I’ve been very busy with work this week (ten-hour days, inter-departmental acrimony, etc.) so haven’t had a chance to write about any of the several things that are in my mental queue. But I had to pass this on before I forget it.
A co-worker went into the hospital yesterday for a heart catheterization procedure. The doctors were checking out a suspected blockage near the heart and also in an artery leading to the kidneys (a kidney? whatever).
So he’s lying on the table about to be wheeled into the operating room. The procedure is done with only local anaesthesia, so he’ll be awake.
As they’re taking him away, his wife says “Now, be sure to remind them to look at the kidney, too.”
He snorts, rolls his eyes, etc. “Oh, come on, these people know what they’re doing, they don’t need me to remind them.”
When they’re done, they wheel him back out, and the doctor starts telling them what he found (nothing to worry about, happily). And the wife says, “And what about the kidney?”
Doctor: “Uh…oh yeah.”
And they wheel him back in to look at the kidney.
(Which was also fine, by the way.)
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