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I'm just curious.
This happened on my family medicine clerkship but I think it's worth sharing.
A patient started off her encounter by telling me her daughter is a former beauty queen, then tells me her daughter complains that the only men who ever flirt with her are blacks and Muslims, and somewhere in the conversation she slips in the fact that her daughter is a virgin. When I was finishing the encounter, she made the comment that her daughter needs to remember there are good white men who are doctors.
Just won the thread, Jesus Christ that's messed up.Had a preceptor (pediatrician) get busted for child pornography. The guy didn't let off even the smallest creeper vibe and never seemed to do anything even remotely innapropriate with or to the kids. I was legitimately shocked when it happened, as was everyone else in the office.
A few patient encounters with the new preceptor (one of the partners in the office) were super awkward. He'd get questions like "I feel like I should get to know you better than I did Dr. Pedophile, what's your favorite thing to do outside of work?" "What type of stuff do you like to look up online?"
Legit questions from a rightfully freaked out patient base, but super awkward for the partners.
Patient's parents also kept asking me if I had any inkling something was going on with the other doctor before he was busted. You don't know how hard it was to keep back the sarcasm on that. Like I wouldn't have alerted someone if I had any reason to think there was anything like that going on.
Just won the thread, Jesus Christ that's messed up.
Yep and this was an elective Peds rotation that I set up myself. The guy wasn't expected to teach students, he did it completely voluntarily.
He was listed as a preceptor at my state MD school; they were quick to distance themselves from him and point out he hadn't taught any of their students.
I'm still pissed off that he agreed to take me, I asked if any of the partners would be willing and he was the one who agreed. If you're doing that $&@% you shouldn't be taking students; you shouldn't even be in practice. As far as I'm concerned you should strap a concrete block to your feet and jump in a lake. Especially as a pediatrician! We even did a suspected abuse evaluation on one little boy, how could that guy live with himself knowing that he is involved in something that directly causes the abuse of children?
I'm just lucky one of the other pediatricians in the office was willing to finish up the rotation with me, it could have been ugly trying to sort the logistics of a ¾ finished rotation and no preceptor available to evaluate me.
The guy wasn't expected to teach students, he did it completely voluntarily.
How do you respond to that?Walking in on patients masturbating. Has happened three times now.
Changed.
I had someone try to claim that Botox would be covered by their insurance to treat their depression. That was an interesting encounter.
Walking in on patients masturbating. Has happened three times now.
Walking in on patients masturbating. Has happened three times now.
When i was a med student, many a year ago, I was on a fairly busy trauma service. We had essentially one night over 2 months where nothing significant came in, which was a miracle. Then about 3:30am the Chief Resident comes pounding on the door, obviously irritated. He says "High Priest..." (Well, he didn't call me that, but you get it) "You ever done an anoscopy??"
Of course, the socially acceptable answer is no.
"Well, you're going to do one tonight, get your $#!T"
So it turns out that a few hours prior, a repeat offender had come to the ER. She was a morbidly (375lbs) obese lady with significant medical problems (psyche and otherwise). She was well known for shoving things in her bum and then coming to the hospital to get them removed (Universal remote, a handful of silverware, what-have-you). This time she had put a fluorescent light bulb in her bum, and it had broken. So we had to check her out. The Chief was angry because of the hour, the break in a nearly perfect night, and due to the fact that he had removed the silverware and the remote on previous nights past.
So we go to the OR, we scope her. There's nothing to be found. She gets admitted. By the time we're out, it's time to round on our 20-something patient trauma service. We get to her room last. The chief says "High Priest, you come with me, you were in the OR. The rest of you wait here." He's obviously still a bit angry. We walk into the room, she's having breakfast and smiling until he opens with:
"Why'd you put glass in your @$$?"
She's staring, slack jawed.
"You know, in any other country in the world, if you put glass in your @$$ they would think "Well, you must have wanted it there," and they'd let you keep it. Only in America do we repeatedly take care of you so that you can stick more stuff up your @$$ and keep coming back. (He was born outside of the US). The next time you get the urge to stick something up your @$$, stick it in your vagina instead. You'll do less damage that way."
Then he heel spins, walks out, makes the "washing my hands" motion and says "Now she's OB/GYNs problem."
2 hours later she had stuck sharpened pencils in her vagina, and we transferred her to the GYN service.
I am died.I can't stop laughing. I can't stop!!!
This is why you never make assumptions.I was an intern and my resident and I were evaluating a very masculine looking woman in the ER. My resident asked, "Are you originally a woman?" to which the patient replies, "Excuse me?!"" So he says, "I mean, were you born a woman or are you transsexual?" The patient says, "I have PCOS"
Oh it was so awkward.....
When I was a well-intentioned but extremely naive if not outright stupid teenager, I congratulated an acquaintance on her pregnancy. I immediately learned she was not and never had been pregnant. I felt so bad, but she probably felt far worse. Yes, bashwell = idiot.I was an intern and my resident and I were evaluating a very masculine looking woman in the ER. My resident asked, "Are you originally a woman?" to which the patient replies, "Excuse me?!"" So he says, "I mean, were you born a woman or are you transsexual?" The patient says, "I have PCOS"
Oh it was so awkward.....
Never ever comment on a pregnancy unless she is in labor. I can't even imagine how embarrassing that must have beenWhen I was a well-intentioned but extremely naive if not outright stupid teenager, I congratulated an acquaintance on her pregnancy. I immediately learned she was not and never had been pregnant. I felt so bad, but she probably felt far worse. Yes, bashwell = idiot.
For an elective?I'm just lucky one of the other pediatricians in the office was willing to finish up the rotation with me, it could have been ugly trying to sort the logistics of a ¾ finished rotation and no preceptor available to evaluate me.
For an elective?
Naw, that should be an easy solution for any rotations department worth their salt. Seriously, the answer is a week of 'self directed study' and an administrative honors or high pass.
How do you respond to that?
Buddy was a resident on the Coronary Care Unit. Trying to rush through pre-rounds, he asks the med student to verify if their patient was on home O2.
Nervous third-year comes back a couple minutes later, looking a bit flustered. "Sir, the patient is a heterosexual."
Every day after that, someone would sneak "patient is a heterosexual" while presenting cases to the attending, who would look puzzled but drive on.
Deleted, decided against the story.
Holy f***ing s**tHad a patient when I was an intern at the VA. Old guy 70 or 80. First time talking to him he was short and rude to me. Didn't want to answer my questions or let me examine him. I had an inkling why. Then when my senior and medstudent comes and we go in together and he is the sweetest thing ever. Kind, talkative, eye contact with senior and student while completely ignoring me. Like night and day with me vs. them. I was disgusted and walked out. Told the senior outside the room that the old bastard was racist and I didn't want to see him anymore. Med student says that as soon as I walked out he said he didn't like no N......r touching him, don't care if she is a doctor!
As s hole!. Well, one less patient for me!!!
Another one as the patient.
Note: in real life, especially at the time this occurred during my jr year in h.s. I was very very shy and quiet. Also you probably could only get me to sing in front of anyone by forcing me at gunpoint.
So I'm lying in the preop area waiting to go in for surgery. My mom was sitting next to me and the anesthesiologist walks in and asks "how are you feeling"
I said, "pretty nervous actually"
He starts injecting something into the IV and goes, "don't worry, this stuff will make the walls move"
A few minutes later I'm staring up at the ceiling past the IV bag going "drip, drip, drip, drip"
Mom: what are you doing?
Me: counting the drops ...drip, drip, drip......you know I kinda feel like singing the Oscar Meier wiener song...
Alarm from blanket warmer sounds. Someone walks by with an empty bed with ruffled blankets
Me (with a horrified look): uh oh! Somebody didn't make it .......*giggling with no idea why*
Anesthesiologist swings by again: so how are you feeling now? Any better?
Me: yeah!! *more giggling* what is this stuff?
Anesth.: ...Illegal.
Were you on a versed drip while typing this out?
that's your weirdest? just sounds like you are in med school somewhere in the South.Here is mine. During my family med clerkship, I saw a female patient who came in for routine health maintenance visit. She is a 30 something years old sweet, tall and large black lady. When I finished the encounter and came back with my receptor she said to my preceptor about me "Oh my God, he is sooo cute. I just want to take him home, put him on my couch and dress him up like a doll." I am a skinny 5'7 Asian guy.
Nope. I am only MSIV so that's all I got haha.that's your weirdest? just sounds like you are in med school somewhere in the South.