A few days ago, I overheard a conversation at work. One of the other medical students was speaking to my research mentor’s secretary, and the gist of the conversation, to which both the medical student and the secretary seemed to agree, was this: “I try to avoid going to teaching hospitals for my medical care [...]
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010Vulgar medical mnemonics
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Me: So if you’ll lie back, I’m going to listen to your heart. Patient: Like this? Me: Yes, that’s fine. It’ll just take a few seconds. Me: (Remember: a pervert touched me… a pervert touched me…) Sir, I think there might be something wrong with your perv– err… pulmonary valve. Patient: …what did you say? [...]
