One person branded the footage ‘hilarious’
ITV regular guest Dr Amir Khan has left fans giggling after sharing an “embarrassing” story on Instagram. The popular TV star and full-time GP often updates his followers with snippets from his life and he took to social media on Thursday to recount an amusing incident.
In a candid video, he said: “It’s a true story, it’s quite embarrassing but someone reminded me of it today and I thought ‘It’s funny, I’ll share it’.” He explained that the incident occurred “probably about five or six years ago now” during a time when he was on call at his practice.
Dr Amir said he had been called out to a nursing home, and added: “While you’re away that list [of patients] continues to grow, so you come back to a longer list, so you want to go out, do your home visit, and come straight back.” During the visit, he assessed an elderly woman with pneumonia and decided she needed to go to hospital for treatment.
After calling for an ambulance, he planned to meet the paramedics in the car park for a quick handover before dashing back to the clinic. He continued: “I was looking out the window waiting for them to arrive and I saw them approaching onto the street that the nursing home was on so I thought ‘right you know what I’ve got to get back to the surgery, I’ve got my letter here’ – I’d written a transfer letter – ‘I’ll meet them in the carpark, hand over, get in my car and go back to the surgery’.”
But it wasn’t an ambulance he had spotted, but an ice cream van. Due to his hectic schedule, Dr Amir was “starving” as he hadn’t found time for lunch.
He recalled: “I thought ‘I’m waiting anyway, I’ll get a 99′”, and that’s exactly what he did, with sherbet and strawberry sauce on top. Dr Amir said: “It was a really hot day and I was eating it outside waiting for this ambulance, and it was all dripping down my hand and onto the letter I’d written for the ambulance crew and eventually when the ambulance crew did arrive I was halfway through this 99 and they came out the ambulance and saw me licking this ice cream going ‘Hi I’m Dr Khan, sorry I just need to lick this before it drips’ and I gave the details of … this 86-year-old lady ‘and here’s the letter’.”
“It was covered in strawberry sauce and the paramedic … the look she gave me, like she was absolutely disgusted and she slowly put on a rubber glove and grabbed the letter from me while I’m still trying to stop this ice cream from dripping all over, like licking, licking, licking.”
“And yeah, I don’t think that was a good transfer. But I downed the 99, got back to the surgery and I had a long list of patients to see and call, so I didn’t get lunch, so that 99 was a good shout.”
Captioning the post, Dr Amir explained that someone had reminded him of the story, which is in his book ‘The Doctor Will See You Now’. He added: “For those who don’t know, a 99 is an ice cream in a cone with chocolate flakes coming out of it. Anyway enjoy x”.
His followers were quick to show their appreciation in the comments section, with one saying: “What a great story. Paramedic with the gloves just made it that more hilarious”. Another added: “You’re hilarious! Please don’t ever change Amir! xx”, and a third wrote: “This has got to be the funniest thing ever please don’t ever change you are just the tonic we all need this made me laugh out loud I can’t wait for your next story”.