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Comment: I heard of this one from my mother *going to med school* She told me that a young girl came in and has some sort of flu like viruse *not specific* and the doctor told her to take a cup into the bathroom and "go into the cup" When the girl looked at the doctor puzzled and took the cup and returned several minutes later. Upon her returning there happened to be feces inside of the cup *what a shocker*. The doctor told the young girl *about age 7* were going to have to do this again. This is belived to have happened around Seattle... Past on from doctor to doctor *supposed to be confidential*
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Doctor, I think this comment has the measles. It's covered in spots!
But as to the content, I'm really not sure what the point is...
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So a young girl misunderstood an instruction to urinate in a cup, and she instead defecated in it?
How shocking.
And the only comment the doctor gave to explain to her was "you have to do this again"?
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The doctor puts a cup on the table, and says "We need a urine sample, do you think you could fill this cup?"
And I says to the doctor, I says "What, from here?"
{rimshot sound effect}
Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal.
Anyway, marginally more on topic, I think most doctors would be a little more specific, especially when dealing with a 7 year old. Actually, wouldnt most 7 year old girls be accompanied by a parent or guardian when visiting the doctor?
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Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a Kevin Nealon/Subliminal Man vibe off of the OP?
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I don't think that's an urban legend, I think that's just a common misunderstanding.
Next people will be mailing in with the one about a child that uses a display toilet in a bathroom fittings shop.
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Wouldn't most 7 year olds know what the doctor means when they say 'go in the cup'?
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quote:Originally posted by Sabrina_Fairchild: Wouldn't most 7 year olds know what the doctor means when they say 'go in the cup'?
I don't think they would necessarily. I think it would depend on how much expericance the child had with doctors, and going into cups.
I think it's just UL, because no doctor has ever told me to "go" in a cup they hand me the cup and tell me they want a urin sample.
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I hadn't thought about the amount of experience a child had in the doctor's office, RubyMoon. Good point.
I, too, think it's just a silly UL. it could even be turned into a joke.
And, yes, I think most doctors do ask for a urine sample.
That reminds me of on "The Golden Girls" when Dorothy had CFS and was talking with the pediatrician who lived down the street or was her confidant. This little boy was given a cup and he was told to give a sample. When he came back, he was like 'how do you know it's not chicken soup?' and the doctor was like 'if this looks like chicken soup, we're both in a lot of trouble.'
Okay.I'm rambling now. Disregard my last transmission.
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[total hijack] Nurse to patient: "I'd like a sample of your urine, please"
Patient to nurse: "Each to his own taste. I prefer collecting stamps" [/total hijack]
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"Go in the cup" "Go where? I just got here."
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if i had been told to go in the cup as a seven year old i would have looked at it and told the doctor i couldnt fit into the cup.
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My mother was an ER nurse in Los Angeles for many years. She manages to do so without acquiring a word of Spanish, somehow. One night, a man comes in for some illness (I've forgetten what) and she needed him to give a urine sample, but of course, he doesn't speak any English. So she pantomimes it out, I guess, and nods like he understands. Then he brings back a semen sample.
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quote:Originally posted by Illuminatus: My mother was an ER nurse in Los Angeles for many years. She manages to do so without acquiring a word of Spanish, somehow. One night, a man comes in for some illness (I've forgetten what) and she needed him to give a urine sample, but of course, he doesn't speak any English. So she pantomimes it out, I guess, and nods like he understands. Then he brings back a semen sample.
makes me wonder how she pantomimed it to make him think that's what she needed.
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Hmmm.....correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd have to say in my experiences with "providing a specimen" the patient would receive the specimen container either from the nurse or the laboratory.
I don't think a whole lot of physicians have the time necessary to collect specimens from a patient. That's why there is ancillary staff.
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