Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Swinging Lawyers, P.C.

In the mail today was a letter from one of my patient's lawyers.

The letterhead gave me the giggles.

While you quickly realize all the ways this would make perfect sense, the human mind always leaps to the worst.

It said:

Smuckers & Welch, P.C.

Adam Q. Smuckers
Phillip N. Welch
Susan R. Smuckers-Welch
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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM

    Not to mention biologically challenging to happen!

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  2. PackerNovember 30, 2010 at 4:14 PM

    Grape story Doc, I will preserve it for all time. Be sure to spread it around.

    With a name like Smuckers they have to be good.

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  3. Grumpy, M.D.November 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM

    I was trying to think of names, and there were the 2 jam jars in the office fridge.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    A brother and sister shun their family's jams legacy. She marries a down-on-his-luck jelly salesman.
    Together they fight crime.

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  5. CNovember 30, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    I love a good PB&J.

    wv/fanted- farted and then fan?

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  6. ManawolfNovember 30, 2010 at 5:12 PM

    Anonymous, I see you have never heard of same-sex parenting.

    My personal favorite was always Butts & Johnson... located in San Francisco.

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  7. ChrisNovember 30, 2010 at 6:17 PM

    Well, with a name like that . . .

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  8. CNovember 30, 2010 at 7:16 PM

    We have a Boink and Boink private investigators here. Cracks me up every time I see the sign.

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  9. The MotherNovember 30, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    Um---Much more worried about getting lawyer's letters in the mail. Especially in a medical office.

    Whether they're screwing each other or not just isn't as important as whether they're about to screw you.

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  10. AnonymousDecember 1, 2010 at 1:48 AM

    The Mother, you've said it. Take note, Dr G!

    WV: gliale...hope you glial cells are in tip-top condition...

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  11. kyticaDecember 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM

    For some reason, after reading that header, the peanut butter jelly song popped in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8MDNFaGfT4

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  12. PollyDecember 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM

    Hee. That reminds me of something I saw a few years ago. There was this snotty, airtight clique of "popular" kids at my high school who only ever socialized with each other. As adults, they've pretty much not moved on--they're all still in the same town, all still in that hermetically-sealed little clique.

    So I get this note about a reunion, and two of the women in that clique are on the reunion committee. And they both have the same last name now. Maybe they married brothers or got into polygamy, but I think chances are very good that they just serially married the same guy--15 years later and they're still passing around boyfriends in that same damned Round Robin.

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  13. AnonymousDecember 1, 2010 at 7:07 PM

    giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe one of them was her brother and she married the other partner?

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  14. AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM

    I would guess more likely: father, daughter and son-in-law, no?

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  15. Spook, RNJanuary 16, 2011 at 3:25 PM

    Fresh outta nursing school and my first job was on a med-surg floor. Of all the myriad practices/groups we had, this one caught my attention on Day 1:

    Dr. H. Dick.
    Dr. B. Leak.

    Together they had a - you got it - Urology practice!


    I'm not kidding! Nicest docs. Well mannered. Very professional. All 'round nice guys.

    But you couldn't help but chuckle...

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So wadda you think?