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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Welcome to my whining!
This blog is entirely for entertainment purposes. All posts about patients, or my everyday life, or anything else may be fictional, or be my experience, or were submitted by a reader, or any combination of the above. Factual statements may or may not be accurate. I could be making all this up. I may not even be a doctor. The only true statement on here is that I probably drink more Diet Coke than you do. A lot more.
Singing Foo!
Singing Foo!
Twitter fans- you can follow me @docgrumpy
Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
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- Cyber Monday- The Deals Continue
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- What Part of "Closed" Are We Not Getting Here?
- In Line at Starbucks
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- This Morning, At The Hospital...
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- Medical Guidelines
- Tuesday Evening, During Desert
- Averages Aren't Always Helpful
- Not a Good Sign
- Bartender, Gimme a Light
- Mary's Desk, November 23, 2009
- Sunday Night, 11:25 p.m.
- Sunday Reading
- Death and Money
- I Ain't Coming
- Random Saturday Moments
- We're Not There Yet
- You Idiot
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- Why Did You Decide To Become a Neurologist?
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- Family Math Issues
- Dear Mr. Attorney,
- Packing Overkill
- Crap! That Hurts!
- Tuesday Morning, 1:58 a.m.
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- Damnit, Jim, I'm a Doctor, Not an Electrician
- Sunday Reading
- Suckered In
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- Now THIS is a Christmas Tree Ornament
- Say WHAT?
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- Beware of the Staff
- Thursday Morning, 2:23 a.m.
- Attention Female Office Staff
- Playing Stupid. And Winning.
- The VFW Visits
- Mary's Desk, November 10, 2009
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- Idiocy in America
- Dear Dr. Hummingbird,
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15 comments:
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
For some reason the drug ad that's struck me as funny lately is the one for a drug marketed to dogs as Vetmedin (pimobendan is the name of it). The ad claims that they a "study of unprecedented magnitude reveals the secret of a longer life in dogs with congestive heart failure!" Okaaaaay. They want to sell the drug on the grounds that THEIR study is BIGGER THAN everyone else's study? Seriously? That's the best they could come up with??
We had that exact same title for a charity ball for our local Alzheimer's group.
One hopes people recognize the disconnect.
Aricept handed out at the reception entrance.
webhill: studies are designed to be only as large as they need to be. Smaller effect sizes require larger studies. You can infer that if the study was large, the effect size they were looking for must have been small.
Got'ta love those marketing people...
Oh, that's got me chuckling.
What I really want to know--do you think they were actually going for the irony angle, or are they just clueless?
*shakes head*....a night to remember? wooooooooow. c'mon now!
~hl~
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I guess it is better than "Twist the night away! An evening for the ALS Foundation!"
Introductions should be REALLY fun there..."Hi, I'm...uh...er....who am I again?"
Please tell us you submitted that to FailBlog..
I once taught classes in a downtown office building next door to the county mental health clinic. As I looked out my classroom window I saw drug addicts, street people, suicidally depressed people, schizophrenic people, crazy criminals not pretending too hard to be crazy standing in line for their turn to get into the clinic. On the building wall for them to look at as they waited for their turn to get into the clinic, I saw a brightly colored poster with the headline: Celebrate Mental Health!
Once I saw a man running down the same street pursued by police officers, pulling off his clothes as he ran. As he ran by my window he escaped from his pants. Perhaps he was celebrating.
An evening to remember: Now with extra Aricept and Namenda in the punch!
When Alzheimer's patients take a drug like Aricept, do the patients themselves notice a difference? Seriously...
;-) that is either hilarious or very cruel - but I can't remember. . .
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HILARIOUS!
I think.
I used to worry about Alzheimer's, but I can't remember why.
Mike
Have found your blog recently and love reading through your old posts.
My sister worked at a clothing store while in university. They were asked to participate at a fashion show where the proceeds went to an Alzheimer's group. My grandfather had Alzheimer's disease and my sister was eager to contribute her time and funds to this endeavour. However, she was very upset that they constantly played Barbra Streisand's rendition of "Memories" during the entire fashion show!!!
Needless to say, many family members of people with Alzheimer's were in attendance, and furious. Many left before the silent auction (which was the big money maker for the event).
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