Medical professionals, if they are doing their jobs, tend to get used to all sorts of things fairly quickly. This might still be cold comfort for most patients who often have to deal with pretty uncomfortable things without the benefit of experience or training. After all, it’s sometimes a stressful environment and things really can just go wrong.

Someone asked “what embarrassing moments have you had in a doctor’s office?” and people detailed their worst stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own experiences if you dare.

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#1

Had a routine smear (pap) test as a student, I hadn’t slept the night before as I’d been partying hard and was still not quite with it.

The male doctor hadn’t performed a smear before and for some reason a nurse was called in to witness the procedure. Predictably the doc had trouble finding my cervix and the nurse told me to roll my hips up. The doctor was getting more and more nervy so to break the ice I started singing “rolling rolling rolling, keep those doggies movin, rawhide” (it made sense at the time)

Then I started to laugh uncontrollably at my own joke which caused the speculum to shoot out of my hooha and knock his glasses off.

The lab results were inconclusive.

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#2

This happened to a friend’s mother:

She was trying out a new OB/GYN. Post-examination, she was given a cup and directed to supply the office with a urine sample. Upon arriving at the bathroom, she saw that it had no door!

Friend’s mom just assumed that this new, free-wheeling OB/GYN office didn’t have bathroom doors and all the patients did their business in the light. So, nervously, she proceeded to create/collect the sample as people walked by in the hallway outside. I imagine they pretended not to notice or gave her strange looks, but it wasn’t until she was leaving the bathroom that she noticed the fully retracted sliding door.

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#3

So, I’m at the doctor, getting the [testicles] check from my late forties doctor, and she starts making small talk. She asks where I go to school, I say the name of my high school, she says, “Oh my son goes there.”

Suddenly I realize, my doctor has the same last name as one of my best friends from school. My friend’s mom is a doctor. My friends mom is rubbing my [testicles].

While extremely awkward it was pretty funny at school the next day.

“So I met your mom yesterday. She said I had very healthy [testicles]”.

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#4

When I was 7 my doctor told me to drop my pants (you know, the ‘ole hernia check). I ran out and screamed to my mom that the doctor was crazy and wanted to see my [private parts]. I specifically remember screaming “Mom, get your coat! This guy is crazy!”.

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#5

While I was in labor with my first child her heartbeat started dropping. The doctors begin telling me that I have to try lying in different positions on the bed because the cord may be around her neck and we need to alleviate the pressure. They put me on my left side then my right side. Nothing is helping so they have me get on my hands and knees on the table. [Under meds], I declare proudly that this is the same position that my child was conceived in.

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#6

First physical of my life. I drop my pants and the doctor says turn your head and cough. I hear turn your head and crawl. I cannot explain the levels of confusion and awkwardness that followed.

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#7

As a transguy, I had to get a hysterectomy. Calling out “Jeffrey” in the OBGYN waiting room full of women is pretty mortifying.

Then when I was in the office the doctor said, “Don’t worry, nobody likes this. Well, I have 2 patients that like it. They are in their 80’s and 90’s and they make an appointment every other week.”

He was a pretty awesome doctor too. When I got out of surgery he said, “You did great.” I said, “But I didn’t do anything.” To which he replied, “Well then I was great.”

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#8

I had some bleeding a while back (not enough fiber) and when the doc had me bend over and stuck his finger inside, I asked “Oh, so no dinner first?”

I discovered later that I go to church with the man….

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#9

I have a very bad sense of direction. At the hospital I went to the bathroom to give a urine sample, and quickly realised I couldn’t remember how to get back to my doctor’s room. I don’t know how many waiting rooms and crowded corridors i wandered through, holding a cardboard cup of my own pee.

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#10

I gave myself a concussion skiing the park at Cadrona, in New Zealand; I caught an edge speed-checking a jump, not my finest moment. It was a pretty serious concussion and I was knocked out for a couple of minutes, coming to once patrol arrived to speak the wonderful phrase, “My neck hurts”. I slipped back in to unconciousness while they threw a collar on me and got me on the backboard, took me down to the patrol clinic and waited for an ambulance.

Now, concussions very often give you nausea. I had nausea. I remember vomiting in the clinic several times while waiting for the ambulance to arrive. Cadrona is also about an hour away from Queenstown, where we were staying. The nearest hospital was in exactly the wrong direction (Wanaka) of Queenstown and only a little closer, so they sent me to Queenstown. An hour+ of riding down sketchy New Zealand mountain roads led me to being wheeled in to the Emergency entrance at the hospital in Queenstown.

As I was being wheeled in, the attending physician greeted me and asked me how I was feeling. Upon being wheeled in, my brain took note of a few things: that the hospital was not busy at all, the floors had just been cleaned and this doctor had just donned a freshly ironed white coat. Everything looked recently cleaned and spit-shined.

He asks me how I’m doing, and when he reaches my gurney, my only response is to lean over towards him (still in a collar, not on a backboard or tied down) and projectile vomit the most vomit I have ever projectiled upon this mans poor chest and lap area. I then promptly slipped back in to unconsciousness.

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#11

I attempted chemical hair removal for the first time the day before my appointment with the gynecologist. Her response: “And *that* is chemical burn.”

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#12

I had gallstones, and needed to get my gallbladder out. As I’m miserably and loudly puking in the ER, I look up to see an entire Asian family STARING at me in horror. The friend who took me still can’t eat broccoli.

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#13

I had a pizza delivery guy walk in on me while I was getting a pelvic exam at the OB/GYN. My feet were up in the stirrups, my doctor’s hand was in my [private parts]..yeah, the whole bit. Apparently the nurses had ordered a pizza and directed the guy to bring it to the break room, but he opened the wrong door. You’d think at an OB/GYN you’d at least knock before entering any closed rooms, right? Yeah, no. He couldn’t have seen anything, though, and I’m pretty sure he was more embarrassed than I was.

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#14

This happened to my roommate during his Freshman year at college. He had recently hooked up with this attractive but promiscuous member of the women’s swim team. A few days later he started to notice these little red bumps growing on his [private parts] so he decided to have it checked out by Student Health Services.

He got in there and the nurse told him to pull down his boxers and she immediately started to laugh. “Was this your first time shaving?”

TLDR; Roommate mistook razor burn for the herp.

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#15

I had a kidney infection and I went to the ER at about 5am one morning on my college campus. They gave me morphine for the pain and for some reason I started singing Bohemian Rhapsody at a pretty high level, surrounded by peers. The nurses had to ask me to quiet down about 5 times until the morphine wore off…

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#16

A few years ago, I had a [testicular] cancer scare. The dr was pretty sure it was nothing to worry about tu I had to get an ultrasound of my nut at the hospital to be sure.

I’m laying there with my sack exposed while a nurse uses an ultrasound wand to check things out. Twice during the procedure another nurse opens the door to ask a question of the tech that’s performing the ultrasound and stands in it, providing a full view of my sack to passers by in the hallway. She wasn’t inquiring about my procedure, she was asking stupid questions about the work schedule. Needless to say, I was embarassed and shocked.

When I heard the door open a third time, I told the nurse that if it opened again during my procedure I would be reporting it to the hospital admins. She did not return.

#17

Last time I went for a pap smear, my doctor found it necessary to tell me I was fertile and currently ovulating and proceeded to show me my discharge and how it does the “string thing.”.

#18

This isn’t embarrassing so much as horrifying. One time I was at the OB/GYN for my yearly visit, and the nurse came in to do the pre-exam questions, and she’s looking through my chart and says “and I see here that you are pregnant” and my face just drops, and she was like “you didn’t know?” and I say “Umm, no!”. She asks me for my name again and says, “Oh, I grabbed the chart for the wrong Erin!”.

#19

This happened at the pharmacy at my doctor’s office. I had just have a wisdom tooth removed. (A stubborn one at that) I had it removed in the morning and i was good, not sick or anything most of the day, but by the time the next day rolled around, i was the sickest I had ever been. Everything made me vomit, even moving more than a few feet made me vomit. The dentist didn’t think to prescribe me any antibiotics or anything, so i had to call him to let him know how sick i was. He told me he would call in the order and i could pick it up at the pharmacy in the hospital down the street. The kicker was that they closed in 10 minutes. I rushed to get there and made it with 2 minutes to spare, however as they were getting my prescription ready, that sick feeling happened.

I ended up vomiting THREE times on their counter, right before they closed. The women were shocked and I kept apologizing, but I couldn’t stop.

I left with my prescription feeling ashamed and embarrassed, and also terrible that they had to clean it up before going home.

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