A few weeks ago I sent a lady to a cardiologist. I received his consult note yesterday, and saw this line. Apparently they discussed me, and he felt the need to comment on it.
I haven't changed it at all, except to take my name out.
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P.S. Dr. Ventricle: You spelled "Marx" wrong.
"That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!"
ReplyDeletePattie, RN
I can think of worse...
ReplyDeleteThe real question is, how would she know that SHE reminds YOU of Groucho? Does she have a sweet mustache?
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Yeah, the letter was full of oddball typos. But in the era of dictation software and shitty proofreading skills, I just ignore them.
ReplyDeleteShe'd actually told me the same thing in the past, but I was surprised it came up in conversation with another doctor. Or ended up in a dictation.
I have a question on dictation. Do all doctors generally do their dictation after office hours or as you are seeing the patient? The doctors I see only seem to write down by hand as I'm talking to them.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is different. I take hand notes, then dictate when I have time. Others type on the fly.
ReplyDeleteDo you look like him or are funny like him? We need more information.
ReplyDeleteHooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer, hooray, hooray, hooray!
ReplyDeleteIt's the magic marker mustashe and eyebrows, I know it!
ReplyDelete>:p
So when you whack their knee with a hammer does a duck drop down from the ceiling with a $100 bill in its beak?
ReplyDeleteDoes she look like Margaret Dumont?
ReplyDeleteHawkeye Pierce.
ReplyDeleteA doctor I used to go to looked just like Stephen King. He had a scull in his office...a real one, and every Halloween he stuck a light in it and carried it all around the village. When I had an appointment with him, he used to tell me stories about how Playboy rated his college as a top one because it was one of the first to allow co-ed dorms. Yeah, had he ever referred me to someone else I may have mentioned all that just because it's a conversation starter and kind of amusing. And if I were the doctor that it had been mentioned to, I might have put it in a note just to break balls. :)
ReplyDeleteHave you ever shot an elephant in your pajamas?
ReplyDeleteYou smoke cigars?!?!?!?!?!?
ReplyDelete;-)
Outside of a dog, patient consults are a neurologist's best friend! Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read!
ReplyDeleteHeh heh! :)
ReplyDeletewell one of your posts was headed " a night at the opera".
ReplyDelete"hehehe, aaahh wise guy!"
ReplyDeleteOne of my all time favorites: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
ReplyDeleteAre you hoping that putting the word "Marx" in your blog will get you reinstated into the lucrative Chinese market?
ReplyDelete:D
ReplyDeleteAll the best (or at least weirdest) things happen to you.
ReplyDeleteSHE reminds HIM of Groucho Marx? Do you really tell your patients which Marx brother they remind you of?
ReplyDeleteGee, the picture of you on the blog looks nothing like Groucho.
ReplyDeleteShe meant grouchy Marx, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteNow we know you really look like that.
ReplyDeleteA significant presence? It is significantly better for a doctor to be present when a patient is visiting them.
ReplyDeleteI'm totally with Ben.S - the "significant presence" is what jumped put at me...is it physical, figurative or intellectual?!??? As for Grumpy/Grouchy Marx - you have just added another interesting image of the 6ft4 buff tanned chap that we have of you now...
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