You Can't Make This Stuff Up (#12)

This is another one of those amazing bedside manner stories. Someone I know wanted very much to get pregnant. However, she had a baseball-sized mass covering one of her ovaries that needed to be removed. It was quite possible that the surgery would result in removal of both ovaries which would make natural childbirth impossible. Fortunately, this did not occur and only one of the ovaries needed to be removed. The doctor who performed the surgery happened to be pregnant at the time. When the patient returned for a follow-up person, she asked about her chances of having children, which had been reduced but not entirely eliminated. The pregnant doctor's reply? "Your chances of having children are so low that if I were you, I wouldn't even bother trying."

What?!!! That has to go down as one of the most insensitive comments by a doctor to a patient. The patient left the office crying and distraught. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. After 2 years, the patient gave birth to two beautiful children. She sent a picture of them along with a letter to the doctor who told her she would never have those children. What a good feeling that must have been.