Zing!

A friend sent me this in an email the other night:

A couple of nights ago I'm at triage.

A woman around 40ish comes in with a complaint of belly pain and vaginal bleeding with passed clots, onset yesterday.  She called her family doc yesterday (points for her) but didn't get a call back.  She thought she'd try to tough it out.  It doesn't go away so she comes in this evening to be seen.

As I ask her the usual questions, she reaches into her bag and produces a plastic shopping bag.  Inside is a Tupperware bowl that she tries to hand to me.  I decline. 

Yes...you guessed it. 

She tells me that she saved the clots and put them in this container (points subtracted), convinced that we'd want to "examine them." 

The clots from yesterday. 

That she passed into the toilet. 

Then fished out. 

And kept...in her refrigerator...for the past 24 hours.

I gracefully decline the viewing, but tell her that the resident physician will certainly want to see this.  She should have them unwrapped and at the ready when he comes in to see her.

Points for me!