Can it get more stupid than this?

Maybe she ment that when she drinks it right away it does. But then goes away maybe just trying to help her out here.Well, there is one thing I do know is that if you drink to much water you can have a heart failure. That happened to a guy at work. Gosh that wasn't a good night but it was as he didn't die. The man sounds like he was in need of med. asstince of a different nature. Hope you keep looking to the bright side as they do need your help. YOur friend onlydia

Hey mimpi! I guess it takes all kinds! And I also guess that's why they are "patients"! So I guess they are entitled to their "phobias" or whatever illnesses they dream up whether they are real or logical or cause for actual foundation! I know that people can get carried away with symptoms some times and that's what the real doctors are there for! The are there to weed out the real symptoms from the "made up" ones! So I guess you just have to deal with whatever you can and make the patients feel comfortable! I worked in the medical profession too so I do understand and it isn't always easy!

In this day and age it still amazes me just how stupid people are with their idiotic ideas and beliefs! I don't think these people ever read a book or questioned anything they've ever been told!

I've learned to become completely thick skinned when it comes to some people and their beliefs like these. In a number of the countries I've lived in, the supposed contributing factors for a number of afflictions have even included evil spirits and gnomes! Mind you, some of the remedies for these afflications that people have shared with me DO have some merit, but many of them do not. Overall it's people's reasoning behind many of the symptoms that had me staring in amazement, not the way they treated things.

It's so crazy what people think about their bodies lol I think that most people have so many weird things happen to them because it gets passed down from generation to generation or they hear it from other people and think it's actually true lol. One time when I was pregnant with my first son his father went to drink out of a glass that I was drinking out of and my freind said Don't do that or you'll get pregnant, his eyes got real big and he set down the glass and said Well I don't want to get pregnant. I never laughed so hard in my life.

I once had a neighbor who thought a spider and a aunt could breed together. When i was going to school there were 2 sexually active girls that thought they knew the rythum method of birth control. They both ended up pregnent before the year was out.

lol Well, I can't remember any off hand...but my mother makes a lot of these kind of comments....and my sister and I sometimes can't help but roll over with laughter! Sometimes, she does it for a laugh....but sometimes she is really serious about stuff she's heard from her friends! She has said so many wierd things that we don't even pay attention any more....so I can't think of any right now.

I like to think that there is a difference between stupid and having not learned something yet. Yes, some of us have natural, common-sense, but not all do. I like to present the facts to such people before declaring them stupid. I guess that it is the teacher in me. But.... if after the facts are presented, they still believe such nonsense, I then can safely declare them legally stupid!

Mimpi, that patient is totally a mommy's boy, huh, lol. How can he thought that his result can represent his mother!! As for me, well, let's see... there was my stepmother told me that if i had too much of rujak (a fruit dish with mix of palm sugar, dash of salt, crushed roasted peanut, a bit of tamarind, and a customized spicy-ness for its sauce) i will get pimple. I think she get the idea from the peanut thing, but puhleezz.... I gently rolled my eyes and snort (not too gently). And no, i didnt get pimple from that. Then, there was the same stepmother told my sister that if she washes her hair too much using shampoo, she'll get brain cancer!! Good thing my sister come to me about this almost immediately. Can you imagine if we sue the shampoo company for causing us brain cancer lol. And this was years ago!! so no, the stepmother was not picking up from gwyneth. Then the idea of if you dislike the white of your egg, that means you didnt love your father. And if you didnt like the yolk, you didnt love your mother. One of my colleague still (somehow) believe in this. And of course that stupid belief when you're in junior high school that if you share glass with a boy, you'll get pregnant. Heelloowww!!!!!

mim, I have given up trying to figure out how some people think. It's as if they killed all the smart or common sense brain cells somewhere along the way. The massage oil is a real kicker!!LOL People will say anything to keep from taking responsibility for their own obesity. And that is precisely what keeps them obese. Hugsss leenie

hahaha that's funny, I take it that you're in the health field? I am too. What do you do? I'm an EMT. Patients can be very stupid and amusing at times, you can imagine the stories that I have. lol

HUH? Never heard about this kind of crazy thoughts, I don't have crazy stuff to share. What I know is as we grow older our body becomes heavier and making it harder to stay slim.

Ha!Ha!I'm not sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for these people; maybe I shouldn't laugh but it is funny especially the water one! I know someone who beats all stupids. My sister's partner's brother is bit of a no hoper who has been in trouble with the law over the years due to stupidity like the time he tried to steal a car only to fall asleep in it! Then there was the time he broke into a house and went to sleep on the bed, until the Police came of course! All I can say I am really glad I'm not related to him and he's not the one my sister is with!

i think the thing about how cold water makes you fatter has been making the email rounds for years and this is probably why this person believes in it. i agree that it is a bit silly, even stupid. i wish people would just stop believing easily in stuff they read over the web or even in the papers.

I've been drinking cold water since the last two months and there are no signs of gaining any weight at all. I do not know the reasoning behind this one, but a friend once applied honey on hair. I do not know what benefit it brought him, but it sure had the hair on his head all stuck up and glued together. What about those trying to eat ice cream or drinking cold water to cure a cold ?

I recommend these two links as only samples. http://www.erbook.net/stupid_patient.htm http://vermicious.blogspot.com/2007/01/stupid-patient-of-week.html

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

Okay, you opened the door! I have this complaint about the instructions on my medication that the pills have to be taken by mouth...I looked at the pharmacist and inquired "What do they think I am going to do, shove em up my a$$?" She looked at me an laughed!!! It turns out that people will be prescribed suppositories and they will put them where they are supposed to go, except that they won't unwrap them! We both had a good laugh over that one. I worked the pharmacy at the place I worked years ago and some of the calls we got were really strange. Like people who use preparation H and call because it isn't working, they have swallowed quite a bit and they still have hemorrhoids! They get really upset when you tell them where it is actually to go... I have had people tell me to drink lots of hot water on a diet because it melts the fat and it goes away...I didn't have the guts to ask how it went out of the body. It's like having your parents tell you not to eat watermelon seeds as they will grow in your body.

Wow, these people are amazing! They'll find any lame excuse to justify stuffing their faces. I'm a qualified personal trainer and some of the biggest twits weren't the clients, but the people I worked with. Quite often they had a degree in sports science but zero intelligence. Like, they'd give an advanced aerobics program to someone who should have been sent straight back to teir GP for an EKG check before going anywhere near a treadmill. We used to do 'skinfold tests' to assess how obese people were. The smaller the fold of skin you could pinch with the callipers, the less body fat they were carrying. It's accurate, but only so long as the callipers could stretch to accomodate the client - or their skin be loose enough to get hold of. For this reason, if skin was stretched very tightly the test wouldn't work. Usually, this applied to our amateur/natural body builders (we didn't get the steroid types) whose skin was really tight over (yum!) their muscles. Hmmm ... Anyway, one day I had to reassess a new colleague's (BSc, grad) client as my boss thought the skinfold result looked suspect. It had come out at less than 10% - top athlete level. He reckoned that, having met the client in person, my pal might have made this bit up. My workmate swore he hadn't, and that he'd been hard put to get the callipers to register anything at all, so we called the client in for a retest using the digital method. In walked the fattest woman I'd ever seen! Her skin was stretched all right - over the most obese arms, shoulders and tum in SE England. The callipers hadn't been able to grip any flesh, because they slipped right off! Politely, I suggested the more correct reading would be in excess of 45% body fat (the highest our digital biostat would record before defaulting to "Error - help!!!" mode) and that, in future, my colleague use his eyes rather than his notebook. Her response? "Well, my husband thought you were being a bit kind to me." Kind? Dirk Brain had her down at a leanness level that would make Arnie feel depressed. Good news was, she became my client and I gently got her down to a highly respectable 22% body fat. Fine for her 5ft 4" frame.

haha, they are so funny, should feature them in cartoons instead. I think "stupid" is not that appropriate a word to describe them, "cartoon" may be a better word. I heard my fair shares of funny remarks. Once a dormitory unit was infested with bed bugs, and all 16 workers were badly bitten. They approached us for help a few months later, saying that "bed bugs are good for your blood circulation. Bed bugs suck away all the bad blood so that the new blood cells are made to replace the bad blood". I asked them to stand 3 steps further away from me. I didn't want any single bed bug to suck my rotten blood.