Sunday, June 21, 2009

Seen in Clinic This Week


1. An inmate reading the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" by Richard Nelson Bolles. It's the best-selling job-hunting and career-changing book of all time. Hope it works for this guy.

2. An inmate who accidentally sprayed Muslim prayer oil up his nose. He'd been keeping it in an old spray bottle and got it confused with his prescription for flunisolide, an inhaled nasal steroid used for allergies. Comment with your best dumb joke.

3. An inmate with an acute ankle injury sustained in the rec yard, in much pain. After being discouraged from ordering an x-ray, I went ahead anyway because I dutifully followed the "Ottawa Ankle Rules" in making this decision. Two days later I noticed it hadn't been processed and asked the x-ray tech if he would get to it.

"Maybe by next Friday," he said.

... And that's why I'll be glad to be done with prison medicine.

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