Yesterday my patient said to me, “I got fucked by the snake tip. It was waving a flag.” He then shifted his head toward me, looked directly into my eyes, and while grinning said, “Yeah that’s right, you know what I mean. We got fucked by the snake tip. You know what I’m talking about, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘physiology’
June 26, 2008
your poor liver
Very few things you learn about in medical school are worthy of "normal people" conversations. No one, including me, cares about gluconeogenesis. Who, other than a med student, will appreciate an electon micrograph of a podocyte. When it comes to our insides, people grimace when you talk about bile caniculi and want [...]
