You Know You Work In The ‘Hood When…

… all the family photos on your patient's wall are mug shots.

Seriously, Doug E. Fresh and I worked a call last night, and our patient had pictures of all her children and grandchildren on the living room wall.

That in itself is not unusual, but what was unusual was that at least two of the photos were cropped mug shots, both grainy black and whites, probably clipped from the local paper and enlarged. No other photos of either of those two males anywhere in evidence.

Maybe it's just me, but if I had a couple of children whose only extant photographs were of them standing in front of a height chart holding numbers in front of their chests, I'd be trying to deny they were mine.

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