Monday, February 13, 2012

History Taking

When we are visiting wards, the doctors always make us take patients' history.
It's either the Czech healthcare really stresses on history taking or it is always lunchtime, which means everything else has been taken care of in the morning.
As if that is not enough, we speak minimal Czech and the warded Czechs mostly doesn't speak anglicky.

Anyway, there's this one day where I went to surgery ward and interviewed this merry middle aged man postop.
Any allergy? - Communist.
What are these bruises on your lower abdomen? - *lengthy explanation in difficult Czech*
Uhuh? Well is it insulin injection?, we asked.
He grabbed the newspaper, borrowed my pen and drew a drawing version of his belly and a syringe.
Halfway from passing the drawing to us, he put it back in place and proceed to add some character to the drawing-ball and phallus.
I tried to keep a straight face and tried to think about positive thing ~he just want to orientate the picture since it was just belly and syringe before.
Anyway, the bruises is indeed from insulin injection.
Thank you very much for the effort to draw us an explanation picture, Pan Obraz.

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