Scary - Doctors!

OMG!! That would have been my thoughts exactly!!! Well I had one almost put my eye out, scared me good and oh yeah tried to kill with pain too, if that counts, LOL. Once upon a time, I had a lump under my skin on my shoulder. It freaked me out cause it didn't hurt, came out of no where and was the size of a quarter. Needless to say I went to the doctors who agreed I needed it removed and have it tested. So I was referred to a surgeon the next day. I show up and she was friendly. I liked her and thought “well… this will be fine”. Ha, chalk up another time I was wrong. The first thing I had to do was to remove my shirt and bra then lay down on the table on my side so the shoulder with the knot was facing upwards. Then they draped the blue paper over me. She warned me of the shot to numb the area and she gave it to me. It stung and burned like those nasty thing do, but it was normal. She waited a couple of minutes poked it and then said "Lay still for me I am now going to make an incision and I don't want to hurt you." Hurt me? Nuff said I ain't moving. Well she cut a slit with the scalpel, then I seen from the reflection in a machine in front of me, her reach for scissors. BTW she was working from behind me. I felt some tugging and could hear the scissors working, then BAM! Blinding light of pain hit me. She cut right into an un-numbed area of skin! Ok so here I am in pain and not just any pain I mean that friggin hurt and all I can think is "DON'T MOVE! DON'T MOVE! ", so I scream something un-understandable and to this day I still don’t even know what I was trying to say. This stops her and I was able to say, “I feel every bit of that!” So she apologized over and over again, then gave me another shot! OMG!!!!!! Here is the burn on top of the pain I already have! Ok so buckets of sweat later, she begins again after being sure I can’t feel anything in that area. Well she removed the lump finally and started to stitch me up. Cool, I am on my home just a few more minutes. HA! WRONG! I hear a soft, “clink”, then out of no where this U shaped needle attached to black thread comes flying over my head and across my nose, ending by swinging back and forth over my eye. Lucky I blinked at that moment and it just hit my eyelid and left a scratch. However if I hadn’t of, it would have gotten my eyeball for sure. Ok more apologies later I am ready to walk out. Well she gives me my instructions. Don’t shower till tomorrow, keep it dry till then. When I do take a shower I can remove the tap. OK. So after waiting for TWO days, I was ready for a shower. I get undressed and stand in the mirror to remove the tape. Well I was taking my time about it and it was going great. Then I noticed it was burning, but thought I was being a baby. I pushed myself through it until I had removed the entire tap. Then I noticed blood was coming from it. So I got up in the mirror to have a closer look. Well, seems after she about put my eye out with the stitches, she decided after only two, to close it up with that stitching tape and didn’t tell me that. So I just pulled the darn incision apart! At that point I doctored it myself and decided there was no way in hell I was going back to her. End of the story it left me with a half-inch scare right on top of my shoulder that you can see in the summer time when I wear wide neck shirts. Oh and the tumor was a “fatty tumor” and was never a harm to me.

i have an experience of that with the vet. of my dog... my dog gi-gi(male) was so sick and i dong know way. 2 days ahead he was cheerful and alive then hw turned to a sick one. he dont want to eat anything, there was a blood coming out from his organ and his mouth. i brought him to a vet to know what's wrong with him to give him medication as well. the doctor was so busy for other patients that he makes us wait for an hour. he just look at my dog saying that she's doing an observation. then afterwards she gave prescriptions. i was thinking that after the medication my dog will be fine but it was wrong. just the day after that gi-gi die. then that was the time i realized that the vet must examine his inner thing to know if where does the bleeding came from... from then on.... i never bring my pet to that doctor again!!....

Um wow! I would be asking to see another doctor. I've never heard of having to mark the spot where the surgery was needed. That's something the doctor should have already known. Plus with an injury such as the one that you had it should have been quite visible which arm needed operated on. Going to the doctors is always a scary experience for me, but that's because for one I don't like going to hospitals and two I have heard to many horror stories of malpractice being performed on patients.

I donw if I would have let them do the surgery on me if they couldn't figure out what are to operate on.

I don't have a scary encounter with my doctor so far. However, I would like to comment about them. They are just humans, they make mistakes. It also our responsibility to watch over what they are doing to warn them if there are obvious mistakes that they're about to commit on us. Putting marks on spots where you do not want to be touch in the OR are pretty "normal" and even SOP in some hospitals, although I agree with you that with an obvious injury like yours, the doctors must know where to operate. Maybe the nurse just did it to put humor into an already stressful ordeal of yours. LOL... Do watch out for those doctors that just barely pass their exams... Keep safety...

Not with doctors, but with a nurse who tried to get me to sign my newborn over to her because she thought she deserved a baby more than I did, when I didn't sign the adoption papers,because I was too groggy from anaesthesia, she did and said it was my signature and tried to take the baby home.Thankfully the baby had jaundice bad enough that hospital wouldn't release her. When I kicked up a fuss at not having my baby, 2 doctors came to talk to me and discovered the forgery. The nurse was fired on the spot, and I got the baby back. Thankfully, I have very bad writing, and my signature looks nothing like the one the nurse signed.

OMG that is scary, yes I have a little experience, I decided to go to the doctors to have a mole removed thinking he would send me to another surgery as this was a little medical practice but he said he would do in the surgery all I needed was a doublre appointment, so there I am laying down and he is working on me when he say he hates the sight of blood, then I sort of take a side glance out the corner of my eye and he is cutting into me as he is looking up to the ceiling, he then asks me to hold a cloth up to it while he gets somthing else he takes a look at it and tells me he didn't get it all but I couldn't go any further as I think I would have fainted...well I never got a bill, but the damned thing has grown back....hmmm I have a new doctor...

I don't have any scary experiences with Doctors like this. I have always known surgeons to mark with texta where they are going to cut or operate. Although it does seem a little silly in your case, when the bone is sticking out of your elbow. What a nasty injury. I am glasd your dog came back okay.

X marks the spot eh? LOL I think I would have jumped of the operating table and ran for it LMAO. I had my share of weird doctors. The cardiologist I'm seeing at the mometnis kinda off a bit I think, but as long as he doesn't do open heart surgery on me I don't have anything to worry about lol.

I haven't but my friend did-- he was in the hospital for food poisoning and the nurse came in with his medication in the middle of the night - he woke up and asked her why his medication was in a glass IV now instead of the plastic bag IV he had been getting- whe said you have been getting it this way the whole time he now I haven't - then she called him Fernando...ooops...he said my name is not Fernando- then she checked his chart - and apologized and left-- turns out this nurse was going to give him Chemo for cancer- good thing he woke up...nice huh?

Wow i guess that did scare you,I would have been uneasy too..The only thing i can say is that doctors make mistakes everyday,they have been known to mess up big time..we are just another person in line to them,they care about just the surgery,and do not know US a a person..I suppose it was a good idea to let him know which are ,since he was idle minded,and could not see the arm...Im glad your dog came home and you still have your arm....I have a scarey medical story..Last year i had a hernia fixed and the doctor put a screen in my upper stomach,now they are recalling the screen that is in me because they are chipping off and putting holes in the persons bowels,im not TOOOOO Happy about that!

My doctor experiences have been pretty straight forward , I have only been operated on once and that was a one of a kind thing. They did it without ny problems and I am fine now.

I hate going to the doctor so much, white heather, that all of my experiences with them are kind of scary. One that stands out however was a few years ago I had to go to the hospital for some tests. They gave me a list beforehand with an amount of water and juice I needed to drink before I came in. I am just not a person who can hold a lot of fluids, so I got within about two glasses. They sat me down in the waiting room and told me to drink as much water as I could from this pitcher they supplied. After two cups I was feeling waterlogged and told the nurse I could not hold any more. She told me to just keep trying. Well, the upshot of the whole incident was I got so sick from all the water sloshing around inside me that I couldn't make it to the restroom and tossed my cookies all over the floor. I was mortified! Then they sent me home and said they would have to reschedule my tests.