| On the subject of interns examining overweight women, the symptoms of pregnancy are often masked by obesity. In attempting to do a vaginal/cervical exam on a very overweight woman, the intern could not make room to do his work. He finally enlisted the aid of two nurses who wrapped the woman's legs in sheets and pulled them apart. Still not having enough room, the intern pushed a chair between her legs and made his diagnosis: "You're pregnant," he said. "But how you got that way without two sheets and a chair is beyond me." The patient replied, "You know, you're not the first short-dicked man to tell me that." |