Mr. Gene: "You mean my family?"
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
No, just pick somebody else's family. It's more fun.
Mr. Gene: "You mean my family?"
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Dr. Grumpy: "Any major illnesses in the family?"
Mr. Gene: "You mean my family?"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Mr. Gene: "You mean my family?"
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.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(742)
-
▼
April
(70)
- On-call food
- Can't argue with that
- Attention patients!
- Mary's Desk, April 29, 2010
- Mind reading
- Evolution in reverse
- Wednesday night, 6:49 p.m.
- Dim bulb
- Dear Drug Company,
- Another day, another...
- Mary, come shoot me. Now.
- Naked Terror
- Sympathy
- Nurses...
- On call- Idiocy
- On call- Sunday morning.
- On call- tips from the trenches
- With a cluck-cluck here and a cluck-cluck there
- Fun with teenagers
- Toothbrush? Finger with booger? OMG!
- BOOBQUAKE, 2010: Shake 'em! You won't break 'em!
- Great office moments
- "Sir, can't you wait until next week? Sir? Sir?"
- Wednesday afternoon
- Wednesday morning, 5:45 a.m.
- Sentence Structure- It means something
- Fail!
- Dear Insurance Company,
- What the HELL does this mean?
- I'VE GOT THE POWER!!!
- Monday Morning
- FRANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- My Readers Write
- Truth in advertising
- Thursday Weirdness
- So let's beware of them
- What the hell?
- Drug Ads
- Huh?
- Let me repeat the question
- The family next door
- Mary's Desk, April 13, 2010
- Overheard at the Grumpy house computer desk
- Monday non-sequitur
- Saturday night, on call
- Stupid toy of the year award
- Difficult Case
- Is she a cat?
- It's a guy thing
- My 10:00
- Early Morning ICU Rounds
- Who's counting?
- Whoa, Nelly!
- The last patient of the day
- No, just pick somebody else's family. It's more fun.
- Tuesday night, 9:25 p.m.
- Annie's Desk, April 6, 2010
- Dear Dr. Astute,
- Frazzled Farmacy
- Tourism 101
- Early Monday morning
- I'm old
- Sunday afternoon, 12:48 p.m.
- Sunday Editorial
- Stupid
- Quitting smoking
- Statistics R Us
- My readers write
- Guessing games
- Why I do what I do
-
▼
April
(70)
20 comments:
Well, since you asked about someone else's family, let me tell you about mine.....
No, the Royal Family, of course.
Of Japan.
"Sorry, but the Don says we're never supposed to discuss Family business with outsiders."
That is so funny! Really?!?!
Just wandered over to your blog. Love it!
Yup. Really.
Ah, yes, the family question. I was adopted. So it's a short conversation. I'm a mystery! : )
THE family?
Which family would that be, exactly? The family in which one was raised (parents & siblings), or the family one lives with as an adult (spouse & children), or are you asking for a medical history of biological family members (some people want to include aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews/cousins when there are significant issues, and some people say that's too far removed), grandparents...?
Regardless of how you interpret "family," isn't that information already on the paperwork, and so not really a necessary question?
I don't do those forms. I take the whole history myself.
I used to use them, but found that between trying to clarify points, read handwriting, and taking my own history it was actually faster to just do it myself.
Hope you took your Sarcasma today! In your place, I would have had a probably-irresistible urge to make a smartass comment in reply. :)
That makes more sense. Thanks.
It's pretty cool to have a doctor ask questions and actually listen to the answers.
Priceless, absolutely priceless. LOL.
You are right about the forms, BTW. Most folks handwriting is just awful, older people are slower than dirt at writing stuff, and people "read" questions but don't *read* them. Allergies to drugs (real allergies) are the most overlooked.
Great stuff. Love your blog.
"Do you mean my actual physical family, or my family in World of Warcraft?"
Last time I asked that question, the patient looked at his wife and asked her about "that heart thing that your uncles all had".
I should have asked about consanguinity next...
I want to use someone else's family! I didn't know that was an option. My family is a medical train wreck, so if I can use someone else's....wow...why didn't I think of that?
That's a crazy world you live in ... which world..?
My running joke whenever a friend goes off to the bathroom is for me to ask them to 'go for me, too.' No special requests, mind you, just do for me what you're doing...
Mum says we're never to talk about what goes on at home, it's private, no one else's business....so I'll have to say no.
Same lady as time zone lady?
Sounds similar to pharmacy: have you been here before?
No but my wife/sister/2nd cousin once removed has.
Or. No but I go to Competitor Pharmacy.
My second favortie:
I'd like to know if a rx is ready.
Who is it for?
Me
Now I just ask What is the name?
Would you consider getting whacked a major illness?
You don't use those damn history forms?! You take the history YOURSELF?! Okay, now I'm floored. Wherever it was that you learned this technique--be it at your medical school or your residency--that's where I want to go to learn medicine, so you'll have to tell me where to apply. And where to find others like you.
(Especially because the next doctor that makes me fill out a 20 page form only to have his nurse ask me all the same questions and then ask me the same questions himself is going to get a swift kick in the 'nads.)
Post a Comment