Trying To Act Like A Professional

Imagine you're seeing a 58-yr-old patient in clinic for the first time who is having problems with chronic hip pain.  He is very tan, and his weathered face slightly resembles Mel Brooks.

You are, of course, sympathetic to his pain, and you conduct a thorough exam which finds that his symptoms are consistent with a R hip bursitis with tenderness to palpation at the greater trochanter.  You want to offer a steroid injection into the bursa for pain relief, but you are becoming increasingly more distracted by this patient's...hair.

He has amazingly shiny and very dark hair, styled in a manner that looks a bit like this wig, but in a much deeper shade of brown:

The distraction becomes overwhelming, and you step out of the room briefly, run into a colleague who looks at you quizzically, and, unable to suppress the inevitable burst of glee, you whisper furtively, "I've got a 58-yr-old male with Prince Valiant hair!"