What's your worst 'doctor' story?

OMG that is why here in the US it's common practice to take a permanent marker and mark the leg or arm to be operated on before surgery. That is so sad. My worst experience was when I found out I was pregnant at a clinic, I decided I wanted the Doctor who delivered me to take care of my pregnancy and deliver my daughter. So on the first visit, he gave me his on pregnancy test. However after taking two, he said they both were negative and I must have miscarried. I fell to pieces at hearing this news, to pieces. He then scheduled me to come back the next day to his other office for a possible DNC. I came home and cried for an hour. Then I don't know why, I just went into the bathroom and found another home testing kit in the cabinet and I took it. I reckon I was in a state of disbelief. Good thing, it came up positive. So I called his office and explained to the nurse what happened. She put me on hold, then came back to the phone and said, she had both tests he gave me and they were also positive!!!! He obviously read both of them wrong!!!! Needless to say, no he did not deliver my children and no I never went back to him again. I did report him to the Medical Board, don't know what happened with that.

Now that is terrible. Like you said at least they are admitting they did wrong. Alot of times they won't even go that far. My worst expierence with a doctor was with a dentist. It wasn't so much what he did but what he said. I asked me to open my mouth and then preceeded to say to me that my mouth was a very small size that he bet my husband loved that. That was enough for me. Needless to say I never went back to him.

When I was in the forth grade I broke my wrist. When we went to the hospital the doctor put the cast on and he wrapped it very lose. I told him that I thought it was to lose and it seemed to shift around a lot after that. It became time for the cast to be removed and I went in and I was so scared of the laser saw thing they were going to use to cut it off. I told the doctor you don't need to use it because I bet you I can pull the cast off like a glove. He laughed and said okay show me. So I pulled it right off infront of him. He was shocked and asked if I had ever done that before. I hadn't and I told him that and he did another x-ray of my wrist. He came back and told me that my wrist had healed incorrectly and that they were going to have to re-break it and put it back into a cast again. My mother thank god said no. It really doesn't bother me as it is so I'm glad she said no. It could have just resulted in more problems.

I have several that I could tell . But I will just tell about one with my aunt. She had her gallbladder removed many years ago, (back in the seventies)Well for years afterwards she complained with her side hurting and various aliments. But no one would tell her anything, so a couple years ago she went to a doctor in a different part of the state who did an xray and she kept the xray so she could take it to a lawyer. The xray showed a razor blade had been left inside her, and it was unmistakable. Then when she asked the doctor about it she was told "that it was an opac object and nothing to worry about" It was a razor blade you could see that plainly with no xray reading traing at all, and I don't think that a razor blade left inside someone is something minor. She did end up having surgery to remove it and the last I heard she was taking the hospital that did the surgery years ago to court, I don't know what may of came of that though. She also now is not in very good health and has a tendancy to not listen to doctors. Because she does not believe they know what they are talking about, and I think that may be in part because of them leaving a razor blade inside her and then telling her it was nothing to be concerned about. Oh the word they wrote on the chart opac (i am not sure I spelled right but it means metalic object, and the hospital staff were trying to convince her that it was normal to be walking around with a razor blade inside your body)

Well, i've never been on an Operation so i can't tell an history of my own.. But I know some history, Some guy was supposed to amputate one leg.. the left leg, ok, Now, in the operation the doctor changed and amputaded the right leg... He was processed and stuff xD!!!, It happened some time ago in brazil, can't remember the city... Oh well, many doctors are good.. but there some soo bad oO.

My worst Dr. story, is that my Dr. didn't notice that my baby was 3lbs. I was 35weeks when they finally realised that something was wrong and then I had to have a c-section so that he could go into ICU. Later the Dr. decided to label him with failure to thrive and he was admitted again into the hospital only to find out that he has acid reflux.

This does not surprise me at all. I had a lawsuit against a Dr. for mal[ractice and the laws cover the Drs. so well it is basically impossible to get anything from them. I cut my foot on a fishing trip and got oyster shell, glass and other debris in the cut. The ER Dr. did not clean it out very well and he was so interested in getting to a softball game he just sewed me up and sent me on my way. Gangrene set in my foot and so I had to have surgery to remove the debris, to stop the gangrene and try to save my foot. The surgeon in his haste nicked my tendon right below the big toe. I now have 3 toes that are paralyzed and have zero feeling in 1.3 of my foot. The Dr. are allowed a percentage of error and supposedly my error fell into that percent.

Fortunately, I don't have any ones personally. ButI've heard of cases where the wrong leg was amputated, or sponges or even clamps were left inside the patient when the surgical wound was closed up.

my worst story happened to my father. When he was having a heart attack, he was told to stand on his head because the dr didnt know what it was. Eventually he was exposed as a fake dr and was deported to India, we dont know how many he killed before he was exposed btw

Hubby had problems over time. Finally went and found that he needed the gall bladder out. Well they did so and during it they had to change their method since it was different that they first thought. Fine. Well it all went pretty well. Hubby slowly went downhill, we took him in and they could find nothing wrong with him. His parents came and he didn't get out of bed even for them. The doctors did not know why he didn't eat, slept alot and lost ALOT of weight. Well I finally asked about yogurt. They didn't know and said it couldn't hurt. Within a day of eating yogurt he was up and about. Soooo thin and weak. He began to eat and now is doing ok. It turned out that they had killed ALL the good bacteria in his body and the bad bacteria was slowly poisoning him. They truly almost killed him. We are not fans of doctors at all. This is our experience and we know of others. You take your life into your hands each time you step foot into one of their offices or hospitals.

Well it's a good thing the hospital has taken responsibility, but the poor boy, now he has to undergo two more surgeries. Not something to look forward to! Thankfully I haven't had any such nightmarish experiences with the doc:)

Ohh this is horrible. The poor boy, one operation is a lot for our body now he has to go through two more operations. For a mistake like this they should get a good punishment. Careless should not be tolarated where there is a question of someone's life is realated. May be he would not die but he could suffer from sever health problem because of this, and he is suffering. Fortunately For me or in my family we are not experiencing any worst treatment. But every now and then we keep hearing such stories. That is so bad.

MsWolf, this story touched me, cause I in fact had a bad case in the doctor office.. One weekend My back was not feeling well and I felt like something was going on...By Wednesday, I went to the doctor because he was getting bigger. She gave me some antibotics and said oh it will clear up in a couple days... By Friday, It had swoll so big, I couldn't sleep...Come to find out when I went back to the doctor it was a cyst that was continuing to grow and it was at the point where it was really pulling my skin... They gave me a shot of Demoral (life saver) Went to the hospital and got it lanced to drain... That pain was the worst pain I had in my ENTIRE life, It's alone the lines of giving birth..lol... It was on my lower back growing...I ended up cussing the first doctor out and changing to the doctor that diagnosed me properly... I ended up having surgery to have it completely removed like 3 months later...

These 'accidents' do happen in real life. A few years back, my dad was diagnosed with cancer of the vocal cord and the doctors said that he's already in stage 3, going 4. We were really down and so depressed. Stage 4 after all, is the last stage, so you could just imagine how we felt that time. He underwent surgery and the nightmarish recovery period, and sometime in between we were told that his cancer was actually at stage 1 or 2. It was a case worth suing, but we were thankful that it didn't happen the other way around. Thank God, my dad now has fully recovered :)

I went to a local hospital because i was experiencing excruciating pain around my stomach and back area. The emergency beds are seperated only by curtain, so i could hear the screams, the moans and the groans of a lady having terrible labor pains. I was making these noises also because of the pain i was having. A female DR. came in and told me to shut up, the lady having labor pains was worse off. Sometime later i was given a needle for pain and sent home. This happened in the afternoon, but later that evening still in pain my DR. said he would meet me at this same hospital. A specialist and a catscan later, i was told i would be operated on that night for what turned out to be a gangereneous gall bladder. I don't believe all Drs. care. Take care Shywolf.

Oh I have quite a few it is dreadful but ths one is the worst for me as recently in November, they discovered that I have sugar diabetes, now apparently I have had this for some time and it is not as if I never went to the doctor or had blood tests to check everything as I did on a regular basis so that I thoought that everything was alright accordingly with my rsults but one day my body started shaking and I thought oh boy something is wrong here although it wasn't shaking too badly but I knew something was wrong so I went off to my localo medical centre and that is when they discovered I had sugar diabeties I do not understand why this did not show up previously with the amount of tests that I had had but it did not anyway it was really very high and next week I go back to the medical centre and check it up again and see what the results will give me this time as I have done the right things accordingly to doctors treatment.

The worst I've actually experienced was of a small town doctor who was "treating" my mother for some weird thing that had her toes literally crossing. This wasn't a great situation for Mum, and he called me in. "Has your mother been acting strangely?" "Yeah. She's been limping." So much for my input. Mum told me later that he'd decided the problem was psychological... Fortunately one of the other doctors wasn't quite so intuitive, and we fixed the problem.

I can't imagine how that poor boy must feel after going through surgery to lengthen one leg - only to find out they lengthened the wrong one, and now has to go through 2 more surgeries. I've heard of various other things like this happening before and it makes me wonder if anyone questions the incompetence of the surgeons at all. If you do surgery, it makes sense that you should know which body part you're operating on right?

My mother works in a hospital. in x-ray. Some evening she had a pacient,but he were psyho. And he was scraping his left eye out!. His "inside voice" told him to do it.And there were much blood and screams... :( man thats so grose :(

It is not completely horrible but I did find the doctors bedside manner to be horrible!!! Just last month my (than) 6 1/2 month old son developed a swollen lymph node on the side of his neck. HIS doctor told us it was fine and it would go away soon. 2 weeks later it was still not gone but overnight it grew even larger and was shiny and red. We made him an emergency appointment for the day after New Years. My husband and I were waiting in the room for the doctor and when she came him (not his regular doctor) the first thing out of her mouth was "WHOA, what happened, what is that, oh, poor baby"...than went on to "talk" to my baby son and tell him it would be okay, and she doesn't know what happened, blah blah, in a way making my husband and I feel horrible, as if we are negligent parents and don't know how to take care of our own child. Don't you think we felt bad enough that he woke up that morning with a mass on the side of his neck!??!! You better believe I won't be going to see that particular doctor again!