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Healthcare Workers Share The Common Medical Myths That Drive Them Crazy
Regardless of where their misinformation comes from, there is little that will get medical professionals more agitated than hearing these false, ill-informed beliefs.
As it makes getting the facts about medicine out all the more difficult.
Redditor keyzeyy was curious to hear the myths and misinformation about medicine that get medical professionals particularly riled up, leading them to ask:
"People who work in healthcare, what is a common medical myth that drives you crazy?"
This Shouldn't Come As A Shock...
"That you shock someone when their heart rate is a flat line. This is always in tv and movies. When there is no heartbeat, there is no rhythm to shock. You have to get the heart going first. Drives me crazy lol."- jennylovestacos
There's A Time And A Place For Everything
"That you take antibiotics for a common cold."
"Colds are caused by viruses."
"Antibiotics kill bacteria."
"Drives me insane."
"It's led to our problem with antibiotic resistance."- medwd3
When In Doubt, See A Doctor
"Period pain bad enough to affect your day-to-day life is not 'normal'."
"No pain of any type of that level is, and treatment should be sought and given."- EsquilaxM
A Very Important Reminder
"That hospice kills patients."
"They are already dying, hospice keeps them comfortable."- StarlightBrightz
There Is NEVER A Bad Time For A Blanket
"The idea that if someone has a fever, they shouldn’t have a blanket because that could make the fever worse."
"The person feels awful, and a blanket won’t hurt."- waterproof_diver
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But Equally Unpleasant
"That the flu and the stomach flu are the same thing."- Klutzy-Medium9224
Again PLEASE READ
"That hospice care is 'giving up'.”
"I swear, if I have to hear one more family member swear that their dad who we have no hope of extubating because his lungs are more cancer than healthy tissue is 'a fighter!!!' and 'would want everything done!!!!'"
"I’m gonna start breaking keyboards."
"Quality > quantity of life."
"Talk to your loved ones not just about worst case scenarios but how far they want to go if they start to lose quality of life/independence NOW, not when something happens."
"What do they want to happen if they can’t eat anymore?"
"What do they want to happen if they lose the ability to do what they love, or live alone, or their memory starts to go?"
"You don’t want to make those decisions for them when your loved one is in the ICU and emotions are running high."- GhostTrickk
They Value Their Life Just As Much As We Do
"I know this one is going to be out there and unusual."
"But I work in cancer care in an area with a large Amish population."
"They get cancer just like the rest of us."
"But they are preyed upon by homeopathic and sociopaths like you wouldn't believe."
"I have a lot of Amish patients who do choose to work with our amazing doctors."
"We have a lot of others who go to Mexico for 'treatment' that is herbs and nonsense."
"They either die there or come back... And more often than not, they've put off treatment so long that palliative is all we can give them."
"It's starting to turn around."
"So many have seen their parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, suffer after going to these places, that the younger generation is coming to us and staying with us."- Late_Resource_1653
Men Have No Idea How Easy They Have It...
"That menopause is just when you stop having periods."
"Ignores completely what we know about perimenopause symptoms starting for women as early as their 30s."
"And for women who have stopped menstruating, HRT causes cancer and therefore you should avoid it."
"Plus at least a dozen other myths about menopause."- Barbarella_ella
Keep It Out Of Your Ears Too!
"Using hydrogen peroxide directly on wounds."
"Refusal to accept that it is harmful and that plain water or mild/dilute soap/water is better."- mm_mk
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There's Just No Stopping It
"The myth: eating absolutely healthy and refraining from vices such as smoking, drinking, and indulging in sugar will ensure you don’t get cancer."
"The reality: cancer is not so cut and dried."
"Someone who smoked like a chimney for literally 50+ years could very well not get a lung cancer of some kind whereas your health nut aunt who has never smoked gets it."
"Cancer is a roll of the dice; by being a smoker, you just stack the house’s odds on the fact you’ll get it but that is NOT a guarantee."
"Another myth: Big Pharma is holding the cure for cancer hostage."
"The reality: First of all, cancer is a myriad of diseases that fit one definition— that is 'cell division gone wrong' and 'the cell forgets how to die'."
"Each cancer is totally different and has a range of differing symptoms, so there is no universal cure to cancer."
"Some cancers are more easily cured than others, but even then, that is entirely dependent on other factors such as the patient’s age and whether or not their DNA cooperates."
"That’s why someone who went through all the treatments and was in remission for one year may find themselves relapsing."
"Secondly, if the universal cure existed, wouldn’t 'Big Pharma' want to announce they have it so they can charge even more for it than conventional treatments (chemo, rads, bone marrow transplant, etc)?"
"The whole idea they have it but wouldn’t announce it is ludicrous because companies are out to make money and they make absolutely nothing by having the cure and not putting it up for sale."
"Just saying."
"The overall takeaway is this: you can’t stop cancer from happening if it’s going to happen."
"Within your body right now you have at least 1-10 cancer cells floating around, but they’re likely not going to do much because your natural killer (nK) cells are keeping it in line."
"Cancer happens when those nK cells can’t keep them in line and the cells proliferate."
"So overall, do what you feel you must to reduce your risks for certain cancers, but understand that even that may not work."-JenovaCelestia
No One In Their Right Mind Would Doubt This...
"The left brain right brain theory is so annoying and proven to be FALSE."- coldfoamlattee
Know The Difference
"Adjacent, but I work in mental health care."
"BPD = borderline personality disorder, not bipolar disorder."
"And neither of these things mean just being moody."
"Also in the US, psychiatrists, therapists and psychologists are different things (some psychologists are therapists, not all therapists are psychologists, not all psychologists are therapists)."- Aware-Experience-277
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The Inevitable End
"That a DNR order means do not treat."
"All it means is that if your heart stops beating, we are not going to pound on your chest 100 times a minute in the hopes that we can get things going again."
"It does not mean that we will not do anything and everything up to that point to care for you to the best of our ability."
"Same with end-of-life care."
"End of life care can be comfortable and much less traumatic than 'doing everything'."
"People die."
"Everyone dies."
"Sometimes allowing that to happen is the kindest thing you can do."- Livid-Tumbleweed
It Only Feels Like Some People Do...
"That we only use 10% of our brain."
"I can assure you, we are using all of our brains."- No_Physics_12
Myths in the medical world have become all too common, hence why more people believe them to be true than not.
Hence why it is important, when in doubt, to always follow your doctor's instructions.
And not the doctors from TV... even (or especially) Dr. Phil...
People Share Secrets From Their Jobs That Everyone Should Know
However, many places of work or industries have some "secrets" that might very well interest the population at large.
Information that could even go so far as to change people's entire lives.
A recent Redditor was curious to learn about industry secrets that should be known by the public, leading them to ask:
"What's a secret from your job that we should know?"
Some People Do Actually Want You To Succeed
"Lending."
"This is not really a secret, but few people outside of the industry know for some odd reason when it should be common public knowledge."
"If you are ever behind on payments or know you will be with the next one, call in."
"Banks do not want to take your car."
"They do not want to take you home."
"It is in their best interest for everyone to finish out their loan."
"Banks have entire teams who's only job is to keep you in your home/car and get you to the finish line of your loan."
"There are ways to hold payments, to modify loans, etc."
"To keep you put."
"If there are issues with say COVID, mass firings in DC, natural disasters."
"There are programs for backed loans (VA, USDA, FHA) where payments can stop for a bit."
"If you don't think you can do payments ever, consider a surrender."
"A deed in lieu of foreclosure, short sale, etc are things they can help you out with as well."
"You never want to proverbially stick your head in the sand and ignore things."- jimfish98
Taking People Down Seldom Gets You The Upgrade
"Flight attendant/former gate agent here.. if a flight is oversold and they discuss having to bump you to a later flight, you are entitled to 4x the amount of your ticket."
"Not a travel voucher, an actual check."
"Versus volunteering to take a later flight, where they give you the travel voucher (knowing that a majority of people don’t actually claim them within the allotted timeframe)."
"It’s bullsh*t that they can legally oversell flights, but they do have to pay you out AND still get you there."
"P.S. Please be nice to the poor agents rebooking you."
"They didn’t make this policy and are getting very underpaid to have to enforce it bc of their greedy employer."
"Being nice to them can definitely help you get extra hook-ups."- Snoo-40735
Eyes On The Road!
"There are SO many people that come to our clinic with very obvious dementia that are still driving."
"I cannot tell you how many people I’ve seen that are unable to draw a clock who drove 20+ miles on the highway to get to our office."
"Please make sure to drive defensively because you never know who you’re driving next to."- suck_ulent
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Fine! Or Not Fine!
"It’s common practice in the Pharma industry to pay daily fines instead of following the law."
"Fines cap out way below the cost to fix some stuff, so they just budget for an extra $100k per day."- Soulfighter56
Who Saw This Coming?
"The markup on eyeglass frames is 250-300%."
"That is the industry standard."- rosesforthemonsters
Ever Wonder Where Your Hard-Earned Money Goes?...
"Many country clubs buy cheap food and pass it off as something premium."
"And because they are private, they do not get inspected by the health department."
"I have seen some seriously nasty/disgusting practices working two decades in various fancy country clubs."- dirtymoney
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Never A Bad Idea To Keep A Record
"Keep all the syllabi from your college courses."
"If you ever decide to do another degree or if you decide to transfer, the syllabi can help prove that a course should 'count' for transfer if the new university rejects it initially."
"Just put them in a folder on your computer somewhere or in your backup and leave them there."
"You don't know what you will do in 5-10 years or more, and this will help you save money and time if you do ever go back to school."- innocuousfigdream
Don't Be Too Blinded By Grief
"Cremation urns are marked up 300+% at funeral homes."
"You can buy your own for a fraction of the cost, and it’s coming from the same place."
"Same with caskets."- Aromatic_Ad_3312
Reporting For Duty!
"I’m a court reporter."
"I type in a different language on a different keyboard called a steno machine that costs $5000+, and the steno language is translated in real time on my $4500 software."
"The technology behind creating a legal transcript is un-f*cking-real."
"As a court reporter, I can hear the difference between testimony and colloquy and format my document as I write to put in all the proper indentations and label all the speakers."
"It’s basically embedding coding into a document while I’m also processing every word I hear IRL at 200+ words per minute."
"Not many people know that the questioning lawyer turning his head to speak to the judge warrants a different speaker designation for the same person."
"Steno is shorter than typing on a qwerty keyboard because I can type entire phrases in one stroke."
"The line below is 4 strokes in steno whereas it’s 66 characters if you type it on a qwerty keyboard—that includes punctuation and spaces too because you need to type those."
"Q. Okay. As you sit here today you don’t remember what you said?"
"STKPWHROBG / SKPWEUTS / KPWORPL / WHAUPD = Q. Okay. / As you sit here today / you don’t remember / what you said?"
"I depress all those gibberish letters down at the same time on my keyboard making each entire phrase one stroke, thus making it shorter and faster to write, and that’s how a court reporter can write 200+ words a minute."
"The periods, spaces and question mark are all coded into my dictionary and the software itself."
"I can control the software from my machine and never touch my computer."
"Unfortunately, AI records only what it hears. It’s not thinking or picking up context or nuance as it’s recording."
"How many times have you watched a video with auto-generated captions and the caption has the completely wrong word?"
"AI won’t be taking my job any time soon."
"The quickest, most intelligent computer on Earth is the human brain."- just_peachy_03
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Best To Stay Ahead Of The Game...
"I do Collison repair (auto body) and a surprising number of people don't realize that wrecking your car and THEN getting insurance after the fact to try getting it repaired is insurance fraud, and you can go to jail for that."
"Also, if repairs run longer than expected, it's almost always because parts didn't show up, but we'll also blame parts not showing up even if it's just because our painter is an idiot and works 2 or three days a week."- needtimeforplay1
And This Isn't A Health Code Violation?
"To this day, the restaurant industry does not have sick days like normal, and awareness needs to be raised."
"Most restaurants are staffed so low today that team leaders end up working sick all the time as they have no one who will cover."-mrblackc
"How Surprising," said No One...
"Fedex does not track your package with any accuracy."- Strainonthegame
But It Might Get You To The Hospital Faster
"Taking an ambulance will not get you seen quicker in the ER."
"I have taken many people to the lobby."- These_Speech_9366
Understaffing Affects Everyone
"Patients 'fall through the cracks' and doctors often forget to put in orders, leading to procedures and treatments (I work in oncology) being unnecessarily delayed."
"Literally a matter of life and death but because the patient population is so high and the doctor/nurse to patient ratio is so skewed, things get missed all the time."
"Scary to think about."- Askfslfjrv
At Least They're Honest!
"I work in IT, I have no idea how I got this far (4 Years) from just googling the answers or copying from a colleague each time."- IAMAUNIT54321
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No one really knows the true goings on at an office or workplace.
Though it's safe to say that anyone who's even had a passing experience in any of these industries might now change their approach to dealing with them.
And being bumped off a flight might not seem like the worst idea anymore...
Timothée Chalamet Cheekily Responds To Rumors He's Viral UK Rapper With New Music Video
For a while now, rumors have swirled that Chalamet is secretly UK rapper EsDeeKid, whose visual trademark is to always hide his face with a mask, a bandana or some other covering that conceals his identity. Well, except for his eyes and eyebrows, anyway.
And those eyes DO look weirdly familiar! The rumors have been so persistent because of it that Chalamet just released a collab with EsDeeKid to prove they're two different people. Problem is, a lot of people aren't buying it.
The rumors aren't helped by the fact that Chalamet has long been known to be a huge hip-hop fan and has made several videos, including for SNL, showing his own rapping skills.
Chalamet has repeatedly waved off the rumors, however.
During a recent appearance on British radio to promote his new A24 film, Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, he refused to even address the issue, simply saying:
"I've no comment on that. I've got no comment. All will be revealed in due time."
Which of course only fueled the speculation further, with fans convinced that he would be unmasking himself, if you will, as the real EsDeeKid.
Instead, it seems to have been a reference to the pair's collab, "4 Raws."
- YouTubeyoutu.be
The lyrics include references to Chalamet's real life, including his relationship with billionaire girlfriend Kylie Jenner:
"It's Timothée Chalamet chillin', tryin' to stack $100 million. Girl got $1 billion, what a wonderful feelin'."
The song also includes several references to Marty Supreme, and of course features Chalamet and EsDeeKid standing right next to each other the entire time.
Or does it? Because a LOT of people online are not at all convinced!
On YouTube, people made umpteen versions of the same joke about "EsDeeKid feat. Timothée Chalamet."
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But others were just into the song itself and especially the lengths Chalamet was willing to go to clarify the rumor.
Anyway, at least it's now settled: Chalamet is NOT EsDeeKid. JK yes he is that is absolutely a stand-in posing as EsDeeKid! We see you, Chalamet!