22
June
2006
June
2006
I need to have my ears checked
Talking to an epileptic patient today, he being one meter from me:
“So what medicine do you have prescribed for your condition?”
“Epilepsy”
(smiling) “Sir, that’s the name of your illness .. I was asking for the medicine’s name”
“Yeah, epilepsy.”
“Listen, I’m fairly sure there’s no medicine named like that. May I see the pills’foil?”
He pulls out the foil.
“See? That’s not Epilepsy, it’s Finlepsin.”
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you the whole time.”
To my defense, the two sound incredibly alike and the guy had false teeth . But still, I might have scored some idiot points in a certain patient’s mind. And in yours too now, gentle readers.
I’ve got a really keen sense of hearing. I can hear some noises that others can’t. However for some odd reason I have the hardest time distinguishing words sometimes. It’s quite annoying and has nothing to do with intelligence. At least that’s what I tell myself.
And you didn’t even have a lack of water to blame for the need to clean your ears! Time for some bumbac on a stick.
It’s hard to argue with logic huh?
Came here by way of the scatterbrained (her words, btw) Geeky dragon girl. She’s a sweetheart.
See?
That’s why you doctors have nurses like me to take all that information! We all know that doctors never hear anything except what they want to hear anyway!
Heh. Nurse humor. Sorry.
Got here from GDG! Nice place!
CP.
GDG - Tell me about it. It’s not the not hearing - it’s the not distinguishing.
Romerican - no cottonstick will help this, trust me.
CP - may I say, to my defense, that Dana A (the nurse) heard epilepsy too?
I used to have such excellent hearing, but now I’m much more forgiving of others, because mine is declining (along with the rest of me). You should be promptly forgiven.
Miss Cellania - I just hope the patient thinks the same