Patient scared me
Typical day. While I am examining this male in his 50s. He is in bed awake. I put my stethoscope on his chest. He closes his eyes. As I remove the stethoscope from my ears and was moving towards his abdomen and talking to him he yells the loudest “Boo” and I got startled. He started laughing out loud 🤣 and I didn’t know what to say. This has never happened to me in my whole career in medicine. He later apologized but obviously I didn’t take it as an offense