I have to stifle a snigger sometimes when I am trying to obtain a history from some patients. On occasion the things they come out with are comic genius; you couldn’t make them up if you wanted to. Here is a small selection of recent examples. Some of these serve as lessons of what not…
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Force of impact: F = m x a
Cast your mind back a little… do you remember what you learned in physics in school about kinetic energy? This referred to energy forces from “things in motion” and “impact”? We learned that the weight of an object and its speed have a direct impact on the outcome. Realistically if you double the weight of…
Finding it stressful at the office? Just fake it.
We were called to an office for a man of about thirty years old. We arrived to find him lying on the floor amongst a maze of desks and chairs. Concerned colleagues were on hand to inform us that he was normally a fit and well man, but that day he had been feeling very…
Fractured tib/fib
It was a cold and dark evening when the call came in – ‘RTC car vs pedestrian’; luckily I was only a minute away and arrived while the caller was still on the telephone giving details to the ambulance service. At first glance, there was the usual array of bystanders milling about the scene; The…