Mr. Fallz: "Yes. My brother is 3 years older than me, and my sister is 7 years older than me. So I guess both my siblings are older than me. My parents are also older than me."
27 minutes ago
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
What the hell?
Mr. Fallz: "Yes. My brother is 3 years older than me, and my sister is 7 years older than me. So I guess both my siblings are older than me. My parents are also older than me."
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You know, the more I see these, Doc, the more I think the problem is between the ears and the brain.
Hearing loss of some kind is not only for the elderly. Have you tried, when you get these non-sequitur-like answers, immediately asking, "What question did I just ask you?"
You might find out more about your patient. [or you might find out that one of your commentors should just STFU :-).]
Admit him.
Moose- I do that. Whenever I get a weird answer I always repeat the question and ask if they heard me okay.
Okay, fess up, Doc? What kind of MD are you really? LOL! How do you do it?
I believe he heard: "Does oldness run in your family?"
Not exactly illness, but close.
Too funny! Thanks, this just made my day!
Dr Grumpy -- I actually suggest you turn it around: instead of repeating the question, you ask THEM what they heard. If you repeat it it gives them the 'out' of brushing off a problem. If you ask them to repeat it back to you and you get something weird back, at the least it might indicate a hearing problem. At the worst, well, might it indicate the brain isn't doing it's usual job?
Or maybe I should just go back to the STFU option :-).
[the captcha word is GLYTIO, which is Remote Mountain Italian for "STFU, Moose" :-P]
"I have SAT-math-problem-itis. Which of the four drugs below is the correct prescription for me- (a), (b), (c), or (d)?"
while i like Moose's approach - there is no question i can think of which would logically require an answer such as the patient gave!
I will say one thing positive about your patients ... they do provide an endless amount of blog fodder ...
I am looking forward to learning the stellar-quality poker face skill set that *must* come with being a doc. Because let me tell you, I don't really have them quite down from being a parent. At what point in your education do you think you developed your poker face? Did it require surgical intervention to unhook facial tendons and ligaments or just a heck of a lot of Botox?
And they are both on Aricept too....
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