These doctors saids the darndest things -- 100 examples
2. Christine P. says “When my son was diagnosed with ADHD, on top of the medication, the pediatrician told me to get him playing video games to help with his focus!”
3. Greta Q. says “A doctor told me to stop breastfeeding because my breasts belonged to my husband and it was time to give them back.”
4. Mindi E. says “When my son was little we found out her was allergic to dairy. I asked what I could give him instead to make sure he was getting the healthy fats for brain development. She told me French fries.”
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/doctors-say-darndest-things-100-examples/
Many more outrageous lines at link.
= new reply since forum marked as read
of the anti-vax moms........
God knows I do, especially with regards to pregnancy, birth and kids. Geez some doctors are so stupid.
Although, after reading some of the list, it's not always the doctors that are stupid. Plenty of stupid patients too.
My favorite was a pediatrician who told me to stop breastfeeding my 6 month old because her head was overly large. These were his exact words. "You need to stop breastfeeding, her head is too big for her body."
I knew what he was probably trying to get at - malnourished kids often have large head circumferences as compared with their body because the head will always grow at the expense of the body in children during times of hunger. MY daughter, however, was not malnourished. She was breastfeeding plenty, peeing and pooping plenty, she didn't have any signs of malabsorption (no soft stools or floaty poop), she was super active, already rolling everywhere and dragging herself around. She was also eating jarred fruits and veggies. I had given her rice cereal but she projectile vomited every time she was given any baby cereal so, on my regular doctor's advice, we took her off it. She wasn't even low on the growth charts at that point, she was around the 50th percentile at that time. Never mind baby pictures of her father reveal a skinny baby with a giant head.
The ped was upset when I told him I was not going to quit breastfeeding, even after telling him what I just wrote here. I had plenty of milk and my milk was not the issue. I did continue to get flack for my daughter's weight from other doctors and nurses - she dropped on the growth charts as she got more mobile and active, going from 50th percentile to 15th over a year and then to 5th percentile at 3 years old. Later on, I found out, she was measured against old charts that were 90% formula fed babies and that current charts reflect the differences in growth patterns between bottle and breastfed babies. Breastfed babies often gain quickly in the beginning and then level off, which she had done (born at 25th percentile, 65th percentile at 4 months). Wish I'd have had that chart when my oldest was a skinny baby. She's still very thin and small boned. She's a size 2 at 16. And she still has a big head - but not as big as her sisters' heads...they get that from their dad.
Oh yeah, that and I'd never be able to birth a baby vaginally (after a C-section with my first), that my pelvis was just too small and deformed. Had my 2nd vaginally 3 years later. Her head was quite a bit bigger too. So much for my crappy pelvis. 
Ack! I nearly forgot - the absolute BEST one, bar none, was when I was 7 years old I ended up with a horrible ingrown nail in my thumb that became extremely infected, only we didn't know it was the nail at first because my entire thumb swelled up and oozed green pus. The doctor told my parents that I must be sucking my thumb too much. My parents declared I had never sucked my thumb in my life, not even as a baby and the doctor said I must be doing it in private and that my parents were likely in denial. WTF? 
2nd opinion revealed an infected ingrown nail (DUH) and a course of antibiotics and a lancing and cleaning relieved the infection.
