bloodyrosemccoy | Autobiographical Limerick: My Achilles Heel

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?”