I'll never forget the day I had to play doctor in public. Crazy symptoms that these people ignored.

I saw a man sweating profusely, eyes popping out in the middle of winter with a light sweater on.

I told him to go see his GP to get a thyroid blood test today and get referred to an endocrinologist for Graves disease.

He called me crazy and to mind my own business. I ended up seeing him in a clinic the next week during my endocrinologist for Graves disease. He called me crazy and to mind my own business. I

ended up seeing him in a clinic the next week during my endocrinology rotation. Hi, Doc, sorry I

called you crazy. My grandfather was the definition of a walking doctor. He wasn't afraid to ask you

about your bowel movements within the first five minutes of getting to know you. Sitting on a plane

next to him, waiting room of the DMV, lunch, he'd talk with everyone and everything if it meant

he got an interesting conversation. One time he diagnosed a person he was sitting next to on a flight

with von Hippel Lindau, which is a rare disease that causes tumours to grow randomly on the body.

The guy said specialists he had been to couldn't figure out

what caused them, and later contacted him after tests were done for the disease to tell him he was

correct in his diagnosis. Have tons of other stories similar to this. Yes, I'm a doctor,

and a few months ago my wife and I were at a restaurant and an older gentleman passed out,

fell down and hit his head on the counter.

He was unconscious for probably 30 seconds. I went over and checked him out. He came to, was a little

confused and blamed it on his blood sugar. Actually, passing out from a blood sugar issue,

rather than bouncing right back and being awake without eating or drinking would be pretty rare.

I asked medical history kind of questions and found

out he's on Kumidine, as evidenced by the multiple bruises on his arms and head. He had a nice

big cherry on his head and a huge bruise over his temple, and he told me that he passes out all the

time, so this wasn't a big deal. One, with multiple passing out episodes at his age, he likely

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