A simple ten-word sentence uttered by patients could be one of the clearest warning signs that they are suffering from a 'serious illness', doctors have claimed.
Doctors have shared on social media what they call a "clinical gem" that almost guarantees serious illness - from heart attacks to cancer.
According to them, the sentence "I feel fine, but my wife forced me to come" is one of the most accurate indicators that something is seriously wrong.
Dr. Sam Ghali, a US emergency physician with over 650,000 followers on X, said this common phrase “is an indicator that something is really **** wrong, until proven otherwise.”
"Believe in this," he added.
Commenting on the post, other doctors also mentioned other phrases that they believe are warning signs for serious health conditions.
In a comment on the original Reddit post, a doctor wrote: “Along the same lines, beware of the old lady who says 'I don't want to bother anyone, but...'.”
Another doctor added: "I once got a call in a consultation from an elderly woman who had been having chest pains for hours. She said she didn't want to bother us..."
Another indicator of a serious illness or medical emergency is "maternal intuition," doctors have claimed on Reddit.
“Last week was the last time I doubted a mother's intuition,” said one professional.
“She said her child, who was college-aged and had no pre-existing medical conditions, just seemed ‘weird.’ The child showed no signs of depression or suicidal thoughts, and just as we were about to release him from the hospital, he suffered a stroke,” the doctor added.
This comes just days after a surgeon in England said a baby who died just three days after birth would have survived if doctors had not ignored multiple signals indicating she was in danger in the hours before her tragic death.
Dan Russo and his pregnant wife, Bryony, prayed for a cesarean section when they arrived at the maternity ward, as they felt something was wrong.
But the staff "laughed at them and ignored their concerns", despite signals such as the scanner showing an irregular fetal heart rhythm.
Baby Emmy was not breathing when she was finally born via emergency caesarean section, 11 hours after the couple arrived at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex.
She died in her father's arms three days later in the neonatal intensive care unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where she had been transferred for emergency treatment.
Speaking after the official investigation, Mr Russo said:
“We are completely devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Emmy. She was our child, so loved, so wanted, and we will never understand how it all went so tragically wrong. We did everything we were told, we followed the advice we were given. But deep down we knew something was wrong. We expressed our concerns time and time again, but they ignored us.”
Addressing the hospital staff directly, he added:
"I shook the hands of the people who played a role in my daughter's death. If you had done your job properly and noticed what everyone else saw, our daughter would be with us today." /Express newspaper/
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