Hygenist Student: But, where is it?
Innocent Victim: Apparently I don't have a pulse. Try the other wrist.
Hygenist Student: Nope, not there either.
Dr. Kraus! Please help me. I can't find my patient's pulse.
Innocent Victim: Ha ha ha!
Dr. Kraus: He must be dead, but then I doubt he would laughing.
(Patiently) Remember: follow the vein from the thumb down to the wrist. See it's right here.
Hygenist Student: Can you feel a pulse?
Dr. Kraus: It's not in-your-face there; it's more like weak-and-faint there.
Hygenist Student: That is faint.
Innocent Victim: What was it?
Hygenist Student: 60 beats per minute.
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right. did they subject you to the tortures of the x-ray machine? You should have recommended extra practice for that student. I mean, you have to think about how this could affect her later. What if someone comes to the dentist's office and she can't find a pulse? She might assume the person is dead! and then what?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I might be bitter about that place... the last time I was there they told me my blood pressure was high--probably due to the trauma of being surrounded by an army of female students armed with an x-ray machine and other instruments of torture. That's enough to give anyone high blood pressure.