one thing about doctors

[calimac]

and dentists is that - I suppose depending on their specialty - is that they love looking around the inside of your body, where all the blood and guts are. (In the case of dentists, close-up views of the gums and around the tongue.) If they have cameras floating around in there, they want to show off the view to the patient, and are rather hurt if you decline on grounds of ickk.

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[sartorias]

Yeak no kidding. I wave them off, saying faintly, "I really would rather all guts and things stay inside, out of view."

[athenais]

I also have zero interest in looking at photos of my innards or my mouth, urk.

[sturgeonslawyer]

As the Master once said:

Oh, hello there, Nurse, come over here and look at this X-ray...
Isn't the lumbar vertebrae supposed to be connected to the clavicle?
Well I know, but with Scotch tape?...
See those little round things? Know what those are?
Those are M & M's.
Those people are right, they don't melt!

I never pass up a chance to look at one an X-ray, echocardiogram, MRI, or whatever, if the doctor gave me a chance. I usually come up with some question the doctor does not know quite how to answer, and that gives me a moment of warm smugness.

I recently had the dubious pleasure of using my phone to take a photograph of the inside of my own mouth to send to my doctor so she could determine whether the soreness I was feeling was thrush or not (it definitely wasn't a lark). This turned out to be remarkably difficult to do, because even if you get the self-view camera turned on, it's hard to look at the screen while the camera is pointed into your own mouth. I eventually figured out to turn the phone upside down, then flip the picture when it was in the camera. Tongues are actually pretty gross.

[wild_patience]

I always suspect it's a CYA move, proving to the patient that, yes, they really do have a cavity (or whatever) that needs treatment. With medical stuff, I did so much imaging in my job that I want to the X-rays and ultrasounds they've taken. I find it sort of homey.