Is there a doctor in the house?

[Flangetastic]

My ex-girfriend's father was a doctor who once mentioned that, due to his profession, he always carried an elastic band around with him 'just in case'. I never got round to asking him why exactly. Any thoughts?

[Tizzy]

To secure his shirt sleeves back when he's about to delve into an emergency operation on an plane with the use of a coat hanger and pen .. why else?lol ;o) T x

[flirty41]

Maybe to use as a tourniquet to slow down blood flow above a bleeding limb?

[brawburd]

Because someone once asked him if he had an elastic band, and he decided never to be without one again?!

[sft42]

To give people something to remember him for, for the rest of their lives.

[Flangetastic]

I initially thought, as flirty suggested, that it's purpose might be as a makeshift tourniquet or perhaps to help locate a vein but then Tizzy has a valid point - trying to perform an emergency tracheotomy with your sleeves flapping about is always tricky I find. Trying to explain afterwards that I'm not a real doctor and what exactly I was trying to do with the pen is always trickier though.

[rekstout]

Surely to secure ones sleeves one would need TWO rubber bands?

My guess would be something along the lines of ligating an umbilical cord in the event of an emergency birth - I'm pretty sure that once born and child must have it's umbilical cord disconnected fopr some reason.

[Tizzy]

Cor blimey it was only a take the mick answer ... hardly a serious asnwer! lol