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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Expect. 2013 Dec 4;18(5):1672–1685. doi: 10.1111/hex.12160
P: Doc, doc, doc. This CAT scan. I’m not gonna be able to drink that stuff. I’ll get sick.
C: Yeah, how is he gonna do that?
D: You mean the barium?
P: Yeah. We have to drink like two liters.
C: He’ll never get it down.
D: You don’t think you’ll be able to get it down. What we’ll do is we’ll give you a lot of things for nausea ahead of time and basically we will explain that you’re not gonna be able to drink all of it. And if you can even get a little bit down it allows us to see how the stomach empties. If you just get down one little cup it will tell us what’s going on with the stomach.
*Continued dialogue for ~16s*
D: What I tell people when we’re not being tape recorded is to take a cup and then pour the rest down the toilet and tell them that you drank it all. [Laughter]
P: That’s what I did when I had my colonoscopy. [Chuckles]
D: Just a creative interpretation of what you are supposed to take.
P: I love it, I love it. Well, I thank you for that. I’m prepared to do what we’ve got to do to get this right. I want to feel better and I want to get stronger. So, thank you.
[Patient 505, Physician 404]