“One day an old lady went to the doctor One day an old lady went to the doctors because she had an itch in her crotch. She told the doctor her problem and he said, “You have the crabs”. She informed the doctor that it could not be the crabs because she was an eighty year old virgin. She went to another doctor and explained her problem to him. The doctor said, “You probably have the crabs”. “No” she said, “I am an eighty year old virgin.
The nurse heard the scream through the door—not panic, but humiliation. An elderly woman sat inside the exam room clutching her handbag, already bracing herself. Two doctors before had dismissed her concerns with jokes and assumptions, barely listening before delivering the same crude diagnosis. Each time, she left not only untreated, but embarrassed. She had…
