I had a good giggle with a classmate the other day. I was showing him the monitoring strip for a woman not in labor because he hasn’t done OB yet. The “tocometer” reading indicates when a patient is having a contractions, indicated by a gradual peak and decline. The patient wasn’t contracting, so there weren’t any contraction peaks to show him. I did find a “dip” in the reading that looked like an upside-down contraction peak. I promptly philosophized about the chance that the uterus could be expanding rather than contracting!! We had some good belly laughs, an activity sorely lacking in medicine!
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The Spiritual Life of a Medical Student 