Scenes from a Clinic
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A patient and her husband are in the clinic for a rash the wife has, an angry red splotch in the center of the abdomen. It was nothing out of the ordinary: a nickel dermatitis. Basically, she’s allergic to the nickel on the button fly of her jeans. It’s easily treated with avoidance and a topical steroid cream.
Her husband wasn’t so easily convinced. “Are you sure she’s not allergic to her IUD?” he asked.
I told him that he watched too much House.
(And then his wife sweetly informed him that she’s never had an IUD.)
A young professional in her mid-twenties was in complaining of insomnia. She stated that she had begun having trouble sleeping about two years ago, just after her daughter was born.
“Nobody ever told me that babies cry at night” was her explanation.
I really had nothing to say to that. I just smiled and nodded politely.
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March 25th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Scott,
Have you learned nothing from House? Clearly, the woman is lying! Go ransack her home while she’s in the hospital and see what you come up with. :D
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