Thanks to the internet, we’ve all rushed to the doctor convinced we have a deathly and obscure infectious disease only found in the Amazon rainforest… only to discover it’s actually just a blocked nose.
Proving these clearly provide the best dinner party stories for medical professionals, doctors recently took to Reddit to share their best “I can’t believe I’m having this conversation with an adult” cases.
You’ll definitely feel better about your last visit.
1. Body parts.
“My friend is a student doctor and is on placement at a small town doctor’s office. She had a 70-ish-year-old woman come in with complaints of a small but painless growth that was visible at the back of her throat.
“Turns out it took her 70 years to notice her uvula.”

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2. Caffeine addict.
"That the 30 plus cups of coffee he was drinking every day could possibly be the cause of his chief complaints of anxiety and insomnia. He said he was not willing to give this up or try decaf."
3. I'm pregnant?
"My dad had to tell a patient that they were not pregnant. The patient was male."
4. Handicapped.
"Got placed doing a rotation in the orthopedic floor of a big hospital in a rural area of Southern California. I was doing my rounds and saw a patient out of bed and walking around the floor following a knee replacement. She had a cane in her hand that she was carrying like as a solider would carry a rifle.
"I asked what she was doing and what she thought the cane was for. She replied she thought the cane was for pushing people out of her way since she's now 'handicapped' and it wasn't to help her walk on her post-op knee." (Post continues after gallery.)
Top Comments
Try keeping a stráight face telling somebody that continuing to put foreign objects in their body is not a good idea. After surgical removal of a can of WD-40 on a 40yo man. I'll let you guess where it was.
I have looked after numerous women usually in their 20's and 30's who don't have a basic understanding of their anatomy and how their body functions