People do the weirdest things!

This evening I had a client come in with a request that came near to my previous experience when the lady yanked up her shorts in the middle of a crowded lobby to ask about a skin lesion on her rear. Today, a male long time client came by wanting "to speak to the doc." I invited him back to one of the exam rooms after finishing the appointment that I was with, primarily because there were a lot of people in the lobby and I had no idea what he needed.

After carefully closing the door he said he had a strange request and proceeded to unbutton his shirt. Apparently a "friend" of his had removed a growth from his chest and given him some thumb forceps and a small disposable scalpel with which he could remove the sutures himself. He wanted someone to "supervise" and make sure he wouldn't hurt himself. I was afraid to ask if his friend was truly a doctor and why his friend didn't remove the sutures.

I advised him to go to a doctor or at least to get some suture scissors rather than a scalpel blade...