I've always said my patients ensure that I will never be bored with my job. We had a new lady with us today and we were doing the initial interview which has a way of going sour if not handled properly. This poor lady was here because President Bush spoke with her and asked her to come to Dallas to clean up corruption in an oil company among other delusions. So then we (the resident doc and I) started asking about more mundane things:

Me: "So do you have any medical problems that we should know about?"

Patient: " I have diabetes but I control it with my diet. Oh, and I have a foot fungus that needs some cream or something."

Me: "OK. How long have you had the foot fungus?"

Patient: "Oh, years now, but it's much worse lately."

Me: "What's changed to make it worse now?"

Patient: "I think it was from all the time I've spent walking on water......"

Resident doc: "Do you mean walking IN water or actually ON the water."

Patient: "No, I mean walking ON the water, you know, because one of my husbands is a Chinese king and they know how."

Hmmmm....who knew?