Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I Don't Remember Who's Forgetting

Dr. Unka is in my office complex. When he refers a patient to me, he often walks them upstairs to my office and waits with them up front (while his own waiting room backs up) until Mary has scheduled the patient. He often asks that I drop everything I'm doing to come meet his new referral, instead of just having them call us to make an appointment.

So today Mary called me to say Dr. Unka was up front, and wanted me to come meet a new patient. So I excused myself from my current patient and went up front, to see him standing there with a familiar, somewhat irritated-looking, older lady.

Dr. Unka: "Ibee, I'd like you to meet Mrs. Ancient. I'm referring her for memory loss."

Dr. Grumpy: "Uh, I saw Mrs. Ancient 3 weeks ago for that."

Mrs. Ancient (glaring at Dr. Unka): "I told you! Why didn't you listen to me?"

Dr. Unka: "She did?"

Mrs. Ancient: "Yes!"

Dr. Grumpy: "Yes, I sent you a note."

Dr. Unka: "You did?"

Mrs. Ancient: "Yes! He did! It was even in my chart at your office! I pointed it out to you!"

Dr. Unka: "You did? Um, I mean, then have her make a follow-up." (leaves my office).

So in this situation, who REALLY needs to be seeing the neurologist?
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6 comments:

  1. WWWebbJuly 22, 2009 at 8:29 PM

    Who are you and why am I here?

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  2. KimJuly 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM

    Yikes! Awwwwkward......

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  3. ChrisJuly 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM

    You SURE you're not the reincarnation of Bud Abbott?

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  4. LipstickJuly 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM

    OK this is just too creepy...I think Dr. Unka is in my building!! LOL-we have this doc that accompanies his patients down to the pharmacy for all kinds of ridiculous requests (injectables that no insurance company pays for in an outpatient pharmacy, etc). Of course, I'm sure his waiting room is overflowing...

    way to go, Mrs. Ancient.

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  5. thegooddrlauraJuly 23, 2009 at 3:54 AM

    well, obviously, Dr. Unka is a better doctor than you (or me or anyone else) and his patients are more sick and important than yours (or mine or anyone else's or the ones in his waiting room, until later) so you just better do a full, thorough neurologic exam on his patients as soon as he f****n* says so.

    I'm pissed off about another thing but it sounds like Dr. Unga deserves for me to take it out on him.

    p.s. memory loss? sounds like Dr. Unka should make an appointment!

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  6. UnknownJuly 23, 2009 at 7:18 AM

    Not only are your patients nutz, your collegues are as well.

    0_o

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So wadda you think?