When the ER Patient Says This

When an ER patient says “my wife made me come in”, something is really fucking wrong until proven otherwise. Trust me on this one.

A screenshot of a tweet by an emergency-room doctor joking that when a patient says his wife insisted he seek medical care, the situation must be unusually serious. The punchline relies on the stereotype that men avoid going to the doctor, so a wife sending her husband to the ER signals a genuine emergency. EN: A screenshot of a tweet by an emergency-room doctor joking that when a patient says his wife insisted he seek medical care, the situation must be unusually serious. The punchline relies on the stereotype that men avoid going to the doctor, so a wife sending her husband to the ER signals a genuine emergency.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 11535 2023-08-20