Thursday, November 11, 2010

Disease of the week

I got excited the other day because I peered over a doctor's shoulder at a patient's notes, and saw that one of their previous illnesses listed was ELEPHANTIASIS.

Wow!  What are the odds of that?  I started looking at the patient, trying to figure out which bit of them was affected.  Hmm.  They looked normal enough to me.  So I glanced back at the notes.

ELEPHANTIASIS?  No - BLEPHARITIS.  Inflamed eyelid.  How dull.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

big nuts

Anonymous said...

I always check for truncal ataxia when considering a diagnosis of elephantiasis

PTR said...

You are both idiots but in quite different ways.

Anonymous said...

It it said that sufferers of elephantiasis never forget their appointments

PTR said...

I'm going to have to take you to tusk, Anonymous, for dropping all the terrible puns.

Anonymous said...

You also have to check their skin for pachydermatitis.

Oh yes, that just happened.

PTR said...

Howdah heck do you keep coming up with these puns?

Anonymous said...

Nice one, I like it. Anyway, I musth get back to study, exams coming up apparently

PTR said...

You're obviously enjoying your study far too much. I need to make sure my hair looks repectable on Saturday for the osce so I'm off to the babar.

Anonymous said...

Like I said earlier, I should get back to study. Ivory'll bad feeling about these exams.

I think I just scraped a hole in the bottom of the barrel.

PTR said...

Aaaargh! You win!