r/interesting • u/tyrion2024 • 11h ago

MISC. A Virginia man inadvertently left his phone recording while he was under anesthesia for a colonoscopy, which captured audio of the doctors: mocking him, instructing a medical assistant to lie to him, and discussing giving him a false diagnosis of hemorrhoids. In 2015, a jury awarded him $500,000.

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u/masimbasqueeze 5h ago

Lots of people have these type of symptoms, and in this situation, it is most likely something related to dietary intolerance, environmental exposures, gut, motility, etc. Rarely it could be due to something more serious such as inflammatory bowel disease. Cancer is unlikely in a 29-year-old although not impossible. Nothing wrong with getting it checked out.

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u/imightwin 5h ago

Okay thank you for the reply. Reading the other stories of vastley different ways everyone found out they had cancer or cancer polyps got me scared about my own ngl. I'm gonna ask my primary to order the testing done

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u/hankmoody699 3h ago

Remember that these stories, while they are factual, they are unusual. This physician is telling you about the likelihood and is encouraging you to get it checked out.
I held my dad's hand while he died from a heart attack and they were doing compressions on him. I also have some average level of coronary artery issues for my age. I can't get it out of my head. I'm getting cardiac care just to feel better about it.

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u/GoldburstNeo 2h ago edited 2h ago

This comment needs to be pinned, especially since the original post here wasn't even about colon cancer but rather an asshole doctor.

I say this as someone who lost my dad to cancer, but while comments like the original one here reminding us about colon cancer are well-meaning, on a post like this (in which again cancer wasn't even the focus), they really aren't helpful and are just serving to create an echochamber of fear.

Yes, push for a colonoscopy if you feel something is wrong and/or if it will bring peace of mind (I had to push for a cystoscopy and CT urogram last year due to rule out the worst after a scary bathroom trip per se, thankfully nothing cancerous), but at the end of the day, even with rising rates, the chances are still very small. Reminding random people at every corner that 'cancer can get you and you and YOU' is not exactly helpful.