Spruce Knob
West Virginia
May 2014
On the trail, I told my hiking buddy this story.
“Rod, last fall, I had some chest pain. After undergoing a number of tests, I came out clean as a whistle, whatever that means. A gastroenterologist suggested that my chest nerves were irritated. My regular doctor responded, ‘You know what that means, don’t you?’”
I said to my doc, “No, what does that mean?”
My doc said, “It means we don’t know what the frig we’re talking about.”
My friend Rod, who is an excellent emergency department physician, commented on my story. “Oh yeah. In the E D, I make shit up all the time.”
Lisa, overhearing, says, “I wish he would use the term, “educated guess.”
