A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Calendar WTF?
Dr. Grumpy: "How often do you miss a medication dose?"
Mr. Gregorian: "Um... Once a month. So in a given year, it would vary depending on the months in a year... so I'd say I miss 8-14 doses per year, depending on that year's calender".
The definition of 'month' being... hmm, waxing and waning of the moon, or is the issue that he forgets a dose on either on 30th or 31st day of the month?
Maybe he goes by a lunar calendar (e.g., the Jewish calendar), where there's a leap month every few years. Or maybe he comes from a planet with more than one moon.
This reminds me of the time my college roommate was trying to balance her checkbook and kept complaining about how "this base 60 system is so confusing". For some reason she believed that there were 60 cents in a dollar "like how there are 60 minutes in an hour". No alcohol was involved and we genuinely had to spend time explaining to her that there were actually 100 cents in a dollar and that she needed to start over with the checkbook.
Your patient sounds about as intelligent as my old internist who once tried to convince me that there were 48 weeks in a year.
ReplyDeleteThe definition of 'month' being... hmm, waxing and waning of the moon, or is the issue that he forgets a dose on either on 30th or 31st day of the month?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he goes by a lunar calendar (e.g., the Jewish calendar), where there's a leap month every few years. Or maybe he comes from a planet with more than one moon.
ReplyDeleteOr... maybe his problems are more serious than he thinks they are.
ReplyDeleteHuh?
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the time my college roommate was trying to balance her checkbook and kept complaining about how "this base 60 system is so confusing". For some reason she believed that there were 60 cents in a dollar "like how there are 60 minutes in an hour". No alcohol was involved and we genuinely had to spend time explaining to her that there were actually 100 cents in a dollar and that she needed to start over with the checkbook.
ReplyDeleteWV: unchest
LOL!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever noticed that after Monday and Tuesday, the calendar says W T F ???
Clearly, he was from K-Pax.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/
OMG Whitney was my ex-wife's roommate.
ReplyDeleteOh, Whitney, please tell me that this isn't true!!!! I work with college students, and I don't think I've come across one quite that stupid yet!
ReplyDeletei never thought of the calendar saying
ReplyDelete'W T F' after monday and tuesday. i like that one a lot. hahahaha
Maybe he was using the Jewish calender?
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