r/mildlyinteresting 6h ago

My patient’s urine was bright green today.

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u/Gripping_Touch 4h ago

The mental image of going to the doctor for a urine sample and the urologist being excited about the sample like a kid on Christmas is so funny to me 

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u/Lolseabass 3h ago

All doctors get exited with random body stuff.

In sure infectious dieseas doctors must get exited when bubonic plague comes through.

As a person with a bleeding disorder one time o had a bleed in my elbow joint. Since they had me on a bed in the hallway all the young doctors came by to see what an internal joint bleed looks like.

Also what is required to attend to a hemophiliac because they all assumed one paper cut I’m dead. They had my pain treated with morphine so I told the doctor I’ll answer any questions.

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u/mermermerk 3h ago

I have a rare neuromuscular disease that has a very particular EMG pattern. The first time I got hospitalised with it, the doctor got so excited she called up a whole group of medical students to show them that pattern (and me). Apparently, I was only the second ever patient of that hospital to have this disease (as far as the doctor remembered). I was glad I could help, lol

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u/surlesvagues 2h ago

I had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome when I was 20 years old. It’s super rare (affects less than 1% of the population) and potentially fatal. Anyways, I went to the ER and a TON of doctors, nurses, medical students etc., asked to see me because they’d heard about it in class, but had never seen it in person.