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."
Sounded a bit like wishful thinking on his part...lol.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he wished we were putting electrodes on his crotch....
DeleteYou didn't get the joke, Fizzy...
DeleteI think you didn't get my joke.
Deletelol!
DeleteIn 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.
ReplyDeleteThat'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.
DeleteUgh... 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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