Monday, July 23, 2012

What's that, sonny?

While sticking some electrodes on an 85 year old patient's foot, I was trying to explain to him what I was doing....

Me: "So now I'm going to look at some of the nerves in your foot."

Patient: "My crotch?"

Me: "No, your foot."

Patient: "My butt?"

Me: "No, your foot." [taps his foot, now covered in sticky electrodes] "This thing."

Patient: "Oh. I don't hear very well."

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  1. Sounded a bit like wishful thinking on his part...lol.

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    1. I don't think he wished we were putting electrodes on his crotch....

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    2. You didn't get the joke, Fizzy...

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    3. I think you didn't get my joke.

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  2. In one of my rotations at the VA, whenever I'd ask a patient "How is your hearing?" He'd respond with "WHAT?" I would start repeating the question, and then they'd start chuckling. Please tell me I'm not the only one to fall for this.

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    1. That's funny because when I was at the VA, I had an attending who whenever I'd tell him a patient was hard of hearing, he'd say, "What?" It took me maybe two times before I learned to stop repeating the statement.

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    2. Ugh... I AM hard of hearing and people do that to me all the time. I still fall for it sometimes though, because really, I am literally hard of hearing and think that it's possible I could not be hearing them.... One of the most hateful "jokes" really....

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