(Humor) Short-term amnesia. + Amnesia a corto plazo. [Eng+Spa]

An elderly man walks into a health care office, worried, and speaks to the doctor:

“Doctor, I have short-term memory problems. Someone says something to me and I forget it almost immediately.”
“How long has this been happening to you?”
“How long has this been happening to me? What am I doing here?”

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Un señor mayor entra en un consultorio de salud preocupado y habla con el médico:

— Doctor, tengo problemas de memoria a corto plazo, alguien me dice algo y lo olvido casi de inmediato.
— ¿Desde cuándo le ocurre eso?
— ¿Desde cuándo ocurre que cosa? ¿Qué hago acá?




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Es un caso bastante grave, pobre sujeto.

Es una cosa que puede ser muy preocupante, desde afuera puede parecer gracioso a varias personas, pero cuando toca padecer esto o que sea de una persona cercana, entonces ya no da risa para nada.

I think he doesn’t just forget what people said to him, and if it is just as he said, he shouldn’t have remembered to complaints to the doctor.
That means, somehow he is able to remember that someone told him something. 😁🤣

Although I took it as a joke, memory problems in older people can be quite worrying. By the way, I think you're right about the fact that it's not like he forgets everything, because if that were the case, he wouldn't realize he was forgetting things and wouldn't have gone to the doctor.

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