phineasjones

Ah--thanks for clearing that up. (It made sense at the time when she told me, and then when I was typing it out, I thought "wait a minute..." but posted it anyway.) But the point of the story still stands, which was that the doctor was totally unhelpful when asked that question. Clearly the poor bee-stung guy knew no more than I did, and the doctor should have explained the situation to him like you just did to me.