What was your most shocking experience as a doctor? - Quora

Answer: A woman came to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain.​ The ER.​.​.​ Your Reading Digest Top Stories For You What was your most shocking experience as a doctor? Rena Hu, OB-GYN in San Francisco Updated May 18 A woman came to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain. The ER workup showed she had a large 10 cm tumor in one of her ovaries, known as a teratoma. Teratomas are pr...  Read More » What are the weirdest business ideas that actually became successful? Maged Magdy, Computer Engineering Student Written May 31 Snapchat was one of the weirdest ideas that actually crossed 160M daily users and $400M in revenue in 2016. Photo is taken from Google photos showing Snapchat co-founders Ev...  Read More » Does a college graduate from a famous college (MIT or Oxford, etc.) have an easier time getting a job? Christopher Fox, studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Written May 27 It depends on the major but I had two sons graduate in CS/EE at MIT. They had to be careful at job fairs to hand out resumes to only companies that they were actually inter...  Read More » Is it okay to be a mediocre medical student? Ken Saladin, Biology professor emeritus (1977-present) Written May 24 It’s an old joke: You know what they call the med student who finishes at the bottom of his class? A: Doctor. And your patients aren’t going to ask you what your GPA was. I ...  Read More » Is China a developing country? Dawei Chen, Traveling and Writing (2017-present) Updated Mon I have visited or lived in many what people call “developed countries,” such as Singapore, HK(SAR), USA, Canada… And I have lived in China for about 18 years across various...  Read More » Have you ever gotten a teacher fired? Salman Aslam, works at Omnicore Written May 29 I did and I regret it to this day as it was totally unintentional. I was in college when it happened. She used to teach English and was one of the nicest person, however, she...  Read More » Mary E. Rossow upvoted this answer. Why do people avoid going to the doctors? James Pearson, Firefighter 25+ years, fire instructor, AEMT 17+ years Updated May 10 I can give you an example. Years ago, I saw my doctor for a pain in my shoulder. After waiting two weeks to get in, sitting in the waiting room for more than half an hour pa...  Read More » What is the best way to negotiate? Asim Qureshi, former Vice President at Morgan Stanley Written May 24 A negotiation tip I’ve frequently used… Best highlighted by an example- ok, I want to buy something, and a fair price is $1,000, the offer price is $1,200. Here’s what I do....  Read More » Is death by carbon monoxide painful? Why or why not? Jon Mixon, Going to myself one of these days. Written Jun 28, 2014 Personal experience: Many years ago, during an incident that I won’t go into great deal about, I was almost overcome and killed by carbon monoxide exposure. Except for fee... Read More » What do Orthopaedic surgeons really think of chiropractors and osteopaths? Christopher Fox, Orthopedic surgeon/spine surgeon Written Sun Never in my career have I referred a patient to a chiropractor. I have seen more children with scoliosis than I can count “observed” with chiropractic treatment as their x-...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.