I only decided to go to medical school when my GP told me a story about the time he looked in a kids ear and a cockroach was looking back at him. And honestly that hasn’t turned out to be a big part of the job.

As a child (in the late/post USSR), I had a serious phobia precisely about this thing: I was afraid to asleep in the train, because there were plenty of cockroaches and I was totally sure that they're only waiting for a chance to get inside my ears 😬

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You’d have liked to think it would be an infrequent but regular occurrence - at least once a year!

the otoscope also magnifies and makes that insect you're looking at seem much much larger than expected

Gonna send this to my daughter-in-law who is in her residency, but I suspect it isn’t her origin story.

Is this the medical equivalent of quicksand not featuring in my life as often as I thought it would?