Lara, from Australia, wrote:
<The walnut thing would work for both men and women, but I can't see the
testicular volume & puberty analogy working well for most young adult
women.>

Lara, I think something may have gotten lost in the "translation". I
didn't mean it as an analogy to present to the group - just that it might
"hit home" harder because of personal association.

 When Barbara originally posted:

<<I just tell
> them to "hold onto their nuts,"  because residents are always very into
> gross humor (in my experience;)>

"Nuts" is slang for testicles in the U.S. That's why she suggested it as
an attention getter for a mostly male group of residents. The female
residents would no doubt get the "joke" meaning of the walnut, but could
only relate indirectly by personal sexual experience and/or doing
physicals on males of all ages.

We too are seeing more and more female physicians in the U.S. What
surprises me is that so many are seen in the specialties that often get
woken up at night (OB's Peds, and FP's) instead of dermatology,
radiology, ophthalmology, etc.

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman, RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio

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