I seriously have the best job I can imagine! Why? Well, of course I love helping children stay healthy, supporting their parents, and watching them both grow through time.<\/p>\n
But between you and me \u2013 it\u2019s all the fun and jokes with the kiddos that makes me smile on the way to work each day!<\/p>\n
Here are some examples:<\/p>\n
My patient, a 4-year-old boy, said to me, \u201cI have a sister and a brother. And another brother named Rusty.\u201d His mom looked at him and said, \u201cRusty is a dog.\u201d The boy said, very seriously, \u201cHe\u2019s my brother, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a well-child visit, the newborn baby was crying a lot. Her big brother \u2013 a 3-year-old boy \u2013 pulled on my sleeve. When I turned to him, he looked up and told me, \u201cMy baby is crying because he didn\u2019t come with an on\/off switch!\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of his checkup, a 6-year-old was ready to get the vaccines over with. He impatiently looked at me and asked how much longer the nurse would take to come in, saying, \u201cWhere\u2019s the \u2018shotter\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
After her visit, one 7-year-old girl asked me, \u201cCan I come back here to have a playdate with you?\u201d Aw shucks!<\/p>\n
Me to an almost 4-year-old: \u201cHow long have you felt sick?\u201d Her: \u201cSo I feel good. I just wanted to come play with you.\u201d Her mom confirmed this. 😂<\/p>\n
A 7-year-old girl (named something close to Maria Davis) said, \u201cWhy are my initials on your coat?\u201d Her pediatrician: \u201cHuh?\u201d Girl: \u201cM.D.\u201d Pediatrician: \u201cOh, it stands for medical doctor!\u201d Girl: \u201cI thought it stood for me. So if I go to school like you I\u2019ll be M.D. M.D.!\u201d<\/p>\n
A 6-year-old asked, \u201cHad they invented science back when you were a kid?\u201d Hmmmm.<\/p>\n
Then there were a few kids who said things I just had no answer for:<\/p>\n
Thinking the answer would be Fluffy, Snuggles, or something like that, I asked one girl, \u201cWhat\u2019s your stuffed rabbit\u2019s name?\u201d \u201cBunny-BUTT.\u201d<\/p>\n
After doing a physical exam on an 8-year-old girl, I asked if she had anything she wanted to talk about? \u201cYes!\u201d she said \u2013 \u201cI really hope that my brother doesn\u2019t get pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n
And combining the best parts of my job \u2013 giggles and stickers \u2013 there were these fun kids:<\/p>\n
A 6-year-old girl wisely said we need stickers for the moms. I asked which one we should hand out to moms? \u201cThey would like a scratch-n-sniff coffee cup sticker!\u201d No doubt, she\u2019s on the right track!<\/p>\n
One 5-year-old kiddo looked at me at the end of his appointment and said, \u201cDo you guys still sell stickers here?\u201d Yup, as a matter of fact we do\u2026<\/p>\n
Check out\u00a0My 10 Funniest Patients of 2017<\/a> and 2018<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seriously have the best job I can imagine! Why? Well, of course I love helping children stay healthy, supporting their parents, and watching them both grow through time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[522,519,169,520,549,521,233],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life","tag-doctors-appointment","tag-funny-patients","tag-funny-things-kids-say","tag-pediatrician","tag-pediatrician-visit","tag-physical-exam","tag-well-child-visits","ages-all-ages"],"metadata":{"_edit_lock":["1691575064:8"],"_edit_last":["8"],"slide_template":[""],"video_format_choose":["youtube"],"_custom_body_class":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["60"],"qode_animate-page-title":["no"],"qode_show-page-title-text":["no"],"qode_show-page-title-image":["no"],"qode_show-sidebar":["default"],"qode_hide-featured-image":["no"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["60"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_ages":["294"],"_thumbnail_id":["2928"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input":["funny patients"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":["funny patients"],"_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":["62"],"qode_seo_title":["Funniest Patients of 2019"],"qode_seo_keywords":["kids, doctor appointments, funny kids, stickers, pediatrician, shots"],"qode_seo_description":["Kids say funny things to their pediatrician and make it the best part of her job. "],"ase_map_component_start_point":["a:2:{s:3:\"lat\";d:29.760000000000002;s:3:\"lng\";d:-95.379999999999995;}"],"wpfp_favorites":["19"],"_yoast_indexnow_last_ping":["1691575063"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}