Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Mr. Gray: "I didn't bring my test results. My grandson said they were fine."

Dr. Grumpy: "Is he a doctor?"

Mr. Gray: "No, he's in high school. But he volunteers at the hospital."
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12 comments:

  1. ErinNovember 9, 2010 at 6:58 AM

    I bet she left your office and came to the pharmacy and said, "I need (insert medication here). Oprah said it works, so I need it."

    I wish I could say that conversation hasn't happened at least 50 times in my lifetime, but it has.

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  2. RehabNurseNovember 9, 2010 at 7:42 AM

    Doc,

    How appropriate! I am finding that patients don't like the procedures I'm doing in a clinic, so they're requesting extra meds we don't administer (and can't due to equipment needs and regulations), "'cause I do better with them than without."

    Hmm...and you want this procedure because..?

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  3. The MotherNovember 9, 2010 at 8:38 AM

    Like when my MIL interprets cholesterol tests.

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  4. Li'l AzathothNovember 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM

    Introducing: Wikimedica!!!!

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  5. bobbieNovember 9, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    **snort**

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  6. ERPNovember 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    Good. Nothing to worry about.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 9, 2010 at 1:27 PM

    I know you're not making this up... It's too bizarre to make up. Is the name of your practice along the lines of "Nutjobs-R-Us"?
    WF: laviva --- is that cheering for a lavatory?

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  8. AuraNovember 9, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    As I always say, a volunteer armchair quack is more virtuous (not to mention correct) than a plain armchair quack.

    Tell him his malpractice insurance has lapsed tho.

    wv: colur (pronounced cull-lure)- a posh way of saying colour.

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  9. UnknownNovember 9, 2010 at 4:03 PM

    "I'm not a Dr., but I play one on the Internet."

    LOL.

    Now I am all too curious as to what kind of "volunteer work" the grandson is doing at the hospital.

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  10. AnonymousNovember 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    There is a reason why hospitals are underutilized (buzz word of the year) underutilization--which as the Doc. will tell you means that patients are just refusing to go to hospitals ---and I think it is because they have people off the street reading test results.

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  11. AnonymousNovember 9, 2010 at 6:25 PM

    To be fair, if the results came with the lab normal ranges printed alongside, he may have just checked that all the results fell within the normal ranges for the lab. It doesn't take a doctor to do that. Of course, it doesn't mean there is nothing to be learnt from the findings, when considered together rather than individually, either.

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  12. AnonymousNovember 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM

    Hey, did you get her grandson's number? I need a biopsy.

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