Don't you just love it when you have a patient waiting in an exam room to be seen for a cough and they are quiet for minutes. As soon as you knock on the door and enter they begin this gut-wrenching, near syncopal, about to throw up coughing fit which continues throughout your exam? Drives me bonkers.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "