One of many little funnies . . .

I received this telephone message from a patient one day:

"I am about 38 and 1/2 weeks pregnant.  I was walking and chewing gum at the same time ... and I swallowed the gum.  Will it hurt the baby?"

This is an actual true story.  Promise.  Here's the answer I told my medical assistant to call her with:

"It will not HURT the baby, ... but she will be born with gum in her hair."

Because everything we eat comes out our vagina, right??  Now, of course, we did NOT tell the patient the baby would be born with gum in her hair.  My MA refused to do that.  :)