The Doctor from Hell at EAGALA - by B Kane, MD

...the Equine-Assisted Growth and Learning Association Annual Conference in Ogden, Utah. Most of the attendees were psychotherapist, with a third being equine specialists the conduct equine assisted psychotherapy with a therapist.
In our M&H presentation, we performed a skit called "The Doctor From Hell." Sharon was the patient and I was the DFH. It went like this--see if you can detect the obvious examples of the DFH's cluelessness:

(Patient is in the middle of putting on ridiculous purple plastic johnny. DFH barges into the room without knocking, attention fixed on the patient's chart.)

Without any preliminaries, and without looking up, the DFH says: "It says here you have a cough."

Patient: "Yes it started when I was working in my barn with..."

DFH: "Well, you horse people get some stupid things."

DFH takes her stethoscope out of an ice bucket overflowing with ice and slaps it on the patient's chest. The patient jumps and flinches, but the DFH just says, "Breathe."

DFH: {gravely} Hmmm. [Louder and more gravely...} HMMMM! I have to do a procedure. (Takes out huge syringe which becomes filled with red fluid. [OK--as an aide--Special Feauture from The Making of "Doctor from Hell," the red stuff was this vile Hawaiian punch-type liquid they served us at lunch 2 days previous.]
DFH (looking at fluid): Ewwwww! Awful!

Pt. What?!?! What is it?

DFH: Seems like a case of fulminant interstitial necrotizing pneumo-anaplasmosis!

Pt. What?!? What does that mean.

DFH (scribbles on Rx pad, tears off sheet and drops in pt's lap). Here, take this medicine.
[DFH walks out}

Pt: Whaaa...? Am I done? Is she coming back?
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Well, maybe you had to be there. We kind of hammed it up.

We also showed the NBC video and a PowerPoint with lots of great pictures of our classes and the horses, overlaid with clinic and hospital scenes with doctors and patients.

We sold out of the stash of Manuals of Medicine and Horsemanship we brought! (Not only was I happy to have new owners for them, I was -really- happy not to have had to schlep the box back on the plane.) Several people expressed interest in starting M&H programs at med centers near them. It will be so exciting when the first/next one takes off and has its first class!