Stand by your man

One of the patients I will never forget was Paul, a man who lost his job after injuring his back. The injury pinched a nerve so severely that the muscles in one of his legs were very atrophied. Obviously, this was no crock case.

A crock is intentionally disparaging medical slang for a patient with fictitious complaints intended to reap some secondary gain. Say what? Stated another way, a patient with genuine pain from a migraine, kidney stone, cancer, or whatnot is not a crock; their pain is real, and might require narcotic analgesics. However, some patients feign various diseases or claim to have various symptoms to hoodwink us into giving them something they want: narcotics, time off work, etc. Those people with made-up complaints are crocks (an abbreviation for “crock of shit”). Their complaints are also sometimes called bullshit, bull, or plain ol' BS. In general, ER personnel dislike crocks because we would rather devote our time and resources to legitimate patients with legitimate problems.

What saddened me about this case was that his fiancée unceremoniously dumped him immediately after he was fired. Whatever happened to love? Whatever happened to standing by your man? I can understand a woman not wanting to marry a man who makes a career out of being unemployed, but I cannot believe anyone could dump in a heartbeat the person she loves just because he was injured through no fault of his own.

Paul was more tolerant than I would have been. "It was better to find out now, Doc. Otherwise I would have spent the rest of my life supporting a woman who really didn't love me. Now that would have been a tragedy."

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Medical School Myths: Only surgery can enlarge the penis in adult men.

Like other doctors, in medical school I was taught that penis size is fixed at the end of puberty. I previously believed that, too, and the evidence seemed overwhelming. I then serendipitously discovered a way to trigger what amounts to a "second puberty" of penile growth. The only difference between this "second puberty" and real puberty in terms of penile growth is that the penile growth was much more dramatic the second time. Within a few weeks, my penis size went from embarrassingly small (at least to me) to bigger than some porno stars. I once believed that such a transformation was impossible, but I was wrong, and so were the professors who taught me that myth. Clearly, penile size is not necessarily fixed at the end of puberty if you provide the body with the proper stimulus to rekindle penile growth.

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