Doctors, What's Something you had to Explain that you thought was COMMON KNOWLEDGE? - Reddit Podcast

I am disturbed that there are people having children who don’t understand basic human anatomy.

About that 27 year old woman not knowing about periods. So she thought she had abnormal bleeding and waited more than 10 years before she said something? That in itself is quite concerning 🤔

I feel like doctors should be allowed to tell people when their mistreatment caused another person suffering, injury, or even death.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

In my teens, I was told that a concussion is a fracture of the skull, and so that is what I believed for decades. In my 40s, I was in an accident, and was frustrated that the doctor insisted that I had a concussion when I kept arguing that my head didn't come in contact with anything so my skull could not have been fractured. He was very kind as he updated my knowledge on just what a concussion is.

10 years working in a pharmacy. Inhalers and people's ideas of who to take them. Funniest moment, patient demonstrated their technique as they didn't think their salbutamol was working. I said "good technique, you exhaled, then inhaled while pressing button and finally you held your breath for a few seconds. Only one thing I would, suggest, take the lid off first!"

I remember a news article from (I think) the early 2000s-ish. A woman tried to sue a contraceptive manufacturer because she used their contraceptive jelly and still got pregnant. She failed to read the instructions and ate it on toast. An RN friend of mind told me a story from only a few years ago about a couple that wanted to know why they weren't getting pregnant even though they'd been married for almost seven years. The doctor asked the usual questions: do either or both of them smoke or drink, are they currently taking any medications, etc. It turns out the couple had intercourse exactly once, on their wedding night, and were waiting for God to bless their marriage with a baby. It took the combined efforts of the doctor and the hospital chaplain to get them to understand that sex makes babies.

Epileptic here, DO NOT PUT THINGS INTO A SEIZING PERSON'S MOUTH. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF THEY ARE BITING THEIR TONGUE. YOU COULD ACCIDENTALLY SMOTHER THEM BY PRIORITIZING THEIR TONGUE OVER THEIR AIRWAY.

In the UK a couple killed their 3 month old baby in 1999 by feeding it the adult food to save money. The "mashed potato and gravy" and breakfast oats contained 18 times the recommended levels of salt for a baby, and caused brain and liver damage.

Story 22 broke my heart. So selfless and kind. Rule of the world: the stupidest question is the one never asked.

The brain transplant one was just sad, not stupid.

The most disturbing stories are the ones involving innocent children. There should be a licence for having kids.

Passing down a genetic condition isn't your fault. When I first got sick, my great grandmother didn't tell anyone about her celiac because she didn't want to be at fault of my sickness. Instead she caused months of unnecessary tests as with no family history of celiac, I wasn't tested for it until everything else was ruled out. I didn't find out until later. After the whole story repeated, because I wanted to know if I have an allergy or an overbearing hippy-mom, and wasn't aware of my great grandmother's condition.

The scurvy story, totally possible. A friend of mine is an ER nurse and the caziest thing he saw was a guy with scurvy. I kid you not, they video called a specialist to confirm the diagnosis. Turns out the man had just moved out of his parents' home and had NO IDEA how to feed himself in a healthy manner and developed freaking scurvy . I mean... that is the pinacle of food ignorance in the 21th century.

Story #8, how horrible that the 17-year-old was so neglected that she was not taught proper wiping. 😢

For the record, three 48-oz slushies is about 13 cans of regular soda -- in sugar content.

"A PHD isn't that kind of doctor... please don't sow me your rash..." 🤣 Lost count of how many times I've had to explain that I'm NOT a medical doctor......

I’m a nurse and the craziest thing I’ve experienced was this teen who was pregnant and positive for multiple std’s. She claimed she had no idea how that could have happened and explain how you can get pregnant/infections.

Oh my goddess! I lived story #12. Seventeen or so years ago my mother (in her 80s) started showing signs of a stroke. This was on a Friday I think, maybe Thursday or Saturday. I urged my dad to take her to the ER or call 911. Decades of habit of refuting anything and everything I said had him refusing, saying she could wait until her doctor's appointment Monday morning. She never made it back home, being sent to a rehabilitation hospital after several days in Letterman Hospital. She was there about 4 or 5 months before passing away.

There's an episode of House with a clinic patient that is basically the same as the inhaler story - except she was spraying it on her neck. Some of the comments claimed that nobody could be that stupid. Good to know that they most certainly can be! It's amazing that the human race has made it so far.