so you've been waiting for this appointment for a long time. you weren't able to get in when you needed to. now you've been sitting in this exam room for 35 minutes.
i tell you i appreciate your waiting, that the person before you needed a little extra time, and they only schedule 15 minutes for these appointments - but it shows that when you need it, you'll get a little extra time, too.
then i smile and say, "now, how can i help you today?"
normal: according with, constituting, or not
deviating from a norm, rule, or principle
1. the pain is so bad you can't stand it any more. it woke you up over and over again all night. you had to curl up in a ball and couldn't walk. it actually made you cry.
2. you can't eat. you're afraid to eat because you don't know if your stomach will hurt worse because of it.
3. you have to pass gas all the time. it's very embarrassing. sometimes the pain goes away when you fart, so you keep wishing you could fart on demand. you've never in your whole life wished for this before.
4. when you move your bowels, the stool is very small and hard, like little balls. you have never seen stools like this before.
5. it all started last week, the day you were put on a blood thinner after having a life-threatening blood clot. so you stopped taking the blood thinner.
6. you can't live this way. you've never thought about ending your life before, but you know you simply can not tolerate living this way any more.
conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern
1. you told the nurse you're here because your wrists hurt. you fell out of a tree in the 1970's and your right wrist hasn't been the same ever since.
2. you feel like somebody's after you. you can't answer the phone any more. it's like everybody's out to get you.
3. in the night you heard a car engine outside your house.
4. you went to the neurologist and he put you on medication for parkinson's disease. now your hands don't shake and you can talk louder, and that is nice.
5. you realize it's probably a delusion that god and the devil are struggling for control of your mind, but you're starting to think maybe it's true. something happened at the gas station that made you think this. you can't tell me what it was.
occurring naturally
1. you haven't had a period since january and you would like a pregnancy test. you've been trying to get pregnant. you want to have a baby - a little girl.
2. you're 52 years old.
3. your psychiatrist recently changed your medication from anticonvulsants to antipsychotics, to avoid birth defects.
4. you've had some legal trouble, and have a court date next week. you got in trouble when you ran out of meds. you beat up a girl in the parking lot of the pick'n'save, and you hit a bus driver on top of his head. this happened last month when you ran out of money. you have a five-dollar co-pay on each medication, and you're taking six medications, including prenatal vitamins.
5. your boyfriend told you it was okay if it turned out to be menopause. but there was that lady last year who had a baby when she was sixty. so you have to keep trying.
having the property of commutativity under multiplication
by the transpose of the matrix each of whose elements is
a conjugate complex number with respect to the
corresponding element of the given matrix
1. you're having belly pain you had last august, but it's a lot worse now.
2. you have a mucous discharge from your vagina - and your rectum - and your throat - and from your nose - and even your ears. mostly just the right ear.
3. you can't sleep all night because of the pain. your seven-year-old and four-year-old have to take care of the baby now because the pain is so bad, you can't do anything.
4. pain medicines make you sick.
5. you went to a lot of other doctors and they did all these tests and they kept saying everything was normal. you had an x-ray and a colonoscopy.
6. you wanted to get your tubes tied and the doctor said he wouldn't do it until the stomach problem got fixed. you can't use any birth control because it makes the pain worse. while we are talking, you start crying and go curl up on the floor in the corner of the exam room, sobbing and holding your belly.
of, relating to, or characterized by average intelligence
or development; free from mental disorder
1. you're here for a prostate exam.
2. you just thought it would be a good idea.
3. you do not believe you're too young to need one.
4. you just want to take good care of your health.
5. you'd like to have some blood tests too - whichever ones seem appropriate.
having a straight-chain structure
1. you give up on insulin. no matter what you do, your sugars go crazy.
2. in the morning your sugar is high no matter what you did the night before. you take your insulin and it makes you too sick to eat. then your blood sugar goes down to 30 and you're about to pass out. (normal is 80.) so you eat a sandwich and drink some juice. then your sugar goes up to 400. so you skip lunch.
3. same thing with your blood pressure. it doesn't matter whether you take the medicine or not. sometimes it's through the roof, 180/100. other times it drops low and you feel like you'll pass out when you stand up.
4. your father died back in february. the only time your blood pressure and blood sugar acted normally was when you were taking care of him. ever since then they've gone crazy.
5. you give up. you've tried everything. after you've left the office, the nurse says your blood sugar, which she checked but forgot to tell me about, was 37.
having the property that every coset produced by
operating on the left by a given element is equal to
the coset produced by operating on the right
by the same element
1. the left side of your body is numb - everything on the left side. it's all numb and can't feel anything. no pins-and-needles sensations and no muscular weakness, just numbness.
2. no, not your left foot, or ankle, or knee - just above the knee.
3. and not the hand, or the arm - just the shoulder. not the ribs or the belly.
4. the left side of your face. not the jaw, not the neck.
5. it all started last summer, when you bent down to pick up a frisbee. it just won't go away.
6. you're embarassed to say this - you didn't know you'd get a girl doctor - but the numbness includes your left testicle. no pain, no swelling, no lumps or bumps, just numbess. your number one concern is you might have metastatic testiclular cancer.
7. you haven't had trouble with mania since your house burned down last spring - just depression.
perpendicular to a tangent at a point of tangency
1. the baby's urine turned orange.
2. it was just the one diaper. it was bright orange. it didn't happen again.
relating to, involving, or being a
normal curve or normal distribution
Results: about 2,280 for "the doctor said it was normal"
The doctor said it was normal for women who'd had a couple kids. The only problem was I have never had children.
The doctor said it was normal for girls to have some bowel problems.
The doctor said it was normal (and after a week, the blood was gone).
The doctor said it was normal for people with concussions.
The doctor said it was normal for head injures.
I had a lump behind my right ear and the doctor said it was normal.
I asked about the burning in my arm, shoulder, neck, face and back and the doctor said it was normal.
The doctor said it was normal and to keep on trying.
The doctor said it was normal but wanted to see me anyway
The doctor said it was normal for that kind of trauma.
The doctor said it was normal for limbs to twitch during the night.
The doctor said it was normal to have pain even after the MRI showed nothing.
The doctor said it was normal. He said it was a release of the nervous system.
I didn't get my period for a year. The doctor said it was normal.
The doctor said it was normal for young women and it was a blessing not to have your period every month.
They found fluid in her pelvis but the doctor said it was normal. But she is in pain every day.
The doctor said it was normal. Now, however, I have a discharge out of both sides.
I have had vaginal pains for 8-9 weeks now. The doctor said it was normal.
The doctor said it was normal, prescribed evening primrose oil tablets, but i remember he said 'Hmm they are a bit lumpy'.
The doctor said it was normal, that my weight was just shifting toward the center of my body
The doctor said it was normal considering I have a nerve condition.
The doctor said it was normal, esp in families with skin conditions.
The doctor said it was normal to dream a lot, and it certainly kept her mind active - a fugitive demon hunter.
I'm mostly worried about her being sick all the time even though the doctor said it was normal since she just started daycare.
The doctor said it was normal. Jaundice, normal?
My cholesterol is the highest it's ever been - but the doctor said it was normal.
The doctor said it was normal. But I knew it couldn’t be normal. If only the blood test had shown something!
