As I spend my weekend delving into the word of pathology, discovering ever minute detail about nearly every disease the human race has ever been inflicted with, I have come to one clear conclusion. Half the planet must have diarrhea.
Okay, maybe that's exagerrating, but at least 95% of the people in the hospital do. I'm surprised the floor isn't covered with it. Or you don't have to dodge flying diarrhea as you walk down the halls.
Not only do I find myself greeted with diarrhea under every Clinical Manifestations heading, but it must be adequately described. Here are some adjectives (and if you are a medical student, as you read them the name of the causitive organism/disease process will miraculously appear in your head):
"frothy," "particularly foul-smelling with bits of undigested food," "like rice water," "bloody and mucoid," "partially formed stools," "coffee grounds"
Heck, I don't even think I know what rice water is.
The other 5% of the people in the hospital aren't blessed with normal bowels however, they're just suffering from obstruction, anticholinergic syndrome, or opiate overdose and they're constipated.
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