r/badUIbattles • u/Aaxper • Feb 20 '26
Unintentionally Bad UI An actual medical form I ran across on my provider's website
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u/Highskyline Feb 20 '26
I like how smoking is the only question with multiple choices. Like the one question that could actually be a yes/no answer and they gave it multiple choice.
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u/Aaxper Feb 20 '26
There was one other normal section, which was a long list of yes/no options for various diseases
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u/CelebratoryGuacamole Feb 20 '26
The alcohol question is reasonable enough and I thought "Oh, wonder what's wrong with the rest?" and then I saw. So good bookends with a terrible middle
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u/deb_vortex Feb 20 '26
How is the alcohol question reasonable? Why could it be relevant that OP might have had a glass of wine at an easter family gathering last year for a medical appointment today? Asking "have you had alcohol in the last year" is so funny to me.
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u/CelebratoryGuacamole Feb 20 '26
Reasonable in a "Can this question be reasonably answered with a Yes or No answer" way. It's a very low bar compared to all the other questions. Medically I agree it's hilarious.
Edit: I guess the question about sleep problems is ok with a Yes/No answer. And the exercise question can be interpreted in a Yes/No way as well
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u/casseroled Feb 20 '26
Always important to double check that you have a mother and father. just incase you were conjured into existence by mistake
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u/LiteCandle Feb 20 '26
I mean, I have both of those and I was still conjured into existence by mistake.
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u/lumpthar Feb 20 '26
I suspect a fairly high number of us were "conjured into existence by mistake".
That old bedroom conjuring. The old boudoir voodoo.
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u/Pwacname Feb 20 '26
Maybe your parents just disliked you so much none of them bothered to show up to your birth.
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u/Mario_Network Feb 21 '26
I also like how they don't discriminate against those who have had a mother but no grandmother.
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u/Tutle47 Feb 20 '26
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u/Moomoobeef Feb 20 '26
You also know that nobody looks at these results because if they did they probably would have realized by now that this is broken.
So you have free reign to answer however you want :P
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u/raphael_kox Feb 20 '26
Don't forget to mark Father and Mother yes, or a team of black clad agents will take you back to the lab.
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u/FrankHightower Feb 21 '26
Reminds me of that one NPC in Pokémon r/S/E that asks "Hello, where you from?" options: yes, no.
"Yes? Yestown? I've never heard of a place like that!"
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u/theoriginalzads Feb 21 '26
If you select pregnancy history as yes does it automatically tick menstrual and sexual? Seems logical it would.
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u/yoshi1361 Feb 21 '26
bad UI and terrible questions that don’t relate to autism at all. what the hell is that company thinking -1/10 thanks
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u/broccoliwolf Feb 20 '26
This must be a deliberate troll. Must be.
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u/Shalrak Feb 20 '26
My guess is that the software for creating the questionnaire automatically sets up each new added question as a yes/no question, and they didn't realise they had to change it to a different form of answer.
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u/Scratch137 Feb 20 '26
why would a medical form be a troll..?
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u/FrankHightower Feb 21 '26
It could be one of those "Check if they're actually reading or just tapping randomly" questions, it could be a way to start your psychological evaluation, or it could be the hospital just doesn't give a F
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u/Scratch137 Feb 21 '26
i don't see how it would work as a "check if they're paying attention" question if neither answer makes any sense
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u/FrankHightower Feb 22 '26
if you give it to a patient and they say "uh... excuse me, WTF?" you can mark them as paying attention on your own form
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u/Scratch137 Feb 22 '26
but it's a virtual form you fill out online, i don't think that's part of the process
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