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“I was a very new intern, working in the ED. I got asked to see a young woman patient and the diagnosis put beside her name by triage staff said ‘SELF HARM.’”
“So I took her into a consult room and tried my best to ask her about what was happening. She said to me ‘I think someone was in my room last night,’ and I was like, hmm that’s a weird way…
Doctors Explain Exactly Why Your Skin May Look "Crepey" As You Age, And What You Can Do About It
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Why Your Skin Gets Crepey With Age Explained
Crepes may be delectable, but crepey skin? Not so much. The term describes skin that, like crepe paper, appears thin and crinkled and typically lacks the elasticity, thickness, and firmness of youthful…
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And finally, “My best friend is an ER nurse, and she once told me about a patient who completely shattered her ‘seen-it-all’ mentality. A middle-aged man came in with mysterious, worsening abdominal pain. Scans showed a strange shadow near his…
Doctors Are Revealing The "Small" Health Issues People Ignore That Are Actually Dangerous
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“You should have a minimum of three bowel movements per week, preferably one a day. A patient from the ER started vomiting fecal matter out of his mouth, and he later died. He didn’t have a true bowel movement in over two weeks and tried to ‘tough it…
Doctors, Nurses, And Other Medical Professionals Are Revealing Their WILDEST Patient Encounters
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“Unhinged” Medical Patient Stories TikTok
If one thing’s for certain, it’s that the medical field is not for the weak. Coming from someone who gets squeamish while watching medical TV shows, I can’t imagine what doctors, nurses…
Doctors, Nurses, And EMT’s Are Sharing Their “Actually, We See This All The Time” Moments From Their Jobs
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“My mom worked in nursing homes for older people. And she told me that older people still have that longing for sex. And it doesn’t matter if the person is a man or woman. But men were more extreme than women.”
“She said there was an old…
From Attention-Seeking To Period Pain — 15 Terrifying Times Patients Were Misdiagnosed By Dismissive Doctors
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“I was misdiagnosed twice by a dermatologist for a bruise-like rash that showed up on my leg one day. The first time, they told me they couldn’t biopsy it and that it was a condition called ‘dark spots’ and it would go away in six…
