One day in Samouha Hospital
Last week I took a history from middle aged female patient complaining of loss of urine output (anuria). From the general look she was highly obese. She was very helpful in cooperating with us taking the details and measuring the blood pressure. She even called her son on the phone to assist me on the history taking. As I continued the sheet, her past history indicated she had multiple medical problems. She was positive with heart conditions and diabetes. As our Arabic vocabulary are quite limited, we didn't managed to understand everything she said, hence to came out with a provisional diagnosis. But we had some suggestions from reviewing the history we took, her complaint may be due to her uncontrolled diabetes. One even suspected lupus nephritis! Then a moment later the doctor came. And suddenly everything changed. We were, and I, was wrong from the beginning. We failed to understand her real complaint, which was a vaginal discharge. It was caused by urinary tract infection