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Why do a lot of married men have to bring their wives with them to the doctor's office?

Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:19 am
Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
45085 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:19 am
Rant alert.

Come on men, do better. Bring in your wife to the doctor is great if you just want someone to talk to while you wait. However, you should know why you made the appointment and how long you have your symptoms for. Also you should know the names or at least the reasons why you take medication. You wives could be giving you boner killing pills and most baws would not even know.

End rant. I await your criticism and downvotes.

ETA: Here is an example from today.

Me: So what brings you in today?

Patient: I do not know. I think she made the appointment because of my back.

Me: Ok. How long has your back been hurting you?

Patient: I do not know.

Patient to wife: How long has my back been hurting?

Patient's wife: He has been complaining his back about for 6 weeks now.

Me: Ok. Have you taken anything for it?

Patient: Just whatever she gave me for it.
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 8:56 am
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
73972 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:21 am to
I couldn’t drive home after a procedure that required me to be anesthetized.

That’s the onliest time I’ve brought my wife* with me to a doctors appointment.

*no pics
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 8:34 am
Posted by crimsoncoded94
Georgiana
Member since Aug 2025
2000 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:21 am to
90% of men are mentally retarded
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 8:22 am
Posted by Topwater Trout
Red Stick
Member since Oct 2010
69758 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:21 am to
It is pretty good to have someone with you that can help ask questions you may forget to ask or remember what the dr says. I don't see the problem here...easier to bring her than have to ask a ton of questions if she doesn't go.
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
38757 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:22 am to
Depends.

Serious issue, absolutely.

Routine stuff, nah.

If you're married and your wife is facing something significant, I hope you've got enough sense to go with her.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
142826 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:22 am to
To fill out the paperwork.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
75274 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:22 am to
Some guys actually enjoy their wife's company. Maybe the wife is actually concerned about her husband's health?

Also, men are like "I'll just walk it off".
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
40192 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:22 am to
I think this epidemic is a figment of your imagination. The only times I see what you're describing is with old retired geriatric baws and they're wives don't have shite else to do. Plus they likely have glaucoma and can't drive themselves.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
35497 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:23 am to
quote:

90% of men are mentally retarded



So the commercials ain't lying?
Posted by SETH6180
TEXAS
Member since Feb 2020
1053 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:23 am to
Low T is the only explanation, unless it's an older gentleman who might need assistance.
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 11:21 am
Posted by jizzle6609
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
19581 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:25 am to
How old?
Posted by CAT
Central Arkansas
Member since Aug 2006
7290 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:25 am to
quote:

Why do a lot of married men have to bring their wives with them to the doctor's office?


Think you are misunderstanding. Wives made the appt and are making sure husband shows up. He could care less about being there
Posted by LSUJML
Central
Member since May 2008
52878 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:26 am to
Are we talking 35 year old men or 70 year old men?

My mom goes with my Dad because he can’t hear
She also doesn’t go to regular check ups, just specialist visits
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
90768 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:26 am to
quote:

Depends.

Serious issue, absolutely.

Routine stuff, nah.

If you're married and your wife is facing something significant, I hope you've got enough sense to go with her.


I don't have to have my wife go with me, I can fend for myself just fine, she wants to go and spent about 25 years in the medical profession, speaks the lingo, and knows the right questions to ask if I don't ask them, also knows more about the billing and insurance end then any of the current generation of slugs that seem to staff doctors' offices and hospitals these days

Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
138367 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:27 am to
quote:

Why do a lot of married men have to bring their wives with them to the doctor's office?


Because they know the wife is going to ask a million questions and they don't want to deal with that shite.
Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
45085 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:27 am to
quote:

It is pretty good to have someone with you that can help ask questions you may forget to ask or remember what the dr says. I don't see the problem here


This is how my first appointment of the morning went.

Me: So what brings you in today?

Patient: I do not know. I think she made the appointment because of my back.

Me: Ok. How long has your back been hurting you?

Patient: I do not know.

Patient's wife: He has been complaining about for 6 weeks now.

You can imagine how the rest of the appointment went.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
16368 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:27 am to
This is a thing? I could see it for major sh*t but not my regular checkups or poison ivy visits.

In the 10 years I've been with my wife she's only driven me to the doctor twice. Once for a concussion and once for when I cut the end of my thumb off and had to keep pressure on it to slow the bleeding.
This post was edited on 3/12/26 at 8:29 am
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
149407 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:28 am to
quote:

Bring in your wife to the doctor is great if you just want someone to talk to while you wait.
and have to have small talk with my wife?

Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
45085 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:28 am to
quote:

To fill out the paperwork.


Ok that is a valid answer.

However, a grownass man should know his own SSN and what medicines he takes.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
58704 posts
Posted on 3/12/26 at 8:29 am to
Today will make my going to a doctor's office about the half-dozenth time in the last month and the majority of couples there are elderly. If they are younger, it's likely either the issue is important enough for them both to be there (although they could also just be out running errands together).
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