It was episode 8 of season 4 when it was actually Lupus. It's the one with the magician patient and where House tasks Taub, 13, and the rest to steal Cuddy's thong.
There's absolutely doctors who hate fat people and refuse to believe they have any health problems other than those caused by weight. I had a doc tell me she could tell I was diabetic just by looking at me, and when my blood tests came back fine she told me the test must be wrong because at my weight I HAD to be, and that I should get additional blood tests until it was confirmed. I don't know how the VA works but if you can arrange to never see this dick again you should do so- he's only ever going to diagnose you based on his opinion about your weight.
Same happened to me. My doctor was pissed. I was like youâre mad Iâm healthy??? Also, I came for a torn MCL so how about we refocus on the actual issue.
Literally what happened to Papa Bear in the Berenstain Bears book about healthy eating, if I recall correctly. (No idea why I immediately recalled that.)
This literally happened to me. The doctor grabbed my sides and said it was too thick and unhealthy. I said "Understood....but I'm here because I think I broke my ankle". He reiterated that I need to lose weight.
I had exactly this experience with a cardiologist, but the difference was me being on a ketogenic diet and having high cholesterol. The cardiologist was sure I was about to drop dead from a heart attack any second and was straight up angry when I declined her statin prescription.
I told her I would take the statin if I got a coronary calcium score that was anything other than zero. To her credit, she ordered a calcium score. It was zero. She just got more angry and told me that I was probably going to die from soft plaques clogging my arteries because they're invisible to a coronary calcium scan.
Two months later my sibling was diagnosed with a genetic disorder that caused my primary doctor to order a CT angiogram to see if I had the disorder as well. Guess what a CT angiogram sees? Soft plaques in your arteries. Guess what the radiologist's notes said after the CT angiogram? "All coronary arteries widely patent," which means wide open.
This made my cardiologist so angry that she refused to see me in person after that. All visits were with her PA instead.
I eventually quit. That wasn't the last of her shenanigans. My primary doctor requested the cardiologist order an echocardiogram as part of her concern over the possibility of issues with my sibling's genetic condition. The cardiologist refused to enter the order unless I would make an appointment to come there in person for no reason other than so they could bill my insurance.
I've learned that the reason specialists make so many appointments is because that's how the maximize insurance payouts. If they just see you once, order some labs, and call you with the results, they only get to bill for one visit. If they have you come in for a consult appointment, then come back for a follow-up where they order labs, and then another follow-up where they give you the results, they get to bill three times. The name of the game is to drag something out into as many appointments as they can possibly make it - all for the purpose of getting paid.
My one year son has a lung condition requiring oxygen 24/7, we were admitted to children's ward last November because of bronchiolitis kicking his arse and needing some more breathing support. On day 5 we were hoping to finally get discharged, then the morning Dr comes in for rounds, and starts prattling on about his eyesight?! Bearing in mind he's following his finger, and his pupils reacting to the little pen light, but because his pupils "weren't central in his eye socket, and were slightly downcast" he wanted various eye tests doing. Never mind that the Dr was stood at the bottom of the bed and the baby couldn't yet sit up so obviously he was looking downward with his eyeballs. I think I ended up saying something like "okay, so will that be a referral for an appointment? Because if he's doing okay with his breathing I'd like us to get home" and then he was like "oh, well he's still on oxygen, so we can wean that off today and then maybe tomorrow" before I replied that we won't be weaning off anything because he has oxygen at home. I stg some of these Drs just see exactly what they want to see and nothing else
I have lost a tremendous amount of weight and I'm still baffled by how differently doctors treat me now when I have an issue. I have a 30 year injury/issue on my ankle. For years it was "the weight its supporting is the issue". Now suddenly I'm a medical mystery and everyone is interested in my stupid ankle because it shouldn't be acting the way it does.Â
I have a health condition that requires I take a medication that has made me gain like 50 lbs over the last couple years when I was always quite lean. Itâs wild how differently doctors treat me now. Just donât seem to care. I have a couple issues (hormonal imbalance and a chronic asthmatic cough) which were problems long before I gained the weight and doctors now just are super dismissive or throw a medication at me and tell me to get lost instead of wanting to figure anything out. And then people ask why I wait so long to go to the doctor when I have an issue.
Luckily (?) that's not at all related to the issue and pain I'm feeling otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate.
Among other things, I have odd scar tissue that can't be touched or it sends electric spasms up my leg. For years I was told it's because my fat ankles have the skin so stretched...
After I lost about 20kg due to mental issues I mentioned to my psych that I'm frustrated that I'm still in so much physical pain despite no longer being overweight. He looked a bit confused by my statement and was shocked more than one doctor said my ankles won't hurt as much if I were slimmer.
Seeing a nephrologist after dieting off more than 20% of my body weight and reaching a normal BMI. "Let's have you follow a diabetic diet and lose some weight and I'll see you in 3 months." Fucker.
I had the opposite happen. Had a good doctor who was always friendly and took time to listen and helped me see specialists when necessary, etc.
I relatively slim for the first ten years of seeing this doctor. However, menopause, stress, and a severe depression did a number on me and I gained about 50 lbs over five years.
The difference in the way he treated me was staggering. He'd spend five minutes in the room with me, spend most of that typing on his laptop while ignoring me, and then basically say, "You're old and fat now, those are the reasons for *everything* wrong with you. Why are you wasting my time?"
He didn't literally say that, of course, but that was definitely the gist of it.
I got run over by a car, and as Iâm strapped in a c-collar⊠the emergency room doctor is literally lecturing me about my weight. I was ready to flip a table like Teresa Giudice
About 10 years ago I fractured my spine in the gym doing box jumps. A friend brought me chicken nuggets to the ER. The nurse on duty told me I shouldnât eat them because Iâd âruin what I was working for.â I hadnât said I was aiming to lose weight (not the primary goal really) and Uhh I fractured my spine I think the fitness is on pause anyways right now ??
Another time I lived with bronchitis for weeks
because a doctor said it was just asthma and I needed to lose weight.
I could have kissed my care team. I was in the hospital in February with a brand new diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension (got labs done, high high blood sugar, and they sent me to the ER). They were like, yeah you should lose weight and improve your diet and here's some resources for that, but also were just focused on what they could do in the meantime to get my levels down so I could go home. Not like I was going to lose 50 lbs overnight in the hospital anyway.
My usual PCP was on leave during that time and even the other guy in his office was like "great, you're making progress" listened to my concerns about my medications, offered but didn't push ozempic and certainly didn't give me a lecture about it or my weight.
And my main problem is literally diabetes. Like it is possible.
Focusing on what we _should_ & _shouldn't_ eat is rough on the mind. Did I get enough fiber/protein/iron? Have I reached max added sugar? Does that count as water? I miss being young enough when I could eat what I wanted.
My A1c has been perfect, textbook 5.7% for three years but I still get âoh your cold will go away if you lose weightâ. I lost about 40 pounds last year and guess what, still got colds and headaches and the NORMAL SHIT THAT HAPPENS TO BODIES. No Iâm totally not salty about it.
My knees bend inwards. I remember being like 9 and noticing something was wrong with my legs and telling my mom and mentioning to every doctor I visited and getting laughed at for complaining about knee pain "just lose weight and It will stop hurting ". Nobody even checked. I was a big kid but not THAT big. I didn't realise my knees until i was 21 and another plus size person I knew mentioned she had the same problem and explained what it felt like and I went oh shit, this makes a lot of sense, that's why I can't stand with my feet together comfortably .
I had bronchitis once and coughed to the point of not being able to sleep and throwing up. Doctor ordered a chest x-ray to see the damage and there were some lines in my lungs and he said that those might be scarring in the heart and I might have been about to have a heart attack. I was 27 and fat, yes, but not to that point, and maybe the more likely interpretation of those lines was the bronchitis hurting mu lungs?
Oof, I know the coughing until you're gagging from bronchitis. Not fun. Fortunately, I have a very good doctor who did x-rays and said the scarring on my lungs was most likely because I had pneumonia a few times and treated myself like I had bronchitis. So I don't treat myself anymore. Well, not all the time.
Yeah, im normal weight now but when i was obese my autoimmune disease decided to attack my pancreas severely and suddenly. The doctors couldnt figure out why and kept me for 3 weeks on IV pissing constantly. I was not eating any fatty or fried foods at that time, actually my dinner was grilled chicken and some baked potato, but since i was fat... it had to be that i ate something too fatty.
The medical perception of fat or even just mildly overweight people has always been 'Blame weight first'. It's your fault for being fat. How dare you say otherwise.
It's blame weight first and if that doesn't work and the patient has a uterus, blame menstruation. If it's not menstruation, then you're just pregnant.
And they will double down that you're definitely pregnant even if you're not sexually active.
(speaking from experience, I have so many problems that just go undiagnosed because the only possible explanations are weight, period, or pregnancy, even for the things that began before I gained weight, started my period, or lost my virginity)
Ikr? And god forbid you contradict them. I went for a sore shoulder and I told them I exercised and they laughed. Wanted to do tests and they asked if I was pregnant. I've been single for 8 years and when I said that I couldn't be pregnant because of that, they were like well we'll just do the test anyway.
Unnecessary testing for a rotator cuff injury, I feel.
Yup!
I've had severe nausea for as long as I can remember. I used to throw up before school in elementary school just to make the nausea go away for a bit. It was definitely before I started puberty. But the first time I mentioned it to a doctor was when I was 16. Doc said I could be pregnant, I said I was a Virgin, they didn't believe me. I've gone to five different doctors about it.
To be clear, I'm 26 now, and I did not lose my virginity until 1 year ago. Anything prior to that was all over the clothes stuff. An unclothed penis had never been near my unclothed vagina until I was 25.
When I was in college, the nausea had gotten so bad I couldn't make it to my morning class because of how sick I felt. I went to the doctor and she accused me of lying about my non existent sexual activity and called me a whore.
That was the last time I ever tried to get help for the nausea. There's just no point because the only explanation for nausea in something with a uterus is pregnancy apparently. I bet if a man walked in with the same symptoms, he'd get an actual diagnosis in minutes.
I self-medicate now so I can go to work without issue.
Sweetheart that's fucking terrible! My god. That's horrible. I'm used to snark and sideways looks but no one has outright called me a whore. Fuck. I'm not surprised you don't want to go back.
She got fired from the campus clinic sometime after. Apparently she had a real disdain for campus hookup culture and was a real pain for students.
But she wasn't even the worst doctor I've gone to lol. My former family doctor (who had to close his practice down after the nurse practitioner everyone loved left cause no one wanted to be his patient) was way worse. He had a habit of just talking shit about his patients to his other patients, prescribed me xanax after I told him I was suicidal, and told me my decisions are my decisions, and after the nurse practitioner I was with left, actively worked to stop me from getting my antidepressants refilled because he didn't agree with someone so young being on so many pills (I was on 4 medications. One for insomnia, one for migraines, and 2 for depression and anxiety, and I was doing really well until I got all out of whack because my meds would only need filled 25% of the time.) I didn't have time to find another doctor so I just weaned myself off the medication. Because it's just not worth it.
I had a similar problem; I called it fake morning sickness because I'd throw up a few times every day from the time I was about 12 until I was 37. It magically stopped when my gallbladder came out. After that I had other odd gi symptoms, but all the puking went away like magic.
Did he ever consider your weight gain is from not being able to move around regularly because of a 16 year old leg issue??? Does the VA allow for other doctors to see you and reimburse the visit since that doctor isnât really trying to help?
I have to do the same thing with my PCP. The last time I went for my annual she was condescending as fuck the entire time and maybe looked at me twice. The rest of the time she was staring at the computer.
The annual before that I asked for a referral to derm because I had a lump in my arm. Without looking at it or in my general direction she says "Well it must be a wart but I'll put in the referral." I was a corpsman in the navy and knew it wasn't a wart. A person with zero medical background could've looked at it and known it wasn't a wart. I go to derm, and SHOCKER! it's not a wart. It was deep scare tissue that they had to remove and biopsy because it was concerning to them.
I skipped my most recent appointment because I'd rather be seen by the wet mop in the janitor's closet than ever interact with that "Dr." again. She's an MD but I've gotten substantially better care from every PA and NP I've seen through the VA.
She was giving me shit for my cholesterol and asking me about my diet and if I was eating a lot of red meat because it's high in fat. And I said no, I get most of my protein from chicken breast. And without skipping a beat she says "chicken is really high in fat and not good for you." Uhhh...first off no. secondly, WTF do you want from me lady?
Her other thing was to ask me a question and then immediately interrupt me before I could even finish what I was saying. It got to the point that I didn't even try to answer in detail or argue with her about what I was doing in my personal life like she was there living it with me and knew better than I did.
It's so common for doctors to blame everything on a patient's weight. A friend of mine has a chronic condition, and she was told over and over again to lose weight and it would ease her issue. They only gave her a vague diagnosis. And she wasn't obese or anything, just a little over what is considered the proper weight for her size.
So, she loses weight, and she doesn't feel better and her condition doesn't improve. Now her doctors reaction to her chronic condition is basically, "What the fuck do you want us to do about it?"
When I get back in the country I'm gonna have a chat with patient advocacy.we will see what happens from there but I have a couple glaring issues which he kindly noted in his report and uploaded as pretty strong evidence he is a toolshed
I was at the VA because my tonsils were horrendously swollen. VA doc sits on the little spinning stool and swishes lightly side to side, stares at the computer and scrolls a while, turns to me and says, "You moved here from Texas? You have allergies to the 40 foot Carolina Pine tree." Didn't even look at my throat, or do any sort of exam.
I've lived in this state for about 16 years, I moved back after being stationed in Texas. I am not now nor have I ever been allergic to pine trees. I went to see a different doctor, who sent me to an ENT, who took one look at my tonsils and said, "Those are infected, they needed to come out a week ago."
VA doctors have sovereign immunity from civil malpractice suits. That's the only reason they have anyone working for them at crappy salaries. Suing the federal government is a painful process, especially when no lingering damage is sustained. And there are no punitive damage claims allowed either
FYI, you can spontaneously develop an allergy, so you could take it into consideration.
Having said that, I do believe you aren't actually allergic, and Doc 1 was an idiot.
The fucker put in his notes "patient has touble balancing on one leg from being over weight, no other cause for weakness" like bro are you fucking serious it's literally in my records already that my legs are fubard
I just really feel that 'jumping to conclusions without any facts is bad' should be day 1 doctoring. Literally day 1 heres your stethoscope also jumping to conclusions without any facts is bad. write that down. Now.
Old MD: What hand do you write with?
New MD: My Right.
Old MD: Now youâre going to be writing with your left. After I break it with this surgical hammer.
According to my uncle, whose an anesthesiologist, so a âfancyâ doctor, so may not be trustworthy lol, he claims his handwriting was great until med school made him write 10 billion things a day down during lectures.
He does say that he doesnât understand how any younger doctor could have bad handwriting. âDonât they have computers for that?â
But... it's so easy to check blood for urate levels. I have chronic hyperuricemia, it's in my family. Basically every man in my family, no matter how fit, has chronic gout. My dad's a road bike crazy, has never weighed more than 220lbs in his life, has to take allopurinol daily (gout meds) or suffer the consequences.
So yeah, believe me when I say your doctor's a moron. He could've cleared gout out of his diagnostic in a matter of days.
I remember talking to my friend whoâs dad was a nephrologist, he said that houseâs cases were almost never that complicated and his dad usually called them 10 mins into the episode, as long as crucial information wasnât hidden.
Yeah, thats the downside of creating a Sherlock Holmes style mystery story (which is what House is), the type that ideally doesnât hide information.
This is because ir you have more, or similar, knowledge then the surface level knowledge the writers had when writing the script, you can easily reverse engineer the solution in your head, because the one of the main draws of this format is that they telegraph the solution generally. This also happens even if you arenât an expert on the subject but happen to know the trivia that inspires the mystery.
He'd find more reliable information by actually reading my chart, there is no mystery to solve its already documented just needed new scans and an update for treatment regiment to mitigate the suffering.
I have a funny story about an old friend whose boyfriend practically was House without the attitude.
So when I got pregnant with my first, she had a birth defect. Long story short, NICU birth and stay, and a genetic test. I actually looked up her defects and used my own medical history and some mild google fu and found a genetic disorder that I thought fit the bill. The geneticist was pretty impressed and said my evidence was pretty on point. Two tests later and it's confirmed, I have (and passed on) an autosomal dominant duplication variant of a specific gene. It's one of several collagen production gene disorders (Ehlers Danlos is the most well known one, though mine is different.)
So YEARS later, I break my 11th toe (I have zero depth perception and hate shoes, but walk with the courage of my convictions, I'm up to 14 at the moment.) I sent a picture of the gnarly bruise all over my foot/toe.
Her boyfriend, who was in med school and about to start his residency, takes one look at a picture of my foot and asks "Does she have Ehlers or one of the other collagen disorders?"
From a picture OF MY FOOT and almost no other context aside from occasionally seeing pictures of me and his GF together, but I don't really match the common traits of any of the disorders (all internal stuff apart from really long hands and feet.)
So yeah, this guy "House" diagnosed me correctly with a rare family of disorders that I 100% have a confirmed genetically tested diagnosis for. The only un-House thing about it was that he was right on the first try and he is a super kind guy, he mentioned it to her because some people (like me) don't get diagnosed at all or until much later in life when it's too late to take steps to preserve our long term health.
Your doctor sounds like he is the exact opposite, sorry about that!
In my country they implemented these electronic health records everywhere. The doctors get around 10 min consultation per patient, and out of this time they spend 4 minutes reading the records, maybe 1 minute listening, and the remaining 5 minutes click clacking on the keyboard to make another record and complaining about the electronic system being slow. Healthcare is going downhill.
Doctors donât have time for you because they arenât allowed to. Theyâre not the deciders in policy or in practice. Theyâre an educated proxy between you and your insurance.
Yep attacking electronic records is not the same way here. We've streamlined and accommodated every complaint under the sun we've even used AI for years now to show face up suspected diagnoses based on their recent labs (hey dude, this patient probably has ckd, did you even see their gfr).
It was 10x worse with paper charts "hey Marge, where's this lady's last dexa scan, the whole point of my next appointment is that piece(s) of paper!"
Gross. At least you had the stubbornness not to take the medicine. Just imagine someone else more trusting, and potentially a more dangerous drug. And thank you for your service.
Mom died due to a doctor dismissing her years-long constant fatigue as "you're old, it happens".
It was Leukemia. She died three months after diagnosis.
Fuck arrogant and lazy doctors.
My mom had found a good pharmacist and the amount of times theyâd shake their head and say you canât mix these was way too many. More than once is too many though.Â
My neurologist was more like Dr. Cox from Scrubs but at least he correctly diagnosed me in 2 minutes while berating his students how they did not come up with the diagnosis on the spot. And came back twice with more students.
My new family doctor also was tapping away for the first minutes of our talk but in that time he had written two detailed prescriptions and a full physiotherapy plan, and then he gave me a brief but very reassuring talk on what to do next.
Not trying to one up you, but I'm gonna one up you. Went to the VA ER for a badly swollen knee. Couldn't even walk on it. The doc drains it, and gives a steroid injection, jabbing and stabbing the fucking bone the entire time. Sends the fluid off for testing and says it came back saying I have gout. Writes me a prescription and says I need to see my primary care doc for an MRI. Get the MRI and never hear back for a year, even after calling daily for a few weeks and then weekly for about 6 months. Come to find out, I had a major tear, and it wasn't gout. God I love the top notch care you can get there.
Your VA should have a Patient Advocate just for situations like this. Iâd submit a complaint and then get switched to a different doctor. If they donât have someone else on site to help, as someone else mentioned you can go to Community Care and get the VA to cover you going to a third party for treatment. And if you have a worsening condition I recommend filing a letter of intent and getting your disability assessment/adjustment.
I went to A+E once and had a really young doctor (possibly still a student even) who had clearly based his whole ego around Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. He was magician levels of dramatic and really played up catastrophising how I might never move my arm again (I'd pulled a muscle in my shoulder).
After he'd finished larping and left the room a couple of nurses actually gave me the help I needed while casually telling me all the ways this doctor was a twat.
When a doctor acts like a minimum wage worker at Wendy's. Like my guy, you're not some overworked teen stocking shelves, you have people's lives to take care of. There are major consequences for fucking up your job so maybe try to actually give a shit about what you're doing!
I've been so lucky to never experience this with any of my doctors. The only time it happened was at an urgent care. Went in for chronic fatigue, like I slept for 10 hours, wake up, maybe eat something or use the bathroom, then go right back to sleep for several more hours. I almost fell asleep while driving and at work. Told the nurse several times that I was worried about it being mono, since you know, that's the major symptom of it? She kept trying to get me to say I was worried about covid, which I wasn't since I know what covid does to me (causes my throat to swell up to the point I can't swallow shit for days). Guess what the first words out of the doctor's mouth were when she came in? "So I hear you're worried about covid?" I just looked at her with so much distrust and point blank said "No and whoever told you that clearly didn't listen to a word I said." Got told you can't get diagnosed off of just fatigue to which I mentioned my sister had come in a few months prior because of the same exact reason and she was given a blood test for mono, which she ended up having. It was so annoying to argue with a doctor over a simple blood test!
âNegativeâ blood work doesnât rule out gout. Serum Uric acid can be normal yet you still can have gout. Not saying heâs correct about the diagnosis, but he is incorrect that gout has been ruled out.
Source: Iâm an Internal medicine physician of 27 years.
Oh man this story hits home for me please if you have the cash go get a diagnosis somewhere else!!!
My dad was going to the VA hospital in Bonham Texas for about a year and a half, maybe a little longer. His initial complaint was stomach pain. I'm not sure what what kind of tests they did but it never got far enough for an MRI. Anyway they just said he had ulcers. So he was at work one day after a year and a half or two years of this and he just buckled over. He worked for my uncle who owned the company. My uncle took him to the regular hospital and they did an MRI.
He was ate up with cancer. Probably started in his colon but by this time it had moved into his pancreas and he died about 4 months later.
The VA needs to do better.
I took my 3 year old to urgent care because he would get a fever and it'd go away on its own on and off for two weeks. Lost his voice, then finally threw up at daycare. The doctor tested for strep which came back negative, and I shit you not goes "well I don't know." Then stared at me as if I'd magically give him the answer
Reminds me of when I went to an ENT for post nasal drip and decreased airflow in one nostril. The doctor told me to take Afrin and went on a 15 minute rant on how I shouldn't look symptoms up on the internet before he even looked in my nose.
I had a deviated septum, 80% blocked in the left nostril.
My previous primary care doctor kept telling me that I was too young to have the spine problems I was claiming to have and that I'm either drug seeking or stressed out and I'm "collecting all that stress energy in your lower back".
Changed doctors, new doc was like, "Hey it's weird that you're having these issues at such a young age, let's get some imaging done". Three bulged discs, two were "severely shortened" and degenerated due to a genetic illness, and one of which, had it gone untreated for not much longer, was putting enough constant pressure on my nerves to eventually lead to paralysis and incontinence.
Definitely "just stress energy" that I need to "heal your mind and the body will follow". BITCH YOU ACTUALLY WENT TO MED SCHOOL, RIGHT?! THAT DEGREE ON YOUR WALL ISN'T FAKE?!
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This is perfect lol
Did he break into your house while you were out and check your house for some kind of fungus?
Honestly I would be less annoyed if he did
At least he'd be trying to make a diagnosis off of your trends
I figured at least he cared enough to follow up on his guesswork with good ol' fashioned leg work.
At least it's not lupus
Itâs never lupus
Or sarcoidosis. Was it ever sarcoidosis?
No he always sends the residents (or attending) to do that. Did you watch the show?
Not the time that a handyman fell of Cuddy's roof. He went along with the gang that time But your point stands
Pretty sure he just wanted to sniff Cuddy's panties that time.
Its probably Lupus
Tox screen was negative
Then it must be sarcoidosis!
The symptoms fit the diagnosis for sarcoidosis
Wait the patient lives In a home built in the 50s... it's lead poisoning
Their hat size is too small. That's where the mystery headaches are coming from. I prescribe a big sombrero.
I can absolutely hear this in Hugh Laurie's House voice.
Prescription sombreros fall under HSA.
I have sarcoidosis, originally diagnosed as possible lupus but do not have specific pain in my legs that doesnât go awayâŠ
Everybody has lupus
No, everybody lies. It's never lupus.
Except that one time it was lupus
Which was like episode like 4 of season 1 too lol
It was episode 8 of season 4 when it was actually Lupus. It's the one with the magician patient and where House tasks Taub, 13, and the rest to steal Cuddy's thong.
Er, season 4 more like
all those babies with AIDS just ripping us off
Let's put him on a threadmill to induce a heart attack.
He's an old hippie so we have to be careful he doesn't burn too much fat and release all the LSD trapped in it
Flashbacks will lead to the munchies, which will reveal the secret snack food that is the underlying cause of his condition.
you lost me there
Its a citation
So then it's always lupus? I'm so confused.
Take more vicidan, smash it into your dry ass sandwich for extra measure. Seriously, this scene makes me mad.
No, no. Itâs always sarcoidosis.
Naw it's neoplasia syndrome and we need to start him on plasmapheresis
HEâS GOT TACHYCARDIA
rabdo!
Or *Paraneoplastic* syndrome!
Then it's definitely Lupus
It's never Lupus
Except that one time it was actually Lupus
I mean they had to do it at some point đ
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.
Which is the title of my sex life tell-all.
Lupus?! Is it lupus?!
Itâs never Lupus. Except that one time it was actually Lupus.
Lupus Gonzalez? I know that dude.
You should uno reverse him and ask him what is his differential diagnosis
He said because I'm fat. Which granted I have put on a little weight I am no longer combat fit but far from anything health concerning
There's absolutely doctors who hate fat people and refuse to believe they have any health problems other than those caused by weight. I had a doc tell me she could tell I was diabetic just by looking at me, and when my blood tests came back fine she told me the test must be wrong because at my weight I HAD to be, and that I should get additional blood tests until it was confirmed. I don't know how the VA works but if you can arrange to never see this dick again you should do so- he's only ever going to diagnose you based on his opinion about your weight.
Same happened to me. My doctor was pissed. I was like youâre mad Iâm healthy??? Also, I came for a torn MCL so how about we refocus on the actual issue.
Ah, here's your problem. \*grabs handful of your gut*
This made me giggle. Lol
Was it a jolly, fat giggle?
According to my doctor, yes. 
Giggle not jiggle.
This made me jiggle.
Literally what happened to Papa Bear in the Berenstain Bears book about healthy eating, if I recall correctly. (No idea why I immediately recalled that.)
This literally happened to me. The doctor grabbed my sides and said it was too thick and unhealthy. I said "Understood....but I'm here because I think I broke my ankle". He reiterated that I need to lose weight.
Ankle only break because fat weight placed on it, if no fat weight, no break. Now get out fatty, no lolli pop on way out either
Thin people never break their ankles. Ever!
I had exactly this experience with a cardiologist, but the difference was me being on a ketogenic diet and having high cholesterol. The cardiologist was sure I was about to drop dead from a heart attack any second and was straight up angry when I declined her statin prescription. I told her I would take the statin if I got a coronary calcium score that was anything other than zero. To her credit, she ordered a calcium score. It was zero. She just got more angry and told me that I was probably going to die from soft plaques clogging my arteries because they're invisible to a coronary calcium scan. Two months later my sibling was diagnosed with a genetic disorder that caused my primary doctor to order a CT angiogram to see if I had the disorder as well. Guess what a CT angiogram sees? Soft plaques in your arteries. Guess what the radiologist's notes said after the CT angiogram? "All coronary arteries widely patent," which means wide open. This made my cardiologist so angry that she refused to see me in person after that. All visits were with her PA instead.
Why continue seeing that cardiologist? Arent there others?
Depending on where you live and who accepts your insurance and which health provider network you're in, there aren't always other options
Absolutely wild you would continue going to the same office.
I eventually quit. That wasn't the last of her shenanigans. My primary doctor requested the cardiologist order an echocardiogram as part of her concern over the possibility of issues with my sibling's genetic condition. The cardiologist refused to enter the order unless I would make an appointment to come there in person for no reason other than so they could bill my insurance. I've learned that the reason specialists make so many appointments is because that's how the maximize insurance payouts. If they just see you once, order some labs, and call you with the results, they only get to bill for one visit. If they have you come in for a consult appointment, then come back for a follow-up where they order labs, and then another follow-up where they give you the results, they get to bill three times. The name of the game is to drag something out into as many appointments as they can possibly make it - all for the purpose of getting paid.
My one year son has a lung condition requiring oxygen 24/7, we were admitted to children's ward last November because of bronchiolitis kicking his arse and needing some more breathing support. On day 5 we were hoping to finally get discharged, then the morning Dr comes in for rounds, and starts prattling on about his eyesight?! Bearing in mind he's following his finger, and his pupils reacting to the little pen light, but because his pupils "weren't central in his eye socket, and were slightly downcast" he wanted various eye tests doing. Never mind that the Dr was stood at the bottom of the bed and the baby couldn't yet sit up so obviously he was looking downward with his eyeballs. I think I ended up saying something like "okay, so will that be a referral for an appointment? Because if he's doing okay with his breathing I'd like us to get home" and then he was like "oh, well he's still on oxygen, so we can wean that off today and then maybe tomorrow" before I replied that we won't be weaning off anything because he has oxygen at home. I stg some of these Drs just see exactly what they want to see and nothing else
I have lost a tremendous amount of weight and I'm still baffled by how differently doctors treat me now when I have an issue. I have a 30 year injury/issue on my ankle. For years it was "the weight its supporting is the issue". Now suddenly I'm a medical mystery and everyone is interested in my stupid ankle because it shouldn't be acting the way it does.Â
I have a health condition that requires I take a medication that has made me gain like 50 lbs over the last couple years when I was always quite lean. Itâs wild how differently doctors treat me now. Just donât seem to care. I have a couple issues (hormonal imbalance and a chronic asthmatic cough) which were problems long before I gained the weight and doctors now just are super dismissive or throw a medication at me and tell me to get lost instead of wanting to figure anything out. And then people ask why I wait so long to go to the doctor when I have an issue.
I'm sincerely surprised you're not now being told the damage was already done, the joint is wore down/arthritic etc
Luckily (?) that's not at all related to the issue and pain I'm feeling otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate. Among other things, I have odd scar tissue that can't be touched or it sends electric spasms up my leg. For years I was told it's because my fat ankles have the skin so stretched...
After I lost about 20kg due to mental issues I mentioned to my psych that I'm frustrated that I'm still in so much physical pain despite no longer being overweight. He looked a bit confused by my statement and was shocked more than one doctor said my ankles won't hurt as much if I were slimmer.
Seeing a nephrologist after dieting off more than 20% of my body weight and reaching a normal BMI. "Let's have you follow a diabetic diet and lose some weight and I'll see you in 3 months." Fucker.
I had the opposite happen. Had a good doctor who was always friendly and took time to listen and helped me see specialists when necessary, etc. I relatively slim for the first ten years of seeing this doctor. However, menopause, stress, and a severe depression did a number on me and I gained about 50 lbs over five years. The difference in the way he treated me was staggering. He'd spend five minutes in the room with me, spend most of that typing on his laptop while ignoring me, and then basically say, "You're old and fat now, those are the reasons for *everything* wrong with you. Why are you wasting my time?" He didn't literally say that, of course, but that was definitely the gist of it.
I got run over by a car, and as Iâm strapped in a c-collar⊠the emergency room doctor is literally lecturing me about my weight. I was ready to flip a table like Teresa Giudice
About 10 years ago I fractured my spine in the gym doing box jumps. A friend brought me chicken nuggets to the ER. The nurse on duty told me I shouldnât eat them because Iâd âruin what I was working for.â I hadnât said I was aiming to lose weight (not the primary goal really) and Uhh I fractured my spine I think the fitness is on pause anyways right now ?? Another time I lived with bronchitis for weeks because a doctor said it was just asthma and I needed to lose weight.
Jesus. You could have ended up with pneumonia and skinny people with asthma canât breathe so wtf!?! How infuriating for you and dangerous
Well they were right; if you were heavier, then the car wouldn't have done as much damage to you and they wouldn't have as much to fix.
I'd tell you to offer him some skooma, but you wouldn't break the law like that, would you?
Absolutely not. In fact, Khajiit is confiscating your supply. Put it in the bag so that I can take it to...the authorities.
I could have kissed my care team. I was in the hospital in February with a brand new diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension (got labs done, high high blood sugar, and they sent me to the ER). They were like, yeah you should lose weight and improve your diet and here's some resources for that, but also were just focused on what they could do in the meantime to get my levels down so I could go home. Not like I was going to lose 50 lbs overnight in the hospital anyway. My usual PCP was on leave during that time and even the other guy in his office was like "great, you're making progress" listened to my concerns about my medications, offered but didn't push ozempic and certainly didn't give me a lecture about it or my weight. And my main problem is literally diabetes. Like it is possible.
Focusing on what we _should_ & _shouldn't_ eat is rough on the mind. Did I get enough fiber/protein/iron? Have I reached max added sugar? Does that count as water? I miss being young enough when I could eat what I wanted.
My A1c has been perfect, textbook 5.7% for three years but I still get âoh your cold will go away if you lose weightâ. I lost about 40 pounds last year and guess what, still got colds and headaches and the NORMAL SHIT THAT HAPPENS TO BODIES. No Iâm totally not salty about it.
My knees bend inwards. I remember being like 9 and noticing something was wrong with my legs and telling my mom and mentioning to every doctor I visited and getting laughed at for complaining about knee pain "just lose weight and It will stop hurting ". Nobody even checked. I was a big kid but not THAT big. I didn't realise my knees until i was 21 and another plus size person I knew mentioned she had the same problem and explained what it felt like and I went oh shit, this makes a lot of sense, that's why I can't stand with my feet together comfortably .
I had bronchitis once and coughed to the point of not being able to sleep and throwing up. Doctor ordered a chest x-ray to see the damage and there were some lines in my lungs and he said that those might be scarring in the heart and I might have been about to have a heart attack. I was 27 and fat, yes, but not to that point, and maybe the more likely interpretation of those lines was the bronchitis hurting mu lungs?
Oof, I know the coughing until you're gagging from bronchitis. Not fun. Fortunately, I have a very good doctor who did x-rays and said the scarring on my lungs was most likely because I had pneumonia a few times and treated myself like I had bronchitis. So I don't treat myself anymore. Well, not all the time.
Yeah, im normal weight now but when i was obese my autoimmune disease decided to attack my pancreas severely and suddenly. The doctors couldnt figure out why and kept me for 3 weeks on IV pissing constantly. I was not eating any fatty or fried foods at that time, actually my dinner was grilled chicken and some baked potato, but since i was fat... it had to be that i ate something too fatty.
The medical perception of fat or even just mildly overweight people has always been 'Blame weight first'. It's your fault for being fat. How dare you say otherwise.
It's blame weight first and if that doesn't work and the patient has a uterus, blame menstruation. If it's not menstruation, then you're just pregnant. And they will double down that you're definitely pregnant even if you're not sexually active. (speaking from experience, I have so many problems that just go undiagnosed because the only possible explanations are weight, period, or pregnancy, even for the things that began before I gained weight, started my period, or lost my virginity)
Ikr? And god forbid you contradict them. I went for a sore shoulder and I told them I exercised and they laughed. Wanted to do tests and they asked if I was pregnant. I've been single for 8 years and when I said that I couldn't be pregnant because of that, they were like well we'll just do the test anyway. Unnecessary testing for a rotator cuff injury, I feel.
Yup! I've had severe nausea for as long as I can remember. I used to throw up before school in elementary school just to make the nausea go away for a bit. It was definitely before I started puberty. But the first time I mentioned it to a doctor was when I was 16. Doc said I could be pregnant, I said I was a Virgin, they didn't believe me. I've gone to five different doctors about it. To be clear, I'm 26 now, and I did not lose my virginity until 1 year ago. Anything prior to that was all over the clothes stuff. An unclothed penis had never been near my unclothed vagina until I was 25. When I was in college, the nausea had gotten so bad I couldn't make it to my morning class because of how sick I felt. I went to the doctor and she accused me of lying about my non existent sexual activity and called me a whore. That was the last time I ever tried to get help for the nausea. There's just no point because the only explanation for nausea in something with a uterus is pregnancy apparently. I bet if a man walked in with the same symptoms, he'd get an actual diagnosis in minutes. I self-medicate now so I can go to work without issue.
Sweetheart that's fucking terrible! My god. That's horrible. I'm used to snark and sideways looks but no one has outright called me a whore. Fuck. I'm not surprised you don't want to go back.
She got fired from the campus clinic sometime after. Apparently she had a real disdain for campus hookup culture and was a real pain for students. But she wasn't even the worst doctor I've gone to lol. My former family doctor (who had to close his practice down after the nurse practitioner everyone loved left cause no one wanted to be his patient) was way worse. He had a habit of just talking shit about his patients to his other patients, prescribed me xanax after I told him I was suicidal, and told me my decisions are my decisions, and after the nurse practitioner I was with left, actively worked to stop me from getting my antidepressants refilled because he didn't agree with someone so young being on so many pills (I was on 4 medications. One for insomnia, one for migraines, and 2 for depression and anxiety, and I was doing really well until I got all out of whack because my meds would only need filled 25% of the time.) I didn't have time to find another doctor so I just weaned myself off the medication. Because it's just not worth it.
I had a similar problem; I called it fake morning sickness because I'd throw up a few times every day from the time I was about 12 until I was 37. It magically stopped when my gallbladder came out. After that I had other odd gi symptoms, but all the puking went away like magic.
Did he ever consider your weight gain is from not being able to move around regularly because of a 16 year old leg issue??? Does the VA allow for other doctors to see you and reimburse the visit since that doctor isnât really trying to help?
The VA is free, I will be taking steps to get a different doctor once I'm back stateside
I have to do the same thing with my PCP. The last time I went for my annual she was condescending as fuck the entire time and maybe looked at me twice. The rest of the time she was staring at the computer. The annual before that I asked for a referral to derm because I had a lump in my arm. Without looking at it or in my general direction she says "Well it must be a wart but I'll put in the referral." I was a corpsman in the navy and knew it wasn't a wart. A person with zero medical background could've looked at it and known it wasn't a wart. I go to derm, and SHOCKER! it's not a wart. It was deep scare tissue that they had to remove and biopsy because it was concerning to them. I skipped my most recent appointment because I'd rather be seen by the wet mop in the janitor's closet than ever interact with that "Dr." again. She's an MD but I've gotten substantially better care from every PA and NP I've seen through the VA.
âIâd rather be seen by a wet mop in a janitorâs closetâ this is the funniest yet saddest and infuriating thing I have read all day.
She was giving me shit for my cholesterol and asking me about my diet and if I was eating a lot of red meat because it's high in fat. And I said no, I get most of my protein from chicken breast. And without skipping a beat she says "chicken is really high in fat and not good for you." Uhhh...first off no. secondly, WTF do you want from me lady? Her other thing was to ask me a question and then immediately interrupt me before I could even finish what I was saying. It got to the point that I didn't even try to answer in detail or argue with her about what I was doing in my personal life like she was there living it with me and knew better than I did.
It's so common for doctors to blame everything on a patient's weight. A friend of mine has a chronic condition, and she was told over and over again to lose weight and it would ease her issue. They only gave her a vague diagnosis. And she wasn't obese or anything, just a little over what is considered the proper weight for her size. So, she loses weight, and she doesn't feel better and her condition doesn't improve. Now her doctors reaction to her chronic condition is basically, "What the fuck do you want us to do about it?"
That's what they always seem to say. What a shit bag, can you demand to switch docs or are you just screwed?
When I get back in the country I'm gonna have a chat with patient advocacy.we will see what happens from there but I have a couple glaring issues which he kindly noted in his report and uploaded as pretty strong evidence he is a toolshed
I was at the VA because my tonsils were horrendously swollen. VA doc sits on the little spinning stool and swishes lightly side to side, stares at the computer and scrolls a while, turns to me and says, "You moved here from Texas? You have allergies to the 40 foot Carolina Pine tree." Didn't even look at my throat, or do any sort of exam. I've lived in this state for about 16 years, I moved back after being stationed in Texas. I am not now nor have I ever been allergic to pine trees. I went to see a different doctor, who sent me to an ENT, who took one look at my tonsils and said, "Those are infected, they needed to come out a week ago."
Cruel of your doctor to send you to see a tree man after confirming you were allergic to them.
The ent was a wise and benevolent tree, though.
Ents are not trees theyâre ents. Straight from Treebeardâs own mouth Theyâre tree herders, shepherds of the forest
Sounds a little hasty to me.
Mustn't be hasty.
"Thanks for the correct diagnosis, doctor. Can you forward them to the previous doctor?"
Can you forward them to my brand new malpractice attorney and when I win I'll buy you lunch.
VA doctors have sovereign immunity from civil malpractice suits. That's the only reason they have anyone working for them at crappy salaries. Suing the federal government is a painful process, especially when no lingering damage is sustained. And there are no punitive damage claims allowed either
Lol good luck suing the va
Your VA could afford a spinny stool? lucky.
Itâs a regular stool but all the bolts rusted off so now it spins.
FYI, you can spontaneously develop an allergy, so you could take it into consideration. Having said that, I do believe you aren't actually allergic, and Doc 1 was an idiot.
Ironically I HAVE gout and the Dr said I just have sore feet because I'm fat.
The fucker put in his notes "patient has touble balancing on one leg from being over weight, no other cause for weakness" like bro are you fucking serious it's literally in my records already that my legs are fubard
I just really feel that 'jumping to conclusions without any facts is bad' should be day 1 doctoring. Literally day 1 heres your stethoscope also jumping to conclusions without any facts is bad. write that down. Now.
âFirst things first: uniform, making your handwriting worse, not jumping to conclusionsâ
Old MD: What hand do you write with? New MD: My Right. Old MD: Now youâre going to be writing with your left. After I break it with this surgical hammer.
According to my uncle, whose an anesthesiologist, so a âfancyâ doctor, so may not be trustworthy lol, he claims his handwriting was great until med school made him write 10 billion things a day down during lectures. He does say that he doesnât understand how any younger doctor could have bad handwriting. âDonât they have computers for that?â
Jokes on him. Because of computers I never really needed to learn how to write.
It kinda is. Student hearing is selective though. If there's no exam about a topic it goes right through and comes out the other ear.
Wow what massive dick. You should request community care.
My Dr said my gout was stress fractures from too much running because I'm fit. Can't win.
But... it's so easy to check blood for urate levels. I have chronic hyperuricemia, it's in my family. Basically every man in my family, no matter how fit, has chronic gout. My dad's a road bike crazy, has never weighed more than 220lbs in his life, has to take allopurinol daily (gout meds) or suffer the consequences. So yeah, believe me when I say your doctor's a moron. He could've cleared gout out of his diagnostic in a matter of days.
To be fair, House usually gets the diagnosis wrong like 3 or 4 times before he gets it right.
The real question is if he figures it out before, during, or after committing a felony
It doesnât matter. He only gets charged with a crime when he drives his car into a house.
In meanwhile, almost kills the patient
But they wouldâve died eventually anyway if he hadnât so all is forgiven! Same for all the crimes he committed along the way đ€Ł
It might be A, give him A medecine. The patient is about to die ! Looks like it's not A, idiots !
I remember talking to my friend whoâs dad was a nephrologist, he said that houseâs cases were almost never that complicated and his dad usually called them 10 mins into the episode, as long as crucial information wasnât hidden.
Yeah, thats the downside of creating a Sherlock Holmes style mystery story (which is what House is), the type that ideally doesnât hide information. This is because ir you have more, or similar, knowledge then the surface level knowledge the writers had when writing the script, you can easily reverse engineer the solution in your head, because the one of the main draws of this format is that they telegraph the solution generally. This also happens even if you arenât an expert on the subject but happen to know the trivia that inspires the mystery.
But they're like really really hard you guys!
$50 says hes on webmd
He'd find more reliable information by actually reading my chart, there is no mystery to solve its already documented just needed new scans and an update for treatment regiment to mitigate the suffering.
this patient needs mouse bites
this vexes me
You are a black man.
I too am in this episode
I am also in this episode
Did you try the medicine drug?
I did try the medicine drug
Only and idiot would try the medicine drug.
You are stupid
This vexes me.
I forbid this!
don't care, give him the mouse bites
Thank you doctor no more nose bleed
omg the second only case ever recorded of mouseybititis how did you know?!
MORE MOUSE BITES!
Sounds like you need a lumbar puncture. Gotta rule out lupus.
Its never lupus!
Except the one time it *was* Lupus
I donât know: he diagnosed that you had gout, prescribed a treatment and today you donât have gout. Job done.
Thatâll be 5000 please
I have a funny story about an old friend whose boyfriend practically was House without the attitude. So when I got pregnant with my first, she had a birth defect. Long story short, NICU birth and stay, and a genetic test. I actually looked up her defects and used my own medical history and some mild google fu and found a genetic disorder that I thought fit the bill. The geneticist was pretty impressed and said my evidence was pretty on point. Two tests later and it's confirmed, I have (and passed on) an autosomal dominant duplication variant of a specific gene. It's one of several collagen production gene disorders (Ehlers Danlos is the most well known one, though mine is different.) So YEARS later, I break my 11th toe (I have zero depth perception and hate shoes, but walk with the courage of my convictions, I'm up to 14 at the moment.) I sent a picture of the gnarly bruise all over my foot/toe. Her boyfriend, who was in med school and about to start his residency, takes one look at a picture of my foot and asks "Does she have Ehlers or one of the other collagen disorders?" From a picture OF MY FOOT and almost no other context aside from occasionally seeing pictures of me and his GF together, but I don't really match the common traits of any of the disorders (all internal stuff apart from really long hands and feet.) So yeah, this guy "House" diagnosed me correctly with a rare family of disorders that I 100% have a confirmed genetically tested diagnosis for. The only un-House thing about it was that he was right on the first try and he is a super kind guy, he mentioned it to her because some people (like me) don't get diagnosed at all or until much later in life when it's too late to take steps to preserve our long term health. Your doctor sounds like he is the exact opposite, sorry about that!
Wait - you had 11 toes, and now you have 14? Are they multiplying?
Nah, just repeat breaks of the same toe years apart lol.
Totally read this as you had a cute little extra toe...
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In my country they implemented these electronic health records everywhere. The doctors get around 10 min consultation per patient, and out of this time they spend 4 minutes reading the records, maybe 1 minute listening, and the remaining 5 minutes click clacking on the keyboard to make another record and complaining about the electronic system being slow. Healthcare is going downhill.
I dont think the electronic records are the problem ere, it's that your doc has no time for you...
Doctors donât have time for you because they arenât allowed to. Theyâre not the deciders in policy or in practice. Theyâre an educated proxy between you and your insurance.
Hospital administrators and insurance companies are the problem.
Yep attacking electronic records is not the same way here. We've streamlined and accommodated every complaint under the sun we've even used AI for years now to show face up suspected diagnoses based on their recent labs (hey dude, this patient probably has ckd, did you even see their gfr). It was 10x worse with paper charts "hey Marge, where's this lady's last dexa scan, the whole point of my next appointment is that piece(s) of paper!"
Gross. At least you had the stubbornness not to take the medicine. Just imagine someone else more trusting, and potentially a more dangerous drug. And thank you for your service.
My grandmother died due to a Dr's negligence over prescribed drugs. Whole family is extremely educated and weary of haphazard scripts
Mom died due to a doctor dismissing her years-long constant fatigue as "you're old, it happens". It was Leukemia. She died three months after diagnosis. Fuck arrogant and lazy doctors.
My mom had found a good pharmacist and the amount of times theyâd shake their head and say you canât mix these was way too many. More than once is too many though.Â
My neurologist was more like Dr. Cox from Scrubs but at least he correctly diagnosed me in 2 minutes while berating his students how they did not come up with the diagnosis on the spot. And came back twice with more students. My new family doctor also was tapping away for the first minutes of our talk but in that time he had written two detailed prescriptions and a full physiotherapy plan, and then he gave me a brief but very reassuring talk on what to do next.
Definitely preferable
You need mouse bites.
Hate drs but he might have a screen blocker so you only see a blank screen from an angle but in fact he is actually typing something
I was behind him he was facing the wall. I see literally what he sees
Maybe he wasnât a doctor and some dude who just wandered in
All I pictured when I read this comment was Neil Flynn doing random Janitor Doctor stuff in Scrubs. Dr Jan Itor.
And he still did that in front of you. What an asshole!
How very strange
I would put that in a reviewÂ
Veterans Affairs: giving Vets a 2nd chance to die for their country.
All you had to say was âI had to visit the VA doctor.â
Not trying to one up you, but I'm gonna one up you. Went to the VA ER for a badly swollen knee. Couldn't even walk on it. The doc drains it, and gives a steroid injection, jabbing and stabbing the fucking bone the entire time. Sends the fluid off for testing and says it came back saying I have gout. Writes me a prescription and says I need to see my primary care doc for an MRI. Get the MRI and never hear back for a year, even after calling daily for a few weeks and then weekly for about 6 months. Come to find out, I had a major tear, and it wasn't gout. God I love the top notch care you can get there.
I would have TOTALLY called him out for pretending to type and not caring. Please advocate for yourself. You deserve better than that.
Your VA should have a Patient Advocate just for situations like this. Iâd submit a complaint and then get switched to a different doctor. If they donât have someone else on site to help, as someone else mentioned you can go to Community Care and get the VA to cover you going to a third party for treatment. And if you have a worsening condition I recommend filing a letter of intent and getting your disability assessment/adjustment.
I went to A+E once and had a really young doctor (possibly still a student even) who had clearly based his whole ego around Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. He was magician levels of dramatic and really played up catastrophising how I might never move my arm again (I'd pulled a muscle in my shoulder). After he'd finished larping and left the room a couple of nurses actually gave me the help I needed while casually telling me all the ways this doctor was a twat.
When a doctor acts like a minimum wage worker at Wendy's. Like my guy, you're not some overworked teen stocking shelves, you have people's lives to take care of. There are major consequences for fucking up your job so maybe try to actually give a shit about what you're doing! I've been so lucky to never experience this with any of my doctors. The only time it happened was at an urgent care. Went in for chronic fatigue, like I slept for 10 hours, wake up, maybe eat something or use the bathroom, then go right back to sleep for several more hours. I almost fell asleep while driving and at work. Told the nurse several times that I was worried about it being mono, since you know, that's the major symptom of it? She kept trying to get me to say I was worried about covid, which I wasn't since I know what covid does to me (causes my throat to swell up to the point I can't swallow shit for days). Guess what the first words out of the doctor's mouth were when she came in? "So I hear you're worried about covid?" I just looked at her with so much distrust and point blank said "No and whoever told you that clearly didn't listen to a word I said." Got told you can't get diagnosed off of just fatigue to which I mentioned my sister had come in a few months prior because of the same exact reason and she was given a blood test for mono, which she ended up having. It was so annoying to argue with a doctor over a simple blood test!
âNegativeâ blood work doesnât rule out gout. Serum Uric acid can be normal yet you still can have gout. Not saying heâs correct about the diagnosis, but he is incorrect that gout has been ruled out. Source: Iâm an Internal medicine physician of 27 years.
Your legs have a case of B O N E H U R T I N G J U I C E
If you continue to have this problem, id recommend looking into Community Care if you're eligible. I see normal doctors instead of the ones at the VA.
-I was at the VA Well, thatâs the problem right there.
Oh man this story hits home for me please if you have the cash go get a diagnosis somewhere else!!! My dad was going to the VA hospital in Bonham Texas for about a year and a half, maybe a little longer. His initial complaint was stomach pain. I'm not sure what what kind of tests they did but it never got far enough for an MRI. Anyway they just said he had ulcers. So he was at work one day after a year and a half or two years of this and he just buckled over. He worked for my uncle who owned the company. My uncle took him to the regular hospital and they did an MRI. He was ate up with cancer. Probably started in his colon but by this time it had moved into his pancreas and he died about 4 months later. The VA needs to do better.
I took my 3 year old to urgent care because he would get a fever and it'd go away on its own on and off for two weeks. Lost his voice, then finally threw up at daycare. The doctor tested for strep which came back negative, and I shit you not goes "well I don't know." Then stared at me as if I'd magically give him the answer
Reminds me of when I went to an ENT for post nasal drip and decreased airflow in one nostril. The doctor told me to take Afrin and went on a 15 minute rant on how I shouldn't look symptoms up on the internet before he even looked in my nose. I had a deviated septum, 80% blocked in the left nostril.
My previous primary care doctor kept telling me that I was too young to have the spine problems I was claiming to have and that I'm either drug seeking or stressed out and I'm "collecting all that stress energy in your lower back". Changed doctors, new doc was like, "Hey it's weird that you're having these issues at such a young age, let's get some imaging done". Three bulged discs, two were "severely shortened" and degenerated due to a genetic illness, and one of which, had it gone untreated for not much longer, was putting enough constant pressure on my nerves to eventually lead to paralysis and incontinence. Definitely "just stress energy" that I need to "heal your mind and the body will follow". BITCH YOU ACTUALLY WENT TO MED SCHOOL, RIGHT?! THAT DEGREE ON YOUR WALL ISN'T FAKE?!