Okay, this is a segue from furball's 'am I the only one' thread...
So most of us dodge our family members when it comes to medical advice....and we all know that giving medical advice is legally risky anyway, BUT.....
How many times have you been standing in the grocery line or whatever and you overhear a person talking about some illness or injury, and what they're saying is TOTALLY, COMPLETELY WRONG??? How hard do you have to fight the urge to pipe up and say, 'excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear, and you're a total MORON...' ?
I had a patient tell me (and the woman was an ER nurse....a new grad ER nurse, but a nurse still the same) that when she delivered her last baby, she was "crowning for three hours" before the doctor would let her push. UM, EXCUSE ME??? YOU'RE A TOTAL IDIOT. I just nodded and smiled politely and let her go on and on about her last delivery, all the while mentally digging my nails into my arm stifling the urge to smack her and tell her that she was a MORON. Maybe she meant the baby's head was very low in her pelvis, but you'd think she would know that CROWNING means the baby's head is STICKING OUT OF HER lady parts.
Or when I overhear some old lady tell her pregnant granddaughter not to raise her arms over her head because it'll 'strangle the baby.' Good Lord.
Sometimes I need the patience of Job.....