Sometimes clinic staff will bring in a homemade treat to share with everyone. Today it was a beautiful and impressively large blackberry cobbler baked in a cast iron pan. Most of us managed to nibble on it intermittently throughout the morning, but it wasn't until 11:30 that the pharmacy assistant sidled up to me and whispered, "Everyone who ate the cobbler has blue teeth!" I surreptitiously glanced at my mouth in the nearest mirror, and lo & behold--my teeth had freakishly taken on the same shade as the blue sclera of osteogenesis imperfecta.
The nurse practitioner tells me that some of the older aunties of the town have been gossiping that Dr Chan "doesn't touch patients". I'm not sure what that means--could they be referring to my habit of donning latex gloves before coming into contact with bodily fluids (e.g. during a bimanual exam, while palpating a lesion on someone's buccal mucosa, or while lancing an abscess)?? Because that's called taking universal precautions. The lab tech joked that I should do trigger point injections by administering the lidocaine & kenalog via blowdart, instead of the usual syringe with 27-gauge needle, so I can continue "not touching patients".
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Physical exams are overrated! Ha!! Love the town gossip!
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