Doctors are intelligent beings...or so they say.

How long does it take 2 doctors to find their car, having parked it only 1.5 hours ago? at least 20 minutes. And how many times did they argue over whether or not they were in the right place/floor of the parking garage? too many to count. How did they finally find their car? They had to ask the guy directing the cars out of the garage.

Patients: we are supposed to know our patients. First thing they teach in medical school is make sure that you look at the name on the chart/report/lab work etc. to make sure it is the right patient. Well obviously we've been trained to do that. What we haven't been trained to do is make sure that the person you are talking to is actually the right patient. And the family u are talking to is the right family. It took my attending and I our second visit to see Mrs. X to realize that the patient we thought was Mrs. X yesterday was actually someone else...her room had been changed. And the family we spoke to for half an hour about their mom...well let's just say teh whole conversation was very confusing and didn't make sense...now it makes clear sense that the reason we were so confused is that we had spoken to the wrong patient and hence the wrong family. It's kinda scary how our common sense leaves us sometimes...