Barbara the Slut and Other People. Lauren Holmes
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Название: Barbara the Slut and Other People
Автор: Lauren Holmes
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9780008123055
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After that, I started thinking I might become a girl-doctor instead of a girl-scientist. I thought that through high school and most of college. And now I was supposed to be applying for something for next year, but I didn’t know what. I didn’t know if I still had it in me to study medicine, or even chemistry. I was thinking I might want to study public health, but I was also thinking I might want to move to the forest and eat berries and mushrooms and hibernate with the bears in the winter.
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Mike Anonymous’s test was negative. I called him back in. His shirt around his neck and under his armpits was see-through with sweat. I showed him to the closest counseling room. I could hear him breathing as he went into the room in front of me and sat down, and I told him it was negative before the door even closed, because I thought he was going to pass out if I didn’t. But instead of being glad, Mike Anonymous stood up and slammed his hand on the table and said, “No!” I jumped. Then I think he said the test was wrong, or I did the test wrong. He wanted the traditional test, and he wanted to see a doctor. I was starting to understand him better but I was also starting to get scared of him. I told him he couldn’t see a doctor unless he had symptoms, and he said he did have symptoms.
“You told me on the phone you didn’t have symptoms,” I said.
“No,” he said.
“Okay fine,” I said, “what are your symptoms?”
He showed me a dot on his hand that looked like a freckle but was black.
“Are you sure that’s not ink?” I said.
“What?” he said.
“Ink,” I said, “like pen?”
Mike Anonymous shook his head and waved his hand in my face so that I could get a better look at the symptom.
“Okay,” I said. “Anything else?”
Something something penis, he said.
“Something is wrong with your penis?” I said.
Something something penis, he said again, louder. I told him to hold on and went out to the hall. A med student had arrived with Dr. Wagner, and they were talking to the clinicians about what patient to take.
“I have a really good patient for you,” I said.
The med student looked excited, like he thought it was going to be a woman with a double vagina or something. He was new to the clinic and he was technically a resident, which allowed him to see patients under Dr. Wagner’s guidance. He was too tall and he walked like it was hard for him to balance on such long legs. I wondered if that was why Dr. Wagner didn’t seem to take him seriously.
“This guy is sure he’s HIV positive but he had a negative rapid test, and when I told him it was negative, he decided that something was wrong with his penis,” I told them.
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