Strange diagnosis
A first year student in her first month of clinicals in a general surgery ward gave this report of her patient to her clinical instructor:
“My patient Mr. X is a 45-year-old gentleman who has been diagnosed to have a calcium stomach.”
The instructor was confused as she had never heard of a calcium stomach. When she opened the patient’s history sheet, it turned out to be carcinoma – Ca Stomach.
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