28 Horror Stories That Prove Not All Doctors Can Be Trusted

Daniel Bonfiglio Published 07/20/2023 in wtf

A few days ago, emergency room doctor Sam Ghali tweeted a very simple prompt: “Annoy an ER doc in one Tweet.”

It’s hard to say what motivated Ghali to post the since-deleted tweet, but when other ER doctors took the opportunity to vent about their patients, the non-MDs of Twitter clapped right back by sharing their worst ER horror stories. “This MedTwitter trend is going expectedly awful,” @SarahLerner tweeted while sharing a few sample screenshots from each side.

A staggering number of responses could only be described as medical malpractice, and most highlighted the exact dismissive attitude so many doctors were openly describing in the thread themselves.

Here are just a few of those emergency room horror stories that prove not all doctors can be trusted…

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This is the original tweet, and an annoyed ER doctor reply beneath it.
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Another example of a doctor laughing at a patient urgently requesting care.
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This horror story was one of the examples Sarah shared in her tweet.
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Back problems were a huge reoccurring theme in the thread.
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Unfortunately but predictably, many dismissed issues had to do with women's reproductive health, or women's health in general.
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$paper - Jenny DeMilo Llc . Jul 13 Got tossed off a horse at high speed. Taken to the Er they shot me fulla morphine told me to walk it off. Saw my Gp for a up when I still couldn't walk and see straight, turns out I had a hip fracture And a concussion$
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This is the original tweet, and an annoyed ER doctor reply beneath it.
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Another example of a doctor laughing at a patient urgently requesting care.
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This horror story was one of the examples Sarah shared in her tweet.
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Back problems were a huge reoccurring theme in the thread.
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Unfortunately but predictably, many dismissed issues had to do with women's reproductive health, or women's health in general.
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