When you think of doctors, you think of people who are at the peak of the professional world. You would expect them to choose their words carefully, conduct themselves accordingly, and just all around be brilliant caretakers.
Well…that expectation is not always the reality that is there. Read these stories of Redditors complaining because their doctors went too far and said things that they shouldn’t have. Go on, read, and be mortified.
1. Where Did You Get Your Degree?
I was being treated on week 2 with medication for an ectopic pregnancy. (Baby in the fallopian tube, 0% chance for baby, very small chance for myself to live if not taken care of) I was told to go to the ER if I developed severe pain.
I developed severe pain and went to the ER. The doctor on call sat there and tried to casually discuss what kind of pain meds I might like TO MY HUSBAND as I was writhing in pain on the bed.
My husband insists the doctor should just make a decision and give me the meds now. Finally gave me a pain pill and told me no need for an ultrasound, just did some bloodwork for my file.
I go home and wait it out with a script for pain meds. I told him the pain was severe and could be the tube bursting and he told me that such processes just hurt.
I went into the gyno treating me 2 days later and he took one look at me and booked me for emergency surgery. The tube had burst and I had so much internal bleeding that they had to have a general surgeon assist in the cleanup in my abdomen.
My bowels were adhering to the broken tube and had to be carefully separated.
Later, my doc told me I was very lucky and that the moron at the ER should have sent me in for an ultrasound based on the pain alone. The blood work was apparently alarming.
Went back for an IV to the same crappy ER a few months after. That same crap ER doc checked my abdomen and saw the surgery scars. He commented I must have recently had an operation!
I told him "Yeah, you misdiagnosed my burst ectopic pregnancy and I had to get emergency surgery at a different hospital." He didn't say anything after that. If I had the money, I would sue the jerk.
poppykayak
2. Just Take An Altoid
This happened to my older sister and it resulted in her having unbearable GI issues for years growing up. The pediatrician told our parents that “children get tummy aches” and to try peppermint Altoids.
She ended up having emergency surgery where they had to remove her entire large intestine because it was necrotic and had tumors. Permanent colostomy by the time she was 14. I hate that doctor so much.
Currentlyunsureatm
3. Lucky Break
I had textbook symptoms of Crohn’s disease when I was 16. My pediatrician spent months convinced I had diverticulitis, period cramps, and/or cancer.
By the time I finally got a referral to a gastroenterologist (who immediately scheduled a colonoscopy), my small intestine was so ulcerated the doctor couldn’t get the scope inside.
I was super lucky because the very first medication I tried worked like a miracle—within two weeks I was gaining weight and running around without any pain. But it’s been 12 years and I still have PTSD-like symptoms from the experience.
ImmiSnow
4. Trying to Ruin My Marriage
A doctor said that either I cheated or my husband did because that kind of cervical pain was always chlamydia. It was an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured and resulted in emergency life-saving surgery.
But thanks for listening. My personal OB happened to be at the hospital that night and came to tell me the news herself, giving him the angriest look I’ve ever seen in a professional setting.
grannywanda
5. “Don’t Lose Your Watch Up There”
I’d been sent by ambulance from our local urgent care to a hospital due to kidney pain and a funny shadow on my X-ray. The emergency room doctor was insistent it must be an STI despite my having no genital symptoms, and he demanded to do a pelvic exam.
This doctor aggressively tried to mimic my pain from the inside by jamming his hand up my private parts. The nurse chaperone looked embarrassed when I said to the doctor, “If you’re not careful, you’ll lose your watch up there.”
He then discharged me from the hospital at 3 am saying he couldn’t find anything wrong with me. At 9 am the original urgent care doc called back since she saw I was discharged but my blood tests were back and I was septic.
Omissionsoftheomen
6. Better Call Dr. House
My good buddy came down with some super rare hereditary illness, one that doctors couldn’t figure out. They only took him seriously months later while he was dying.
The docs kept grilling him and his wife together and separately if they had cheated and he just had VD. The docs refused to believe him until he was practically on his deathbed.
Luckily he got sent to a hospital with competent doctors and they eventually figured out what it was. One said it would have taken House from the TV show to diagnose him; the condition was extremely rare.
Gawblinslayer
7. Battling My Doctor and My Life
I had a really rare thing happen to me, and the hospital sent me home after a week because they couldn't figure it out. I was dying.
I asked the doctor what I was supposed to do and he said "Just live your life". What a freaking weird thing to freaking say.
I had my folks drive me 2 hours to a better hospital where they kept me for a month and a half and had teams studying me (and students taking notes).
They figured it out basically right before I died and fixed me. 20 years later, I am doing fine.. no thanks to that original crappy hospital. In short, if it's something serious, it's worth the drive to a really good hospital.
BerBerBaBer
8. He Should Be Barred
I took my then 4-year-old daughter to a pediatric gastroenterologist. First, he said she was just being dramatic. Then he said, well, she'll get married someday and be someone else's problem.
I have never felt like slapping someone as much as I did that day. That was 25 years ago, and it still shocks me! Turned out she had a partial bowel obstruction. Oh, and I just looked him up and he’s still practicing in Encino, CA.
kellygrrrl328
9. “I’m so experienced. I’ve been at it for 20 years”
When I took my then 4-year-old to a pediatric gastroenterologist because she still couldn't control her bowels and clearly had no feeling down there, the specialist told me she was doing it for attention and just didn't "want to" use the toilet.
She went on and on about how she'd been in the business for 20 years. When my daughter told her she really wanted to fix the problem so she could go to day camp, the doctor told her she was lying.
That human turd was in the room when I finally got my daughter tested for bowel insensitivity (I don't remember the official name) and they found out that she did not, in fact, have any feeling in her bowels.
I looked that jerk in the face and said, "Now do you believe us?" She just looked away. Argh some people are just the worst.
paingry
10. Just Fight Through It
"That's normal in your line of work. Just ignore it, the pain will go away." I went in for shoulder pain, as my left shoulder would be killing me after a day loading trucks all day.
This was an ongoing thing for weeks before I went to get it checked. The doctor didn't examine my shoulder. He didn't have any x-rays done, CAT scans done, MRIs done, nothing. Hell, didn't even have me take my shirt off. Turns out that I had a torn rotator cuff.
Had another doc tell me that the stomach pain that had me pissing myself, throwing up, and passing out was from gas. Gas! Can you imagine that?
Again, this was without any type of examination, just listening to the symptoms. Two days later I was dying on the OR table from a necrotic appendix.
[deleted]
11. Great Observation Doc!
I was throwing up everything I ate for months. I would get these random waves of nausea and have to run out of classes and stuff. It was awful.
Finally went to a walk-in and got a doctor who told me I was probably just on my period… I had already told him it had been going on for 4 months. Like yes, I’ve been on my period for 4 months straight and didn’t notice, what a joke.
Glittering-Gas-9402
12. It’s Just A Cut
This happened a few months ago. A doctor at urgent care didn't check the cut on my arm from an edger accident first. Instead, he checked particular parts of my body for any signs of STDs and asked the nurse to run some tests... for STDs.
I reminded him that I got a cut from my edger and he completely ignored me.
So I had to wait almost two hours in pain for them to run VD tests and he had the audacity to stroll in with a crap-eating smile and say I checked negative for everything.
Then they finally started treating my wound and made jokes about how they didn't think it was such a deep cut. Never in my 31 years on earth have I ever been treated like this before, and I'm following my husband's advice to sue them.
StiffDiq
13. I Told Them So
Urgent care providers are absolute garbage. I had strep a few years ago and they did a swab test (which only tests for the most common strain) that came back negative, they did a mono test which was also negative and the doc said "Welp it's probably viral, give it a few days and it'll clear up".
2 days later it still hasn't cleared up and now my throat is so swollen I'm having difficulty breathing so I go back, see a different provider who actually gives a crap and takes one look at my throat, and goes "Yep, that is the strep-iest strep I've ever seen" and then finally prescribed me antibiotics.
The next day it turns into scarlet fever and I get a rash all over my body so I go back and it's the same jerk as the first time who goes "This is definitely viral. Given your age (early 20s) it's probably mono and the rash is an allergic reaction. We're putting in your chart that you're allergic to penicillin"
Spoiler alert, it was not mono, I am not allergic to any antibiotics, and the antibiotics cleared everything up because it was strep the whole time.
casstantinople
14. Aspirin Maybe?
I have a diagnosed illness where pressure builds up around my brain, causing temporary blindness, migraines, stroke-like symptoms, slurred speech, etc.
My specialist stated I should have lumbar punctures on these occasions to relieve some pressure. I had a flare up and I was in emergency care.
They kept talking about “the girl with the headache”, and they didn’t treat me for 12 hours.
I never saw a doctor. I got given aspirin and told to go home. Went to a different hospital, and had a lumbar puncture with the highest pressure I’ve ever had.
abz325
15. “Busy” Doctor
"I don't have time to talk to you about [health issues]." He said this in an exasperated tone when I explained why I scheduled the appointment.
All this is after entering the room 45 minutes after my appointment time (I was brought back and put in the room on time) and after he'd spent 20 minutes or so in the hallway outside the door talking football with the patient he saw just before me.
Diasies_inMyHair
16. Must be nice talking from the top of the tower
I had severe cystic acne, and the conventionally attractive, young female doctor with perfect skin and a full face of makeup refused to prescribe me something.
She instead told me that I shouldn't feel bad about having acne because appearance didn't matter and personality was all that counts.
It took me several years to find a doctor who took me seriously, got my hormonal levels tested, and put me on spiro, but that one woman was by far the worst. I went home and cried after.
sadsledgemain
17. Years of not being worth it
I had cystic acne for years after being exposed to dioxins while in the Army. Every doctor I went to basically told me I wasn't worthy of effective treatment.
They claimed they couldn't prescribe me Retin-A or Accutane because I'm female and might get pregnant and those medications are only for people who REALLY suffer!
That was as if my pain wasn't worth it. One even told me that even without acne I wouldn't be pretty. It was almost lucky I didn't have health insurance so going to doctors was something I mostly couldn't do for years.
Years later I went to a doctor (GP, not even a dermatologist) who took one look at me, prescribed me Retin-A, and when I a few months later went to pick up another tube the pharmacist asked what I used that for 'because you sure don't have acne'!
He tried reporting me for misuse, but neither my doctor nor my insurance company took the bait. Served him right!
After a year I stopped using the Retin-A because I didn't have acne anymore, even when I didn't use it. If doctors had done their job I could have been acne-free at least 10 years earlier.
internet_commie
18. Condescending much?
I went into urgent care with mastitis (I'd had it twice before and it's very obvious to self-diagnose when part of your breast turns red, hard, and hot to the touch while breastfeeding).
The guy wasn't yet a doctor but was doing some practice at the urgent care. When I told him I had mastitis, he looked at me and said "Wow! That's an awfully big word! Where'd you learn that?!"
I was 30. If I hadn't been very sick at that moment, I might have kicked him in the teeth. I still get angry just talking about it.
WanderInTheTrees
19. Baffling Ignorance In The Hospital
I was in hospital pregnant with my third baby and told the nurse I needed to be discharged because I was still breastfeeding my second.
This lady then looked at me, gestured with her hands big boobs, and then looked me dead in the eyes and said “But you don’t have any boobs”
It all made me want to squirt her in the face with my breast milk. How dare she say something that ignorant and offensive to me?
Pettyrevenge1
20. Calling the Maury Show
I had a friend who'd had a vasectomy and his wife got pregnant again. The doctor started accusing his wife of infidelity right away until my friend was able to be tested and confirmed he was still shooting.
They were happily coupled and even before the kid came out looking like a dead ringer for his ginger self no one who knew them would think she'd been cheating.
I’m sure it didn't feel great to be accused of such things. That was their fifth kid (the fourth was also unplanned after birth control hence the vasectomy (he had another snip after this). I guess they were just really good at making babies.
Throwaway098764567
21. Gotta confirm first, right?
I’ve been on birth control since I was 16 because I get super painful ovarian cysts as confirmed by my gynecologist in a sonogram.
She would renew the prescription every 12 months after a routine checkup.
One year I was 2 hours away in college and called and asked if she could give me 3 extra months so my mom wouldn’t have to drive 4 hours to get me to her office.
Her response was, “Well no because I can’t have you going around having unprotected intimacy if I can’t confirm you don’t have STDs.” Wildly speculating there…
bubbasita
22. She should have just let me have it
I was 16 and had read an article about how BCP can help alleviate period symptoms (I’d had periods from hell) and asked my mom what she thought about me going on BCP.
She snapped, “Why? So you can hang out with boys?” I was a virgin at the time, did not go on BCP, still had periods from hell, and was pregnant by the following year.
Guess that is the textbook definition of having everything that can go wrong, go wrong. You could say, I suffered in all the ways I sought to avoid.
RedHeadedStepDevil
23. Learn to read
I was 43 years old when my doctor refused me an IUD for bad periods because I might want to get pregnant. I mean what in the world?!
Firstly, I told him if I wanted a baby I would have done something about it before age 43. That should have been painfully obvious to him.
Secondly, if he had bothered to read, he’d know that it was in my record from the gynecologist that I couldn't support a pregnancy so that was a moot point.
Inevitable-Slice-263
24. “Who even asked you that?”
I was once told by a doctor that I was underweight and that's why I can't get pregnant. I'm 6' tall and at the time weighed 135 pounds, and I was at the doctor's office because I had a throat infection.
Also, I was 19 and had NEVER tried to get pregnant, talked about getting pregnant, expressed a desire to get pregnant, and pretty much had not been intimate. Needless to say, I stayed away from that one in the future!
internet_commie
25. Snide Comments
My gallbladder was dying and doing so very violently. The Emergency Room gave me muscle relaxers. So I'm drugged out of my mind, stepfather beside me, too limp to react to the pain I'm still very much feeling.
My stepfather gets up to use the bathroom and the nurse unassigned to me sidles over and says "Maybe next time you'll use protection when having intimacy". Gee, thanks.
berripluscream
26. Panic Much?
Back in college, I went to see the doctors at Student Health about an issue. It was a very nice, well-regarded university in the northeastern U.S.
The doctor (it was a doctor, not an NP) was going to prescribe me 5mg pills of a medication, to be taken daily. He went to see if it was covered and was like "Oh, sorry, our insurance only covers 14 pills per month. Sorry, guess you can't take your medicine every day unless you want to pay out of pocket." He then shrugged.
I then asked if this medication was sold in 10mg pills. He said yes. I then asked if the same plan would cover 14 pills per month of the 10mg pills. He said yes.
I then asked if the pills were perforated. He said yes. I then asked if he could just prescribe me 14 of the 10mg pills, as that was covered, and I could use the perforation and take half a pill (i.e., 5mg) per day.
The doctor then got quiet, paused for a moment, got REALLY weird, and said "You are suggesting insurance fraud. I will not continue this discussion. You need to get out of my office right now. If you say another word to me about this, I will notify the insurance company and will notify the police and would recommend that they press criminal charges."
I have subsequently told this story to several doctors later in my life at cocktail parties. Nobody thinks it was insurance fraud.
Everyone tells me the doctor had no clue what he was talking about. I was a young, scared college student. So I walked out and got no medication for my condition.
Thanks for nothing, doctor.
StarsGoingOut
27. I already know what’s wrong!
I broke a bone in my foot so I knew that I had broken a bone in my foot. I went to the doctor and he told me that I didn't break a bone in my foot but instead was suffering from gout.
I'm not even in the realm of people who experience gout and had zero other signs that it could've been gout. He was going to refuse my request for an X-ray but I made him do it.
An hour later, I'm in his office and he holds up the x-ray and informs me that I broke a bone in my foot. Gee, who would have known?
csudebate
28. My way of fighting back
Yeah, I had a crappy doctor tell me I had a sprained ankle despite the golf ball-sized lump and bruising on top of my midfoot.
He x-rayed my ankle despite my repeated insistence and sent me on my way with a prescription for 6 Vicodin which I didn't even ask for.
Then I went to a non-urgent care doctor (a real doctor) and he found 3 fractures and 4 avulsions including a fracture on my cuboid which he said he had never seen before in person and asked if he could share my x-rays with his colleagues.
Urgent care freaking sucks every time. I challenged the bill like three times and then told them I wanted to do a payment plan and gave them $15 a month for a year until it was paid off because it was my only way to protest.
UTDE
29. Ruined my career, ruined my confidence
Me: "I'm showing a lot of symptoms of hypothyroidism, can we get a blood test?"
Female GP: "You're fat, so you think you must have a medical excuse? You're fat because you eat too much!"
Eventually, she relented, I got the blood but she told me the tests were negative. 10 years later at another GP, I got retested.
Not only was my hypothyroidism very severe, but they found the original test which also showed it as serious. She lied to save face and ruined my life and my chosen career path (RAF).
boofindlay
30. Wounded by the industry
Doctors hate fat people. I've been skinny my whole life until I got very sick with an obscure autoimmune disease and gained 50 lbs in a year.
I couldn't get anyone to take my symptoms seriously and they all told me to eat less and that all my symptoms were a result of the weight gain.
Turns out after I flew up to the Mayo Clinic for two weeks of tests that it was so bad my organs were failing and my iron was so low that I was either "starving myself or hemorrhaging, but obviously not the first."
Spoiler: I was, in fact, eating about 500 calories a day and had been for months. If only I weren't a fat, lazy complainer right? I'll never trust the medical field again.
straberi93
31. Get him fired!
Went in for knee surgery when I was 21. I was naked except for the hospital gown. I had to sit up and bend forward for the anesthesiologist, the back of the gown undone and just holding it to my chest.
He started stroking my back and said "I usually have to do this to fat people or pregnant women, nice to do this on someone young and skinny for once".
I then went under. I woke up still feeling totally creeped out. To this day, when I think of his words, I still feel a cold numbness in my soul.
azorianmilk
32. Biblical references in the doctor’s room
I went to an insurance-approved obstetrician-gynecologist who explained my very bad periods as “Well, that’s because Eve made Adam bite the apple and it’s God’s punishment for women.”
I mean what?! Needless to say, I went to another doctor who took the time to test me and found out I had endometriosis. I’m all good now but, I will never forget what that first obstetrician-gynaecologist said.
OhioGal83
33. What happened to the medical oath?
I have Cystic Fibrosis but have also had a transplant. He was the only Adult CF Doctor for hours around me. My CF team and the Transplant team are supposed to communicate and work together.
He always refused to listen to me and would tell other Doctors I didn't get tests done that I had, which caused one surgery to be canceled until I managed to show them I did get the test done.
When confronted for the millionth time he told me he didn't care he was the only specialist around, he didn't want to deal with such a difficult case and would rather I just go ahead and die.
I reported him but nothing came of it since it was my word against his. It always sucks when that happens, and people aren’t held accountable for their actions and words.
piper1871
34. Keep your hands to yourself
I was at the doctor’s office for yet another ear infection and he asked me to describe the pain that I was feeling at that moment.
I told him that I could hear my heartbeat in my ear and it sounded like an explosion. That was when he grabbed my belly and said the most inappropriate thing ever said in the medical world.
He said, “This is the only thing that’s exploding! And this and this!” as he continued to grab and pinch my belly. I was NINE
real_live_mermaid
35. “Stones in my pockets and rocks on my feet”
I was 14 and the doctor was looking at my chart and saw my weight. She asked if I had rocks in my pockets. Insinuating that I was heavy.
I was average for my age/height and that comment destroyed me. She was a very petite woman who was of course taller than me and she had the audacity to make a comment like that to a young girl that was already insecure as it was.
It’s 17 years later now and I still want to kick her butt. She doesn't deserve to work with teenagers if that is how she acts consistently.
_amonique
36. So unprofessional!
A dentist was in the process of prescribing me an antibiotic because a root canal treatment that I had received from another dentist at their clinic wasn’t healing well.
On top of that, I had been complaining of persistent pain for more than one-month post-surgery. They gave me some medication even though they couldn’t see any infection.
At some point he turned to me and asked me if I had a boyfriend, I replied that I did and he proceeded to ask me if I wanted him to prescribe my bf some benzodiazepines so he could deal with me, implying that my personality was unbearable.
He had been mocking and teasing me from the first minute, but that sentence was particularly heinous. I hated that guy with a passion.
SelWylde
37. “Just run your tests doc”
I'm an asexual, male, 30's at the time. I informed him that I was not sexually active, not going to be, not interested in it at all. His response?
"That's not OK, at your age, you should be intimate with as many of these hot college girls in town as possible. That should be your only goal. Something broke, and you need to get it checked"
I argued against it, but in the end, I was like, screw it--and tested for hormones and other crap that I didn't care about.
All of it came out totally normal. In the follow-up, I just said, 'Because I'm asexual'--To which he replied, "No, that's not real. That's not a thing. Maybe for you, you can tell yourself that, but I would rather be dead."
Concrete_Grapes
38. Your pain is a different kind of pain
Was sent to a pain therapist to help me manage the pain I was having that my incompetent doctor at the time couldn’t diagnose (I later had to have spinal surgery and now have a titanium plate holding things together).
The pain therapist told me that I was faking my pain to get attention (really?) and that she would eventually break me and force me to tell her that I had a gruesome, horrible past.
nbrown1965
39. Rookie Mistake
During my first Endocrinologist, the nurses kept telling me I was wasting their time by not cleaning up my eating. Slowly developed into an eating disorder.
Turns out I was a late-onset type 1…not the type 2 they were treating. So my new Endo adds to my file that I have previously suffered from an eating disorder.
A baby doc came in training under my Endo doc and the first thing he asked... “So when do you want to plan your stomach stapling so you can be thin and pretty.” I freaked out…he got screamed at by not only the nurses but by the director of the office.
RebootDataChips
40. Knowing what I want
Asked my gyno about a hysterectomy at 25, and I knew I never wanted kids. I'm sure many women can relate to this (which does not mean it's okay).
Over the years I have heard "Oh, you're too young to know that / You'll change your mind!"
...And my personal favorite, "Well you're still single. So why don't you wait until you get married and see what your husband has to say."
So 25+ more years of insanely heavy monthly bleeding, anaemia, and at 50 - some very intrusive thoughts and I finally found a Dr who listened to me. Also still not married (also by choice).
forever_29_ish
41. A little bit of powder Magic
I was seeing a Doc because I was itching down there. He didn’t look at anything physically, never took any samples of anything, didn’t run any tests, and asked how long I had been stepping out on my wife.
I hadn’t, and neither had she. At this point, we’d been married for years and she has a body count of 2 including me, while I’m at 1.
I’ve literally never slept with anyone else. His questions only intensified when I mentioned that sometimes she’s irritated down there too.
He declared Chlamydia and wrote me a script that I never filled. Keep in mind that he never even gave me an actual exam.
I spent a few more weeks just keeping a log of daily routines before I figured it out myself. I was sweaty sometimes and used baby powder down there.
Apparently, there were times when we had late-night intimacy, and even though I freshened up with a wet washcloth first it wasn’t enough.
I stopped using powder and neither of us had a problem ever again. I also smiled really big when I learned this guy went to prison a few years later for 10 years for overprescribing opioids.
Familiar_Royal_7474
42. Use the right words
When I was in medical school, there was a group of women in the community who volunteered to train medical students how to do breast and pelvic exams.
These were the most selfless, kindest, sacrificing, etc. group of women I've ever known. They expected the students to perform as if they were in a professional setting.
One of the medical students walked in and said, "OK, I'm going to feel your boobs now." She looked at him and said, "These are breasts, you are going to palpate them, and you are a boob."
angmarsilar
43. Whip it back and forth
I had whiplash after an accident. The original doctor did x-rays and saw new, slightly torn muscles in my neck. Apparently, my insurance had changed and my bill was over $1700.
They transferred all of my records to an in-network clinic and were assigned a doctor who barely spoke English. She kept scheduling blood tests and crap like that for me.
I kept stressing that I just wanted my neck pain treated, and couldn't understand what blood tests had to do with it. (Neck injury, treatment would've been covered by the person who hit me's insurance).
On my last visit, she proudly diagnosed me with subclinical hypothyroidism (which would've required specialists, and medications also not covered by my HSA insurance).
I asked her about my neck since I was still having pain. She smirked and said, "You have your boyfriend give you nice neck massages!"
SnooCauliflowers3851
44. If not you, then maybe your DAD
In my early 20s, I went to an ophthalmologist because I was having chronic eye infections whenever I wore my contact lenses.
Before knowing ANYTHING about me, he says, "Let me just show you something," and he proceeds to wash his hands. "Do this more," he said and sent me on my way. I was speechless.
I'd been wearing contacts since I was 16 and never had these issues before. Pretty sure I didn't just randomly become a slob.
Turns out I had developed an ALLERGY. I went to see the doctor's dad (the only other ophthalmologist around) and he diagnosed the allergy and prescribed me more breathable lenses and a better solution... And I've never had a problem since.
sillydetails
45. Actions mean more than words
It wasn't what he said, but what he did. I was having some discomfort in the liver area. He asked me about my drinking, and I said when I was on tour with the band I was in (tours were usually only 2 weeks), I drank every night, but at home, I rarely drank.
I assured him that I wasn't an alcoholic. He kinda scoffed at me and sent me for an ultrasound with a note attached saying "possible ECHL abuse".
He didn't tell me he thought I was an alcoholic, he just wanted the ultrasound person to know that he did, and he did it in doctor code that he thought I wouldn't understand.
My liver was okay. My problem was apparently gallstones. So anyway, I switched doctors after that. Really couldn’t have such a crap doctor anymore.
EarHumble1248