Rudest thing an uninformed doctor/nurse has ever said to you?

Did that doc know anything about your symptoms before he asked you what was going on and commented on you seeming so stressed? If he didn't then I think his question and statement was a fair one, if he did know then yes, it was stupid.

Believe me, doc with mild IBD wouldn't likely be able to grasp what it's like for anyone that is moderate to severe with their IBD...you know how many people have come to this board over the years saying things like "I have IBD and it's not so bad why do so many people act like it's the end of the world" now seeing posts like that is stupid and insensitive.

pb4: I know what you mean. I have a coworker with UC, but hers is extremely mild compared to mine. When people draw comparisons between us, it infuriates me. The insinuation is that I must be either a wimp, or exaggerating. ARGH! If any person that I know had to live with this for ONE DAY, half of them wouldn't be able to handle it. My husband, included.

A nurse the other day said "How do you get that?" about UC. I didn't care but I thought it was a funny question.

Pretty sad Worriedgirl that he knew and made that statement/asked that question....just more proof that just because you're considered "smart" or "brainy" doesn't mean you have an ounce of intelligence or personality (bedside manner in this doc's case)...it's amazing how pathetic it is really.

geeker, exactly what I mean, nothing worse that another IBDer that plays the disease off like it's no big deal and that for anyone that it is must be a big baby or looking for attention, it's sickening when "one of our own" can't comprehend the fact that many are worse off with their disease than others are....got to love generalizations...NOT!!

I had a partial small bowel obstruction a couple of years ago that sent me to the ER. I told the ER Doc about my UC and that the obstruction was completely unrelated.

Enter the surgery resident who tried to sell me on a total colectomy after having been in complete remission for years, and while spaced out on morphine.

After coming down from the morphine, I was so p!$$ed that I reported her to the Chief of abdominal surgery as being at best insensitive and at worst unethical.

I never did find out what the outcome of my complaint was, but knowing how Doctors cover for each other I suspect nothing.

I think I had just gotten my NG tube taken out and I was suppose to measure my bowel movements, anyways I wasn't in the sharpest of states, as it was the middle of the night and right after surgery and wrote down something too high on the chart and when the morning nurse arrived I told her it was wrong and most likely less and she made a comment something along the lines of "Oh changing it? you just dont want that tube back in." The tone in which she said it making me out like I was the bad guy making things up. Yeah that NG tube wasn't fun and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Was during the hospital stay of a second step of three parts jpouch procedure if you're curious.

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My doctor is great and has 2 PAs that work under him. One is fantastic and the other I just recently had the pleasure of meeting. She listened to me describe my simmering flare impatiently, and then wisely told me, "Sounds like stress to me. Maybe you should try yoga?" I refrained from telling her that I actually have done so much yoga that I even went through teacher training. I also refrained from decking her.;)

Wow, you guys have had some real jerks. I've been fortunate enough with my GI's and primaries. But there was this one rheumatologist that made me cry in frustration. 10 years into my uc journey, I was having such severe joint and body pain that my primary sent to see the rheumy.

After waiting 2 hours in the waiting room, I get called back to his office. Not the examining room, but his actual office. He asked me what was going on, while sitting behind his big expensive oak desk all the time writing and never looking at me. He wasn't even writing down what I was telling him. He was paying his bills. After I was done, he just looks up to me and says "You have UC. Joint pain is to be expected" and just sent me away. I was so upset over his cold impersonal attitude I sat in my car and cried.

A few years later, the pains were not getting better so I had to go back. But I saw his associate. I can't go anywhere else because I have a HMO and they're the only rheumatologists in my network. His associate diagnosed me with Peripheral arthritis and Fibromylgia.