Rhea: "I'm Rhea. It's pronounced like 'diarrhea,' without the 'dia.' "
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Dr. Grumpy: "Have a seat. I'm Dr. Grumpy."
Rhea: "I'm Rhea. It's pronounced like 'diarrhea,' without the 'dia.' "
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Rhea: "I'm Rhea. It's pronounced like 'diarrhea,' without the 'dia.' "
Welcome to my whining!
This blog is entirely for entertainment purposes. All posts about patients, or my everyday life, or anything else may be fictional, or be my experience, or were submitted by a reader, or any combination of the above. Factual statements may or may not be accurate. I could be making all this up. I may not even be a doctor. The only true statement on here is that I probably drink more Diet Coke than you do. A lot more.
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Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
Cast of Characters:
Annie: My Phenomenal MA
Mary: My Awesome Secretary
Ed: The office fish
Dr. Pissy: The guy I share an office with
Mrs. Grumpy: My Boss (also the world's greatest school nurse)
Frank, Craig, and Marie: The Grumpy Tribe
Garlic and Riley: The Grumpy Dogs
Questions? Comments? Biting sarcasm? Write to: pagingdrgrumpy [at] gmail [dot] com
Note: I do not answer medical questions. If you are having a medical issue, see your own doctor. For all you know I'm really a Mongolian yak herder and have no medical training at all except in issues regarding the care and feeding of Mongolian yaks.
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14 comments:
They say the "Laughter is the Best Medicine", and I always get a laugh from you!
Hea, hea hea! (without the Es)
Snorting tea through my nose is medically contra-indicated, blast you!
:-)
Ha! sounds like a keeper, good sense of humour.
Duhh. Y'mean like the bird, just like the bird?
Seriously, there was a patient that showed up regularly in the ER whose name was Candida, not Candi, nor Candide, but Candida like in 'albicans'.
Is that an Artisanal name?
I used to think they were saying "dire rear."
As a child, I always thought it was spelled "Dire rear" ;-)
I guess we know her schoolyard nickname now. Poor girl
I often give my last name as "Parkinson, like the disease"
so that people will have a clue how to spell it.
@Parkinson,
Move to the Saudi Arabia,
then you can be Sheik Parkinson ;-)
Someone beat me to the flightless bird comment.
I feel her pain. I, too, have an often mispronounced name and sometimes it helps to put it in relation to another more common word.....like she did.
That said....the whole trend of spelling names in inventive (or sloppy) ways and declaring them pronounced in odd ways only paves the road to lots of therapy sessions in 10-20 years for the then frankly confused young adults.
My husband's name is so weird and hard to play on until one friend called him Hormone Compost. It's been his charming sobriquet ever since.
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