Having spent my share of time in the cash extraction chamber
of many hospitals, this one was among the best, albeit populated by people whose grasp of the obvious was tenuous at best.
“take off your clothes and put themin the closet there’
“all of them?”
“yes, everything.”
“Um..”
“What?”
“It’s my hands. They’re operating on my hands”
“we still need you naked. I’ll leave the room if you’re..”
“Look. I have zero modesty. If you’d like to see my wedding tackle, just ask, I’m only too happy to show it to you. But theyre operaing on my HANDS. I have a shortsleeved shirt, I shouldnt even have to take THAT off”
“no, you have to be naked, those are the rules”
“And after this, when I’m naked, and both of my hands are effectively giant tootsie Pops, will you be pulling up my underdrawers for me?”
“No, we will leave you so you can dress yourself”
“…”
The medical profession may have something of a clue as to how to cure people, but what they have in skill they lack, utterly, in common sense.
I have always liked to say
“common sense, isn’t” I just usually think of it when describing my older sisters.
I posted recently about my wife’s episode in the ICU last week. I talked the Dr and nurse into reducing her sedatives so her blood pressure would come up. It worked. They said I was a smart guy. That’s scary.
They wouldn’t release her until I demanded, after a full day of not seeing a doctor and being fully recovered (motel mode).
She told her neurologist the above, to which she replied that it was a good thing I was there.
My opinion of hospital medical care has dwindled.
Glad you’re mending.
That was a lot of typing for that post…
That’s a good indication.
My grandpa had an infection on the edge of his thumbnail that turned gangrenous. The doctor decided to amputate at the first knuckle. My grandpa said, “If you do that, how will I button my shirt?” The doc couldn’t see an alternative until Grandpa suggested that he just cut away half of the last joint (split on a vertical line through the thumbnail) so that he would be left with enough of a thumb to push the button through the hole.
Sometimes I think that only TV doctors think outside of their box.