History Website / NotAlwaysHealthy

* IRejectYourReality: [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-learning-curve-is-steeper-than-we-thought/326330/ This soccer player's mother]], on seeing her daughter break the submitter's ankle with a foul, feels that her daughter shouldn't have been red-carded and accuses the submitter of doing it on purpose to make her daughter look bad (when even her daughter agrees she was at fault), then ''kicks the submitter's broken ankle'' [[KickThemWhiletheyAreDown while she's lying helpless on the ground]] (and possibly breaking the ankle in ''another'' place) to "prove" that she's faking it. A coach has to prevent [[MamaBear the submitter's mother from attacking her.]] Even when the police arrive, the other player's mother continues to yell that the submitter and her mother should both be arrested for "defamation." [[LaserGuidedKarma Instead, she's arrested for assault and subsequently banned from future games]].

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/seize-this-opportunity-to-learn-something/322746/ "...Ma'am. You've called a neurology office. [Doctor] doesn't treat seizures."]]

* ScunthorpeProblem: [[https://notalwaysright.com/organ-removal-is-some-sexy-stuff/320018/ This hospital]]'s web filters run into it (for example, the British Urological Society's website is blanked out due to "sexual connotations"). The submitter had to get permission from the hospital to waive the filters for websites for their research terms mentioned in official documents.

* NeverMessWithGranny : "Here, take your baby. [[https://notalwaysright.com/iou-one-iud/93099/ I have an ass to beat]]."

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Compared to most ''Not Always'' examples, [[https://notalwaysright.com/thats-not-going-to-cruci-fix-this/115029/ this senior living community resident]] at least has the excuse that she's suffering from dementia, but it's still concerning that she's chasing an attendant threatening to ''literally beat her up with a crucifix''.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Compared to most ''Not Always'' examples, [[https://notalwaysright.com/thats-not-going-to-cruci-fix-this/115029/ this senior living community resident]] at least has the excuse that she's suffering from dementia, but it's still concerning that she's chasing an attendant threatening to literally beat her up with a crucifix''.

* FailedASpotCheck:
** Numerous cases of doctors and nurses not reading the patient's medical record prior to or during an appointment and being shocked by a pre-existing condition that was on said record.
** The patient is an [[https://notalwaysright.com/diagnosis-heading-fall/102169/ amputee]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/got-triple-problems-diagnosis/103082/ This doctor]] was too busy looking at his phone to notice a ''very'' obvious baby bump (as in, the poster is in her third trimester with ''triplets'') and just assumes she must be there to get her birth control prescription renewed, because why else would a woman go to an [=OB/GYN=]?
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/looking-after-one-child-so-much-you-forget-about-the-other/124202/ This woman]] was so preoccupied with her son's heart surgery that she didn't notice her missed periods ''until she went into labor''.
** Two male doctors at a children's hospital are alarmed by the appearance of round solid shapes in a little girl's X-ray, assuming them to be tumors and discussing when and how to operate. A passing female technician immediately realizes that the round solids are... [[https://notalwaysright.com/a-benign-hair-style/145797/ beads on the patient's hair tie]], which she was wearing during the X-ray. One of the doctors admits his daughter wears the same style of hair tie, but still didn't realize the beads would show up on the film.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/under-this-care-you-wont-live-to-be-26-let-alone-102/153643/ These nurses]] clearly need to check patients' charts more closely, as they somehow managed to mix up the pregnant, 25-year-old poster with the ''102-year-old dementia patient'' in the bed opposite, and very nearly injected her with said dementia patient's medication (which could have had who-knows-what consequences for her pregnancy).
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/that-attitude-doesnt-have-a-leg-to-stand-on/160836/ This nurse]] berates the submitter for asking them to retrieve an out-of-reach lunch menu, and tells the submitter to stand up and get it themselves. The submitter then reveals the reason they were in hospital - they'd just had a leg amputation, so no, they ''couldn't'' stand up.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/choked-by-your-own-doctor/173621/ This teen]] had experienced difficulty breathing and constant choking sensations for ''years'' before finally telling off the doctor who keeps dismissing it as "anxiety". They go to a new doctor, who takes one look at their throat and makes an appointment for the patient to get their massively enlarged tonsils removed. End of problem.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/diagnosed-with-not-quite-surgical-precision/178633/ This doctor]] looks at the patient's blood test, diagnoses them with hyperthyroidism (overproductive thyroid gland), and recommends radiation or surgery. The patient asks if they should first reduce the hormone supplements they were already on for ''hypothyroidism'' (''un''productive thyroid gland), prompting a DoubleTake.
** The nurse for a tonsillectomy calls the patient's mother to verify that the patient has not eaten anything for the past twelve hours. The mother replies that [[https://notalwaysright.com/have-a-bad-feeling-in-the-back-of-my-throat-about-this/185294/ the patient is a grown woman and no longer lives with her parents]] -- the nurse assumed the patient for a tonsillectomy would be a child and mistakenly committed a major privacy violation.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/how-dairy-miss-this/242476/ In which thirty years of stomach problems]], examined by multiple doctors, turns out to be lactose intolerance. When the submitter asked to be tested for that, their general doctor complained about fake diagnoses from the internet, raising the possibility they weren't looking for the condition because [[EskimosArentReal they didn't think it was real]].
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/therrrrres-a-possibilityyyyy/312146/ This nurse]] demanded a female patient take a pregnancy test before her 20-week ultrasound to check on her pregnancy[[note]]It's a girl[[/note]]. The patient just glared the nurse out of the room.

* AccidentalMisnaming: In [[https://notalwaysright.com/puff-and-you-have-a-doctorate/114482/ this story]], the submitter has to convince the vet's receptionist that ''she'' is "Dr. Smith'' and ''her cat'' is "Puffles," and not the other way around.

** [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-may-be-but-the-dog-sure-aint/289581/ "Dogs don't bite me! I'm vegan!"]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: [[https://notalwaysright.com/you-need-thick-skin-to-deal-with-these-thick-skulls/214040/ This woman]], whose husband was injured in a bike crash, and his insurance refuses to pay out after the hospital reports that he wasn't wearing a helmet. His wife blames the hospital for this, claiming that since the report wasn't required to state ''whether or not the hospital staff were wearing underwear'', it also shouldn't be required to mention his lack of a helmet. She then storms out, screaming that the doctor isn't wearing any underwear.

* JustForPun: [[https://notalwaysright.com/sick-of-puns/140526/ This nurse instructor]] tells the students that the bird flu needs a ''tweet''ment, and the swine flu an ''oink''ment.
* KarmaHoudini: The rival player who [[https://notalwaysright.com/there-is-no-joy-in-mudville/240947/ broke this submitter's arm in multiple places]] with an illegal cleat move was never punished because [[{{Nepotism}} he's the coach's son]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: The doctor (nicknamed "Dr Painful") in [[https://notalwaysright.com/sometimes-karma-really-hurts/263975/ this story]] either refused to prescribe painkillers to his patients at all or (if somehow convinced the patient ''was'' in pain) seriously under-prescribed them. And then one day Dr Painful was admitted in his own hospital with a hernia. The doctor handling his case gave a strict "no painkillers at all" order, and every member of the staff gleefully enforced the order using Dr Painful's very own justifications for not giving painkillers every time he begged for some.

* MillionToOneChance: The nurse in [[https://notalwaysright.com/scarlet-fever-once-in-an-azure-moon/222306/ this story]] swears that were the patient in a different age bracket, his symptoms would indicate scarlet fever from untreated strep throat, but at his age he should be able to recover normally. The doctor [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure decides to order strep tests anyway]], and they return positive.

* TheyJustDontGetIt:
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/walk-for-a-mile-away-from-them/117263/ This rheumatologist]] continually gives the submitter advice about how to lose weight... when the submitter repeatedly states and shows in writing that they have tried to lose weight without success, and the doctor continually fails to understand that the submitter either is doing more than what the doctor asks or has already attempted it.
** In a particularly horrific example that unfortunately ended badly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/pet-owners-are-barking-mad/118292/ these possibly senile old idiots]] fail to recognise that their dog is not merely tired but ''suffering from heatstroke'', despite the submitter's attempts to help the poor dog and other concerned customers' attempts to alert them to his condition, [[DownerEnding until it's too late]]. Both the submitter and the commenters were horrified that someone could be that oblivious to their pet's condition.
** The patient is [[https://notalwaysright.com/no-meat-in-your-diet-or-in-his-brain/135612/ a vegetarian with a milk allergy]], so they ''cannot'' reduce consumption of red meat and dairy: they already don't eat either!
--->'''Patient:''' Could you please help me to understand how to reduce meat and dairy when I haven’t eaten any meat in over twenty years and I haven’t eaten dairy in over ten?
--->'''Medical Professional:''' I think you should arrange an appointment with your doctor... as [[HypocriticalHumor you aren’t listening to my advice]].
*** Similarly, [[https://notalwaysright.com/language-is-fluid/162601/ two separate dietitians]] (and one colleague) cannot grasp that their patient cannot drink less alcohol because they already don't drink any.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/the-nutty-doctor/172429/ This patient]] tells the dietitian at least six times that they're severely allergic to nuts. The dietitian continues to insist that the patient needs to eat a minimum of 60 grams/2.1 ounces of nuts every day to stabilize their blood sugar levels, and refuses to suggest any other food item that might help with blood sugar without ''killing the patient''.
** [[https://notalwaysright.com/has-a-bad-ringworm-to-it/148347/ The pediatrician in this story]] is so hung up on his belief that rural clients must be unwashed, uneducated, trash folk that he assumed a child's rash was ringworm (from visual evaluation only, without performing the required tests), and when it returned, that the parents were lying about how they'd cleaned everything, rather than that his diagnosis was wrong. After he's investigated and loses his license for several other bigotry-based misdiagnoses, his successor immediately diagnoses the child with chronic eczema, which was being repeatedly irritated by the parents' cleaning detergent.
** The submitter of [[https://notalwaysright.com/sometimes-you-have-to-go-off-script/240245/ this story]] assumes this is the case with a woman who won't wear a face mask in the pharmacy. It takes a few tries to realize the prescription she's trying to get filled is for a specialty painkiller; her face is too badly inflamed to wear the mask, and ''they're'' the one not getting it!
** The nurse in [[https://notalwaysright.com/get-your-nose-out-of-my-uterus/284026/ this story]] is apparently unable to comprehend that just because the patient possesses a uterus does not mean it must automatically be the cause of all her medical issues. She starts by asking if she's pregnant, while eyeing her (presumably male) partner; when the patient explains that she's on her period, the nurse suggests this might be the cause of her problem. No matter how many times the increasingly annoyed patient tries to explain that she's in with a '''broken finger''', the nurse seems to be convinced that it's a pregnancy issue, until she finally storms off muttering about problem patients. After another 20 minutes the couple are visited by another nurse, who is surprised to see them as the first one had already issued a discharge for her -- diagnosing her with period-related pregnancy problems [[NeverMyFault which were making her irritable]]. The by-now furious patient yells that her finger is broken, and finally gets it treated -- but she ends up receiving two discharge letters, one for her finger and one for the non-existent pregnancy issue.