post-surgery curiosity

Refers to the common occurrence of a patient’s asking the doctor to show him the “nasty” (i.e., a lodged foreign object, gall/kidney stone, tumor, infection-colony x-ray, etc.) that was removed, and thus his intense suffering in finally alleviated. Deep-framing said undesirable for display on the person’s wall is optional.

Children are most often the patients exhibiting post-surgery curiosity, such as wanting to see a thorn/splinter (“No WONDER this was paining you so much --- just look how big and ugly it is!”) after it’s been extracted from their hurting appendage.