Miss Diagnose

Jun 29, 2007 04:02


Originally published at Aurorean. Please leave any comments there.

“You can’t think of becoming a chef!” She incredulously said to me.

“And why is that?”

“You’re… much too thin. And you look like you rarely eat anything at all. Are you dieting?”

In the end, she concluded that either I have superhuman metabolism or that I’m suffering from hyperthyroidism.

Doctors seem to have the need to include an often life-threatening diagnosis in a perfectly normal conversation.

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