Today I spoke to a coworker who had bad experiences with doctors and was seeking recommendations for a new one, then other coworkers chimed in, and so I decided to ask you guys as well. Well, not for a doctor recommendation, but about your bad experienced with doctors?

I’m gonna spoiler mine, because it makes me very uncomfortable, so perhaps it may make someone else very uncomfortable.

uncomfortable

I had a doctor who had no business in it make me show my intimate parts (I’m intersex) and she touched them. She was curious, I guess…? She’s a psychiatrist, so, again, literally 0 business doing so. I already have trauma from regular people who treat me like a circus display, I really had no need for someone with systemic power over me using it like that…

No, I didn’t report this. I was a teenager and barely functioning at the time. :/

  • Jay@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    A bit hard to explain, but I had an accident once that screwed up my wrist. If you look at your wrist, there’s a bone that sticks out forming a little lump. underneath it is another round bone called the perilunate. My perilunate got dislodged and ended up pinching off the nerves to my fingers (carpal tunnel) and essentially shut down three of my fingers. My wrist was x-rayed and two separate doctors who looked at the x-ray told me everything was fine.

    I asked “Are you sure?” I’m no stranger to pain but something felt totally off there. I was assured everything was ok, and to go to my doctor in a month if things didn’t get better. A month later, I went to another doc because it was not better at all, who took another x-ray and sent me home. I had just gotten home when he phoned me in a panic and told me to head straight back to the hospital for an expert to look at. He was in total disbelief that both doctors didn’t notice. I had surgery and three steel pins put into my wrist the next morning to hold things in place. Here’s the x-ray with a rather noticable bone out of place. https://i.imgur.com/n2rHYuw.jpg and after the pins were put in to hold things in place while it healed. https://i.imgur.com/Cnh0QwK.jpg

    TLDR: I ran around for a month with a bone on the wrong side of my wrist because two doctors were in a hurry.

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        8 months ago

        Although I was a bit annoyed at them I can’t really blame them. People screw up sometimes, it just sucked it had to be on me lol! I will never have full range use of my right hand anymore but I’m not sure how much was due to them overlooking things vs how much is because of the accident itself.

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      8 months ago

      Why in god’s name do they think they can diagnose nerve issues with x-rays??

      It makes no sense.

      To be clear I am not disbelieving you. I have plenty of experience with doctors trying to use x-rays to diagnose soft tissue problems. It’s so fucking stupid it makes me want to rip my hair out.