{"id":23123,"date":"2026-07-05T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23123"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:20:08","slug":"video-a-new-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=23123","title":{"rendered":"Video: A new patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new patient arrived at the doctor\u2019s office for his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>After checking in at the front desk, a blonde nurse came out, called his name, and led him down the hallway to a small curtained cubicle.<\/p>\n<p>She handed him a gown and said, \u201cPlease undress. The doctor will be with you shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man looked at her in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUndress?\u201d he asked. \u201cBut I\u2019m only here for an ingrown toenail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nurse nodded calmly. \u201cI understand, sir, but it\u2019s office policy. All patients must undress before seeing the doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d he complained. \u201cI came in because my toe hurts. Why on earth would I need to take all my clothes off for that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nurse simply smiled politely and left him there.<\/p>\n<p>The man muttered under his breath as he began removing his jacket and shoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the stupidest rule I\u2019ve ever heard,\u201d he grumbled. \u201cMaking someone undress just to look at a toe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just then, a tired voice came from the next curtained cubicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think that\u2019s bad?\u201d the voice said.<\/p>\n<p>The patient paused.<\/p>\n<p>The voice continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just came to fix the phones!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new patient arrived at the doctor\u2019s office for his appointment. After checking in at the front desk, a blonde nurse came out, called his name, and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23125,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions\/23125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}