Well, this is a fun -dle! It felt like playing through an episode of “House, M.D.”, except I had no idea what I was doing, and I’m guessing my patient died. I’m definitely going to make my fourth...
Well, this is a fun -dle!
It felt like playing through an episode of “House, M.D.”, except I had no idea what I was doing, and I’m guessing my patient died.
I’m definitely going to make my fourth guess “Lupus” from here on out though, in honor of the show.
Haha my first thought was hypoglycemia only based off that small amount of information as well. Since it wasn’t listed I guessed DKA -> subdural hematoma -> viral meningitis -> then got it on the...
Haha my first thought was hypoglycemia only based off that small amount of information as well. Since it wasn’t listed I guessed DKA -> subdural hematoma -> viral meningitis -> then got it on the 4th try guessing meningococcal meningitis.
There is NO way anyone would have guessed that on the first try with the info they gave initially 😂. I did subdural hematoma next because of headache after night out, a lot of practice tests use this to make it a sneaky trauma patient by stating they could have hit their head and not remembered it because they were intoxicated. After mentioning the temperature I suspected it was some type of infection + was keeping headache in my mind. Once photophobia and stiff neck was brought up I knew it for sure had to be some sort of meningitis, but it wasn’t sure which type of meningitis until they mentioned the purple lesions.
I went with the exact same line or guesses, except I did a(n incorrect) bacterial meningitis at my third guess. Once I read "stiff neck" I was determined to go down the list of meningitis options...
I went with the exact same line or guesses, except I did a(n incorrect) bacterial meningitis at my third guess. Once I read "stiff neck" I was determined to go down the list of meningitis options until I found the winner.
I managed to get there in four guesses and wasn't in the top 50% of players? Are actual doctors playing this? I felt so proud of actually figuring it, still do I suppose, just surprised so many...
I managed to get there in four guesses and wasn't in the top 50% of players? Are actual doctors playing this? I felt so proud of actually figuring it, still do I suppose, just surprised so many people got it faster!
The top 50% are people who do it in one guess in a new window for no other reason than to have a browser game tell them they're amazing for cheating at a browser game. People cheat at Bloons, of...
The top 50% are people who do it in one guess in a new window for no other reason than to have a browser game tell them they're amazing for cheating at a browser game. People cheat at Bloons, of all things. People have one-guess streaks on Wordle. People are weird.
I did it in a private window accidentally when double-checking if it was the same. I think (new day so can't double-check) after the second clue was revealed, I put in the correct answer, which I...
I did it in a private window accidentally when double-checking if it was the same. I think (new day so can't double-check) after the second clue was revealed, I put in the correct answer, which I think listed as the top 25%.
It's very possible most people who play it are med students. It's the kind of thing where it's not really even fun if you don't have some kind of medical training. It'd be like if you asked...
It's very possible most people who play it are med students. It's the kind of thing where it's not really even fun if you don't have some kind of medical training.
It'd be like if you asked someone who only spoke english to do do worldle in chinese.
I mean, I thought it was kind of fun to play Google medical-diagnosis by making an initial guess and then researching the symptoms. I don't think you have to try to push through completely blind.
I mean, I thought it was kind of fun to play Google medical-diagnosis by making an initial guess and then researching the symptoms. I don't think you have to try to push through completely blind.
I tried this before but because it drips you the symptoms and thus makes it absolutely unreasonable to guess anything with certainty, and then because it is so specific it fell into the...
I tried this before but because it drips you the symptoms and thus makes it absolutely unreasonable to guess anything with certainty, and then because it is so specific it fell into the unenjoyable category. I don't think most folks stick with it, even if some still cheat.
Not in medicine, but I am in biology and I guessed it in one, but also there was some degree of luck as I just chose what I felt was most logical rather than knowing 100%.
Not in medicine, but I am in biology and I guessed it in one, but also there was some degree of luck as I just chose what I felt was most logical rather than knowing 100%.
Ahhh I can’t believe you only get one a day! This is so fun. It’s a nice little test for my triage skills I’ve gained by working in the emergency department. I’ll totally be playing daily until...
Ahhh I can’t believe you only get one a day! This is so fun.
It’s a nice little test for my triage skills I’ve gained by working in the emergency department. I’ll totally be playing daily until the novelty wears off 👀.
See my other comment above for my rationale to getting today’s answer. Let me know if there is any interest in me posting my rational for the next questions when they come, I would be happy to ramble.
I thought today was going to be a hard one, got it on the second try. Wanted to pick dehydration or chronic kidney disease because it would be the most common reason, but it wasn’t an option so I...
I thought today was going to be a hard one, got it on the second try.
Wanted to pick dehydration or chronic kidney disease because it would be the most common reason, but it wasn’t an option so I flat out just guessed liver disease since there are so many reasons that could cause elevated total protein.
When they said he was asymptomatic I had to search engine the name because I couldn’t remember exactly what it was called lol. “Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance” probably common for primary care medicine but not something talked about in emergency medicine. This for me was like a “read about it once in school but never mentioned again” 😂
This was fun! I have no medical training but was impressing my friends (and myself) how I'm weirdly good* at this! We were going through the archive and I was getting, I would estimate, around 30%...
This was fun! I have no medical training but was impressing my friends (and myself) how I'm weirdly good* at this! We were going through the archive and I was getting, I would estimate, around 30% correct (My friends had no clue, even by the last clue).
Essentially, whenever I had heard of the illness I could guess it right, and normally by the second or third clue. So the remaining 2/3 tended to be illnesses I'd never heard of (eg Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia). And to my credit I was normally pretty close even when I didn't know the exact name. Still, it was pretty fun authoritativey declaring; "Oh but of course! He has sickle cell anemia!" Or ' well that's a classic case of Delirium tremens!' While my friends looked on in awe (horror).
*for somebody who has zero formal medical knowledge
Got today's correct on my first guess! Went back to the archives and oh boy, confirming these are out of my scope of my practice (as a nurse). Fun though!
Got today's correct on my first guess! Went back to the archives and oh boy, confirming these are out of my scope of my practice (as a nurse). Fun though!
I see two cookies for the domain after playing doctordle_cookies_accepted: true doctordle_stats: stats that appear to be cumulative (gamesPlayed, lastPlayedDate, guessDistribution, and some...
I see two cookies for the domain after playing
doctordle_cookies_accepted: true
doctordle_stats: stats that appear to be cumulative (gamesPlayed, lastPlayedDate, guessDistribution, and some others)
Seems weird to require it just for stats. I had thought maybe they were using cookies for the current state, but that appears to be in local storage, where I see:
doctordle_ga_consent: granted
doctordle_archive_335_completed: lost (I played one archived game)
Probably because the website is vibecoded and that's what the AI decided to do (or because the developers thought cookie banners are always necessary even for non-tracking cookies)
Probably because the website is vibecoded and that's what the AI decided to do (or because the developers thought cookie banners are always necessary even for non-tracking cookies)
This would be super fun if I had any kind of medical knowledge. As it was, I did think it was interesting and it certainly confirmed that my best bet is to take myself to the doctor when I don't...
This would be super fun if I had any kind of medical knowledge. As it was, I did think it was interesting and it certainly confirmed that my best bet is to take myself to the doctor when I don't know what's wrong with me. But I've already gone through a woo-woo crunchy "western medicine is, like, poisons man" phase so I'm already on team "give me the pills, let's dial this in and science the shit out of it; if we fail, at least we tried."
...Okay, so today's is a bit eerie, given: Daveigh Chase, a 35-year-old actress famous for voicing Lilo and playing Samara in the Ring, reportedly passed away yesterday of meningitis. My mom and I...
My mom and I literally JUST talked about it right before I checked Tildes and tried this out. I don't know if this choice was intentional or just a weird coincidence.
That said, I got it totally wrong.
My first assumption was more "diabetes complication" for some reason... And I promptly learned I have no clue what various medical terms would be used for the more specific ailments.
I mean, this is a couple of days late but your guess of "diabetes complications" seems to coincide with the "hypoglycemic" guess from @Kale and they seem to know what they're talking about. You...
I mean, this is a couple of days late but your guess of "diabetes complications" seems to coincide with the "hypoglycemic" guess from @Kale and they seem to know what they're talking about. You weren't too far off the mark then!
100%! It was a totally reasonable guess. Altered mental status can be from both hypo and hyperglycemia. That’s why I went with diabetic keto acidosis for my first guess. Both of those are the most...
100%! It was a totally reasonable guess. Altered mental status can be from both hypo and hyperglycemia. That’s why I went with diabetic keto acidosis for my first guess. Both of those are the most common reason I see confusion in younger people.
Saw this thread a few days ago but decided to finally try short: it went very badly for my pretend patient I had no idea what was wrong with him beyond Maybe you have a headache and should go home...
Saw this thread a few days ago but decided to finally try
short: it went very badly for my pretend patient
I had no idea what was wrong with him beyond
Maybe you have a headache and should go home
Oh, uh, migraine?
Oh no that sounds like you're quite seriously ill :| I've randomly selected something that starts with neuro- I hope that helps you
Help! I need a doctor! Fairly sure this man is dying! Is it a stroke? Are you having a stroke? No? Help!!
I'm so glad I live in modern times in a country with free medical
Well, this is a fun -dle!
It felt like playing through an episode of “House, M.D.”, except I had no idea what I was doing, and I’m guessing my patient died.
I’m definitely going to make my fourth guess “Lupus” from here on out though, in honor of the show.
I can't choose "Hypoglycemia" as an option, which makes me wonder where it pulls its criteria of valid diagnoses from.
Haha my first thought was hypoglycemia only based off that small amount of information as well. Since it wasn’t listed I guessed DKA -> subdural hematoma -> viral meningitis -> then got it on the 4th try guessing meningococcal meningitis.
There is NO way anyone would have guessed that on the first try with the info they gave initially 😂. I did subdural hematoma next because of headache after night out, a lot of practice tests use this to make it a sneaky trauma patient by stating they could have hit their head and not remembered it because they were intoxicated. After mentioning the temperature I suspected it was some type of infection + was keeping headache in my mind. Once photophobia and stiff neck was brought up I knew it for sure had to be some sort of meningitis, but it wasn’t sure which type of meningitis until they mentioned the purple lesions.
I went with the exact same line or guesses, except I did a(n incorrect) bacterial meningitis at my third guess. Once I read "stiff neck" I was determined to go down the list of meningitis options until I found the winner.
I managed to get there in four guesses and wasn't in the top 50% of players? Are actual doctors playing this? I felt so proud of actually figuring it, still do I suppose, just surprised so many people got it faster!
The top 50% are people who do it in one guess in a new window for no other reason than to have a browser game tell them they're amazing for cheating at a browser game. People cheat at Bloons, of all things. People have one-guess streaks on Wordle. People are weird.
How rude. ತ_ʖತ
I did it in a private window accidentally when double-checking if it was the same. I think (new day so can't double-check) after the second clue was revealed, I put in the correct answer, which I think listed as the top 25%.
It's very possible most people who play it are med students. It's the kind of thing where it's not really even fun if you don't have some kind of medical training.
It'd be like if you asked someone who only spoke english to do do worldle in chinese.
I mean, I thought it was kind of fun to play Google medical-diagnosis by making an initial guess and then researching the symptoms. I don't think you have to try to push through completely blind.
I tried this before but because it drips you the symptoms and thus makes it absolutely unreasonable to guess anything with certainty, and then because it is so specific it fell into the unenjoyable category. I don't think most folks stick with it, even if some still cheat.
Also...doctors google. Although they may not google "a 58-year-old black male came to me because he was referred by his PCP. what's his diagnosis?"
Sure they'd need like 3-4 steps to realistically do it.you can get lucky before that but no guarantee.
Not in medicine, but I am in biology and I guessed it in one, but also there was some degree of luck as I just chose what I felt was most logical rather than knowing 100%.
Ahhh I can’t believe you only get one a day! This is so fun.
It’s a nice little test for my triage skills I’ve gained by working in the emergency department. I’ll totally be playing daily until the novelty wears off 👀.
See my other comment above for my rationale to getting today’s answer. Let me know if there is any interest in me posting my rational for the next questions when they come, I would be happy to ramble.
I thought today was going to be a hard one, got it on the second try.
Wanted to pick dehydration or chronic kidney disease because it would be the most common reason, but it wasn’t an option so I flat out just guessed liver disease since there are so many reasons that could cause elevated total protein.
When they said he was asymptomatic I had to search engine the name because I couldn’t remember exactly what it was called lol. “Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance” probably common for primary care medicine but not something talked about in emergency medicine. This for me was like a “read about it once in school but never mentioned again” 😂
This was fun! I have no medical training but was impressing my friends (and myself) how I'm weirdly good* at this! We were going through the archive and I was getting, I would estimate, around 30% correct (My friends had no clue, even by the last clue).
Essentially, whenever I had heard of the illness I could guess it right, and normally by the second or third clue. So the remaining 2/3 tended to be illnesses I'd never heard of (eg Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia). And to my credit I was normally pretty close even when I didn't know the exact name. Still, it was pretty fun authoritativey declaring; "Oh but of course! He has sickle cell anemia!" Or ' well that's a classic case of Delirium tremens!' While my friends looked on in awe (horror).
*for somebody who has zero formal medical knowledge
Got today's correct on my first guess! Went back to the archives and oh boy, confirming these are out of my scope of my practice (as a nurse). Fun though!
Same. I'm a normie non-medical doctor, so I'm kinda shocked lol.
Why are cookies a requirement to play?
I see two cookies for the domain after playing
doctordle_cookies_accepted:truedoctordle_stats: stats that appear to be cumulative (gamesPlayed, lastPlayedDate, guessDistribution, and some others)Seems weird to require it just for stats. I had thought maybe they were using cookies for the current state, but that appears to be in local storage, where I see:
doctordle_ga_consent:granteddoctordle_archive_335_completed:lost(I played one archived game)doctordle_336_Thu Jun 18 2026: game stateProbably because the website is vibecoded and that's what the AI decided to do (or because the developers thought cookie banners are always necessary even for non-tracking cookies)
I dunno but <insert "you have no power here" gif>
Jacki Weaver
This would be super fun if I had any kind of medical knowledge. As it was, I did think it was interesting and it certainly confirmed that my best bet is to take myself to the doctor when I don't know what's wrong with me. But I've already gone through a woo-woo crunchy "western medicine is, like, poisons man" phase so I'm already on team "give me the pills, let's dial this in and science the shit out of it; if we fail, at least we tried."
...Okay, so today's is a bit eerie, given:
Daveigh Chase, a 35-year-old actress famous for voicing Lilo and playing Samara in the Ring, reportedly passed away yesterday of meningitis.
My mom and I literally JUST talked about it right before I checked Tildes and tried this out. I don't know if this choice was intentional or just a weird coincidence.
That said, I got it totally wrong.
My first assumption was more "diabetes complication" for some reason... And I promptly learned I have no clue what various medical terms would be used for the more specific ailments.
I mean, this is a couple of days late but your guess of "diabetes complications" seems to coincide with the "hypoglycemic" guess from @Kale and they seem to know what they're talking about. You weren't too far off the mark then!
100%! It was a totally reasonable guess. Altered mental status can be from both hypo and hyperglycemia. That’s why I went with diabetic keto acidosis for my first guess. Both of those are the most common reason I see confusion in younger people.
Saw this thread a few days ago but decided to finally try
short: it went very badly for my pretend patient
I had no idea what was wrong with him beyond
Maybe you have a headache and should go home
Oh, uh, migraine?
Oh no that sounds like you're quite seriously ill :| I've randomly selected something that starts with neuro- I hope that helps you
Help! I need a doctor! Fairly sure this man is dying! Is it a stroke? Are you having a stroke? No? Help!!
I'm so glad I live in modern times in a country with free medical
Shades of medizzy