To Call It A Scar Is A Bit Of A Stretch
Hospital, Massachusetts, USA | Healthy | December 27, 2017
(I have dislocated my shoulder.)
Doctor: *looking at a mark on my shoulder* “I see you’ve previously had your shoulder operated on.”
Me: “No.”
Doctor: “Yes, there’s the surgical scar right there.”
Me: “No, it’s a stretch mark.”
Doctor: “No, it’s a surgical scar.”
Me: “Unless somebody kidnapped me, drugged me, then operated on me while I was unconscious, I think I would remember surgery.”
Doctor: “…”
(A few years later, I was being examined by a dermatologist, and I told him the story. He said that it did indeed look like a surgical scar, and would I care to come by the hospital during rounds so he could fool his interns?)
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