All opinions are always 100% honest and my own. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I also participate in: CJ Affiliate; eBay Partner Network; Rakuten Affiliate Network; ShareASale; Walmart Affiliate Program; independent affiliate networks.
I work part-time as a teacher of family doctors. The program provides training on psychiatric disorders and emphasizes the importance of emotional support. The new doctors are given plenty of time in clinic to visit with their patients and learn about their challenges.
One of our interns who has never lived in Utah and knows nothing about Mormons is still struggling to understand the cultural climate here. Last week he was interviewing a new patient and stumbled on what he thought was a raging psychosis.
Doctor: Well, Mrs. Olsen, we've talked about your high blood pressure and your medications. Are you experiencing any particular stress in your life?
Patient: Oh, yes! It's the Sunbeams. They're driving me crazy.
Doctor (very surprised): The sun beams?
Patient: Yes. I've never had trouble with them before, but this group won't sit still. They bounce all over the room, and run out the door and down the hall.
Doctor (reaching for a pen): Have you told anyone about this?
Patient: Of course. I told the president.
Doctor: Really! What did the president tell you?
Patient: She said Sunbeams are like that. I'm just going to have to learn to deal with them.
Doctor (concerned that he may be missing something): I know people who are sensitive to sun beams. Do they cause you a rash or anything?
Patient (confused): A rash? No.
Doctor: What's the biggest problem they're creating?
Patient: It's the noise. They just won't quit talking.
Doctor (astonished): The sun beams are talking to you?
Patient: Well, yes. But mostly they talk to each other.
Doctor (scribbling furiously in the chart): I see. Can anyone else hear them talking?
Patient (after a moment of stunned silence): You're not LDS, are you?
Alison Moore Smith is a 61-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from BYU in 1987. She has been (very happily) married to Samuel M. Smith for 40 years. They are parents of six incredible children and grandparents to two astounding grandsons. She is the author of The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers.
That is good, at first I thought it was going to be a serious article because I was recently reading one in Shape magazine I think, were it is important that your doctor be along the same lines as you in religous beliefs because they have the liberty to deny you services if they don’t believe in them such as any form of b.c. or whatever. But this was a funny light article that was quite enjoyable.
This is super cute. I’ve read it before. Do you know where it came from or who wrote it originally?