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on the admissions ward. There are some laughs too...

Yesterday I accompanied the consultant on his ward round. He handed me some notes to scribble in as he assessed a very large, ruddy faced chap with a grey beard, longish grey hair and a gruff voice. He had a mexican-style shawl wrapped around him... aging hippy, I thought.

We finished the consultation and we moved back to the nurse's station to discuss further investigations. I suddenly looked at sticker at the top of the page, and realised I'd made a mistake: I'd recorded the whole thing in the wrong set of notes.

I sheepishly interrupted the consultant (who's one of the nice ones so wasn't too worried about getting a shouting at), "I'm really sorry, I've just realised we've been looking at the wrong patient's notes, look" I say, pointing at the sticker.

My statement is met with a confused look. I can't quite understand why he hasn't picked up on the error...

"Look!" I say, "Maureen Bloggs*. We've just seen Mr... erm, Mr..."
The consultant smiles wryly. "Mrs. We've just seen Mrs. Bloggs. Bearded lady. You see them sometimes."

A mistake indeed but on my behalf It hadn't even occurred to me; there had been no question over the gender of the gentleman I thought I'd just seen.

I'm learning fast



*name changed for anonymity!

So you're saying Santa could be a woman?

And Mexican.

And an aging hippy?

I used to have a treacher at school, Mrs O'Hare who had a very impressive beard. She's was a huge, scarey Irish woman, no one would ever dare take the mick out of her for it.

Lady of Mystery wrote::D

I used to have a treacher at school, Mrs O'Hare who had a very impressive beard. She's was a huge, scarey Irish woman, no one would ever dare take the mick out of her for it.

Hairy subject I guess?

Home Economics of all things.

The receptionist at one of our sites was called Carol, and on the phone she sounded like a very nice lady. I visited the site one day and it turns out that Carol is a 6 foot bloke with broad shoulders.

Never make assumptions.

Farlsborough wrote:I'm learning fast

Tee hee. After a very embarrassing situation a few years ago, I learned never to ask a woman when it's due

Lady of Mystery wrote:Mrs O'Hare... had a... beard.

You should post that in the thread about suitable names

Tomo wrote:

Farlsborough wrote:I'm learning fast

Tee hee. After a very embarrassing situation a few years ago, I learned never to ask a woman when it's due

There's that Jimmy carr joke: 'I've learnt from experience that it's better to have a pregnant woman standing on a bus than having a fat woman sitting down crying'.