Made an absolute ass of myself today in lectures. I should learn to not vocalise my thoughts and be simply satisfied with eyeball rolling. Anyway, here is the situation:
Dr. F puts up a clinical scenario on powerpoint, where a woman gets stung by a wasp and within a few hours, gets a massively swollen arm as a result. Clearly an allergic situation because he had just spent the last half an hour talking about allergies and the different types of hypersensitivities that exist.
Dr. F: What treatment would you recommend?
Someone in the front row: Voltaren?
Dr. F: Uh. No - I suppose you'd want pain relief. But it wouldn't help with this because it is an allergic reaction.
Someone else in the far corner of the room: Aspirin?
Me (audibly enough when it was supposed to be a mutter): Seriously?
This is EXACTLY why you stupid second years must learn your pharmacology. Until you can school a pharmacist on their pharmacology and recommend appropriate treatment - don't you dare call us useless.
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