As part of the admission procedure in the hospital where I work, I ask the patients if they are allergic to anything. If they are, I print it on an allergy band placed on the patient’s wrist. Once when I asked an elderly woman if she had any allergies, she said she couldn’t eat bananas. So I prepared her wristband and filled out her paperwork. Imagine my surprise when several hours later her very irate son came out to the nurses’ station demanding, “Who’s responsible for labeling my mother ‘bananas’?”