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] |