Autobiographical Limerick: My Achilles Heel

[bloodyrosemccoy]

No Pants Day
Robert's Rules Day
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Day - Israel)
Birthday - Dr. Benjamin Spock (pediatrician/author)

 

If I greet your request with defiance

One way to assure my compliance:

Say what you ask will discern

Something we need to learn.

Chances are that I’ll do it FOR SCIENCE!

 

If something may help further knowledge, I can be suckered into it pretty easily.  For example, if you are going to give me a pelvic exam* and tell me you’ve got a student who needs some practical experience and would it be okay if she came in and it’s totally fine if it isn’t, I am in charge and don’t think otherwise, I will give you the go ahead and wonder why you looked so terrified while you asked.  Even after this term’s study of the way modern medicine can be so invasive, I am the zen patient. Doctors are more nervous about my personal space than I am.

 

Comes from being the TMI Queen, I guess.

 

I am slightly cheeky about it, though.  When the doctor said, “I’m just going to be talking to this student, okay?” I replied, “Okay. Maybe I can even listen in!” Except I also provided a running commentary on what she was telling her student.

 

 

*I have got to stop setting myself up for surprise exams of this nature. This time it went: “Hello! I have symptoms! Can I get in to see someone?” “Sure. That’s the sort of thing we give you a nice pelvic exam for, so we will set up an appointment. How does RIGHT THIS INSTANT sound?”

Comments

[shadesofmauve]

Your limerick is begging to be meta-d. May I?

Last time I had a student sit in in a pelvic exam, she was from Bulgaria, AND I kept making her giggle. Rather discomfited the doc.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Why, sure! Go for it.

Yeah, patients are apparently supposed to shut the hell up. "Quiet, you! The doctor is at work!" Or maybe they're just not used to patients who aren't hervous at the very mention of the unmentionables.

[shadesofmauve]

Done!

Taking an active interest in your own health and/or body just isn't expected (occasionally appreciated, but never expected). Bodies have, like, goo in them.

I cracked my ob-gyn up once by telling her that my work day had been so bad that I'd actually been looking forward to her and her speculum. It's really funny to watch a very professional person who's not sure whether or not it's okay to laugh.