20 Wild Questions People Have Asked Their Doctor Friends

‘How do you know if you have Syphilis?’
20 Wild Questions People Have Asked Their Doctor Friends

Listen, going to the social circle, you have every right to abuse that privilege.

Sometimes, however, the questions friends and family ask of their board-certified loved ones can cross every professional and quite a few personal lines. From the most intimate rashes to genuinely impossible ethical dilemmas, those in the medical profession have seen and heard it all, occasionally way too much. That’s why  Geraltthegrey asked r/AskReddit, “Doctors of reddit, what is a medical question a friend has asked you that you wish they hadn’t?”

hairy_ass_truman . 1mo ago Does this look like herpes?
nycemt83 . 1mo ago My wife's cousin wanted me to see if his testicles had shrank from using steroids. I politely declined.
CSnarf . 1mo ago Had a friend ask me to look at his taint at the height of monkeypox. It was a heat rash.
SelfishPinata . 1mo ago I have to ask my mother not to text me pictures of her body parts / poop at least once a year.
catrosie . 1mo ago My sister asked if it was bad that her WBCs were in the 20's. I had a heart attack until she said it was a typo
surpriseDRE 1mo ago My husband's uncle asked me how many days after peeing could you still drink your own urine. I wish he did not ask that.
Easy-Reputation-9948 1mo ago Brother is a Doc. When he was a med student, girl at a wedding said her cooter was stinky. Asked him if she had bacterial vaginosis.
InvestingDoc . 1mo ago I'm going to go with the time that my uncle sent me an unsolicited picture of his anus asking if this was a hemorrhoid or not.
grinder0292 . 1mo ago Why are covid vaccines causing cancer? Even if I wish it wasn't like this, but our friendship isn't the same anymore
kochki711 . 1mo ago Not a doctor, but a nurse. My background is exclusively women's health and NICU. The amount of times my grandfather has asked me about his prostate has made me dread visiting him.
Hollandmocro04 1mo ago My friend asked me what melanoma looks like and how she could get it. I told her that if she had a mole that looked suspicious, she could send a picture of it to me. She sent me a total of 62 pictures of all the moles on her body over the following weeks And she keeps sending more...
calloooohcallay . 1mo ago My mother once called me because she hurt her ankle and wanted to know if it was broken or just sprained. Then she got mad at me when | said that A) I'm a nurse in B) a completely unrelated field and C) no one can differentiate a sprain from a simple fracture over the phone without an xray or at least an exam.
smellygooch18 . 1mo ago When my brother graduated from medical school all my friends sent him pictures of their testicles asking if they looked weird. | thought it was funny. Не was not happy with me. One of my friends actually had a weird testicle and needed to see a dermatologist to get a mole looked at. Turned out to be nothing but still hilarious
BeerisAwesome01 1mo ago I'm a practicing surgeon, in the UK it's different from being a doctor...however. One of my now former friend's/ patients asked me: Are you sure you know what you are doing? Wrong time to ask me as I'm about to remove your liver, also...whoops, knew I forgot something... anesthetic!
Unusual-Ear5013 1mo ago Mums friend showed me her MRI scans at a dinner party ahead of seeing her neurologist. The report and pics showed features consistent with multiple sclerosis - there was no way I was having that conversation with her, so I feigned stupidity and said it was outside my knowledge area and told her to discuss it with her doctor instead. My mom was mad at me for pretending to be dumb. I made it clear that under no circumstances would I be giving any ad hoc medical advice to her friends moving on.
graboidkiller 1mo ago As a dentist, close friends (new friends old friends) always ask if I can tell if someone gave a blowjob. When I politely explain there are signs that are sometimes possible for me to see in the mouth, I can see the realization if they are also my patients. I never understood why people asked because now every time someone wants a blowjob, they have to make sure there isn't an  dental appointment. There are too many people in the world that think of me before performing the act.
cierramaranara 1mo ago Not a doctor, but a paramedic and I think this fits alright. I had my dad and mother call me because my dad was dizzy. Не was laying down and they checked his blood pressure and it was fine. I was doing the questioning I normally would and I asked him to sit up and take the blood pressure again and it was low. I asked a few more questions and finally my dad blurts out that he took viagra and it started right after they were.... Intimate. Turns out his new blood pressure medication/ anxiety medication
ParticlesInSunlight 1mo ago Not a proper doctor but I'm a retired combat medic and I've been asked a couple of odd questions. At a Christmas party for a charity that my ex used to work with I got chatting to the charity's founder, naturally we got round to Oh, you're X's partner? You're not in education too? Oh cool, uh, if you don't mind taking a look at something for me... He'd slipped on the stairs a few days earlier, bit of an ache in his upper arm, wasn't sure it was worth going to a doctor. I took a
tryingisbeautiful 1mo ago Friend of my then boyfriend asked me How do you know if you have Syphilis? out of the blue one day. I asked him why he was wondering, he said he was just curious. Sure Bert, sure, we're all curious. But if you think you NEED to know if you have Syphilis, the chances are high you have been engaging in Syphilis-enhancing behavior and should get yourself and your downstairs area checked out. Не went to the doctor. Не had Syphilis.
Haegorn 1mo ago Any medical questions. I'm a doctor in chemistry.

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