The scene: Day 1 of my new internal medicine rotation with my new team and new attending nervously beginning my first presentation of a patient I just met a few minutes ago.
Me: Ms. So-and-So is a 20 year old on hospital day number 3 admitted for end stage renal disease and severe anemia. She is--
Attending: (Dramatic stopping gesture.) Woah. Woah. (Looking to my team.) What have we got here?
(Long, awkward pause.)
Me: (Trembling quietly, fearing I have said something wrong in just the first sentence of my presentation.)
Attending: (Looking back at me.) Let me see your hands, young lady.
Me: (Timidly tucking my notes under my arms and stretching out my hands.)
Attending: Turn them over!
Me: (Timidly allowing him to examine my hands.)
Attending: I knew it all along!
Me: (Flushed, fluttered, and terrified of my attending's palm reading skills.)
Attending: (Looking back at the team with a eureka sparkle in his eye.) I knew it! We have ourselves an OB/GYN!
Guess there's no escaping the OB/GYN in me!
-J
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