Honesty is the best policy. But not if you're sick or injured, apparently.
Reddit user Theedriplomat recently asked doctors to share the most obvious lie a patient has ever told them, but the thread quickly gained traction and received responses from nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare workers as well.
However, we don't mind it. The stories, each more ridiculous than the next, highlight a big problem: whether out of embarrassment, fear, or simple confusion, people are making their cases far more complicated than they could be.
