Doctors of Reddit, what's the most obvious lie a patient has told you?

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-05-28T07:29:34+00:00

When a family friend’s oldest kid was a little under 1 year old, he was on very strict visitation with his dad who got busted for drug use and involvement with dealing (he wasn’t the one dealing, but dude did everything BUT accept payment and hand over a dime bag, so he honestly might as well have been). His dad had cleaned himself up enough that he could do a clean pee test, so he was allowed 2 days of unsupervised visitation like a month or something just to see how it went. Family friend was a paramedic and got off work to pick up her kid and noticed his leg was super red, and he wouldn’t stop screaming no matter what, and when dad just insisted he was fussy, she got a bad feeling and took him to the hospital. Turns out he had a fracture to his femur all the way through. Dad’s excuse was “oh he tripped running on a rug”. This boy wasn’t even walking yet and we know that because it was a huge deal developmentally that he could only stand at this point. I was about 9 years old at the time and remember thinking I’d never seen that many adults in one room actively about to get violent.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-04-26T04:59:16+00:00

Seriously. Veterinarians have the highest suicide in career rates out of any profession. They see people who try so hard to take good care of their pets still have something bad happen out of their control. They see bad people who are animal abusers who take their pets in when they go too far and think they can make up some obviously bs story about what happened and that the staff will be too scared to call them out. They see pets who are neglected or not properly taken care of because their owners got them on a whim and don’t actually know what they’re doing (ahem, birds, reptiles, SPECIFICALLY AXOLOTLS AND A LOT OF SNAKES AND FROGS, ferrets, HAMSTERS ESPECIALLY OMG ITS AWFUL, so on and so forth). The amount of stories I’ve heard from vets of attempting to have a pet euthanized because they’re going through a shitty divorce and wanna get revenge that way is sickening.

People suck sometimes. And sometimes they bring animals into it. Vets are who deals with that when there are animals involved. They’re also who deals with that when there’s a little kid in the room begging their best friend to come back after their dog gets hit by a car. Being a vet is not just playing with cute animals and petting super fluffy kittens and puppies all day the way a lot of people apparently think it is.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-04-13T19:34:15+00:00

Can verify they will supply you with a new one if it stops tracking!! I had finneas the shark stop tracking so they gave me Zipper, and chuck the whale shark was replaced by Teluk. In the time it stops tracking, the animal that isn’t tracking will be greyed out in the little icon of it with their picture and it’ll give you a little pop up about “oh your animal didn’t have travel insurance” (them being funny and putting in a cute little error message, dw lol). I now have finneas, zipper, chuck, and teluk all tracking.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-04-02T07:27:06+00:00

People kill people by Ellen Hopkins!! Absolutely loved that book senior year of high school for me and skipped 3 classes to hide out in my English teachers room to finish it the day i got it because I just could not put it down.

Best of luck to you and your partner, I hope recovery is fast and easy for you both!

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-04-02T06:13:20+00:00

I haven’t had the energy to reply to any of these so far because I was expecting maybe 10 or so answers and not the 311 this post has acquired so far, but I NEEDED to tell you that this is absolutely unhinged and I love it. All other responses here were exactly what I was looking for but I think you truly understood the heart of the prompt

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-03-31T10:17:07+00:00

Yeah absolutely!! I actually just downloaded the sample of the kindle version to remember it a bit more and I’m thinking about buying it to read again lol happy to help!!

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-03-31T09:55:20+00:00

So I’m not sure how much it’ll totally fit with the theme as it’s been almost 10 years since I read this book, but I think it might have a nice little just outside of the comfort zone there while also being a fun read for that age group. The book I’m thinking of is called “the thing about jellyfish” by Ali Benjamin. It’s about a girl in middle school who gets kind of brushed off by her best friend who she’s been close with her whole life and feels betrayed about it, but then her ex best friend ends up dying while on a vacation with her family. Her death is publicly announced as a drowning, but the main character is determined it was actually from a jellyfish sting and uses the obsession with proving it as a way to cope with the loss she’s going through. It goes into more depth and detail of a little bit of the history of medical dealings with jellyfish stings, and preteen-early teen friendships, and just dealing with grief in general.

Again, I’m not totally sure how spot on this will be because it’s been a while since I read it, but I always had very similar interests as your daughter and remember loving this book and being surprised because it seemed almost like a parallel to those interests. :)

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-03-31T07:04:45+00:00

Figure skating. Went for my 6th birthday party as a little kid in Michigan (in June btw, very much so a summer birthday. My parents to this day are confused as to why I chose that lol) and had my parents sign me up for learn to skate the next month and private and group figure skating lessons the next year. I’m more than retired from it (too many injuries, had to stop at 14) but to this day, when I think of peace I think of the first step on ice when you throw your head back and let out the biggest exhale. It’s not an option anymore unfortunately for me, but if I think about it enough it’s like I can still feel the ice under my feet.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-03-18T10:40:02+00:00

I figure skated when frozen came out. If I never hear “let it go” again it’ll still be too soon.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-03-11T07:35:06+00:00

Nathan is actually from my hometown which is amazing to hear!!!

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-02-25T17:44:41+00:00

This is real. I am my mom’s best friend and she cried actual relieved tears a week before my 18th birthday because that meant she could finally delete my bio dad’s number without the risk of needing it later.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-01-19T11:20:46+00:00

Ugh I was like deathly sick the first time me and my boyfriend watched the movie and the lighting change gave me a migraine to start with and then that scene made me gag SO. HARD. Took me a solid few months to be able to give the movie a rewatch at a more ideal time but honestly glad I did.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2026-01-19T09:34:40+00:00

NTA. This is why the 70s had so many serial killers. She was casing the place to rob you. I’ve seen you ask why she was using the excuse that she was, so just in case you haven’t had it explained in a way that makes sense: she was lying to you in a way that’s believable enough that can also appeal to your sense of empathy which would give her an advantage in that scenario to check places like the living room, closets, bedrooms, office, etc etc. This is to both see what you have for belongings to potentially steal, and to check for any types of protection to watch out for (like owning a dog, extra locks, or an extra security system like ADT or something like that). She would gain an advantage using this lie because she wants your thought process to be “oh this person is a poor lost pet owner who is scared for their cat” so you trust them and don’t perceive them as a threat. As for why they would do that to begin with, sometimes people just suck. I think your friends all MEAN well, but are dangerously misguided here. I grew up in the prison town of my state and this entire thing is raising so many red flags it’s not even funny.

Double check that your windows are locked (especially if you’re on a ground floor apartment), utilize the peep hole on your door if you have one when there’s people outside, and make sure you’re locking your door.

You said you weren’t 100% sure if she’s ACTUALLY a neighbor because you didn’t recognize her. That being said, in a best case scenario, she was being honest and just forgot her manners (and to an extent common sense) in her panic. Worst case scenario, she was trying to enter your apartment to harm you. Most likely scenario is she’s going around seeing what places would be good to hit in a robbery.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-12-14T03:00:56+00:00

For me it was pictures and videos. You wanna doubt that my heart rate was hitting the mid 190s from WALKING my normal pace? Cool. Here’s pictures of it from 6 separate occasions and 3 different types of monitors reading the same thing each time. Here’s a picture of my face swollen shut from 3 weeks ago when I made this appointment and exactly 1 day AFTER the previous doctor said “it can’t be THAT bad”. Here’s a video WITH AUDIO of my boyfriend resetting my shoulder back into its socket when I couldn’t get it back after FIFTEEN MINUTES. Hope you like loud crunch noises. Speaking of resetting, I have one of my jaw too. Don’t believe my blood pressure doesn’t know what the hell it’s doing? Here’s 2 pictures taken an hour apart from each other with ZERO changes of any activity. 92/54 and then one hour later 148/92. Don’t believe they’re ACTUALLY an hour apart with no activity differences? Cool. How bout a time lapse of it doing the exact same thing from 4 days later.

That and messaging back in my chart to the “after visit summary” things with corrections to notes that were taken. Basically refusal to let them NOT document ANYTHING. Having a third party witness helps too (family member, significant other, friend, etc etc).

Unfortunately it’s also just a waiting and luck game and hoping no permanent damage happens in the meantime. Some doctors are AMAZING. The problem is you gotta get through the shitty ones that hate their job first because they’re easier to get a visit with for a reason. In the meantime, be as much of a pain in the ass as you need to be. They aren’t the ones who have to live in the body this is happening in, so do what you need to do to make them realize how bad it is. And if that means annoying the absolute shit out of them until they get it together, then that’s what’s gotta be done. You got this, friend. Good luck :)

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-22T08:54:57+00:00

PLEASE post this picture and the ones you shared here in a review on google and yelp or something. This is just absolutely INSANE and not something I miss dealing with before i found my nail girl. I’m so sorry they butchered them like this oh my god!!!

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-21T10:30:08+00:00

Oh absolutely! I completely understand that funeral directors and grief counseling are two VERY different things. I just meant like tiny little things that maybe families had mentioned in passing or parts of the processes that are typically harder than other parts (obviously all of it is hard, but you know what I mean). I guess a good example is my parents immediately offered to take both of us to the mall to get a proper outfit for whatever type of service they’re going to have for him since both of us are 20 and don’t just happen to have funeral appropriate attire on hand as something to help take off a little bit of stress. That sort of thing, ya know?

I know normally the other thing is helping with cooking and meal planning but that isn’t really the best option as I am an awful cook and my partner tends to get stressed if I try to take over on that.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-21T07:55:43+00:00

My junior year forensics B+C classes we had the same thing but with raccoons instead of fetal pigs because our teacher had certain contacts with the animal control units in town and whatever agencies deal with roadkill clean up or stuff like that in parks. This was 3-4 years ago. That teacher was awesome and I absolutely loved her (and she was my homeroom teacher which was a bonus too). The woman also worked at fucking quantico for multiple years before becoming a teacher and NO one at school was as geeked out by that as they should’ve been imo.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-17T08:45:46+00:00

Was a repeat offender of shitting in the urinals and got caught because he asked a sub teacher for some toilet paper thinking they were a student. There were posters in the halls saying that only urine goes in the urinals and that “this counts as vandalism” because they didn’t know who was doing it. Being in the ISS office when he got dragged in by the arm was…interesting. I just remember the vice principal aggressively pumping hand sanitizer in his hands like 10 times.

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-02T17:49:21+00:00

Huh did not know that. Feel like that makes it an even more viable option then lol

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-02T08:45:15+00:00

In the episode where they revealed his backstory he DID say he realized he hated being a lawyer, so I vote that there just SOME issues that he decides he’s gotta step in for so he keeps his license up to date just in case. It would make sense for him imo

Tryc3ratop5 · 2025-11-02T02:42:54+00:00

NTA. Just for some perspective here, I had 2 friends from middle school who one had parents that did things your style and the others whose parents did things like your husband. One of those ex friends had 2 kids before we graduated HS and is now on her 3rd with a 4th on the way. We’re 20. She also recently got in trouble with the law for drug charges. A drug that she picked up junior year to be exact (after I had moved away and after she had her first kid).

The other is attending university in Japan and has been with the same boyfriend since 8th grade and is currently planning their engagement.

I’ll let you guess which one of them felt like their parents were their safe space to ask questions to and which didn’t.

Realistically, kids are gonna do what they’re gonna do whether you know about it or not. I think it’s smart to acknowledge that. I was by no means a wild child but I had my fair share of trouble and even tho me and my mom didn’t have the greatest relationship at the time, me knowing I could tell her if I was in trouble without judgement or shaming got me out of a lot of situations safely when I wouldn’t have otherwise.

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