Professionalism..

Seeing as how this is my first post I should briefly introduce myself. Heres the basics: Im a pre-medical student currently in my junior year, I have no life outside of studying,shadowing,research,and a pre-medical club.  I work in a hospital and I dated a hand fellow for a while  so I feel as if I know SOME of what it will be like at the end ie on call, and that annoying pager. That being said I sound like the biggest nerd in the world. ( I did come up with my own periodic table trend) Yea, its that bad. I plan on using this blog as an outlet for all of the ridiculous things I have encountered throughout this journey.  

The other day I was shadowing an infectious disease doctor-- in my opinion the greatest specialty around-- and I feel as if I now have some pretty weird patient encounters that I deem worthy to share.

Patient One: HIV positive and has a new complaint of anal warts.  Patient describes that the aforementioned warts are bothersome to his sexual life. Then I go on to ask if he has any concerns due to his condition. While thinking--OF COURSE HE HAS CONCERNS why am I bothering with this question. Needless to say this was an embarrassing situation all together and I now wonder how ID doctors can keep from laughing in the clinical setting. It took a lot of inner soul searching to stiffen my laughter. 

 My question now is: how do doctors keep from laughing at their patients? I know from experience at the hospital that they have no qualms with making fun of them with other professionals or really just anyone around , but GEEZ, I dont know if I can make it through another anal wart encounter.