Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy."
Dr. Noclue: "Hi, I'm the hospitalist taking care of Mrs. Lois Lane, and I need to refer her to you, for outpatient follow-up."
Dr. Grumpy: "Okay, how can I help?"
Dr. Noclue: "Do you take Major Illness Insurance?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Yes."
Dr. Noclue: "Okay, I will give her your number and have her see you in a week. One more question, if I may."
Dr. Grumpy: "Sure."
Dr. Noclue: "What is your specialty?"
14 comments:
WOW ... um, he's referring her for what?
Huh?
Yeah. Had no idea. Didn't care either, just wanted to be able to tell the patient what kind of doctor she'd be following up with.
Inquisitive mind. I like that.
Anna :o]
Gives me so much faith in drs. Really.
You could have said proctologist searching Dr. NC's head.
Let's play ditch the patient.
Did you ask him how long he'd been up?
disem - 1 - the brain capacity of a physician in proportion to the number of hours on duty. 2 - the brain capacity of a patient in proportion to the number of pain level (current level is 7, we had storms all day yesterday).
Be afraid! Very afraid! I thought
only patients gave you heartburn!
To think I thought the on-call referal denoted your specialty!
You told him dermatology, right?
I'll bet it was some resident and the attending told him to call Dr. Grumpy and set-up follow-up, but didn't say why or for what.
did you tell him "Herding yaks in Mongolia" or did you fib?
You're so brilliant, you can fix anything!
"What specialty would you like me to be?"
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