Thursday, June 2, 2016

Relationships

This was scribbled on a patient info sheet, apparently from someone confused over their family who's who.



Which, of course, brings to mind this song...

12 comments:

Moose said...

I was expecting the link to go to "I'm My Own Grandpa," but that makes more sense.

Powers said...

I expected the same as Moose.

In fairness, "Mother--Son" is an accurate bilateral description of the relationship, like "Husband--Wife" or "Cousins". The form, of course, was asking for a unilateral descriptor.

Yoko Drāno said...

Clearly, these are the days of gender fluidity.

Rob said...

I was thinking "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pa5H_4lBXs

Kai said...

I have to admit I was expecting "I'm My Own Grandpa" too.

Anonymous said...

Mother divided by son?

clairesmum said...

I was also expecting 'My Own Grandpa"...tom Lehrer made me laugh out loud..but then I had TWO simultaneous earworms going for a while..felt like I had tuned in to the sound track of a sitcom family therapy session!
Thanks, I think, Dr. Grumpy!

Anonymous said...

The answer to this question eludes me too. Often when I am looking at the 'contact' and see the answer to the relationship between the person mentioned since it doesn't have a date of birth, I wonder which is the 'child' or 'parent'. I guess it doesn't matter much when whoever is mentioned is the contact.

It took me a while to figure out which button to press on the elevator, too, the 'up' or the 'down', but then I was in the basement and there was only one button to push.

Anonymous said...

Self-policing grammar ... I mean (anonymous at 3:07) .. it doesn't really matter in the generic record as to the answer is 'child' or 'parent' in the the situation for whom someone just wants a name of a contact. Still, I think that it could be worded a little differently such as 'relationship TO the patient'

Lizard said...

it makes me unreasonably happy that I knew exactly what song it was going to be.

Anonymous said...

Or, what happens when two members of the family decide to share one insurance card.

Sarah Glenn said...

As a Lehrer fan, this was the first song I thought of. You did not disappoint. :-D

 
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