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

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, last year I got a surprise!Pap smear. (Appointment for something else turned into "As long as you're here ...") And yeah, I tend to put off doctors who are trying to be all professional and serious by trying to, you know, participate in my own exam. I commentate and make ridiculous faces and ask what's going on and check to see what tools are being used next.

I think most patients are nervous about the exams, and thus the doctors are, too. The professional demeanor assures the patient that the doctor is competent and is taking them seriously. It's just that some of us patients respond differently ...

[shadesofmauve]

and check to see what tools are being used next.

I mostly do this at the dental office, where there's the added bonus that "Hey, what's that thing you're about to stick in my mouth do?" comes out like "EEeyyy, ah a ing ooo?" which confuses the poor hygienist.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Really? I thought being able to understand somebody through a mouthful of frightening bladed machinery was an essential skill for dentists. All of my dentists have always at least pretended I was replying coherently.