Intimacy: Today, my professor told everyone that he thinks all med students...

By Anonymous - 13/08/2014 15:19 - United States - Wichita Falls

Today, my professor told everyone that he thinks all med students should be required to get a catheter and an enema at least once in their lives so they can relate to their patients, saying, "Gentlemen, it might change your lives." FML

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By Anonymous - 25/01/2011 00:30 - United States

Today, my boyfriend had to give me an enema. FML

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By RevolutionLove - 10/12/2010 17:09 - United States

Today, at a gynecologist's appointment, I was privileged to have 7 co-ed nursing students stare at my vagina for 25 minutes as part of their training. At one point the doctor apologized for having to "open me up more than usual", but said she wanted everyone to get a good view. FML

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Up it goes

By 0stvn0 - 16/03/2012 01:18 - Canada

Today, my doctor booked me in for an STI test. I was feeling confident until he explained it will involve having a catheter inserted into my piss pipe. He shook his head sadly and said, "Gonna be honest Steve, the pain's beyond belief." Great. FML

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On the scene

By fire1 - 25/10/2011 04:30 - United States

Today, working as an EMT on an ambulance, we had a patient who refused to accept that he had a massive GI bleed, despite the fact that bloody stool was flowing from his anus all over my ambulance. To make things worse, my EMT ride-along student puked all over the patient. FML

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By poopboy - 16/01/2017 10:49

Today, I sat next to this really hot guy in my writing class. We struck up a conversation, and it was going well, until he began describing, in excruciating detail, his IBS and fiber problems, and how he always has to poop. Good to know. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/10/2013 22:39 - United States - Slippery Rock

Today, my professor tried to scare the hiccups out of me. Some pee came out instead. FML

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By A troubled ex med school student - 06/02/2013 03:08 - United States - Dublin

Today, I attended my first surgery as part of my program at med school. I found out that when I see someone's intestines, I vomit. Even if I'm still wearing a surgical mask. There goes the thousands of dollars I spent on college. FML

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By shatMyself - 22/04/2013 19:10 - United States

Today, I was admitted to the hospital for chronic constipation. I have to share a room with two other girls who are also having bowel problems. We're all on strong laxatives, and there's apparently only one bathroom in this place. FML

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By welp24 - 28/10/2018 03:00

Today, at the age of 25, for the first time in my life, I was lying mostly naked in front of a man while he was inserting something in my body. Too bad that man was a doctor and that thing was a colonoscopy. FML

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By dr mamour - 30/01/2013 21:57 - France - Paris

Today, during my first day as a medical intern in a new ward, I was performing a rectal exam. My supervisor thought it would be funny to burst into the room and scream, "Who are you?! You don't even work here, you pervert!" FML

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howsthisforaname 34

Wednesday 13 August 2014 23:28

Having experienced both and seeing how completely unsympathetic my doctors were to pain and discomfort I agree with him.

mba2804 2

Wednesday 13 August 2014 23:27

Your professor is not exactly wrong.

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Vanillanougat 14

Thursday 14 August 2014 0:06

I wonder if he practices what he preaches.

Isa_fml 20

Thursday 14 August 2014 0:08

I've had catheters before. Like other people who've experienced it, I think he's got a point.

worldclassrager 39

Thursday 14 August 2014 0:26

It's not a bad idea but that scale of one to ten for pain works well too

Xatraris 38

Thursday 14 August 2014 1:08

Usually does for honest people. I've seen some, however, that exaggerate the scale really badly. "I have a paper cut and the pain is, like, an 8!" yeah, maybe a 3 or 4, but okay. And some are trooping through pain saying it's a 7 but can hardly walk.

askullnamedbilly 33

Thursday 14 August 2014 9:33

I think it's because a lot of patients feel that unless they exaggerate their pain level, they won't be taken seriously and given the 'good stuff'. I've met quite a lot of people who sat in their beds drinking coffee and reading the newspaper who told me with a straight face their pain level was at a ten.

Rababco 29

Tuesday 9 August 2016 19:10

@39 People have different levels of pain tolerance so individuals experience pain differently. It doesn't necessarily mean they are being dishonest. I have a low pain tolerance so I have to take more pain medication then most people and doesn't always take away the pain, just make it more tolerable.

ThePaperDragon 31

Thursday 14 August 2014 0:37

While I can understand the reasoning behind his point, I believe I would find a profession outside medicine if that was truly required!

Jinxsie 27

Thursday 14 August 2014 2:08

Then I guess you're not meant to have a career in medicine. That makes me happy.

tsenx 7

Thursday 14 August 2014 1:33

I agree. Not to be mandatory of course, but police have to be pepper sprayed and tased to carry it. Being in the hospital is humiliating, scary and painful. If the people performing procedures on you have experienced it, maybe they would treat patients more like human beings instead of lab mannequins with no sense of dignity or shame.

pandalover69 26

Thursday 14 August 2014 2:18

This FML is so dumb. How is it even an FML? He gave his opinion and you're just in the guys class, it's not like her singled you out.

LostInTheZone11 29

Thursday 14 August 2014 2:29

With my 15th operation on the horizon, I can safely say I agree with your professor. In fact I have a large history with X-rays, CTs, and MRIs, and a long time Radiologist told me I would be very welcomed into the field because I can connect with patients.

ulissey_fml 22

Thursday 14 August 2014 2:43

As Zun Tsu put it, "know your Enema".

rivaraven 35

Thursday 14 August 2014 2:57

I 100% agree. Luckily I was unconscious, when they inserted my catheter, but having it and the pulling out part.. thank god I don't know how it would feel to put it in.