Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Job Hazard

There's a hazard associated with being in a medical profession.  That hazard is your always assessing people.  Therapist is constantly watching how people walk, assessing their gait and movement, whispering to me what she thinks may be wrong with them, and what physical therapy they might need.  Being an EMT, I also catch myself inadvertently assessing people's coughs, or their appearance if they seem ill.  But you know it's bad when you catch yourself assessing a "patient" based on the lyrics of a song.

To wit: the singer here complains of, or presents with, the following signs and symptoms:
  1. Rising fever
  2. Burning sensations
  3. Encaphalitis
  4. Disorientation
  5. Delusions
  6. Auditory hallucinations
  7. Visual hallucinations
  8. More fever
  9. More burning sensations
  10. Unquenchable thirst
  11. Denial of some conditions
  12. More auditory & visual hallucinations
  13. Fear of flames
  14. Imminent fear of death
  15. Respiratory distress and chest pain
  16. More fever with additional disorientation, delusions, and auditory & visual hallucinations
I present to you the patient, in their own voice, describing these symptoms:

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