It's not that bad quit whining

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• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spouse was at a dentist visit and her blood pressure was so high they threatened to call an ambulance. Has been that high off and on for weeks.

  Take her to the doctor, doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced. This lady raw dogs migraines to avoid Ibuprofen.

  First words out if doc’s mouth, “BP that high isn’t unheard of in women having their periods. Are you sure it’s not your time of the month?” Followed by, “well I’m sure you’re just nervous around doctors, it will go down when you get home.”

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  • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    High blood pressure alone is not an emergency. Definitely something to be concerned about preventing/treating in the long term, but no blood pressure number alone warrants an ambulance without also having symptoms of something like a heart attack or stroke that indicates organ damage.

    That said, that kind of blasé approach to markedly elevated blood pressure with no real plan to reassess or find a root cause is still unacceptable, especially lazily blaming it on menstruation like is so common. So not trying to undermine your experience, I just had to chime in bc the “hypertensive crisis” thing is a pet peeve of mine.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah this very much depends on the actual specific number. I work inpatient so I don’t blink at 155 systolic because we’re gonna take it again in 12h and honestly these days the hospitalist says current evidence supports not even treating emergently until 170. 140s to me is a GP/PCP’s problem 3 months from now and 130s they’ll probably just tell the person to eat less salt. There’s also the possibility that the doctor just figured she wouldn’t take anything anyway based on this person’s description.

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    • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      but no blood pressure number alone warrants an ambulance without also having symptoms of something like a heart attack or stroke that indicates organ damage.

      Idk, I’d say a blood pressure of 300/200 or 50/20 would warrant an ER ambulance trip, even without symptoms

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Every lady’s experience in a red state. Seriously, I’m not making a joke, being a “conservative” as defined in the US political system NEEDS to be categorized as a mental disorder that precludes people from being doctors at the least.

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This definitely isn’t just a female thing. We were all exchanging doctor stories the other night and everyone had ones like this. Weirdly they were all in the past few years and that being gaslit or dismissed by a doctor just feels normal now.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Doctors are useless assholes nowadays, more interested in yapping about themselves than anything remotely useful.

      I’d rather have a drunk North Korean veterinarian who lost his license and doesn’t understand a word of English address my issues than any of the psychotic freaks Canada is cranking out lately.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    doc knows she’s had a full hysterectomy, knows she doesn’t exaggerate, knows she refuses to take anything medincinal unless forced.

    Sounds like medical PTSD. I’ve fucked my liver taking OTC meds in very high dozes cuz I don’t trust doctors. Had to have an emergency hysterectomy at 38 because they wouldn’t listen. That kind of pain is indescribable.

    Had a cardiologist come into my room with a team of students to prove I only had anxietyand hypochondria a few years ago. Shortly after, Was diagnosed with Dysautonomia shortly after and I now have a pacemaker.

    I’m done with doctors and would rather just die at home at this point. Fuck them.

    Sorry for your spouse. ‘Womanly’ pain is the worst pain there is, imo.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    😬

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is textbook hysteria. This woman needs a lobotomy, stat, before the damage spreads to her vagina. Without that, she’s worthless.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Our latest research has shown that anal sex is a very humane way to give a woman’s life meaning after losing her vaginato hysteria.

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• Gormadt@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “We’re just gonna do a pregnancy test to rule that out”

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  • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Obviously not applicable to this case, but if you could pee on a stick to determine whether you’ll be at high risk for mortality within the next year, you might as well. Low risk, high reward.

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    • Gormadt@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Except doing so at a doctor’s office (at least in the US) can cost an extortionary amount.

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• Wren@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure, we can all see the x-ray, but when was your last period?

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Im not a doctor but I think she might be on her period. meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

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  • 5765313496@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ooh, are we playing Cat Or Doctor? The party game from Hello From the Magic Tavern? I’m going to guess… cat.

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    • Una@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am cat doctor.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this the inside of a llama’s stomach? Perhaps one wearing a hat?

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  • pech@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    4323

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• shukufuku@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First step: pregnancy test

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  • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’ll be asking her unconscious body 15 times if she’s pregnant, and her lifeless corpse at least 4 times.

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• MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Idk, but “u’re” gave me a minor aneurysm

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    u’rr’ar’re

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    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Straight to the gulag with you!

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Multiple compound and comminuted fractures in carpometacarpal particularly on the right as well as compound and comminuted fractures on the left distal radial and ulnar bones.

  Amputating 100%, but where will depend on the possible presence of any severe lacerations, contusions, and third or fourth degree burns.

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  • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not lupus

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    doc says they can’t lend a hand

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At this level of trauma the orthopedist isnt going to get that specific. It’s just going to be a trans carpal traumatic amputation of the left icd-10 S68.412 (Complete) and a traumatic trans metacarpal amputation of the right icd-10 S68.711.

    More than likely both will end up being a distal transradial amputations.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can tell this man is a doctor because he wants to amputate the hand that is already disconnected.

    Gotta get that $$$.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It will prob still require a distal radial amputation just to aid in prosthetic fittings. Those carpal bones don’t really do anything for ya but create osteoarthritis if you’re missing the rest of the hand.

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    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, I’m sorry, were you planning on using those metacarpals for something?

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean you don’t HAVE to be able to get a prosthesis. If you wanna rock a battle stump you’re welcome to?

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• Winter_Oven@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m thinking how this injury could have been caused by a single incident. Like both hands dismembered, with the right hand’s (on the left side?) thumb broken but otherwise relatively ok, whereas the left hand (on the right side) got basically cleaved, with the index finger flattened/elongated/crushed with the thumb looking fine (I think? looks sus, but can’t really say…).

  first thought is a car accident, but then the whole bits of hands and them arranged wrongly doesn’t really make sense in my head, like, this xray wouldn’t even be taken in the process of saving their life, I would think (unless they are dead, and this is a post mortem xray, but then at that point, why wouldn’t you arrange it properly then?)

  So I am thinking of some heavy machinery accident, and they managed recover whatever is left of their hands and limbs, rushed into the hospital, thus taking a quick xray to immediately see the extent of the damage.

  Or it could be ai, no idea, not a doctor…

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  • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Article from 2014 says it was a factory accident to an 18 year old worker. CW: pictures of his hands post-repair but still bloody. nydailynews.com/…/chinese-worker-gets-pincers-for…

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    • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Damn, that absolutely sucks :(

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    • TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Damn I was kinda hoping the person just moved their hands around while the xray was taking place

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    • sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Holy fuck, they repaired them?! That’s actually incredible

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Real answer has been posted, but my initial thought was that something like 4 m80s all blew up at the same time, with the person like pancaking or prayer-handsing them.

    Fucking gnarly.

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• GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “It’s because you are fat”

  “That will be $5900”.

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  • BlindPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Found the American

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    • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Funnily enough, I’m one of the few Americans that gets socialized healthcare because I served in the Navy.

      I’ve been pushing for everyone to get it over here

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• ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First thing I’d do is spell “you’re” correctly.

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  • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yup I was stuck on that for some time… too much work to type you but you still include the 're ?? What kind of absolute derangment is this

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s why they say “U’re a doctor,” cuz clearly they ain’t.

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  u’re are

  🤦‍♂️

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When was your last period?

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• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean I get it’s a joke I the case of this X-ray, but maybe you SHOULD lose some weight, quit smoking, drink less, and check if you’re pregnant? Your body is your temple but we don’t have to be that literal about it.

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• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They do this to trans guys too. Recent hospitalization was 50/50 “she” versus “he” from the nurses and docs of course.

  They refused to put me out and barely gave me pain meds while I was screaming as they stabbed and dug around to drain an abscess. Worst pain I have ever experienced was “anxiety.”

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Doctor: “Lose weight!”

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “You’d be prettier if you smiled more”.

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• houndeyes@toast.ooo ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  She must be low on zinc

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Clearly trauma happened. Why xray? Would that help in putting the puzzle back together?

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  • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    because regular photo is too gory

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• IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  its even worse if you dare be overweight, or dare to say what you feel, then you dont even have any problems except your weight or youre a google doctor. who cares about “tests” im going to spain with my frat bros

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You get a response from a doctor? Is this some non-UK joke I’m too UK to understand?

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My first diagnosis is he’s got hypothermia, second he is missing is epidermis.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The front fell off. I just want to make it clear that’s not supposed to happen.

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• Imperious_melange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like a bad case of overpowered firecrackers.

  Also what is the situation with pain, like it’s harmful for people to take too many pain meds and it’s harmful to not give someone enough. Seems like a tricky problem with few ways to get it right and too many ways to get it wrong.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh that’s easy, simply let the patient writhe in pain. You can’t show me your pain, and it doesn’t hurt the bottom line.

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    • Imperious_melange@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And when you’ve been duped by a handful of junkies looking for a fix, who should probably get an Oscar for their performance? In poorer places they are very minimal with resources because of the cost. In places like the US you have tight regulations after the opioid epidemic. I imagine in places with primary socialized medicine it’s controlled for both reasons.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  WALK IT OFF.

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rub some bacon on it.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well there’s your problem right there.

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    *u’r

    FTFY

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eh, just throw some duct tape and you’ll be fine

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I need to start carrying around a bingo board with tape over each spot, in case I have to go to the hospital. Then I can have squares on all the stupid shit one checks before waiting in line for hours, spending hundreds, and missing a workday.

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