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47 Shockingly Dumb Patients

Healthcare workers like doctors, ER techs, and nurses share the most unbelievably dumb patients they have encountered.

New York Editorial News Desk October 10, 2026 1 min read

The Brief

  • Doctors And Nurses Are Sharing Their Dumbest Patient Ever, And I Can’t Believe These People Are Even Still Alive.

Doctors And Nurses Are Sharing Their Dumbest Patient Ever, And I Can’t Believe These People Are Even Still Alive

“That’s right, folks. Instead of getting a vaccine, she just ate laundry detergent instead, because ‘There’s not enough research.’”

Recently, we wrote about the dumbest patients medical professionals encountered, and now we're back with more from the BuzzFeed Community. Here are 47 more patients that were so, so, soooo misinformed.

We also used replies from the original Reddit threads along with these ones.

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