Doctors of Reddit, what's your most surprising?

I can't believe I'm having this conversation with an adult story.

Paramedic here was driving with my partner and patient was in the back.

Patient was fine.

Patient's skeezy boyfriend was riding in the front with me and apparently saw a golden

opportunity to ask a question that had obviously been on his mind for some time.

So when cats and dogs eat grass, that means they have cancer, right?

Um, no. No, it does not. Made for an awkwardly silent ride the rest of the way.

Where did this guy hear that? I've never heard that before. Well, it looks like she's about 30 days pregnant. Congrats! How can she be pregnant? She's only around her brother.

Well, they actually don't follow the same moral code as you or I. I'm a veterinarian, by the way.

Thank you for the clarification there.

Not a doctor yet, but I'm an ER tech. For about

two years now, mom comes in with her baby plus two more older kids, complains that the baby hasn't

pooped in a while and won't stop crying. As I'm settling them in with one of the nurses,

the baby is bawling, like opera singer lungs bawling.

Suddenly, mom whips out a white plastic shopping bag and sticks an end in the kid's mouth and says,

This is the only way she stops crying.

Nurse and I share a look and immediately order an emergency x-ray on the kid's stomach.

Turns out, she had ingested a good amount of these

bags and it was blocking up in her stomach. Big deal, potentially life-threatening. When we confront

the mom about her baby feeding habits, her only words of defense are, well, I checked all over the

bag and I couldn't find anything on it that said non-edible. This woman's a potential danger to her kids.

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