Saturday, 30 August 2008

• My "first baby"

    Where I work as an intern, it is customary to wear just about any "smart, casual" attire under your white short-sleeved coat. One particular day, I happened to wear something like this, an empire cut (although not as low-cut in the front as this one) top in brown.
  
  At the time, I was interviewing a pediatric patient, and asking details of this and that...and then suddenly, out of nowhere,  the patient's dad drops the bombshell,  "So, Doctor, is that going to be your first baby?"
  
  My first reaction? It was raising an eyebrow and clearing my throat, and then after a few beats, chuckling good-naturedly and saying, "Ahem, sir, I'm supposed to be the one asking the questions around here...but no, I'm not pregnant."
  
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  tsk tsk.... While it was a tactless thing to say, it also sounded pretty funny. Because if I were to choose, I'd much prefer that he thought that I had the "glow of pregnancy" about me, rather than that I had a "globular abdomen.*"
  
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  * Pregnancy is judged by an increase in abdominal girth, which is seen as a more noticeable roundedness of the abdomen as pregnancy progresses...OR it could also mean that a girl needs to do sit-ups. Which I don't. Yet.
  
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  :-p To be perfectly honest, this is not really a life-changing entry...but this is just one of those cases where, in the ER, you have to be ready for anything, and i mean anything, including nosy-sounding, but nevertheless, well-meaning parents. :-p
  
  
  
  
  

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