Dr. Charles talks stool cultures

June 24, 2006

Simple test, big ordeal:

I thought back to the time that I too had suffered intractable diarrhea. I was already a doctor and had ordered many stool cultures on other people without pause. I suppose I had considered what the patients would have to go through, at least in an abstract sort of way. But as the old apocryphal proverb goes: Do not judge a man, nor trifle at what you have asked of him, until you have pooped in a makeshift bucket with him.