Stop? No way!

It was our morning round as usual. The Registrar was presenting cases. We were discussing the important aspects of each patient's management before moving on. We were about halfway through. I had a thought and I wanted to ask an academic question related to the condition the patient had that the Registrar had finished telling me about. I was facing her, while she was facing the direction of the remaining part of the ward yet to be visited. I held out my hand, palm forwards, gesturing her to stop. She saw my hand, decided I did not want her to pass in that direction, and turned abruptly to go around me. So I moved my hand in her path, in front of her new position, and held it there signifying I would like her to stop. Seeing that there was obstruction in that direction, she abruptly turned back to the first direction and tried to proceed forward to continue the round. I must say her dodging maneuvers were quite remarkable. “Wait” I said, “I am trying to stop you to ask you a question.” She stopped in the middle of her escape attempts, looking surprised. For a couple of moments she could not understand what the matter was. Then she understood that she could not decide when we were finished with a given patient and we could move on. She smiled, and said “Yes sir. What is the question.” “Let it be” I said “I will ask that some other time. I thank you for giving me something funny post on my blog.”