Tuesday, October 03, 2006

I was in gynae theatre this morning, watching tension-free vaginal tapes for the control of stress incontinence being fitted under spinal anaesthesia. One patient was in for her fourth gynae op for incontinence, poor woman. When he was finished, the consultant began talking to the patient, telling her how it had gone. He seemed confident he had improved her situation. He leaned over the screen and said to her:

‘It was difficult, as you have been so messed about by other operations that your anatomy is completely different to normal. When you cough, I cannot predict what your vagina will do.’

Then he pointed across to me, perched on a stool next to the patient’s head and said:

‘That young woman, I could predict exactly what her vagina would do it she coughed.’

Cue strangulated noises from me and gales of laughter from the theatre staff…

5 comments:

Marysienka said...

Hahaha!!! So funny!!!

Anonymous said...

Yow, I'd think that that would go straight to the professionalism committee here! :)

Anna said...

the daft thing is, i went back to the stupid common room and loudly told the story to my housemate, who's a third year at the same hospital.

half way through, i realised the whole room had gone very quiet and the third years were all listening...then all laughing!

(great to see you back tall medstudent, where have you been hiding?)

Marysienka said...

LoL I love hospital "situations". They're just too funny to hear :-) Makes the job even better ;)

Anonymous said...

I didn't realize that I'd gone anywhere! :) I guess I'm keeping busy these days...