Sigh... The things you have to see during training. Seriously, you know what is the best way to punish a doctor? Send them to give a rectal exam€¦ Believe me there is nothing worse.
I remember it was my first day and I was finding the whole on duty for 24 hours concept a bit hard to swallow or should I say I could barely keep my damn eyes open. So my trainer decided I needed to get a fresh perspective on things€¦ Little did I know the perspective would be anal (no pun intended).
So I entered the examination room and this lady who must be around 60 sat right in front of me, with her gown the other way round. Made me wonder, if she thought her doctor was a guy, anyway, if that image was not disturbing enough to scar me forever, upon inquiry I found out that the lady used to have severe constipation.
Now I know that being a professional, I was not supposed to feel embarrassed tackling the patient but her very incredibly graphic description of her problem, made me realise why I was given this case.
While I grabbed my pen wearing that white coat and stethoscope that I love, the lady definitely grabbed my focus when she explained that at one point her bum was itchy, it hurt and while passing stool she would bleed. Due to the confidentiality matters, I will not type out exactly what she said but let us just say that being so young, facing a lady's bum, with her being explicit, left me reasonably uncomfortable.
Long story short, the lady used to have hemorrhoids.
Hemorrhoids are painful, swollen veins in the lower portion of the rectum or anus. They usually occur during pregnancy and after bouts of constipation. The straining and pressure usually causes the veins in the anal area to become enlarged and tender, which happens to cause several symptoms like Anal itching, Anal ache or pain, especially while sitting, bright red blood during or after passing stool, pain during bowel movements.
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So it is a condition that is embarrassing and painful to talk about and most people suffer in silence but this lady was not embarrassed, as a matter of fact she was very confident.
I did not really understand why the lady was there, if she had no real problem. I mean she had cured the constipation and her hemorrhoids seemed to be sizably reduced, at least keeping in mind the description that she had given me.
It was day 1 so I couldn't loose patience but finally asked, €Ma'am, if you do not suffer from any ailment, why are you here?€, she informed that she was here to meet her original doctor but I showed up instead. €I can help you with whatever you need.€
€No, I needed to show him something€. I paused, €Umm, you can tell me and I will help you, I am trained€¦€ right then and there she cut me off and said she wanted to prove her doctor wrong. Of course that made me realise that this here lady might be a problematic patient.
She asked me to sit down and said that she almost always had hemorrhoids and nothing that the doctor gave her seemed to help, that is until her daughter found out about Venapro.
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Venapro Hemorrhoid Formula is an all-natural blend of herbs and minerals. Apparently she used Venapro Hemorrhoid Formula along with drinking a lot of water and felt better than ever.
After taking up much of my valuable time, when I finally returned to the caf©, that grin from my trainer did not leave me too pleased.
Though now when I think of it the whole experience makes me laugh because an estranged old woman came to a me and said, €I do not need your crappy medicines, I have Venapro Hemorrhid Formula. It fixed my shitter like nothing else did!€