Anonymous Doc

[laconicsax]

http://anondoc.blogspot.com/2011/03/doctor-im-telling-you-i-have-bad.html

Thrill as a patient insists that his leg pain is actually kidney pain!

...

"That's not where your kidneys are."

"Mine are there. I have bad kidneys."

"Not your kidneys. You have leg pain."

"No, it's my kidneys. I take special pills from Venezuela for them every day for three years."

...

:rofl: It's like going over to Health.

[Warpy]

1. Then there are the constipated people with left lower quadrant aching

who are so absolutely convinced it's a burst appendix that they actually start spiking fevers. There is no way to tell them their appendix lives on the other side, either.

The only thing you can do is tell them the laxatives and oil retention enemas are standard procedure before surgery.

Gawd.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. A tiny number of people do have everything reversed.

[Warpy]

3. However, the abdominal ultrasound has already ruled that out.

Hospital professionals aren't totally ignorant chumps, you know.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I thought you were speaking very generally about constipated people.