Doctors Share The Most Outrageous Stories About Their Dumbest Patients

The “truth” finally came out for the man who thought he regrew his gallbladder. After a series of scans, we found that his pain wasn’t a regrown organ or a miracle of nature.

It was a simple, large kidney stone that had shifted, mimicking the pain he remembered from twenty years ago. The “regrown organ” was nothing more than his mind trying to fill in the blanks of a mystery it didn’t understand. The man with the “oregano cure” for HIV passed away from sepsis just a month after his visit, still believing the witch’s website over his own failing immune system.

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Medical science isn’t perfect, but it’s based on evidence. In a world where everyone has an opinion, sometimes the most “intelligent” thing a patient can do is admit they don’t have all the answers.

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