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Palpation
It was a temptation for many a medical student to expect his girlfriend to allow him to study anatomy in Braille.
my mother as child had chorea- (st vitus dance)-- pre antibiotic age-- and end up with a heart murmur.. she was poor, so she recieved all of her health services from a teaching hospital. Her murmur was unusual-- and as she matured, she came to hate doctors, since every year, a new crop of them would be called in to listen to her murmur.. it was a very rare sort of murmur.. and from her discription, it seems most 99.9% of the doctors were more interested in her murmur than the external anatomy of her chest-- but she was non to thrilled to have doctor after doctor be excited about examining her.
Forgive me for repeating an anecdote I think I may have posted before. On the pediatric ward of the Boston City Hospital I saw a young black girl with a heart murmur produced by a mitral stenosis so severe that the vibrations produced were sufficiently powerful that they could be felt on palpation just below her left breast.this phenomenon is called a "thrill'" Students from three medical schools were lined up to examine her, because they might never again have such an opportunity.There's a horse's ass in every large group. The line moved so slowly that one bored student put his hand in the wrong place, and said disgustedly to the guy behind him:"I don't get any thrill!"
The girl,outraged by the idea of couple hundred guys wanting to feel her breast just to get a thrill, jumped out of
bed and locked herself in the toilet. .
Forgive me for repeating an anecdote…
It bears repeating, Dr. Bill.
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