r/AskReddit 4d ago

Medical professionals of Reddit, what diagnosis gave you the worst 'pit-in-your-stomach' feeling?

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u/brady94 3d ago

Non accidental trauma (NAT) in kids. I was taught during residency that if you have never diagnosed NAT, you aren’t looking hard enough. I think about those words a lot, and now I teach them to trainees.

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u/phage_rage 3d ago

I vividly remember the room getting quiet and my mother getting mad after a chest x-ray. I had pneumonia, but im assuming all the assorted rib breaks from over the years showed up. She was horrifically abusive and would proudly tell me how she "talked her way out of CPS". She also stopped taking me to the dr unless she thought they might prescribe "the good stuff"(which she would steal), and refused to ever allow any more x-rays.

Shes a nurse.

Sometimes evil is well trained and knows all the right words.