Ha. (Or, for the Scrubs fans: "My Lucky Day")

[serinde]

[I have no icon indicating "smug". I really should.]

The anti-allergy meds are having no effect on Steve, other than making him dopey on top of being dizzy. When the D&D group arrived tonight, he shared his tale of woe; whereat Dr. Nick, "Sounds like BPPV to me. Didn't she test you for that?"

S: "No, I mean I asked her about it, but she said it was my allergies."
Dr.N: "Well it could be, but I don't see why she didn't test you for BPPV since you're supposed to for *medical phrase I didn't get* and it takes all of 30 seconds."
YHC: . o O ( I could be a doctor. Except for the parts involving slicing tracheas open. )

After the game, i.e. just now, Nick ran the Dix-Hallpike test on Steve and was delighted to find so classic a case of right-sided BPPV. They are now downstairs shaking the recalcitrant calcium crystals into alignment.

Comments

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Nah, the best you can hope for is someone who's good at the garden-variety stuff and can recognize that something weird is going on and refer you to the proper specialist.

(For the most part, my doc is that, but his office staff are obnoxious and useless.)