Very funny, but true pic

[Vishenka69]

Just had to share this.

Let's not talk about what is on a Pathologist's clothing.

[Vanquisher]

Let's not talk about what is on a Pathologist's clothing.

Ewww!

Dh gets blood, synovial fluid, betadine, and occasional pus now.

I still remember first year of med school. When dh would come home, I could just smell the anatomy lab on him. It was the most disgusting and vile smell. He wasn't allowed to sit on the furniture or touch me if he had been in lab, but was sent straight to the shower. Clothes to the washer (by themselves) was a must as well. There were times, even later in med school when he would come home smelling of it. Same routine. I think that odor must transfer really well because he would swear he hadn't been in the anatomy lab, but would still reek of it. My theory is that he was playing too much pool with first years.

The things that can get on your scrubs in anatomy lab....

Bleck. ::

The anatomy lab smell is awful. For reasons I won't disgust you with, DH had more fluids and worse smell w/ his cadaver. I swear, the smell permeated his skin and hair. I ended up buying him the dechlorinating shampoo and if he used it 2x it would be almost gone.

Yuck! Glad we are past that point. :!

[SueC]

Or the pulmonologist clothing--probably plenty of sputum there.
Funny cartoon!

[migirl]

Ha ha, too true. DH regularly comes home with blood- and/or urine-stained scrubs. ::

Remind me to buy a washer for the garage.
Kay Scarpetta had the right idea.

[DCJenn]

As I showed my husband this picture, he starting talking about the nasty things that the neurology clan get to play with.

He's got a patient with that man eating flesh thing that's one step away from Mad Cow. "Great", I said- "did you rub the spinal fluid all over your body? Did you drink it? did you inject it into open wounds? Ok NO? The SHUT UP because you wig me out, oh nasty man..."

Jenn

[mommax3]

My husband changed out of the clothes he wore in anatomy lab at school and left them in his trunk in between times. He was a T.A. for that lab later on as a fourth year, so he repeated the changing routine then.

Also during fourth year, I nannied for four kids whose parents were both docs....mom a pediatrician and dad an OB. Dad (who is the brother of my best friend) is kind of an absent-minded type and would often come home still wearing his booties (which he would kick off immediately upon entering the house) from surgery and of course his scrubs. There were a few times when their baby crawled a little too close to his bloody booties and I FREAKED out enough that he started leaving the booties in the garage.

DH is pretty good about leaving the gross parts of his work (literally!) at work. Probably because I get grossed out VERY easily.

The worst was during residency, when one of the residents tripped while carrying a vial of semen in the RE lab and it went all over another resident's face and glasses. Nice image, huh? :: DH was just an observer for that one, and yeah, it made it into the end of the year roast.

Sally

OMG, Sally!!!!! You have the best stories. If my DH had signed up to TA anatomy lab, I don't know what I would have done. Rented him an apartment maybe?

He did the anatomy lab specific clothing, too.

Not too much gross stuff these days, just some gross cancers but they don't get on the clothes. Oh....but there is one really gross story but it is so specific and the patient was a parent of a resident that I better not post it (think things you do not want to bring home with you from foriegn travel). And nothing really spurted. But he gets to see some really cool, really gross stuff sometimes.

Sally - that is AWFUL. How funny (because it didn't happen to me).

One of dh's med school classmates had a similarly disgusting delivery (although I'm sure the ob spouses here could beat it).

It was his first delivery, at the hospital where the indigent folk are treated (so they let the residents do a lot -- not necessarily a good thing). This kid essentially gets hauled into the delivery room, thrown in a gown, not given anything to cover his face. As he's catching the baby a stream of urine comes straight at his face, he's focusing so as not to drop the newborn, and as he's getting up (in his haste to get away), he steps in some feces that has hit the floor.

That guy avoided the delivery room like the plague after that.

[DCJenn]

OK- totally unrelated to the picture but very related to people avoiding ob/gyn.

My last physical, 9/05- derm guy doing his internship year- CAN'T FIND MY CERVIX. and me, being an ass, saying things like, "really, I left it right there." It got so bad and he got so flustered that he had to bring the staff in to find my cervix. and of course, it really was right where I'd left it...

and when he asked me if I did breast self exams, I told him, no that I had made that my husband's job.

I was the last patient of his rotation on ob/gyn and I'm pretty sure he was doing cartwheels to his car.

Jenn

How did he get through med school? (derm guy who can't find cervix. oh well, he won't need to again).

[DCJenn]

well...not for school anyway...

J.

[SueC]

I feel sorry for his girlfriend!
Those are some good stories! Sounds like OB is the winner for wierd/gross stories!