Saturday, September 29, 2007

Dr. Smak, whose blog posts invariably ring true in my experience and often crack me up, commented today that inspecting used tissues is often instructive. Reminds me of a patient's visit last cold and flu season that sent my staff scurrying for the Lysol.

She came to her appointment for 'sinusitis' carrying a large grocery sack. She didn't, however, save her contents for my eyes only but proceeded to dump them over the front office counter.

"See," she said, indicating at least a hundred used tissues spread out on the surface, "I used all of these in just one day!"

5 comments:

JeanMac said...

Oh, yum, don't want to know her "hygienic" rituals around her home - especially while cooking!Gross as the young people say.

Dr. Smak said...

How nice of her to share...

Mauigirl said...

Eeeww. I hope everyone got out their Lysol and Purell and sanitized the area!

denverdoc said...

My front desk receptionist is a great fan of Lysol: We can hardly see through the Lysol mist she sets up during flu season.

Anonymous said...

arrrggghh all those germs being shared!!