Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Patient quote of the day

"I have high blood pressure. But it's not high high. Usually it's low high or moderate high, sometimes low-high-high. Being really high high is rare."
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11 comments:

  1. PackerJanuary 10, 2012 at 4:37 PM

    Numbers we understand, not so much the foreign languages.

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  2. SuFu PhDJanuary 10, 2012 at 4:40 PM

    sounds like how i describe my blood sugars.

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  3. OMDGJanuary 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM

    You mock, but that's basically what they teach us in med school. Only we have numbers to go along with the various categories.

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  4. Whelk Lad!January 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM

    "Except when I'm in Amsterdam."

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  5. MockingbirdJanuary 10, 2012 at 7:20 PM

    I'll bet his artisnal level is low low.
    Tis a pity.

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  6. A Doc 2 BeJanuary 10, 2012 at 7:48 PM

    Amsterdam or medicinal use in Cali...

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2012 at 8:49 PM

    This is why people should be taught basic medical terminology in high school...

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2012 at 9:24 PM

    Hi-de-hi-de-ho, gonna get me a piece of the sky... (apologies to Blood Sweat & Tears)

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  9. Technically InsaneJanuary 10, 2012 at 10:27 PM

    hahaha, poor thing..

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  10. StMarcJanuary 11, 2012 at 9:20 AM

    I did not know that Whoopi Goldberg was one of your patients. Or that she was hypertensive.

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  11. Sarah GlennJanuary 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM

    Unfortunately, I understood that line. That's what happens when you live in Kentucky.

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So wadda you think?