weird ass parents

so today this four monther comes in for vaccines and as part of his physical exam i have to check his package, you know, make sure the inguinal nodes are there and that his nutsack isn't empty. the sucker kept crying until i noticed him stop and smile and suddenly... tada, urine all over my shirt. little *(E*$&#)#!! so i walked around all day smelling of baby urine

but it gets better
later on in the day, another mom thought that the sight of her 6monther's penis might traumatize me and covered it up with her hand to protect his privacy or maybe her innocence or maybe my innocence, i don't know but i was like "ma'am i just need to make sure he has good peripheral pusles and there isn 't a problem with his descending aorta." i mean, come on people. the kids three days old. you'd think a grown woman with a baby would be more mature.

on a more serious note, i have seen many sad things.
there's this obscure disease called leisch nyhan syndrome where kids have HGPRT deficiency leading to abnormal purine metabolism (do you see why it's "obscure" and easy to forget). the kids end up mutilating themselves and being really wierd with cherry red maculas etc. every med student memorizes and forgets about the good ol leisch nyhan right away at least three times in the course of their career. well, no I, for i got to work with THE Dr. Nyhan who immediately pimped me about an obscure metabolic diseae and by sheer luck i remembered that beta glucorerbrosidase deficiency led to nieman-pick disorder. anyways, he was slightly impressed and i was on his good side. i saw SO MANY weird kids. Hurler's syndrome, PKU, Neimann Pick, etc.... the kids were still cute but man, they looked really different and sick with a million problems. sad yet encouraging that someone was taking care of these vulnerable precious kids. the end of the day, the famous doctor even let me dictate, which was awesome except i ended up calling the dictation people and freezing, not sure exactly what to say, so i just winged it. i hope he likes it. all said and done though, i htink i'm going back into a surgery phase again.