I never argue with patients. Well, almost never. In the thousands of times a patient has admonished me for "not cutting their nails straight across" I've held my tongue with the knowledge that the consumer is always right, even when they are spectacularly wrong. I do the same when confronted by women with all sorts of overuse injuries at the end of every summer refusing to believe that their "good" flip-flops could possibly be the cause. Or that the 6:1 ratio of bunionectomies in women:men isn't due to "good" women's shoes. (Not the cause of the bunion, just the cause of the need of a surgical fix, mind you.)
Well, now I have a formula to throw back at those with ingrown toenails, developed by physicists, to explain the cause of them. Not that it matters in the slightest. I still have to fix them. And no patient ever believes what a doctor tells them anyway, be it a podiatrist or a Physicist!
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
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Coach always told me my ingrown toenail was from kicking ass.
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