This morning was my annual exam. I was still sitting up when the assistant handed the speculum to the doctor, and I was surprised to see it glowing with LED light. "Whoa!" [she said articulately] "That's high-tech! It's like, Queen Amidala gets a pelvic exam!"
"If you'd looked you would have seen a light-up speculum in years past," said the doctor (who was really kind of a pill today, now that I think about it). "We've been using these for years."
The trouble is that you can't see the speculum while lying down, unless you have eyes on stalks like the gastropod version of Queen Amidala. And how, a person must wonder, could such a creature put her foot in stirrups?
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