11 stories of horrible death that prove that you should always have a second opinion

Sometimes this headache is really cancer.


We have all heard horror stories ofpeople being badly diagnosed"They are told that a symptom is relatively harmless, but it turns out that something is very seriously wrong. Regardless of the quality of a doctor, they are only human beings and people make mistakes. That's why if the diagnosis of your doctor never feels off, it still needs to look for a second opinion. Recently,A reddit user requested Doctors to share a moment when they thought, "Thank God, this patient came for a second opinion" and the answers were shocking. Read on the most horrible. And to find out which symptoms you should always share with health professionals, see10 things that doctors say that patients should tell them, but they never do.

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The deficiency of the vision that was a tumor

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User Reddit and Ophthalmologist@Coltsblazers wrote on a patient who arrived for a second opinion because his previous doctor did not seem to ask enough questions about his medical history. So the doctor did a peripheral vision test and "was shocked by the most classic tumor model [they had] never seen." It was a pituitary adenoma causing bipporal hemianopssias. He had a surgery shortly after and lived and thanked the doctor to save his life.

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The cough was a rare lung cancer

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The same Reddit user also shared "a warning guard tale Why urgent care should never treat eye problems". A woman went to a clinic complaining of a "red and painful" eye and urgent care physicians gave her antibiotics because they assumed it was a lightweight infection that would disappear alone. "I looked at it and I knew it was an infection to herpes simplex in his horny. She had pain and had been mistreated for two weeks," wrote the doctor.

She also had a bad cough that the urgent health clinic had been rejected as a sweet virus. "I told him to have checked him with a pulmonologist because it did not look like pneumonia and it would not get better. I saw him three months later to monitor his horny appearance and she is Wheelchair entry. stops ... had a very rare cancer of the cell lung. "

Fortunately, they caught it early. "The pulmonologist said that I had saved his life," wrote the retribector. And for more disinsisties to watch, here is hereThe health problems of the worst diagnosed women you need to know.

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The headache that was testicular cancer

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User reddit@Quadruplem wrote on a 22 year old man who came to complain about a headache. "I made a very usual journal of the symptoms since it was new and ... his left testicle had a bump," writes the doctor, suspected that he was a metastatic testicular cancer.

The suspicions of Redditor have been confirmed by an ultrasound. When asked if he had mentioned the bump to his other doctor, the patient said he had had but that the doctor said it was normal. "Fellows, if you note a bump on your testicle, ask for an ultrasound and do not be embarrassed to bring it," wrotedittor. And for more topics to be honest with your doctor, here's here40 things you should never lie to your doctor after 40 years.

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The heart burns it was a heart attack

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Older volunteer@Kent_Knifen wrote about an elderly gentleman "introduced by his adult children concerned for chest pain. He wanted to believe his primordial doctor that it was just gas or heart burning, but his son" has just had a feeling of 'intestine "and made it going to the Er with everyone so that it can be checked," he wrote. "The heart attack was imminent, as if we were not sure that the treatment would take effect in time to prevent it. Code declared blue, all hands on the bridge, the place has gone from a quiet and empty chaos in a few minutes in minutes. There is no doubt in my mind than what "Gut feeling" saved his life. "

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The brain bleeds a doctor called fatigue

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User reddit@ -alsocuteandfluffy-Shared a story about their father, a pediatrician specializing in neurological problems. "One if his patients at the hospital were dragged into the NICU unexpectedly by a nurse who insisted a baby was not good. The sitting doc insisted on the kid was good and just tired of a difficult delivery empty assistance, "wrote the Redditor.

Redditor's father could say that something was wrong and "managed to talk about parents in a brain scan. The Nicu Doc insisted on my father was crazy in the parents. Dad was right and the kid had bleeded and was precipitated to surgery. The baby would died without the nurse who brings my father and the parents listening to him. As the extra time almost certainly costs the cerebral function. "And for more signs, you should see a Specialist, here'sSubtle pathways that your body says, "Go to the doctor!"

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The tumor that a radiologist thought was "artifact"

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Ophthalmologist@Ocardivine Told a story of a 50-year-old woman who came for a routine eye exam. While his vision seemed well, there was something about his students who did not feel good about the doctor. After asking more questions, it turned out that she had had a cerebral tumor removed a few years before.

"My review revealed that his tumor had returned with incredible revenge," wrote the doctor. "She had no idea, was totally asymptomatic and the CT she had before me show what was literally the size of a dust specification, that the radiologist rejected as" artifact ".

Within two weeks, this "Dust Specification" had become a tumor of the size of a quarter. "It was precipitated in emergency surgery as the tumor grew very quickly and was close to a blood vessel, which could cause a massive stroke. She had removed that day and returned to me After the recovery to tell me what was discovered my result of my tests. "

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Primary melanoma doctors ignored

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Dermatologist@BOYSISTROUSPLAY What they had seen at least five cases in which a person who had Melanoma - a form of skin cancer came because of something that their primary care physician said was nothing to fear.

"A lot of times people do not want complete skin exams. There are many perfectly healthy reasons for this: time, the cost perceived, the history of personal trauma", explained the dermatologist. "However, I find it systematically that cancers do not know they have. Keep that in mind if you see a dermatologist for acne and they recommend you to enter a dress."

For personal testimony about the importance of obtaining a complete dermatological examination, readThat's what life is like after a diagnosis of cancer.

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Man with multiple sclerosis with whom a doctor called a "hypochondriaque"

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User reddit@Primeguard wrote on a 19-year-old patient who arrived for the therapy after his primary care doctor "shouted to him to be hypochondriac and say that his symptoms were all in his head and that he was just trying to fish disabilities." It seemed obvious that he had a kind of neurological problem, then the Redditor ordered an MRI and, unfortunately, it turned out that he had multiple sclerosis. @Primeguard reported the original doctor to his clinical chief of services.

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Psychosis that avoided doctors

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Psychiatrist@nicholasdennett Told the shiny story of a 30-year-old who came to complain about light depressive symptoms, but seemed otherwise. "He was under pressure from his life at home, living with four roommates who made life a bit difficult for him. No suicidal thoughts. He was cleaned with all psychopathologies by me and two other doctors," wrote the psychiatrist. "A few months later, he came back. Even symptoms, but this time, he talked about five roommates. It was wrong, and I was wrong, and I wided myself in his story. I tried to contact his roommates. He lived alone and was severely psychotic. I have no idea. I have no idea. To this day how he has so well hidden from everyone. "

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Almost deadly infection after surgery

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AGrandma of the user reddithad persistent pain in his hip after replacing it. "She asked several doctors and made several X-rays, but doctors said that the hip replaced was good." His family finally made him go to a private clinic and the new doctor found a huge amount of pus in his leg. "If my grandmother waited for longer, his blood [having] is infected and she was dead," wrote the retribector. "Thank God, she went to the clinic."

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Non-detected Wrist Wound

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Medical doctor doctor@ skyskimmer12 shared a truly horrible tale on a 21-year-old man who was told by his previous doctor that he had a "fast heart rate and breathing rate, low blood pressure, low oxygen, confusion and severe opacification on his chest X - Ray on the right side. "It had been diagnosed with pneumonia, given antibiotics and put on a fan, but it did not improve, then it was transferred to the emergency.

"An hour later, the gentleman arrives and looks young, adjusted, and not the type to fall from the deaths of pneumonia. We ride it on our stretcher and find ... a huge wound in the dagger in his back.. .. his right chest full of blood. We put a tube in, recovering it blood and he had to go for surgery to fix the bleeding. "The lesson? "Look at your patient," wrote the retriber. And for more things that medical professionals are missing, here is20 things your doctor is likely to be wrong.

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