“Lol, so once I had a patient come in for an EGD (an upper endoscopy, where we take a camera and look at the inside of your esophagus, stomach, and the top of your small intestines). I was doing my pre-op thing and asked when the last time he had something to eat or drink. He said, ‘Last night.’ I saw that he was diabetic and on fast-acting insulin three times a day.
‘Did you skip your insulin dose this morning?’ I asked.
‘Nope!’ he said.
‘😟’
‘Oh, don’t worry, I had a banana and peanut butter toast.”
‘😳 So, you did eat today??? You just said you hadn’t eaten since last night. They told you yesterday on the phone not to eat after midnight.’
‘Nuh-uh!’
—enter short argument—
Finally, he admits that we did tell him not to eat and that, yes, eating with your insulin still counts as eating. He was very irritated that we had to cancel the procedure to look at his stomach because he had put food in his stomach.”