I recall a doctor telling me, at the age of 25, 'that's a big word for a little girl to use' when I told him I had dermagraphism. I was too stunned to really give my reply the snark he deserved.
When I was about 32 and a grad student at Johns Hopkins, I had severe back spasms and was referred to the head of sports medicine there (en route to an eventual physical therapist, who did wonders). This late-middle-aged male doctor -- who had with him a younger male trainee doctor who was supposed to observe and learn from the great man -- did some screening to make sure I actually had a back injury rather than, y'know, spinal cancer or whatever: did I have tingling or numbness elsewhere, etc. And as we sat in chairs facing each other, he gestured vaguely toward my groin and asked, "Do you have any trouble with your -- goodies?"
I KID YOU NOT.
I did manage to say, "Is that what they taught you in medical school?"
dragojustine, you were a lot more generous to the Home Depot guy than I think I would have been. But then, I'm a lot closer to his age!
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Date: 2008-06-25 01:49 pm (UTC)When I was about 32 and a grad student at Johns Hopkins, I had severe back spasms and was referred to the head of sports medicine there (en route to an eventual physical therapist, who did wonders). This late-middle-aged male doctor -- who had with him a younger male trainee doctor who was supposed to observe and learn from the great man -- did some screening to make sure I actually had a back injury rather than, y'know, spinal cancer or whatever: did I have tingling or numbness elsewhere, etc. And as we sat in chairs facing each other, he gestured vaguely toward my groin and asked, "Do you have any trouble with your -- goodies?"
I KID YOU NOT.
I did manage to say, "Is that what they taught you in medical school?"