Doctor Grumpy in the House: Attention patients

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Attention patients

Leaving the message "Oh my God! Are you fucking kidding me?!!!" On my voicemail at 8:59 p.m., with no other information, will not get you a call back.

16 comments:

hoodnurse said...: Until I read your blog, I would have thought people hardly ever drunk dialed their physicians. Obviously it happens all the time, it seems.; October 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM
Anonymous said...: why not??; October 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM
Anonymous said...: sounds like a call from the $2.99 betta after you changed the water :p; October 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous said...: After reading your blog, I realize I am an probably considered an excellent patient.; October 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Obviously upset about your discontinuing the gas services at your office.; October 9, 2011 at 11:46 AM
X-Ray chick said...: Maybe he/she is upset that they didn't had the chance to talk to the sexy, nerdy neurologist.; October 9, 2011 at 1:06 PM
Lynda Halliger-Otvos said...: The patients you describe can almost not be believed sometimes, Doc. Amazing that they can function in real life.; October 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Happens a lot in the pharmacy, when people cannot for the life of them figure out how to listen to prompts and push 1 or 0 on the phone and end up in the voice mail for new scripts and leave all kind of idiotic remarks. Our favorite one was "GO TO HELL!", which we saved and replayed on speaker quite often. The "F-word" is quite popular or listening to breathing for a bit and then 'CRAP! .........'. Needless to say, Dr Grumpy you are right, we do not call them back, sometimes even if they manage to leave their name in the middle of swears.; October 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM
Frank said...: What? Why not? UR SO unreasonable!; October 9, 2011 at 1:34 PM
Anonymous said...: He was calling to tell you your yaks had broken out, and was shocked to learn about your alter ego...; October 9, 2011 at 4:23 PM
pharmacy chick said...: I agree with anonymous. it happens all the time in the pharmacy by people who either dont realize or dont care that they are actually being recorded. Sometimes they just keep saying "hello,,is anybody there?" as if somebody is going to pick up the phone at 1 am ( yes our messages are date stamped). Sometimes we get something like "F*CK! they are closed????...click" Usually people think the phone message is somehow linked to something thyey punched in.." Please call me..I have a question about the refill I just ordered". um ok...which one of the 50 on the queue are you?; October 9, 2011 at 9:51 PM
Laura said...: I gotta tell ya... I came pretty close to leaving a similar message on a voicemail just the other day... The message service kept randomly stopping in the middle of me leaving the message, and then asking me if I wanted to keep recording from where I left off or record a new one. I ended up not leaving one at all because at that point it would have just been me swearing about the message service.; October 9, 2011 at 9:57 PM
terri c said...: I think the drunk-dialing explanation may be right; either that or Mary was asked for her phone number by an obnoxious patient and gave your number instead.; October 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM
Mrs A said...: At least did you get a laugh? they didnt tell you to fuck off now, did they?; October 9, 2011 at 11:45 PM
ER Murse said...: From personal experience, people drunk dial the ED all the time. I know someone who drunk-dialed their parole officer, which is probably worse.; October 10, 2011 at 12:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, you do have neuro-compromised pts.; October 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM

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