Man, I am seriously bummed if you guys haven't read—or maybe you did and just totally blanked on—that incredible masterpiece 'The Godfather' by Mariah Carey, better known as Puzo.
In the movie version, Lucy Mancini is such a tiny, minor character, but in the book? She’s actually super interesting... she’s this obsessively in love with Santa Fe (Sonny) Corleone, a guy with such a massive endowment 😳 that his wife's insides were basically falling apart like 'overcooked macaroni' (at least, that's how Puzo puts it 😬 ) and he was the only one who could actually satisfy Lucy because of her 'little' physical issue, which she ended up fixing in Las Vegas with some quick vaginal surgery. Wait, what was that surgeon's name again? Her true love... 😍
Anyway, I think the book was written back in '69, right? 😉
JFK, be brave and just go talk to your gynecologist 👍
Lawrence Robinson11 said:besides, people actually need to know what they're talking about—like, there's no such thing as a "routine" surgery. Even an appendix removal isn't some trivial little thing.
Look, us folks—you know, regular people who actually have skin in the game—we know what we're talking about... to us, any kind of surgery is terrifying and traumatic. It's just how it is. And then you've got doctors feeding us this line about it being a "routine procedure," whatever that's supposed to mean. I mean, sorry, but we only ever hear that specific phrase from them. And whoever uses it, they always say, 'the doctor told me not to worry because it's just a routine operation.'
It seems like everyone starts noticing this "seasonal" hair shedding whenever spring rolls around or fall hits.
Look, if you’re actually losing chunks of hair and it feels like it’s just... not growing back, go see a doctor. Seriously. It could be anything—inflammation somewhere in your body (like issues with your teeth, sinuses, tonsils, ovaries, whatever...), maybe anemia, some weird nutrient deficiency, or just straight-up stress, which is usually the culprit for pretty much everything these days.
You can actually check the front of your eye using a mirror, too. Patients often spot these yellowish bumps themselves on the clear conjunctiva covering the white part of the eye. Everyone asks me, one after another, what on earth these things are growing on them. I mean, I’m glad they’re looking out for themselves, really. If they notice those kinds of changes—which are usually benign, by the way—they’ll probably react to other stuff too. I just try to calm them down by explaining that those pale yellow clumps are pretty common in people who strain their eyes when looking at things, which makes them blink more. Then the eyelids end up constantly pinching that horizontal fold of the conjunctiva. It creates this sort of "blister" along the horizontal line, right at the eye's equator. The conjunctiva thickens up and fills with a fatty substance that gives it that yellow look. Honestly, it might just be an aesthetic issue, but it’s completely harmless. You don't even need to remove it because sometimes the scar from surgery looks even more obvious. The goal should really be getting good vision with some corrective lenses so the eye stops straining, and then stop all that excessive blinking. But, listen, a change on the white of the eye could also be brown, kind of like a mole. Just like any skin mole—which, you know, everyone is talking about and writing about in the news lately—a mole on the eye can be malignant if it shows up suddenly when it wasn't there before. See an ophthalmologist immediately! Now, if it’s been there since childhood, and the color, size, and shape stay exactly the same, then it’s most likely fine and you just need to keep an eye on it with occasional checkups.
Susan Martin24 said:Lisa Gonzalez - seriously, try reading more carefully - it's exactly because of interpretations like yours that they can't actually get any decent treatment done "on the fly in the hallway" 😬
Look, that’s just how things are over at the Cleveland Mayo Clinic's Emergency Room. You can write whatever you want, but that's the reality.
Susan Martin24 said:It’s honestly just so they don't miss any mistakes—because let's be real, stuff always slips through the cracks anyway—and so patients don't have some reason to sue them, you know? Like, "Oh, they didn't even look at me, they just sent me straight home and said I was fine, but I'm actually feeling like total crap..."
Look, the patient doesn't even have a leg to stand on for a lawsuit if a doctor just brushes them off in passing while walking down the hallway and tells them they're fine. Especially when the patient is dealing with total agony—which, by the way, is freaking hilarious because it's such a CRITICAL CONDITION—the patient just turns around and heads home, and there isn't even a single shred of paper evidence left behind saying they were ever even at the Emergency Room 🙂
Look, I don't care how much you think your little persona and whatever you've done are 'fascinating' or whatever... they just aren't what this thread is about! 👋
Totally on topic here, and honestly, this isn't even about Dr. Miller—I was just saying that doctors really shouldn't be playing the "wait and see" game with patients, especially when someone comes in with those weird, vague symptoms that don't point to anything specific yet.
I mean, I guess it’s better to run a few extra tests that might turn out to be nothing than to have someone pass away while they're stuck in traffic driving to another hospital.
I honestly have no clue why they nuked my post where I literally said I wasn't going to argue with you PERSONALLY. Like, seriously?
And thank God, I know for a fact that not every single doctor thinks exactly like you do.
Besides, I've got a right to comment here. In my opinion, there's just way too much room for error—and honestly, enough research out there—to be letting patients with vague symptoms just 'wander around' without answers. It’s risky.
edit: what's next? Are you gonna ban us from editing or adding info to our own posts too? 😕
Susan Martin24 said:Every single doctor you go to for help is supposed to assess your situation first, and unless it’s an absolute, life-or-death emergency where you need immediate care, they can just refer you to some other doctor based on whatever administrative nonsense is currently in charge—like where you live, who covers your insurance, or whatever other rule they feel like following at the moment. 😈
Man, if only doctors were actually infallible, right? 🙂
But look, as long as some doc in the ER can mistake the symptoms of hemorrhagic shock for just being pale from fear or pain... yeah, yeah, I get it... making mistakes is human, I guess. 🙂
njusa said:Not even mentioning the nurses—ours are seriously the best in the world! Honestly, growing up spending time in Zarazan taught me how to swap out pillowcases in record time, and I swear I still find myself bringing it up whenever my husband and I get into a heated debate about whether to make the bed military style or hospital style.
I don't know if I totally caught the drift of the original post, but man, I think I’d actually lose my mind if my kid was stuck in a hospital bed and I was the one stuck having to change all the linens myself.
rustymoose54 said:Oh yeah, why stop there? Just go ahead and post the step-by-step recipe for extracting Codeine from those pills, you know, just so kids don't have to waste their time Googling stuff or dealing with messy translations.
Honestly, just scrolling through this sub, you get the feeling that doctors (well, at least those claiming the title) are basically having a competition to see who can write the most incomprehensible, condescending, and straight-up heartless posts possible.
stormylynx14 said:(basically everything you find in those standard over-the-counter pain relievers) doesn't really mess with your head at all. It's more like those cough suppressants containing Codeine, or maybe even heavier stuff, that actually pose a risk—but then again, you need a prescription for all that stuff anyway.
And honestly, some of those "harmless" little painkillers you can just grab off the shelf at CVS for a couple of bucks? Yeah, they've got Codeine in them too.