• lemming@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    It isn’t great when a doctor goes to fetch their colleague to have a look while examinig you. But of course that after all the same boring stuff, they are excited about something unusual. I heard about an ophthalmologist who, out of all her carreer, was most excited about solving someone’s issues by finding crabs in their eyebrows.

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      As someone who is in the medical field, I am so sorry when I do that, but it is so much fun. You get to please a colleague, get intrigued and fascinated in a pair, and tell the patient that whatever their problem was is now known! Most of the time it also means you can actually start to help the patient, which is always nice, rather than doing more investigations.

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      18 hours ago

      eyebrow crabs?!! doctors are a different breed, that’s nightmare fuel to me.