Wayfaring MD: Missionary Physician
Medicine isn't all doom and gloom, guts and gore. When you put random people together in situations that are often awkward, hilarity is bound to ensue.
I like to highlight the hilarious in medicine as I write about patients, medical school, residency, medical missions, and whatever else strikes my fancy. Oh yeah, and I like to use GIFs!
Disclaimer:
HIPAA is for reals, folks. All of my "patient stories" have been changed to protect patient privacy. I will change any or all identifiers, including age, location, race/ethnicity, sex, medical history, and quotes.
I like to highlight the hilarious in medicine as I write about patients, medical school, residency, medical missions, and whatever else strikes my fancy. Oh yeah, and I like to use GIFs!
Disclaimer:
HIPAA is for reals, folks. All of my "patient stories" have been changed to protect patient privacy. I will change any or all identifiers, including age, location, race/ethnicity, sex, medical history, and quotes.
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Posts tagged "med quotes"
If you don’t touch pubic hair, you’re doing it wrong.
clinical skills professor explaining how to check for a femoral pulse
A while back I started gettin’ the bronchitis. My daughter told me to go to the doctor but I didn’t feel like getting dressed to go out, so I ate me summa dat Vick’s salve and put dat sweet oil in my ears and bathed in some turpentine. You’on know bout that turpentine. But I felt better tho.
patient giving me cold remedy advice
- Gus* was a patient I had on psych who had Wernicke's aphasia. I went to see him every morning even though he couldn't communicate.
- Me: How are you doing today Gus?
- Gus: Eggs!
- Me: I see your eggs. Were they good this morning?
- Gus: Eggs!
- Me: Ok then. Do you know what today is?
- Gus: Eggs!
- Me: Gus, who is the president?
- Gus: Eggs!
- For four whole days, his response to every question was Eggs. At table rounds, his name would come up, and I'd just answer "Eggs." Eventually my attending told me to stop seeing him every day.
- *name changed
mymanthevan Asks:
Heh, I'm curious which edition of Robbins you're looking at. I just looked up the Chemical and Infectious Esophagitis section which has the exact quote minus the "hot tea in Iran" bit.
wayfaringmd Said:
7th edition. There’s another quote from that edition I like that has also been removed. I need to find it so I can post it.
While I was reading about the esophagus in my pathology book, I came across the following statement:
“Esophageal inflammation may have many origins, as follows: Ingestion of mucosal irritants such as alcohol, corrosive acids or alkalis (in suicide attempts), excessively hot fluids (e.g., hot tea…
A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease.
- A student at my school told me this story the other day. She got a little frustrated with a teenage patient who was there for a pregnancy test. The test was positive. She was a G6 (Gravida 6, meaning she's been pregnant 6 times). The conversation got a bit out of hand.
- Student: Ma'am, why do you keep getting pregnant?
- Ms. G6 (clearly disinterested): I don't know, cuz my coochie was HOT!
Doc, this patient doesn’t need antibiotics. He has gram negatives and gram positives in his blood, so they cancel each other out, right?
Question from a nurse (who obviously doesn’t have much infectious disease experience), overheard by one of my classmates.
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
Daniel Mason, physician and author (via klbyrd)
(via purplequeens)
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering
The viruses that cause infectious rhinitis, or the common cold, “evoke a profuse catarrhal discharge that is familiar to all and the bane of the kindergarten teacher.
Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease.
Oh Robbins, I love when you try to add wit to descriptions of diseases.
(via drshutterbug)
Ever notice that biochemists always come up with the most romantic names for things?
Professor jokes about the naming of Niemann-Pick C1 Like 1 cholesterol transporter. (via medicalstate)
Hand Dropping Test in Pseudocoma:
When a patient is truly in a coma and their hand is released directly above their face, their hand should strike their face on its way down.
Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.
As if every one has never tried this on their sleeping younger siblings… I laughed out loud when I read it.
(via drshutterbug)
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Harvey Cushing
The continued successful evolution of family practice as a foundation of primary care in the United States is essential to extend the highest possible quality of care to the entire population at a cost that can be afforded in a society with limited resources for health care.
