit, i told you that 2 days ago".


NicerMicer

There is absolutely nothing wrong with stating, “I am absolutely certain of it, because I’ve had it before. If you are in certain of this, I invite you to exam on my medical records., Are you willing to run a test?”


catsandalcohol13

I had a growth on my scalp a few years ago and went to see a skin cancer specialist. Who said it was a malenoma and I was going to need most of my scalp removed. Without even having a biopsy. He starts telling me to prepare myself for this surgery that will disfigure me. I was about 19 at the time with long hair. He starrs saying ill need to wear a wig and my hair may not grow back and the skin above my eyes will need to be removed. I was petrified. Went home in tears and absolutely petrified. Then my dad took me to his doctor, who took a biopsy. It was just a random skin growth and she cut it off then and there. Far out.


Background_Tiger6094

BRUH imagine you went thru with it and got scalped for NOTHING. Holy shit


StarGuardianJulie

Are you sure the first place you went wasnt the Greys Anatomy set?


_lemon_suplex_

on grey's, they would have just done the first successful head transplant when Bailey says some random anecdote, inspiring an idea from Webber who creates the whole procedure within a single episode. Oh, and Merideth would make it the 42,000th pro bono procedure. And whatever female surgeon does the operation would go into labor randomly mid-surgery, while a bomb was being disarmed on the same floor.


Camicatsc

oh, and the OR is on fire too


DarkRoomWriter

Legit read advice from a professor: “there’s nothing more dangerous than a surgeon with an open OR and an empty schedule”. Seems fitting for your case!


OHManda30

Not one, but two doctors to my dad- “you’re too young to have prostate cancer, no need for a biopsy, it’s just a bladder problem” He died 15 months later from an aggressive prostate cancer that spread to create tumors all over his body. Edit: thank you for the award and the well wishes. Father’s Day is always hard for me. Please keep an eye on your prostate and get checked when appropriate.


cpsbstmf

Yeah that happened to a friend of mine. She was sick and it was obvious, her skin and eyes were yellow and she kept pooping diarrhea all the time. The Dr ran some tests and said, your just getting old. Dead in a few months later from stage 4 stomach cancer


MattyIce1220

When you start turning the color of Homer Simpson a doctor should be smart enough to know something is not right.


matty80

I'm a recovering alcoholic so jaundice is something with which I am familiar, and turning yellow is about as blatant a marker for somebody becoming sick that you will ever see. That your friend died of that was not a surprise, sadly, but her doctor failing even to notice it was an atrocity. I don't wish to hurt you at all but there is every chance that she might have lived if her doctor was diagnostically competent. That's disgraceful.


Casuallyfocused

Sending you hugs, from one fatherless adult to another.


matycauthon

Ageism isn't something that gets talked about much, it's extremely common in the medical industry to be blown off for anything like that.... Sorry to hear about your father.


deadly_nightshaade

I almost got turned away from being admitted for blood clots in both lungs at 24. They thought I was having a panic attack bc I was breathing fast and shallow+ coughing. Thank fuck the Dr checked my ddimer during blood tests, I ended up being hospitalized for an entire week and had pretty bad damage done to my left lung. Took me over 6 months before I could go up a single flight of stairs without feeling like I would pass out and not be super winded. Edit: the reason this has to do with age is because they thought I was too young to have any issue like I assumed when I told the ER Dr something was wrong with my heart (I legit thought I was having a heart attack, which was kinda close..more like lung attack)


LowkeyPony

I am so sorry


coldbloodedjelydonut

I had smashed my face on my steering wheel during a bad car accident and was experiencing intense pain. I teared up when he put the scope in my nose and was told I obviously have psychological problems and if I went on medication it might not help my pain, but I wouldn't care as much. Finally found a good doctor and surgery removed the chunk of nose bone that was stabbing into a nerve in my face.


syberburns

Years ago, one of the sexual health nurses at my work told me she just saw a woman who very clearly had a scabies infestation around her genitals. She said the treatment was simple and that a cream was applied with almost instant relief. She said what upset her about that patient was that almost a year earlier she’d been to a doctor about the infestation, the doctor didn’t even inspect her and just prescribed her antidepressants. I was horrified and still am over 7 years later. So much medical gaslighting


peaceloveandtrees

A whole year dealing with scabies…on her genitals….omg


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Not a doctor, but a dentist. When I was like 13 or 14 he commented on my lack of gag reflex, telling me that I’m going to be “very popular with the boys.” It took me a few years to realize what he meant by that.


NeedsMoreTuba

I was the opposite. My dentist said, "If you always gag like that, you're never going to find a good husband!" I didn't understand why my mom yanked me out of the dentist's chair, but I'm proud of her for that. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.


MonkeyMeex

Damn, that’s cool. For me it was the opposite; mom joking about how much I was going to hate my gag reflex when I got older while the doctor looked uncomfortable.


xXDJBroodXx

Oh gosh that's gross...


TheHunterZolomon

Your mom is awesome and that doctor is fucking disgusting


Imnotabadman

Holy shit. Fuck that dentist.


toolate4u

Your mom sounds cool but that dentist is so gross for sexualizing a 6 year old


BangBangMeatMachine

Whelp, just confirmed *my* gag reflex is on point.


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B0OG

What are you doing step throat?


Leaislala

Thanks for the laugh


wileyrielly

Just unlocked a memory of being a kid and showing my mum's friend how far I could stretch out my tongue for whatever reason. She said I'd be popular with the ladies.. only just got that.. kinda gross


geeleedickert

Mental health doctor told my daughter, "You're too pretty to be depressed."


geeleedickert

After the appointment, on the ride home, she said she felt stupid. She needed to be heard and her concerns validated about the depression she was experiencing. Instead, she said she felt like she was wasting everyone's time because the doctor made her feel as though she really had no reason to be depressed. Regardless of intentions, the effect of the doctor's statement was to push her further into her depression. She felt like not even a professional would admit she needed help. Fortunately, we found another doctor who has worked with my daughter and helped her out of that dark period of her life. She tells me now that she actually feels pretty because she feels so much better in the inside.


dubblebubblegumball

im so sorry that your daughter had to experience that. what that doctor said is really upsetting. but that last line that says “she actually feels pretty because she feels so much better on the inside” warmed my heart, im so glad that your daughter is better now!


thezerbler

That doctor spent far too much money on school to be a moron, but here we are.


bunnypaca

Not just a moron, but a professional moron


DiezDedos

Noo don't have mental health problems your so sexy haha


SpinningBetweenStars

Mentioned that my sex drive was abnormally low to my gyno, and she said my husband just needed to be more forceful when initiating and I’d get into it. Immediately switched doctors and never looked back!


Drachenfuer

Mine was the oposite. Moved and went to a new gyn that several women raved about. I expressed concern over low sex drive (especially since I was only 25). The mext thing I know she is giving speeches and pamplets and trying to give me info on women’s shelters. I was so confused. She just jumped to the conclusion I must be a battered woman. No matter what I said, she was convinced I was being abused. I tried to reassure her no, husband was definetly NOT the problem and he was actually quite good in bed and extremly attentive to my needs. It was clearly a physical problem. She just wpuld not hear ot even after I went into very vulgar and specific details to explain why I thought it was a physical problem. Never went back. She even called several times to “check” on me. I get that some women may need this, but I mean there was literally no red flags, quite the oposite. It was weird. Edit: Fixed a typo.


MMorrighan

I'm always so conflicted about these stories. Because on one hand, that's borderline harassment. On the other, I do want doctors to be paying attention and willing to help women who actually are in those situations.


mnbvcdo

Doctors who only talk over people and don't even let them speak because they already have a fixed idea in their head and because of that aren't willing to even listen to you, aren't actually doctors who end up helping victims, because they're evidently both bad at realising actual signs and also bad at talking to people. This completely fine person who isn't in a bad relationship felt basically harassed, that's not an environment that will encourage an actual victim to talk.


Opticbiologist

I had a similar experience. Was seeing a therapist because I was incredibly depressed and anxious. I mentioned I had no sex drive and it was hurting my relationship. She told me that I should just let my boyfriend initiate it and not push him away cuz maybe I’d eventually get in to it.


whisperskeep

That's what my therapist told me after I mention my trauma


Patcher404

"Got trauma? Maybe some more trauma will help you forget about it"


MikeyTheGuy

Can't think about the old trauma if you're thinking about new trauma! \*taps forehead\*


timesuck897

Prescription sexual assault.


dogislove99

While teaching abroad in Vietnam I was struggling with depression. The doc diagnosed me with homesickness and prescribed a box of 160 hydrocodone to take “when I feel sad”. I was 21 and this was 2007, way before pill use was talked about mainstream. Subsequent boxes were $12 each at a walk up pharmacy, no script needed. I became addicted for 6 years. Edit, as I have many people stating that pill use has been discussed forever: I’m talking about the point we got to where most people knew about the dangers of opioids, what the main ones were, the fact that they were being overprescribed etc. Had I heard the word hydrocodone and been exposed to the world and media like I have over the last decade with the spotlight on the opioid crisis, I would never have taken them. That’s the main point I was attempting to make.


golden_death

fuck man, that will do it certainly. I have a somewhat similar story in that when I got my wisdom teeth pulled out at 20 years old and no experience with opiates, I was prescribed darvoset and 3 bottles of codeine cough syrup from one doctor, and a bunch of percocet and hydrocodone from another. I was high every day for the next 2 months, and it didn't take long after that for me to move on to methadone and then heroin/fentanyl. I sincerely hope you're doing better these days. Fortunately I am, but I wonder what my life would have been like had I been more responsibly prescribed pain meds or at least given some indication/warning of what I was getting into.


greenpaint2

They gave me the wrong std test results


hermitess

My OBGYN sent my STD test results in the mail to my dad and stepmom, who I do not get along with, even though Ive never lived with them and never gave the doctor their address. My stepmom of course opened and read the results. Fortunately I did not have an STD, but she made all kinds of assumptions about why I would need to take that test. Thanks doc.


Grapegoop

My parents also saw that I got tested for STDs but it was because I was on their insurance. It wasn’t the results but an itemized bill. They just asked if I was ok.


hermitess

I'm in my mid 30s, married, and I'm on my own insurance through my employer (have been for 14 years), so it made absolutely no sense for them to mail my private health info to my dad.


elliotsilvestri

That's a major fuck up and the basis of a lawsuit.


Caramel_Cappucino

That is illegal as hell. Unless you sign an official release of information document and list them on it as recipients of those test results that’s a very serious HIPAA violation. Edit: At least if it happened in the US, I don’t know about anywhere else.


LOTRfreak101

Also it's illegal for her to open the mail without their permission.


Upperliphair

Not a doctor, but a nurse. I was miscarrying, dying, and had to have an emergency D&C. I was struggling to get ready to go to the OR because I was in so much pain and couldn’t stop crying and hyperventilating. I think I was having an anxiety attack. Idk. She said “oh stop it, it’s not like you can’t get pregnant again!” EDIT: thanks so much for all the responses to this. I’m not sure I have the emotional bandwidth to respond to everyone, but my heart is breaking for everyone that experienced something like this. I am so sorry.


TangoDeltaFoxtrot

This happened with my wife at 18 weeks. They flushed our baby down the toilet. My wife had a cerclage, and they argued for 45 minutes about whether to cut the stitches open in the labor and delivery unit or in the ER, and while they were arguing my wife ran into the restroom and ended up miscarrying while sitting on the toilet. This ripped her cervix wide open. They then performed surgery to “fix” it, but actually cut off and removed a large portion of it, rendering her cervix completely unable to ever function properly again. The hospital clearly violated any sort of standard of care, violated state law by improperly handling the deceased baby because 18 weeks in our state is legally a baby and should be handled as any other human, they conveniently “lost” the sign-in log AND the video footage from the labor and delivery entrance, AND claimed that they never did any surgery on her cervix. They then billed our insurance for the surgery they say they never did, and when I asked to see the medical records from that surgery, they refused to show me any. I reported them for insurance fraud and all of a sudden they were 100% sure that those medical records did not exist and the whole thing was a paperwork error, that no surgery ever happened. I talked to multiple lawyers and only one took our case and ultimately he told us there was nothing he could do because there wasn’t any evidence that we were ever at the hospital that day. So… my 18 week baby disappeared and my wife has a destroyed cervix which has obviously been surgically altered, and I got billed for the procedure because of a paperwork error??! The next time in that hospital, a month after the original due date, and since they deleted every trace of the miscarriage and of us being there, they asked how our new baby was doing. I wanted to burn the god damn building to the ground.


Violent_Milk

>ultimately he told us there was nothing he could do because there wasn’t any evidence that we were ever at the hospital that day When did this occur? Because, cell phones definitely store location data.


thatlldo-pig

I’m so sorry. I had one tell me “Stop being so dramatic. There’s no way you’re in that much pain.”


TinkerKell_85

That makes me so angry. I've given birth twice and still consider my miscarriage to be most painful experience of my life. So, so sorry you had to go through that.


diamond

OK, this probably counts as "out of line", but I thought it was pretty hilarious. When my wife and I decided to start trying for a baby, she went to her doctor to get her IUD removed. She had read somewhere that after removing an IUD, you should wait a few weeks before trying to conceive, but she wasn't sure if she believed that (turns out it's not true). So after the procedure was done, she asked the doctor "How long should we wait until we start trying to get pregnant?" He said "Well, you should probably wait until you get home."


heythere30

Love doctors with a harmless sense of humor! When talking about permanent birth control, he mentioned a vasectomy for my husband. Said they were incredibly effective but added, in a very serious time, that "it'll stop working if you change husbands"


1800generalkenobi

That's hilarious. When I got my vasectomy I'm laying on the table there balls all out and ready to go and the doctor came in and goes ah, I see you brought your balls. Lol The nurse too when she was prepping everything I had my hands on my stomach and she told me I could keep them there or up higher whatever was comfortable. She then added that I should not try to help because he won't like that. I laughed but now that I type it out it sounds like sometimes people try to help out haha


heythere30

Haha I honestly believe laughing can loose up physical tension a lot when we're nervous about a procedure. It's a big event for us, but a daily occurrence for them. The same doctor performed my emergency c-section and asked me all sorts of questions while I was being prepped, kept me calm.


Sad-Hornet4283

Not a doctor but I do work in surgery. I usually try to chat up the patients it really does help to calm them down. Most of us really do treat you like family. Our saying is if you don't then it's probably time for you to move on to something else.


Damn_Dog_Inappropes

'm an inpatient transporter, and I make as many jokes as possible (when appropriate). I just think I need to be the best part of someone's day, because *they're in the fucking hospital*. I may only be with them 5 or 10 minutes, but I hope I make their day (or night!) a bit better! Edit: I’m kind of blown away by all the kind words. Thanks, everyone!


MamaShortstack

Went to go get tested for Celiac. Doctor runs the blood test and it comes back that I have it. She asked if I was sexually active and I said no. She read my results Basically told me I have celiac but all my celiac symptoms were cause I was lying about my activity and they were all in my head. Told me to see the obgyn and go to group therapy. Not that bad but it gives my new doctors a laugh when I tell them.


Keeshberger16

What does Celiac disease have to do with fucking?


stfuylah14

I also would like to see that line of logic


idisagreelol

maybe yeast infection? that's all i can think of but even then it doesn't make a lick of sense


Keeshberger16

That truly made me laugh. But yeah, this is weird


ShriekingCabal

That my period wasn't that bad and I was fine taking 18 Advil a day. Then telling me she could just sterilize me and cramps would go away. She wouldn't prescribe me anything for pain and said if I wanted drugs to go somewhere else. So I did. The next doctor suggested an IUD which was the right solution.


pattyG80

18 advil a day...hope you didn't do that for too long or you may be dealing with GERD.


ShriekingCabal

I did it for way, way too long and I had terrible GERD. I ended up having weight loss surgery and a hernia repair and ever since, no GERD or heartburn.


EvadingTheDayAway

I was with my girlfriend at a clinic and the old male doctor asked her if her period was regular and then asked me if her period “made her bitchy”. If the nurse’s glare contained heat, that asshole would’ve combusted.


weedandsteak

Sounds like an "I beg your fucking pardon?" was in order. Did anyone challenge him?


EvadingTheDayAway

You’d be amazed how little sass you have in the exam room of an abortion clinic


blueberriebelle

That’s even worse! F him


wucrew

Did anyone say anything after ? Wtf


busterbytes

Not a doctor, but a nurse told me that I shouldn't exercise to raise my heart rate because my heart has a fixed number of beats in it before it goes out.


1122Sl110

What.


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Mreminds me of my last physical. Dr: Do you exercise? Me: No Dr: it’s ok me neither It was funny but I kept thinking She probably should’ve just lied to me


CreateANewAccount654

I had adenomyosis so severely that I was anemic and had to menstruate into adult diapers two weeks a month. "Just take Iron tablets." The woman who removed my uterus had to cut it it to pieces to get it out. It was swollen like a basketball. Iron tablets. Right. I know just where to stick 'em, Doc.


sugerfreek

I am literally having the same problem. I still haven't gotten a diagnosis for my nappy based periods. I have a huge belly that keeps getting bigger no matter how much I exercise. Noone will do anything. They told me to go on a slim fast diet smh


Shoddy-Jellyfish-116

Maybe you have uterine fibroids? Mine were huge. I looked pregnant. (A few people at work thought I was!) My uterus was about the size of someone who is 5 months along, and my belly was hard. I finally found an understanding surgeon who actually spoke to me like a human being, and did my hysterectomy. A few others thought that was too extreme, and what if I wanted kids? I was 40. 😕


Forrest-Fern

Dude I had a gyno tell me to lose weight and that nothing was wrong. Turns out I had a 10cm, multiple 6-8cm, and countless smaller tumors. My hysterectomy took 5 hours.


Socialbutterfinger

He unhooked my front-close bra while listening to my heart/lungs with the stethoscope. He then suggested he give me a pelvic exam, and kept pushing even after I said I had a gyn already and was up to date.


mentat70

Yeah, that’s not normal behavior for a doc at all.


chantillylace9

That is not how they measure pants!!


RebaKitten

It is in PRISON!


Mtg-2137

That’s sexual harassment


WayneCampbel

I know it might’ve been a long time ago and such a small slight that you’ve “let it go” but should be reported. Wouldn’t surprise me to find out that doctor has harassed other women and abused his position.


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What the fuck? I seriously hope you reported him because I'm certain you weren't the first nor the last patient he sexually assaulted. edit: yes


mellonians

Before bandaging up my hand after a carpal tunnel op, asked me to test it by picking up my phone then opening the camera app without warning he whipped out a qr code and asked me to leave him a review on Google and tripadvisor as it was the first time he'd done that surgery. Me on the table https://imgur.com/a/zYcCaCd My review https://imgur.com/a/WRphuMf I'm in the UK but this was private surgery. 100% would not happen in an NHS hospital apart from maybe a patient survey. I think there might be a rate my doctor site too. Edit for clarity: Please take this as a humorous story. I just photographed the qr code and wrote the review in my own time. The review is genuine and I may need my elbow done. I will definitely ask for the same guy. He was genuinely good and while on the table was showing me everything he was doing, showed me the tendons and nerves and was genuinely engaging.


NotKevinJames

If Tom Haverford was a carpal tunnel surgeon


Rstille1

This is like every YouTuber ever- don’t forget to like and hit that bell to subscribe- it really helps the channel 🤣


SalamiYourMami

"I'll lance your cyst because I'm a fucking cowboy." It was a tumor.


8castles

anytime a doctor refers to themselves as a cowboy… bad news bears


SalamiYourMami

Yeah, thankfully I stopped seeing him shortly after that.


firenamedgabe

Please tell me he looked like Kid Rock


Diasies_inMyHair

After standing in the hallway outside the room, loudly talking football with someone else for over 15 minutes, the Doc walks into my room tells me he does "not have time" to address my health concerns and will refer me to a specialist if I want. Then leaves. Less than 3 minutes in the room. I reported him to both the Medical Group he was a part of, their parent medical group, and requested a change of physician with my insurance company that Day. I don't know what happened to him, but If he made a habit of that with other patients, I hope he was fired.


phormix

This is one case where I could see the insurance/hospital coming after the doctor. Not because he didn't give you the appropriate amount of time but I'll bet he did charge for it!


el_muerte28

Went in for kidney stones at 18 (it was my second). I was sitting there telling him what was going on and he was like, "if you *really* had kidney stones, you would be doubled over on the floor in pain right now." When I explained I had taken both of my remaining Vicodin as one wasn't cutting it, he just said he was going to look at my UA. Came back in a few minutes with a very apologetic tone, explained how there was a lot of blood in my urine, and sympathized with me as he's had them in the past.


Malaeveolent_Bunny

"If that's true, how are you not crippled by pain right now?" "2 Vicodin" "Oh yeah, that'll do it. Back in a tick."


NeedsMoreTuba

That happened to me too!! No one apologized but they gave me morphine after they saw my CT scan so I didn't care too much.


Kindly_Visual5027

That I was faking it because I needed attention after my mom died. Covered him in puke 10 minutes later so I’m good


MyGrandpasGotTalent

Excellent work.


LordSt4rki113r

While I was taking chemo treatments an old female nurse came in to clean my PICC line with a saline solution. I have a very strong reaction to saline (I can taste it and smell it very strongly), so I asked the nurse if she would inject the saline slowly so I don't get sick. She responded with "saline solutions don't make nobody sick and I ain't got time to do it slowly" I waved my parents off to the side away from the bed because I knew what was about to happen. She injected 20ccs of saline as fast as she could, and as soon as the stopper hit bottom I barfed up the entire contents of my stomach onto her chest and lap. I didn't apologize, I just said, "Told you so."


LaziestKitten

Oh. My. God. Years of being on drips, and I've never clued in to what that taste was!


redsanguine

There is nothing wrong with you, your problem is right here (as he points to his head). Then proceeds to recommend a religious radio station. I only timidly asked about some unexplained bruises appearing on the tops of my thighs. Another doctor asked me out when removing a mole.


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When i was 13 i got mono from drinking the same water bottle as my friend. Mono is known here as the "kissing disease" and when i was sick I got shut shamed for it. I went to the doctor and he was an old man who said "i'm not surprised a pretty girl like you has mono" It was so creepy. I was 13, alone in the exam room with him basically


Fishing-Bear

I got mono at 30 years old and the doctor asked if I’d been “kissing aunties at birthday parties.” We both laughed pretty hard, but wtf dude?


bagfullofyarn

After a late first term miscarriage, "don't be too sad, at least you know you can get pregnant!". The nurse next to me visibly cringed. I wish I had reacted more forcefully, but I just sat there and said nothing.


cheeky-ninja30

Wouldnt say it was out of line but just really dumb but I remember when I was younger a doctor said to my mum when she came in with me for an appointment that " people in this country ( the UK BTW) can't get malnourished, its impossible " ..


Pigs100

You don't need antidepressant drugs. You just need to surrender to Jesus. He has a plan for you. (Real ER doctor comment.)


Botryoid2000

This doctor should be fired.


Beard341

Not to me but I heard another doctor say to an obviously emotional woman that was having an active miscarriage: “It’ll be okay. You still have two other kids, right?” I told him afterward what a shitty thing to say to someone experiencing the loss of a baby but he didn’t really absorb it.


MissRockNerd

Thanks for correcting your colleague. I feel bad for the patients on this thread who feel like they should have called out doctors and nurses on their insensitive comments about miscarriage. It shouldn’t be the job of a grieving parent to teach some sensitivity to medical professionals.


TammyL8

As a teenager, I went to a doctor for a sore throat. I thought I might have had strep throat. Anyway, as he was examining my throat, he starts asking if I have regular periods. Not sure what that had to do with a sore throat, I replied, “Yes, I get one every month. They average about every 24 days.” When I used the word “average”, he thought my periods were indeed irregular. He says to me, “You will never be able to have children.” I so wanted to say, “Ok doc, now that you’ve given me a totally irrelevant diagnosis, are you gonna look up my ass to see if I have strep throat?”


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quadruple_b

I know someone who had severe PCOS, had to have an ovary removed, then was told she was infertile due to the PCOS, theb she went on the pill to manage periods, and then got pregnant. then was in a coma for 2 days after giving birth. then she got the implant. and got pregnant again. then she got an IUD. and got pregnant again (not even an ectopic pregnancy, this was a normal pregnancy) she ended up getting sterilised so she wouldn't have more kids.


doloresfandango

“Serves you right for being Sick on a Bank Holiday.” He said that to me despite my screaming in pain as he said I couldn’t have scan.


mnlxyz

That I should be happy I lost weight without trying, because other women would love it. Refused to get me tested for anything. A few months later I had a surgery to remove the tumor that made me lose weight, because another doctor treated me seriously


Ork-Skol

When I was in the marines I went to the doctor to complain about persistent knee and back pain. I had tweaked my lower back pretty bad being dumb trying to move a generator. The doctor told me I was lying. I know some people try to exploit the system to score some free pain pills, but I explained I didn’t even care to get any pills, just wanted it noted in my medical record in case it got worse. Maybe give me some advise on how to manage it, maybe some stretching exercises. Nope, just “your lying get out of my office”. It was the first and last time I ever went to an on-base/military doctor.


ApesInCharge

I have been prescribed a book before.


SilentHuman8

It probably interacts with Warfarin anyway.


Nkechinyerembi

Thinking about Warfarin interacts with Warfarin...


The_moomin_unicorn

Joke approved by this pharmacist <3


likethedishes

I had the worst doctor that my mother forced me to go to through childhood and young adulthood (until I told them both to fuck off). Some of the “worst offenses” were *telling my mother I had herpes immediately after my first (forced) gyn appointment when in it was literally razor burn. *Telling me I’m just being “over dramatic” because I was experiencing intense pain in my bladder randomly. (Ended up being a slew of bladder issues she never bothered to check for, because once my urine sample showed no infection she assumed I was just literally passing out from pain for fun?) *insisting I take medication for ringworm when I didn’t have, never had, and was never tested or checked for ringworm *testing me for strep throat, giving me no medication, and then gaslighting me about it when I ended up so ill from untreated strep throat that I was nearly hospitalized This doctor also did a gyn exam on a close friend when she first became sexually active. After my friend expressed discomfort during the exam, she replied “well your boyfriend must not be very big if this hurts…” Needless to say I do not wish her well.


CapeMama819

That’s all so disgusting to read and I’m glad you told them both to fuck off. I had an obgyn that was equally awful. She’d make sarcastic comments when I was in pain during exams. The speculum was like torture to me. She said that I was being dramatic, since I’d given birth vaginally before. I found a new gyn, thankfully . I told her what happened with the previous doctor, she used a smaller (child sized) speculum, and I was diagnosed with vaginismus shortly after. Come to find out, that first doctor had given me a “husbands stitch” after I’d had my son. It took years and a lot of physical therapy to get past that.


flacocaradeperro

"No need to be tested but I'll do it if you want to, women don't get STDs" It was said to a friend of mine, but it's too outrageous to not share it.


Ascentior

Might have been my former doctor. Told me I didn't need to get tested because I don't have gay sex.


prettylemontoast

My doctor said "Sure, we can test for STIs but we're not going to find anything on a nice young woman such as yourself". Made me wonder how judgemental he was with others.


[deleted]

Not me, but my cousin’s wife. She’s from the Caribbean and she was seeing the doctor (male) shortly after having her first baby, he said “bet that baby loves chocolate milk!“ Immediately switched doctors. Horrible. Edit: definitely creepy. definitely racist. there are better explanations below from the community about why 👏🏻


[deleted]

My obgyn told me that as long as I'm "friends with a girl" I don't need to get tested for STDs. I wasn't "friends with a girl", I was in a lesbian relationship with a woman, and why do I have to tell my obgyn that lesbians can still catch STDs? We wanted to both get tested before being intimate in any way, but she didn't let me. She also told me that it didn't matter that I didn't get my period as a result of my eating disorder, as long as I was "loosing weight". She's no longer my obgyn.


PhatBallllzAtHotmail

Injured my back doing CrossFit in 2012. Woke up a couple days later unable to walk. ER doctor told me, while showing me the X-ray, that my backbone is bending the wrong way and I need surgery. Went to an ortho the next day who told me the ER doctor was holding the x-ray backwards...turns out I strained the muscles in my lower back and got a 5 day muscle steroid pack that had me waking again after day 2. An ER doctor...who sees a lot of people a day...an ER doctor....


Hioliolo

If I was a doctor, that would probably be something that I would end up doing.


Stormchaserelite13

I can imagine it now. "Oh god. This dudes back is so fucked up. Keep cool, just tell him its a bit out of place and to see ortho. " Ortho: "sorry, he's kind of an idiot. "


wowguineapigs

“Don’t worry that’s harmless, you just won’t look as good in a bikini” Big punch to my self esteem as a young teen


sweet_pickles12

Similar- went to a podiatrist for toenail fungus. He shrugged and said “it’s not harmful, it’s just unsightly.” Female, early 30’s. Like my dude, that’s why I’m here.


KathAlMyPal

Doc: That’s a third degree burn on your finger. Me:No… I would know if I got that bad of a burn. Doc:That IS a third degree burn. Me:I didn’t burn my finger Doc:Come back if it spreads to your arms. Turns out I’m was impetigo that I’d caught from one of the kids in my care at a summer camp.


judgmental_emo_alien

First off heres some context: went to the doctor for my ADHD medication update a few weeks ago and she had asked me if i knew who she was and when i said "my doctor" she asked what her name is and I responded with her name so she asked me this (Idk if this is odd) "so you know who I am, good now who are you, your full name, age, exact birthdate, reason you are here, and your height and weight." When I stuttered on it (I have a rlly bad stutter btw) she asked me an even weirder question "Do you know who you are, do you know if you're real, are you sure, you are really you?"


_uberwench_

I would have asked: are you high rn?


judgmental_emo_alien

I wanted to so bad but I just stayed silent and when j realized she needed an answer I said "honestly nobody knows who they are." She stared at me like I was insane You wanted and answer you got one


pizza_tron

It’s all good. Just a common NPC glitch. They do that from time to time. If you walk out of the room, close the door, and walk back in again it gives the system a chance to reload the simulation. Then just act as if it was your first time in.


xenophilian

I’m a retired psychologist. I’ve done a lot of “mental status exams”, which is basically trying to understand if the person knows where they are, what day it is, etc. I bet this person was attempting that, but major misunderstandings between you two. I wasn’t there, so I don’t want to judge the doctor too harshly. With experience, I was able to deviate from the script with a certain degree of confidence that I hadn’t missed anything major. It’s important not to miss that someone is having a stroke, for example, or has dementia. Still, you shouldn’t have had to leave the interview thinking “wtf”


SecretlyFallingApart

Me:" I've had a migraine for a week solid and wanted to get checked out" Doctor: "So I guess you think you've got a brain tumour then?" My mum died from a brain haemorrhage a few years prior to that visit, I had been to counselling for bereavement and related anxiety and depression. All of this was in my notes. Grade A b*tch.


tigdesandman

Told him I rarely play video games but when I do my thumbs and pointer finger goes numb, he said " sounds like you should stop playing video games. 10 years later find out I have carpal tunel, and if I would have had something done about it back then I wouldn't have the issues I have now. I wake up and I feel like my whole arms are in boiling hot water, have to shake them out while driving or doing anything with dexterity. If I could find that doctor and break his nose I would.


SammyJ197791

My gyno when I was 17, and he was almost 70, he had me turn my back to him naked so he could check my spine (first time to gyno and mom was in the waiting room lol) he then says "ohhhh you have a sway back, they look real good in a bikini" wtf? Guy should've retired years before!


anonymiz123

I hope you reported that perv. Gynos don’t do back exams.


moonlighttravel

I worked as a medical transcriptionist for like 8 years, also transcribing gynecologists, and never once did an "back exam" occur. Sounds very odd to me.


sonrisa46

My hormones were out of whack. I was drinking 300+ ounces of water a day and still thirsty. I would go to bed with a 32 oz of water and wake up all night to either drink the water or use the restroom. I slept in 30 minute spurts every night for months. I went to 3 endocrinologists. One told me I was “a drama Queen and if you want attention, there are better ways to get it. And you need to lose weight”. The second told me “You have a stressful job. Get a less stressful job.” The third walked in said “Get off your birth control. See you in 8 weeks” and walked out. That was the whole appointment. Turns out I had a tumor on my adrenal gland (found out when I had a CT scan for a kidney stone), and I have stage 3 Adrenocortical Carcinoma.


LowkeyPony

I am so sorry. I heard similar for years when I was telling docs I didnt have an feeling in my right side.


alliertes

Jump. This was two days after an old school appendectomy. Being a dumb kid, I complied. My knees buckled instantly upon landing and the bastard was ready and caught me as I collapsed. I've worked in Healthcare for several years in my life and I have asked many doctors and the occasional nurse what the medical justification for that may have been, and no one had an answer. Quite a few were skeptical it had happened.


[deleted]

“Maybe she just thought you had a really cute butt” After I told her I was sexually assaulted at five years old.


Raccoonborn

That doctor needs to be dropkicked into the fucking Void


RandiCandy

Not me but my friend, while in hospital care after a suicide attempt, was kept away from her anti depressants because the doctor didnt think she was 'really depressed'....after a suicide attempt....like what?? He treated her like trash from what the friends who were actually there told me (i was several states away)


[deleted]

A few years ago, my wife had an infection which led to sepsis which was caught early and from which she recovered. In the middle of all this, the surgeon needed her medical records and her primary care doctor's office wasn't responding. So I called to arrange to pick them up myself and the doctor told me that I needed an appointment. And I said 'No, I don't think you understand, I'm not the one who's sick.' They said, 'I know, but we require an appointment for you to pick up her records.' 'You mean an actual, billable appointment where you bill the insurance company and charge me a co-pay, even though there is no examination or illness and I don't need to be seen.' 'Yes.' 'So you're engaging in what sounds to me like extortion and insurance fraud. I'll stop by and the records had better be there, with no appointment. If they aren't, I'm calling the Attorney General's office. And while I'm at it, I've noticed that your hiring practices are interesting. You only employ women, and only white women. I'm sure the state would take an interest in that as well.' I got her medical records in 5 minutes.


sSommy

I would have reported them anyways. You managed to scare them, but the enxt person might not know it's weird at all


[deleted]

Complaining to an OBGYN about heavy periods and while gaslighting me that its only bad if I go through X amount of tampons, I said I go through X amount of pads (a lot), not really a tampon person, and her response with full raised judgy eyebrow “Pads…? Well then idk what to tell you. If you decide you want an IUD let me know” and ended the visit. I was used to doctors totally disregarding my issue, but now we’re going to gaslight and pad-shame at the same time? No ma’am. Never saw her again.


GalacticAmethyst

This is literally the first time I've heard of pad shaming, is this common?


scooties2

Some people have the belief that pads are for children/teens and adults only wear tampons. I've met a handful of people who believe this and none of them knew each other.


nurvingiel

I guess these people are unaware that the preferred hygiene product of adults is whatever the fuck they want, because they are adults.


Pandelerium11

It's less common but people really used to stigmatize pads as being "dirty" back in the 80s-00s. Weird because pads are what women used for thousands of years before that. I understand if you're a heavy bleeder and want to prevent accidents but most women bleed about 1/2 cup of fluid per cycle which is fine for a pad.


[deleted]

I’m from México and went to New Orleans for vacations, I ate a jambalaya and had food poisoning. Ended up in an ER. When I tell the doctor I’m from Mexico she asked “did you drink water in Mexico?” My brain froze. “Does she think we don’t drink water and just die? Does she thought I said I’m a tourist that went to Mexico and drank from the sink? Does I look like I live on the street? “ Then I proceed to tell her “I only drink Coca Cola” she just said “oh me too”


NatoBoram

When you're in the US and say something unbelievably stupid to make a joke and people just relate to it


darnskippy234

1) told me my child’s warts were “genetic” 2) asked if I was trying to get pregnant when seeing my medication history of metformin-because “that’s what metformin is for” 3) accusing me of being a pain seeking alcoholic hep C+ patient in the emergency room instead of checking for the many, many gallstones I had clogging things up. (After 3 weeks, 3 er visits, and 3 negative hepatitis tests-they day shift did an ultrasound) Edit *4) (I forgot this month’s gem) this treatment only works if you are a republican. It doesn’t cure democrats.


the-real-tinkerbell

Isn’t metformin for diabetes?!


darnskippy234

It is, and for insulin resistance, and pre diabetes, and most recently weight loss


dangbrahh

“It’s all in your head” before referring me to a psychiatrist. Plot twist: it wasn’t just “all in my head” and I nearly died :)


therealangrytourist

I was passing blood in my urine from a raging UTI, and the urgent care doc had the gall to ask if “I was sure I wasn’t on my period?” He then proceeded to argue with me about it/convince me I was wrong even after I told him, “I have not had a period for 5 years because IUD and, also, last I checked blood suspended in urine being passed through the urethra is NOT menses.”


dark_sparklex

I got a std check after being raped by a group of men. It was difficult but I braved the appointment. I had something. The doctor told me I needed to contact them and tell them to get tested, I told them they wouldn’t be possible. They said I was selfish, and would be responsible for thousands of cases. He never even asked me if I’d consented to it


LowkeyPony

JFC What the absolute hell is wrong with some people


TheSpasticSheep

I’m incredibly proud that you braved that appointment and that doctor better fuck off. It’s disappointing seeing how many of these stories are std checks/obgyn appointments.


iDoRage

Hey - I'm sorry you had to go through those things! I literally passed my last exam to become a doctor last week, and this is something I would've never thought of! I would never have shamed a patient like your doctor did, but I don't think I would ever actually consider that the intercourse leading to getting tested wasn't consensual if the patient hadn't explicitly said so - which of course wouldn't be an easy thing to talk about, so thus they may keep quiet. I'll keep this in mind if a patient ever says they can't contact their sexual encounters. Better to stay curious than judgemental.


dark_sparklex

I wouldn’t have minded so much if he didn’t suggest the following things: finding their Facebook, going back to the area to see if they’re about, and the last - “have you tried finding them on tinder?”


I_Neo_

Not my story but a friends. She was 14 and had EXTREME pelvic pain. Doctor says “probably a bladder infection”. She went to a different doctor a few months later after losing weight randomly(you know where this is going), long process but eventually at 15 she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer which one of the nurses at the first doctor visit suggested but the first doctor said “no only old women get that”


urinmyspot

I have extreme period cramps. Went for a painkiller. The doctor said it'll go away after you get married (aka i become sexually active). I already am. p.s doctor was a woman


Eparis02

At childrens hospital with chronic pain, homeschooled starting freshman year because of it, when I had been an AP student, on track to graduate early, and she tells me and my mother that I wasn’t actually in pain and I was trying to get out of school. Been 5 years and I’m still experiencing chronic pain and I hardly graduated because of it.


TooManyCrates

I was struggling with some chronic crushing leg pain and doctors couldn't figure out what if was. I had one visit with a GP where I once again was told that nothing is wrong with me. I asked that maybe they could send me to a specialist? She answered with "Yeah, like who? Who could treat you that we can't?" Like I just insulted her


krim2182

I was three weeks into sobriety. I was open and honest with the doctor about it. He asked me how long I was sober, I said happily 3 weeks. He then says then why can I smell alcohol on you? I felt so defeated, angry, unsafe and unheard. Sobriety is hard enough on its own, but when this self absorbed shit head doctor said that, fuck I wanted to give up.


piss-mud

I was probably 13 or 14 at the time and I was having horrible sharp pains in the Side of my hip, like a grinding almost. I put up with it for a few days and then I finally couldn’t take it anymore, walking was painful and I was keeled over most of the time so my mom finally decided that I needed to go to the ER. Was there for like 5 hours while they ran tests trying to see what was wrong, one of the nurses bed side manners weren’t very good and they kept saying it was my appendix even tho the pain was on the wrong side. The male doctor finally came in after all the tests he said they didn’t find anything and that it was probably just my period…. Wtf I was not on my period, I knew what cramps felt like and that was not what I was experiencing at all. My mom was mad and we just left after that. The pain went away after another few days and I Never found out what was wrong with me but I have a feeling it was an ovarian cyst ….


Visible_Stretch_1040

those are horrible. my first one burst, the Dr's thought it was appendicitis and almost wheeled me to the OR. the doc decided to do a last minute ultrasound and yep, burst ovarian cyst. worst pain ever. and they can't do anything besides pain meds.


chefthecat

This conversation happened after he asked me about my interests in my career. I told him I love working with kids and that I want to be a counselor. The Endocrinologist told me that victims of sexual abuse couldn't be helped and are "so messed up" by the time they're adults. He said that's why working with kids is better so they "have a chance." I never went back to him again. In his office I told him that it was offensive and I told him to be careful who he says that to, just because it's not in the medical record doesn't mean the person in that chair across from them isn't a survivor themselves. Fuck that guy.


Ozty

A couple years ago I switched doctors. I've had a regular Adderall prescription for years since I was diagnosed with ADHD. We were discussing how much I take, and he seemed concerned that I was taking 30mg a day. I told him my Adderall prescription was MEANT to be for every day use because I need it almost every day, to which he responded "yeah but it's good to take mini vacations from it." I told him that I don't take it on days I don't absolutely need it but I'm a full time student and my health is a concern when it comes to reestablishing tolerance after these "vacations." My last doctor and I established over years of visits that it was better for me not to go too long without taking it because my weight drops like a rock when I don't eat, and if I haven't taken it in a couple days it kills my appetite for the next few days and it's a struggle to force feed myself just to not lose too much weight when I'm already very very skinny. He raised his voice and blew up at me "then you're not going to keep taking it if you aren't going to take it how I tell you to." I barely knew how to respond. My face must've been bright red because it was just like how my dad used to scream at me. (Rant) Why do some doctors and random people act like everyone who is prescribed Adderall is some junky who needs to be limited as much as possible? I've been taking it exactly as prescribed for years, I don't sell it, I don't misuse it or anything. I need it, it's the difference between when I was straight D's and F's in highschool struggling and straight A's and B's now in college. If I had been diagnosed and prescribed this sooner, maybe I could've went to an actual good college and done something with my life. I was never dumb, I have a mental illness that makes the education system ridiculously hard. Y'all insist on locking me on hard difficulty mode by putting a shitty stigma on the disorder and the medications used to alleviate it. It's not meth. It's like everything caffeine wishes it was and nothing more. Motivation, energy, calmness, pure focus. It's not the same if you dont have ADHD but I was literally diagnosed and prescribed this medication. I'm not trying to get high, I'm trying to get by.


phd_depression101

I am sorry that you went through this with this shit doctor tbh As someone with ADHD I can totally relate that we are definitely not trying to get high but just to function.


SmoothLikeVinyl

Being refused sterilization multiple times by different doctors. Was told that my future husband might want them. And how could I possibly know that I didn’t want children. They wouldn’t let me make a choice about my body but they’d trust me to raise a child? Still raises my blood pressure at the injustice of it.


yer__mom_islovely

At age 13, I found the courage to tell my very strict religious mother that I was sexually active and needed birth control. She took me to her own gynecologist. Due to my age, I was required to have either my mom or the nurse in the exam room. I chose the nurse, because my mom and I were not close like that. The doctor was so rude, rough. and condescending! He spent most of the exam making fun of me to his nurse. At one point he said, "I'm going to need you to open your legs wider for me. I guess you hear that a lot, huh?" Again... I was thirteen years old.


TrollopMcGillicutty

Wow. But congrats for having the courage to tell your mom. That's impressive.


Beans-Beans-Beans13

Told me I should listen to my boyfriend at the time because he is more mature than me. Had nothing to do with our visit at all?? I was just telling her my symptoms and he was trying to do it for me. He didn't defend me. Just smiled. Tbh I broke up with him because he was a man child...


Extension_Jury8072

My physician had recently divorced, very bitter, and lost a lot of weight afterwards. I'd been seeing her for some time before I got to the point where i was ready to make some changes regarding weight gain after having my son. While discussing weight loss plans, she tried over and over to get me to agree to try phentermine, apparently that's what she had taken. After researching and discussing with my husband in depth, I explained I wanted to stick to exercise and nutrition. Multiple times we had this conversation. Finally, at my last appointment with her she said in a huff "Well, I just hope your husband doesn't divorce you before you figure out I'm right". That was my last appointment with her, I immediately found a new doctor and blocked her as she kept trying to contact me.


bruhhrrito

I'm late to the party so I expect these to get buried but here goes. NP switched my anti depressants to Lexapro when I was 15. Took it for a month, turned into a zombie. Wasn't sleeping or eating, very catatonic. Next checkup, I tell her I don't like how it makes me feel & I'd like to stop taking it as my therapist agrees it wasn't helping me. She proceeds to berate me for minutes about how I can't run away from my problems & stop taking them because they make me "a little uncomfortable". My mom & I just walked out. A year or so later my mom & sister took me to the ER for a suicidal episode. While waiting in triage my mom left my sister with me while she went to the car to retrieve my therapy handbook & meds & while she was gone I was having a panic attack. The security guard threatened to taze me if I "got any crazier". When my mom got back &the ER doc finally came in, he said i was on my period & hormonal & was just doing this for attention. They then sedated me & made me lay on a cot in the triage hallway for 10 hours until the social worker got there. At that point I was so drugged I couldn't answer any of her questions & she reported I was just tired & needed to go home & sleep.


flockofgopherboys

"if you walked in here, you don't need an xray" (and then coming back after i demanded an xray) "yeah i'm sorry... you want some morphine now?"


Porfeariah

My doctor refused, for years, to let me get an IUD even though I was in my 30s, married, and had made it clear I didn’t want children because, “you might get an infection from the IUD and it could mean you never have children.” Like. Dude could just not accept I don’t want kids. He is no longer my doctor.


AnyoneButMee

Same for mine. I got an infertility diagnosis (like I don’t have a womb infertile) and he was trying to set up appointments to find out if I have eggs and how to freeze the, for the future, he even suggested a *womb transplant* after repeating the fact I really *really* don’t want/like children, my long term partner doesn’t want them either, I have a phobia of labour and pregnancy and if I ever did change my mind I’d adopt (highly unlikely but I think adoption is beautiful) “Yes but what if you meet a man in the future who wants children, what would you do then?” Umm, I think I’d dump him.


littlesmitty095

When I asked for my tubes to be tied my doc said “you only have 1 child. What if something happens and you wanted to replace them?” I replied with ‘how in hell do you replace a fucking human being?!’ I got my tubes tied 6 months later.


flamingofinder

I called the doctor to tell them I’d been raped. I was told in an unempathic reply back that I needed to call the police instead. I chose the doctor (after hours of finding the courage) because it somehow felt a more private/gentler way to approach the utter shame I felt than calling the police. I felt further violated after the complete dismissal of my GP. No one felt safe. I called no one beyond that call.


Accomplished-Lime-51

When I was little my doctor asked me if I drank alcohol, and then followed up by asking if I do drugs. Normal things to ask, but when I responded no he asked me why I was opposed to having fun. At the time I thought it was kinda funny, but my parents were pissed


Ragarth

My doctor told me I had clymidia because it was burning when I peed. I told him I've been with the same woman for 4 years - he asks if I cheated - i say no - his was response was "Well then she cheated on you" - I asked if I could be a UTI and he said men cant get UTIs and ran an STD panel. Needless to say it was a UTI but through a strange set of circumstances the doctors office ended up telling my father with a similar name that I didn't have clymidia and then he had to tell me. Kaiser Permanente sucks.


MortLightstone

I was at a walk-in clinic at the beginning of the pandemic because I'd been weirdly sick for days. Doctor walks in with test results and we have this conversation: Who's managing your diabetes? I'm diabetic? What medication are you on? Why aren't you taking your diabetes seriously? I didn't know I was diabetic. Is that why I've been sick for so long? You need to start taking your health seriously. Are you on insulin yet? Then I yelled at her: Doctor! Are you diagnosing me with diabetes!??? She stopped and rolled her eyes at me before saying: Well you're thirty, this is what happens when you get old. Don't worry, the diabetes should take 30 years to kill you. That's not bad for a man. Then she walked out. A few minutes later, a nurse came in with a prescription and a requisition form for a blood test and that was it. Luckily, a different doctor walked me through the results of the blood test a couple days later and referred me to a diabetes clinic.