had our weekly mrcpath teaching sesh this afternoon at the hallamshire hospital from oxford‘s own bryan warren, a prominent gastrointestinal pathologist. i won’t even try to bore the readers of this blog with the features of microscopic colitis and all that jazz, but he did tell us something about the virtues of being pedantic in pathology. words may be misconstrued if not spelt out explicitly.

he described a sign above a room in the gynaecology department at an unnamed hospital in the west midlands:

DISCHARGE LOUNGE

i think that’s enough to put you off dinner for a week.