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Pres. Jonathan & Buhari smiles with a hand-shake at the Workshop on Non-Violence in Abuja (Photos)
President Jonathan & General Buhari attended the 2015 Elections Sensitization Workshop on Non-Violence in Abuja this morning. “Their party leaders were also in attendance. They greeted each other with smiles on their faces and a hug plus a hand-shake. More photos below:
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TSK: So the nurse wrote "RIGHT hand pain" on the chart...
Cranquis (entering room): Hi there, I'm Dr. Cranquis.
Teenaged patient (starts to offer his right hand for a handshake): Hi.
Cranquis (reaching out with his LEFT hand): Oh, why don't I shake your left hand instead?
Patient (flinching away): Uh... um, no, it hurts.
Cranquis: Your *LEFT* hand hurts?
Patient: Yeah.
Cranquis *flustered*: Oh man, we really got started on the wrong foot. Wrong hand. Whatever. Should I come in again?
Patient: *laughs*
TSK: The therapeutic benefit of a hand-shake.
Cranquis: Ma'am, I understand your concern, but you really don't have any symptoms of infectious pink-eye. I think it's your seasonal allergies causing the itchy eyes.
Patient *frustrated*: WELL FINE THEN.
Cranquis *offering hand to shake*: Do the treatments we've discussed, and you'll get better.
Patient *shaking my hand with a look of amazement*: WOW, I GUESS YOU REALLY DON'T THINK IT'S AN EYE INFECTION, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO SHAKE MY HAND. OK, THANKS DOC!
I hate in movies/programmes where two people share a personalized hand-shake and you know it's for the first time but they nail it. These things take time and a lot of effort to master.
More Handshake-Alternative Suggestions...
sangasong replied to your link: Opposing viewpoints on Doctors shaking hands with...
why not the fist-bump? you’re gangster anyway. sense of touch. brotha-brotha understanding. less germs perhaps too?
Yes, less germs than the handshake -- but the back of the hand/knuckles are often used as a backup nose-wiper. Eww.
kangofu-cb replied to your post: circumventions replied to your post: Bad and...
We did friendly elbow-bumps in my micro class when I was still doing pre-req’s for nursing school. Also, upward head nods (which everyone looks ridiculous doing)
The elbow-bump would also be less germy than a handshake -- but since we (doctors) are trying to teach children to cough into their elbows... Hmm.
(Maybe everybody just needs to carry around "Greeting Poles" that we can poke each other with.)
circumventions replied to your post: Bad and Worse: Don't Give Me a Hand
why would a doctor ever shake a patient’s hand unless he knows him personally?
Depends on the culture of the area where you practice. Where I work and live, people are very friendly and hand-shaking during the doctor-patient introduction is common-place. I walk in, I say, "Hi, my name is Dr. Cranquis", I shake their hand, and then I immediately use hand sanitizer as we start to talk. I've done some doctor-shadowing in the Southern US, where pretty much any female patient older than 65 would insist on hugging the doctor at the end of a visit (nasty white-coat-germs and all).
That being said, with a patient whose Chief Complaint is "Rash" or "Fever" or "Personal" (or with ANY patient during flu season) I don't offer my hand. This patient snuck in under my radar by coming in with a CC of "Not sleeping well" -- he wasn't sleeping well BECAUSE HIS GROIN ITCHED. *shudder*
(I'd love to convince the world to drop the hand-shaking convention, actually, and switch to something less contagion-friendly -- like, say, the toe touch. Hmm, or maybe we need a universal gang-sign that means "Nice to meet you"...?)
