Things Aren't Always What They Seem

A few years ago I decided to play a trick on one of our endocrine fellows, who at the time was only a few short weeks into her training. I had been tipped off that there was an inpatient with fairly profound symptoms related to an acute thyroid condition. So I took our intrepid, young fellow to the door outside the patient’s room and advised her that the elderly gentleman inside had a severe disturbance in his thyroid function, which was entirely accurate.