Pharmacist Andrew Chong explains why you must always look
behind when a doctor treats you:
A man with stomach
pains goes to the hospital. The doctor tells him it's constipation and that
he'll need to use suppositories. The man is instructed to drop his pants and
bend over, whereupon the doctor shoves the suppository up his behind.
"You'll have to
do the same thing every six hours for a week," says the doctor.
Later that evening,
the man is having difficulty inserting another suppository and decides to ask
his wife for help. He tells her what to do, then drops his pants and bends
over. She proceeds to put one hand on his shoulder and with the other shoves
the suppository home.
"Damn!"
screams the man.
"What's the
matter?" she asks. "Did I hurt you?"
"No," he
replies, "but I just realized that the doctor had both hands on my
shoulder"
Andrew concludes that it’s always better to ask your doctor
for a prescription and have your pharmacist dispensed the medication to you. And
in this particular case, the pharmacist will not have both his hands on your
shoulder….you get to insert the suppository yourself:
The above
illustrations shown on SafeMedication.com were developed by the American
Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) using referenced publications and
existing patient information.
