Me (to Patient): Any history of TB or long-term illness?
Patient: No, Doctor. I am very healthy. Never even had a fever.
Me: Are you married?
Patient: No, unmarried.
(Unit Rounds - 1 Hour Later)
Me (to Consultant): Sir, this is a 24-year-old unmarried male, no prior co-morbids, came with a 2-day history of cough.
Consultant (looking at the X-ray): This looks like a chronic fibrocavitary lesion. Priyam, you sure there’s no old history of TB?
Patient (Interrupting): Actually, Sir, I took 6 months of TB meds back in 2022. My wife is waiting outside with the old CT scans and biopsy reports.
Me: 👇