Daily goings-on: December 2006 Archives

"Do you have any burning when you urinate?" I asked a patient today.
"Yeah, it burns when I pee right around the pearl tongue."
"The what?" At some point while the words were slipping out of my mouth, the meaning became clear.
"Oh, I don' know what you all call it. But you know, its that part there on top like a little penis, the pearl tongue?"
I nodded. "Of course, the clitoris."
"The what?" I was pretty amazed that she had never heard the word clitoris before. I could write a pretty long list of slang terms for the penis and vagina. But until now, I'd never heard of a slang term for the clitoris before - unless 'clit' qualifies. Its great that, in addition to educating, we also get to learn from our patients.

Wow, the amount of time I've had for blogging on this rotation has been amazingly ridiculous. Not going to say anything more about that - not that I'm superstitous or anything!
There's a drug rep dinner at a fancy-schmancy restaurant tonight. It's the kind of restaurant where Brazlian gouchos bring you meat until you turn your coaster to the red side. Then, when you want more, just turn it back to green. I skipped breakfast and lunch in preparation...muwhaha!