Here’s What Happens When A Doctor Lies

An individual contacted me about a recent encounter between him and his physician that just didn't seem right. This patient was seeking treatment for back pain and hip pain. Unfortunately, this doctor not only provided inadequate treatment and a misdiagnosis, but also lied on paperwork. There were so many systemic issues at play here I decided to invite this person onto the channel for a full interview to address not only what happened, but what changes need to be made in the world of medicine to eliminate these problems in the future.

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[VeteranGaming_GamingUnited]

This topic hits hard and real. Back in 2001, my dad went to the hospital due to some chest pain. Dr basically ignored him and sent him in his way. He returned like 4 times and was sent away each time. My aunt went to visit him and found him collapsed in his house. Took him to the ER and a pace maker had to be put in. Turns out he had Wolf Parkinsons White Syndrom and contracted a staph infection and died. Total time from his initial visit, 11 days. It took 11 days and 5 visits (6 if you count the ER) for my dad to die. Had the Dr done an exam or labs, it could have been caught and mitigated. Yes... there was a malpractice lawsuit and yes it was won

[ShortHax]

My favourite quote spoken by a doctor:
“Don’t worry, I have good handwriting”

[nicoleschoen]

The lack of trust that develops when a patient is ignored is huge. My mom went to the ER twice about an issue and no one listened. They sent her home both times; the second time I was even there advocating for her to be admitted. She also spoke with her PCP and another specialist she saw on occasion to try and get help. No one listened and she was completely discouraged. When one night she started having pain again, my Dad offered to call 911 or take her to the ER. She said no, she didn't want to go and have them do nothing again. She died that night.

[rachelmummert]

My doctor's office recently started audio recording visits instead of typing notes. There is a huge difference in the care and attention I receive now.

[abelinasabrina]

My doctors dismissed my abdominal pain and missed my ectopic rupture. No one noticed it until 5 days later.

[handanhan]

A doctor labeled my roommate a “drug seeker” because she had been to the clinic and ER 14 times this year. She has a lot of medical issues. He almost refused to treat her, was very rude and wouldn’t let her explain what was going on, then lied on the papers multiple times.

[jordanshaw]

My freshman year of college, I got a small concussion and my roommate took me to see a doctor immediately. The doctor was mocking me and belittling my issue. My friends even said that he kept rolling his eyes at us when we tried to explain my injury. He was certain that I was drunk or on drugs, even though the people I was with kept telling him that I got hit in the head real hard during color guard practice (plus I don't drink or do drugs.)
Before doing anything with my concussion, he made me give a urine sample and, while I was in the bathroom, he was bad mouthing me to the people I was with about how he knows I'm just drunk.
I apparently had a little trouble speaking and he kept mocking me for that. I remember having a headache and feeling super tired, but I didn't think my speech was off until he kept asking me why I'm "talking like that".
He then left me alone in a room unsupervised long enough that passed out and came to a bit later to my friend shaking me.
Of course, eventually the doctor told me that I wasn't drunk or high and that I did have a concussion. Ok. Thanks. We said that in the beginning. What now. Now... he told us to go home. Didn't say anything about how we should handle my injury or anything. Just told us to head out and slapped me with two bills totalling around $600.
It's always been hard for me to seek medical attention due to the way I was raised, but it's even harder when I'm then confronted with a doctor like this when I try.

[MissLilyputt]

My mom’s always had erratic periods. It was maybe a year or two after she had me (over 40 years ago) that she started having symptoms of pregnancy. She went to the doctor and she was pregnant. She continued to have her period. At about the 3-4 month mark after finding out she was pregnant she had a really painful, bloody menstrual cycle. Her gynecologist said she probably had a miscarriage without even doing a pelvic exam. Over the next 12 years my mom went to the emergency room for severe pain and bleeding so bad she got anemic and a few times requiring a blood transfusion. Every time she would say that something was wrong with her uterus. The doctors she saw were of the opinion that it was simply depression because she lost her last child and hadn’t had anymore and/or the pain was all in her head. Finally, one day she went to see another gynecologist and begged for him to do an ultrasound. He said he would only do an internal ultrasound knowing it was painful and suggesting that it she really felt there was a problem she would be willing “to submit” to this procedure. No other option was given so my mom said yes. It pissed off the doctor but he scheduled her for the procedure. When they did the ultrasound, he found what appeared to be a sizable mass in her uterus. He was shocked. It was larger than a fist and the ultrasound couldn’t show what it was. He ordered a procedure to open her up and get a look at it and possibly biopsy it. My mom told him to take everything out and do a total hysterectomy. He said no, that she might still be able to have more children. She kept asking for the form to approve the total hysterectomy. After a psychologist saw my mom, they agreed, thinking she was being dramatic and scheduled her for surgery. Lo and behold she had an 8 inch mass that consisted of a calcified fetus and a completely infected uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. They immediately switched from just doing a biopsy to doing a total hysterectomy. The doctor later asked how did she know that she needed a total hysterectomy and my mom was so angry she couldn’t respond. He then told her that the fetus had died and the body couldn’t eliminate it so it tried calcifying it and eventually it cut into the uterine wall and caused infection. If she had waited a few more weeks she would’ve been septic and probably would’ve died without anyone ever knowing what she died from. Since then, getting her to see a doctor has been difficult. She feels that only if something is so bad you can’t ignore it or work past it, that that’s when she should see a doctor. I can’t exactly fault her for feeling this way but it is concerning.

[caitswildecake]

“it’s just your raging teenage hormones, change your life style and exercise if you think you could be anaemic”. He Completely refused to do a simple blood test. I finally got my diagnosis after I decided to see someone else since I had been going since I was 15 and more and more symptoms were developing over time. Well, finally got a blood test, sent to a haemotologist, they wanted a bone marrow biopsy and eventually I was diagnosed with a myeloproliferative neoplasm (bone marrow failure) which upon diagnosis had already began developing into acute myeloid leukaemia at the age of 17 and I was told at that appointment that I HAVE to have a bone marrow transplant. I had no idea that could even be transplanted. I was hoping I just had iron deficiency anaemia. It was leukaemia. I’m lucky I got diagnosed when I did, it’ll be 3 years this month since I had my transplant. Even a simple blood test can save a life.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It’s always appreciated when your doctor is 100% honest with you

[joanne]

This happens more than you know and the medical community “gaslights” patients all the time and his success story is rarer than normal, no matter HOW hard the patient fights for justice!!

[luvzmoveez]

Medical gaslighting is a huge problem in our country right now and something needs to be done about it.
This ended up happening to me last week and I ended up leaving my primary physician over it. These neglectful experiences must stop as patients are losing faith in their physicians.

[julianasperheim]

I once went to the ER with chestpains and a "numbness" in the left side of my jaw. Had to wait for 7 hours before a Doctor said "You were the one with the stomach pain and toothache?" and I told him "No, chest pains" and then he became pale, walked into the reception and I could hear him chew out the nurse in the reception. Turns out the nurse didn't belive me and just wrote in my chart what he thought was wrong with me. The doctor did an ECG and had an ambulance pick me up and drive me to the hospital. He was great and I got the treatment and medicine I needed but I seriously hope that's the last time that nurse makes his own opinion on whats wrong with the patient.

[ivyrides]

I almost lost my life to a ‘hands off’ doctor here in Canada. When I was 19, shortly after my oldest son was born, I began noticing tiny red dots under my skin. I started bruising easily and at one point, my little guy bonked my nose and it wouldn’t stop bleeding. I’m not talking hours either, it just wouldn’t stop at all. We were young parents so we often dealt with physicians who didn’t take us seriously. Paid little attention, blew off our concerns, stuff like that. Anyway. We wait in a clinic, a brand new office, all the bells and whistles. Nice neighborhood, up and coming area. The works. This doctor immediately dismissed my medical concerns, frowning at my baby and telling us to take him to the waiting room so he wouldn’t be a distraction. His tone and body language seemed frustrated from the jump. We sit down and he talks over me incessantly, I make a point to show him my arms, he scoffs and tells me it’s a rash. I remember distinctly saying “but it’s under the skin” and he barked “do you have a medical degree?“ He prescribed me cream for said rash, and kept his nose in the computer. Basically waved over his shoulder at me. I cried in the car, overwhelmed by the experience, feeling like a hypochondriac, but my partner took my to the ER. Keep in mind, I’m covered in bruises and my nose is still bleeding. Within hours we learned my platelets were undetectable, the rash is in fact petechiae, and after a series of tests, diagnosed with ITP. I spent months in the hospital, required a splenectomy to get my platelets under control, many courses of IVIG and endless medications. I didn’t have the courage to report him, but I’ll never forget the ER doctor hugging me and apologizing on his behalf.

[NikitaDarkstar]

Had a doctor tell my father he was suffering from heartburn when he complained about pain in his lower abdomen. 14 hours later he was having emergency surgery due to ruptured intestines.

[jrdnnoel]

An ER doctor ignored me while I was in status elipticus, saying that I was being “uncooperative” and he’d treat me like a drug seeker until I “decided to talk to him”. I was told this afterwards because, of course, I was unconscious…for a really long time. I had maybe six or more convulsive seizures and didn’t regain consciousness between them and that’s extremely dangerous. Eventually, I stopped breathing, but my partner had to get me breathing again and keep me breathing until someone showed up to do a medical thing about it because they left me alone and on my back after trying to feed me a pill.
Every seizure 101 thing they could possibly get wrong, they got wrong. It almost killed me.

[lagomorph]

I was having horrible pain in my wrist and went to the family orthopedic doctor. When the doctor left the room I looked at what he wrote on the chart and there was NOTHING there! He then proceeded to tell my mom the pain was in my head and I was doing it for attention. He then wrote a prescription for antidepressants and lied to me saying they were pain pills. A while later I woke up one morning with such horrible pain I passed out. I went to a different doctor who did a bone scan and found I had a horrible stress fracture in my wrist! There are lots of a-hole doctors out there!

[spirit]

I was called a “drug seeker” by my first endometriosis specialist because he said and I quote “I got it. You cant be in pain” when that wasn’t the case, my pain got worse and worse (after being diagnosed with stage 3). I was 16 years old when he told me I wanted drugs.

He then told me I’d be depressed for being sexually active (I’ve been server depressed king before him and was diagnosed at 13). When I finally got my stuff together and started anti-depressants he told me he “told me so” and that my depression was because of me being sexually active (and I wasn’t at this time).
He lied to my family about endometriosis and told them to ignore any pain im in afterwords. Saying that it’ll never grow back (it did and I just got my second surgery by a different and amazing doctor).

I wish I could just go back and cuss him out. He pretty much made it hard for anyone to hear me for the longest time. Because he’d always shut me down

[gemstonejasper]

My uncle had a stroke about a year ago. About a month ago, my aunt took him to the doctor because he was acting strangely. The doctor literally sent him home without telling my aunt any signs to look for saying it was because he had cannabis in his system. He was rushed to the hospital and died of kidney failure about a week later. My family is talking about finding a lawyer to see if there's anything we can do legally

[SimplyCheryl]

Mike this has literally been mostly my experience with doctors. I’m 36 and 90% of the the time our docs or other docs have treated us this way