Saturday evening and the next patient was a 24 year old male holding his thumb in the air above his head in an attempt to stop a wound from bleeding.
He was a university student doing a masters degree.
“Hello…so…what can I do for you today?”
Well…I was using a scalpel…and it slipped and I’ve cut my left thumb…
“A scalpel…okay…can I ask…are you a self-harmer?”
No…no I was cutting some cardboard models…
“Cardboard models…what for?”
My model train layout…for the railway station building…
“Okay…so I‘ll put in the notes that you’re a self-harmer then…that’s got to be less embarrassing for you than “working on my train set on a Saturday evening’”.
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