Med Glossary, Part 5
"I thought nothing of it."
As in, "I had this pain that shot up from my hip bone to my left ear, and I thought nothing of it, but then I got this tingly sensation in my right pinky so I decided I'd better go to the ER."
What he really means is,
1) I've been worrying about that 5 second pain constantly ever since it happened. And see how swollen my hands are? And what is this coating on my tongue?
2) My auntie just had a stroke, and I don't want to die. The doctor told her there was nothing wrong with her too.
3) On the internet I read that shooting pains on the left side can be signs of a heart attack.
4) I'm out of my Xanax. I fired my doctor last month and he won't refill it.
5) This is labor day weekend, and I have plans. Can I get a work excuse?
Have a great holiday, everybody!
Previous glossary entries here.
As in, "I had this pain that shot up from my hip bone to my left ear, and I thought nothing of it, but then I got this tingly sensation in my right pinky so I decided I'd better go to the ER."
What he really means is,
1) I've been worrying about that 5 second pain constantly ever since it happened. And see how swollen my hands are? And what is this coating on my tongue?
2) My auntie just had a stroke, and I don't want to die. The doctor told her there was nothing wrong with her too.
3) On the internet I read that shooting pains on the left side can be signs of a heart attack.
4) I'm out of my Xanax. I fired my doctor last month and he won't refill it.
5) This is labor day weekend, and I have plans. Can I get a work excuse?
Have a great holiday, everybody!
Previous glossary entries here.
Labels: glossary
posted by scalpel at 1:40 PM
26 Comments:
My auntie just had a stroke, and I don't want to die.
In the case of survival, a stroke concentrates the mind wonderfully, as Doctor Johnson said of the prospect of hanging.
"So keep thinking nothing of it" would be the recommended physician response.
What is this work excuse nonsense? What kind of a job would care about such a thing?
6) My wife was the one who insisted I come down here tonight.
Tired of treating patients, are we?
We're going to perform a bilateral orchiectomy without anesthesia and your fucking finger won't hurt a bit after that.
It was a privilege to treat you in our Emergency Department and we look forward to attending any further medical needs you might have in the future.
"It is all his fault", as he points to the cop at the door of the exam room. "The cop hit me over the head with the butt of his gun"...did I mention it was when he pulled me out of a meth house.
These words scare me!
Two months of no posts, Scalpel would you like me guest write some posts for you?
LOL Great post. Made me laugh here.
Just started my own site and am checking out other med blogs. I'll be following.
New to this blog, I must say, interesting testimonials you have here.
Love your blog.
Happy and Blessed New Year Scalpel. I miss your posts. :)
Thought I'd stop by to see if you had a "for sale" sign up. Nope, no sign but your grass is getting little high.
-SCNS
Busy busy busy. I don't even read other blogs much anymore. Hopefully things will slow down and I can resume posting, but it will be a while yet.
Thanks for checking in.
Good. How about some more, "In the kitchen with Scalpel" when you post again? I'm tooling around thru your old stuff. It's winter, I feel like cooking.
-SCNS
this is very true indeed, don't trust everything on the internet folks :-)
Pretty good post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say that I’ve really enjoyed reading your blog posts. In any case I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!
I just stumbled upon your blog this past week and I have to say that I love it!! As an ER nurse I can appreciate your cynical humor and enjoy every word of it! :c)
"I have this spider bite on my leg and now I can't see from it!" "Everything is blurred and I am seeing double" REALLY!!! Could it be the meth that your drug screen came up positive for???
Love, love, love the humor. But I long to see new posts from you.
lol. I love it when that statement serves as an alibi and an excuse to be absent, eh.
Where ARE you Scalpel?!
Come back ..you are missed.
I hope you are alright and just happily busy in life. :)
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I'll keep this short based on the date of the last post. You may be retired by now as most good physicians seem to be doing so nowadays. I'll read the posts I can and be entertained. If I never see these posts public I'll assume you read them and kept them to yourself because I'm an eternal optimist. I didn't check any dates until five minutes ago. Either way I hope you'll return to your blog and get some sponsors because you seem to have a community of loyal readers and the sense that isn't common to most doctors. If you're elsewhere on the WWW or have a private practice near Dallas please email me: sixtynineinchnail@hotmail.com. Good luck and thanks for the laughs.
Nick
It seems that no matter what a patient's complaint is, he/she just wants a work note. Just an observation.
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