I’m Too Embarrassed to Explain
April 2nd, 2008
Personally ,I always find it best when delivering emotional news to actually face the patient.
(Look at him nervously adjusting his glasses — you just know he was the kind of father who was too embarrassed to explain the birds and the bees to his kids, so either handed them an old book to explain it, or just told them to “ask their mother.” How did he ever end up as a doctor?)
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:28 am
That kind of stuff can be weird to talk about! I was cringing through last week’s lecture on the male and female reproductive systems. It was even worse when we went through the lists of diseases and what they looked like (I’ll tell you one thing, if it was hard to look at in the book, it was about ten times worse on the projection screen). I mean, I know all that stuff is part of being a doctor, but for now, it’s just “yucky stuff”. And it’s the one test that will probably have me going “eeeeeewwwwww” in the middle of class.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 am
Actually she’s in front of him, facing away…she’s just very small!
Anyway, he’s examining her psychically, hence the ‘fingers to temples’ stance. It’s how all the modern doctors detect pregnancy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
I think it’s the “Miss” part that has the doctor this embarrassed. It was 1949 after all.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
I’m surprised that the doc didn’t say, she was “in a family way”.
It’d been funnier if he had said “We know what causes that now.” lol
“Anyway, he’s examining her psychically, hence the ‘fingers to temples’ stance. It’s how all the modern doctors detect pregnancy.”
Spot on Keith! All the doc requires is the turban of “Carnac the Magnificent” and a psychic nose bleed.
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