Saturday, June 03, 2006

Vexing

“I never cease to be amazed at the reproductive efficiency of this community.”

My attending was baffled. In the community here there has been an outbreak of a treatable disease, and we’ve been using the opportunity to test our response capabilities in case something truly terrible, like a lethal flu epidemic, comes around. So we’ve been trying to track the sick kids and their families. What provoked his response was the fact that quite a few of the families were unable to tell us where their children had spent the previous night. “They were at someone’s house” was such a common refrain, we were getting exasperated.

It is remarkable, but no matter how many kids you have, I would think you might keep track of them, right? This isn't just medical training breeding arrogance and maturity into me?

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