Long time, no see

Here are a few of the tough questions I have faced in the last few days: What do you do when you walk in an exam room and a patient hands you a newly removed body part? And then another, from a different part of the body?What do you do when you run out of pretzels and you're running an hour late, and your coffee gave out several hours ago when you stopped drinking it because if you kept drinking it you'd never sleep and you hardly sleep as it is? And your next patient is on 24 medications?With what do you follow when you're trying to establish that mythical rapport with a new patient when you ask, "Where are you from?" and the patient answers, "Yes, yes, I work very hard."When a very large woman says to you during a discussion about her weight "I never eat candy" and you can see the Reese'...