Doctors And Nurses Are Calling Out Common Health "Lies" You Should Stop Believing, And It's Shocking

A portion back, we wrote a station wherever doctors and nurses revealed communal wellness lies radical shouldn't judge anymore. In the comments, they called retired adjacent much wellness misconceptions — and it's ace eye-opening. Here's what they had to say:

1."Getting acold oregon bedewed volition not springiness you a cold. Colds are caused by contracting viruses from different radical — not from being acold oregon wet. We are wrong much and astir different radical successful the winter, causing much colds successful the winter."

—Anonymous, 65, California

2."Sugar doesn't origin kids to beryllium hyper. There is nary specified happening arsenic a sweetener rush. Kids get hyper from being astatine a enactment and amped up from the environment."

—Anonymous, 65, California

3."[It's a prevarication that] wellness security companies travel the champion aesculapian practice. Just due to the fact that a attraction has been reported arsenic effectual oregon is FDA-approved and indicated for your illness doesn't mean it volition beryllium covered by your security for your aesculapian problem. Generally, caller and much costly treatments and tests volition beryllium either denied the archetypal clip oregon your doc volition beryllium grilled and tortured earlier they tin get it for you."

"Another communal inclination is for security reps to archer the diligent that the doc 'did not supply capable information' oregon 'just needs to marque a 10-minute telephone call.' In my 20-year experience, I person not had a 10-minute telephone with insurance, but erstwhile I get enactment connected clasp and get disconnected. Appeals are typically a multi-stage battle, and immoderate occurrence is simply a lottery."

—Anonymous, Massachusetts

4."Pediatrician here. Young women...we are not judging you. I person seen and heard it all, and what is going connected with you volition not astonishment oregon daze me. I conscionable privation to support you harmless and guarantee you person each accidental to fulfill your dreams, but I can't bash that if you don't fto maine assistance you."

—Anonymous, 49, Tennessee

5."Doctors and nurses bash not execute laboratory tests. That's up to a wholly behind-the-scenes squad of specialists, without whom the patient-facing squad would lone beryllium guessing. We successful the laboratory often get calls from nurses and doctors asking what definite trial results mean."

"Most laboratory techs tin diagnose and adjacent urge the close antibiotic for a UTI without ever seeing the patient."

—Anonymous, 38, Texas

6."Azithromycin ('Zpak' oregon Zithromax) is an antibiotic and WILL NOT cure your cold. Colds are viruses. No, you don't person a sinus corruption aft 2 days of congestion. Please, delight pass the state of 18–35 year-olds that a mild cough, congestion, and sore pharynx DOES NOT necessitate a doc visit. STOP IT.

"Ask immoderate urgent attraction supplier what their astir communal diligent is, and they'll each archer you URI (upper respiratory illness/infection), which is 99.99% of the clip viral and volition usually resoluteness connected its own!!! [Unless symptoms worsen oregon bash not improve], STOP, STOP, STOP going to urgent cares and particularly ERs for colds!!!!!"

—Anonymous, 55, USA

7."ER supplier here. We hatred hold times arsenic overmuch arsenic you do. When the ER is busy, and you're waiting hours to beryllium seen, effort changing your position and being thankful for the wait. The radical who don't hold are dying oregon adjacent to it. The ER's hold is agelong for galore reasons: overcrowding, boarding patients waiting to beryllium admitted oregon transferred, and abbreviated staffing. It's crowded due to the fact that radical travel to spot america for 'stomach symptom that's been bothering maine for years,' STI checks, oregon fender benders. I've had radical instrumentality ambulances to the ER and past archer maine they lone came for a enactment enactment and were lying astir their thorax pain. It's crowded due to the fact that your neighbors/fellow citizens maltreatment ER services; however, we are legally required to spot and constitute a enactment to each diligent who checks in, nary substance their complaint."

"We're crowded due to the fact that the authorities doesn't supply capable resources for the radical who person a intelligence illness; erstwhile radical travel successful who are suicidal oregon violent, we person to clasp them successful the ER, taking up a bed, sometimes for days, portion they hold to summation entree to 1 of the fewer intelligence wellness beds disposable successful the surrounding community. And galore times, patients similar that necessitate a one-on-one sitter who conscionable sits and watches them 24/7 to marque definite they don't wounded themselves. When the unlicensed unit who usually bash that aren't disposable to sit, we person to marque paramedics and nurses bash it alternatively — further stressing the department's resources.

We're crowded due to the fact that you came connected a Monday. Don't spell to the ER connected a Monday unless you're legitimately sick oregon dying. Otherwise, program to hold hours. Have your "emergency" connected a Saturday greeting instead. Likewise, person your exigency aboriginal successful the time if possible. Most ERs person lone 1 oregon 2 providers for the full section astatine night! I enactment successful a large, 40–50 furniture ER, and from 1 a.m.–6 a.m., it's conscionable 2 of america — ONE MD AND ONE PA for ALL beds positive the waiting room. Come aboriginal successful the greeting erstwhile there's much staff.

Another crushed your hold clip is truthful agelong is due to the fact that not each services are disposable astatine each hospital. If you travel to spot maine for a morganatic crushed that needs specializer attention, I whitethorn person to transportation you to our main infirmary wherever the ENT, ophthalmologist, pediatric specialist, manus surgeon, etc., tin spot you. That means you beryllium for hours waiting for an ambulance to transportation you, and the furniture you're successful is blocked until you leave. Get to cognize the hospitals successful your area. If you person an oculus emergency, don't spell to an ER successful a infirmary that doesn't unit ophthalmologists connected call, etc.

Finally, if you bash yet get backmost to a room, beryllium bully to us! While you've been impatiently scrolling connected your phone, we've been doing our champion to springiness each idiosyncratic the clip and attraction they merit — portion moving hard not to unreserved oregon miss thing that could pb to a mistake oregon harm. We've been getting yelled at, cursed at, sometimes swung at, oregon spit on. We've been delivering atrocious quality oregon managing crises. Show your ER doctors, APPs (Advanced Practice Providers), nurses, radiology staff, techs, etc., a small grace."

—Anonymous, 40, Ohio

8."When a aesculapian supplier asks what your symptom level is, don't accidental a 12!!! You astir apt wouldn't beryllium conscious if it were. Try possibly 4 oregon five. That's much realistic."

—Anonymous, 73, New Mexico

9."Taking a mates of leftover antibiotics (never mind, you shouldn't person immoderate leftovers successful the archetypal place) doesn't miraculously get you amended — nor does it mean you present request antibiotics each clip you consciousness sick. You started feeling amended due to the fact that you ne'er had a bacterial corruption successful the archetypal place. In different words, conscionable due to the fact that your corruption didn't spell distant successful 2 days doesn’t mean you request an antibiotic."

"Antibiotics are for bacterial infections, not your microorganism that’s lasting longer oregon making you consciousness worse than you’d like."

—Anonymous, 42, Ohio

10."If you are coughing up oregon blowing retired greenish oregon yellowish mucus, that doesn't mean you person a bacterial infection. Green is your achromatic humor cells responding to SOMETHING, which could beryllium a microorganism oregon elemental allergies. You don't request antibiotics conscionable due to the fact that it turned a color."

—Anonymous, 42, Minnesota

11."[It's a myth] that hospice kills patients oregon speeds up their death. Hospice helps radical to unrecorded retired their remaining lives to the fullest, providing a painless, comfy decease physically, emotionally, and spiritually."

—Anonymous, 60, USA

12."We don't 'decide' what to complaint you for a co-pay. Your security does, implicit the computer, instantly erstwhile we measure the claim. They besides find however overmuch proviso you get (30, 60, oregon 90 days). And yes, they're ALLOWED to bash it due to the fact that they wage the claim!"

—Anonymous

And finally...

13."The infirmary volition ne'er springiness you a humor transfusion based connected a humor benignant recovered connected a aesculapian alert bracelet. The consequences of a humor typing mistake see death. You volition ever person a humor benignant investigation from the infirmary earlier a transfusion. (An objection would beryllium the O antagonistic humor type, fixed successful a genuinely emergent situation.)"

—Anonymous, 61, Ohio

Doctors, nurses, and different aesculapian professionals, what are immoderate different wellness "lies" and misconceptions that much radical should know? Tell america successful the comments below, oregon you tin usage this anonymous form.