Great Mexican Smokeout
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Loading ...Started community medicine again today, but this time, I have a little bit all semester rather than a concentrated dose. I’ll write more about it later (pretty exhausted right now and have to get up at 5:30 tomorrow AM), but I had to share this one absolutely true story:
(patient comes in for asthma/asthma-like symptoms, wheezing present)
“So how long have you had this problem?”
“Off and on for a while, but it’s been worse the last two weeks”
“Do you smoke?”
(look of horror) “Oh no! I actually was a regular smoker, but I stopped smoking already–too many problems.”
“Excellent!” I say. “How long has it been since you quit?”
“One week.”
Well that takes care of that! Now to find the hidden cause that is exacerbating her bronchoconstriction… *eyeroll*
Update: see comments for explanation of boldface above
Humor, Medical and Health | enrico | 
January 24, 2006 11:45 pm
By Raul Benavides, January 26, 2006 @ 2:01 pm
it gets better
wait until you get the guy who quit… when?, upon questioning?
earlier today!
yes, it did happen
By Anonymous, January 26, 2006 @ 7:03 pm
you misspelled
you misspelled “athsma”……its actually spelled asthma. *eyeroll* *spellcheck*
By enrico, January 26, 2006 @ 9:18 pm
Free time
I am envious of all your free time and energy. Thanks for the heads-up; it’s been corrected.