Have you ever had a doctor or nurse who made a mistake and didn't own up?

Question

Major or minor both okay.

Answer 1

my sons circumcism was done poorly and they nicked the head of his penis leaving a dip which looks like a 2nd opening, but nobody made a mistake....

Answer 2

Yes.

Just one example: When I was 13 years old, I had to get some allergy skin tests done. The nurse did a checklist for the foods that I ate all the time -- those would be the ones I already knew I wasn't allergic to (the idiot woudn't take -my- word for what I ate and what I didn't -- when I answered her, she'd require my mother to answer instead, even after my mother pointed out that what I ate at school wasn't the same as what I ate at home), and then she did the wrong test. I had to lay there as she stuck -- 'jabbed' would be more accurate -- my back with a needle 76 times and then put different stuff on each spot, and then lay there for half an hour and itch, and then she came back and realized that she'd tested me for the foods on the 'not allergic' list. So the stuff on the other list had to be tested for... Another 50-something jabs of a needle, and even more itching, and all for nothing, because this time when the nurse checked on me, it had been too long and the hives were fading even on the stuff I did have a reaction to...

And she said that I obviously had no allergies, despite the fact that eating honey had caused me to go into anaphylactic shock a couple weeks before. No way could she have done the allergy test wrong, oh, no...

Answer 3

Yep and still having tests 2 yrs. later. As for the major or minor I will answer that after another set of GI test on lower intestines. I went in for a hysterectomy but the tumor grew so big and they made me wait 6 months before removing it from my ovary!

Answer 4

Oh yeah. Wife was almost killed by a Dr who would not admit he was wrong and didn't know what was wrong with her. We finally saw another Dr and he had the correct diagnoses in 5 min.

Same Dr. would not admit to a misdiagnosis for our friend, he claimed the swollen lymph nodes were from a cold and refused to refer her to another Dr. She finally went to another Dr anyway and he took one look at her and said " You have cancer." She died 3 months later.

And the SOB is still practicing medicine

Answer 5

Yes. I am allergic to penicillin and one doctor actually prescribed medicine with penicillin in it for me. Fortunately, the pharmacist caught the doctor's major mistake, and called him for a substitute, w/o penicillin as an ingredient.

Answer 6

My left wrist was completely crippled by three different surgeons and to this day (it happened over the past three years) they still constantly blame each other for the problems.