The Patient Will See You Now

Hi ya! How're you doing today? Traffic in the cyberlanes congested as usual? Not to worry... you've made it this far and the coffeepot is just to your right. Lift and pour... lift and pour... great exercise, I say. Heft a megamuffin onto your plate for added strength training. Now on to the topic of the day and I'll spare you the anatomical jokes for once...

Professional patients now help train would-be doctors, especially in the most delicate and dreaded of exams (gynecological and prostate), where a becalming technique improves outcomes. 

One "teaching associate" of Eastern Virginia Medical School told The Washington Post in September that the helpers act as "enthusiastic surgical dummies" to 65 medical colleges, guiding rookie fingers through the trainer's own private parts. 

The prostate associate might helpfully caution, "No need for speed here," especially since he will be bending over for as many as nine probings a day. 

A gynecological teaching associate, mentoring the nervous speculum-wielder, might wittily congratulate pupils on having a front-row sight line the "GTA" will never witness: an up-close view of her own cervix. 

No thank you! Uh-uh! No way José! I've had five of those probes in the past year and a bit and that's enough, already! Nine a day??? That would take some dedication (or maybe a finger fetish?).

See ya, eh!

Bob

Source: Washington Post, 9-3-2015