Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
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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Twitter fans- you can follow me @docgrumpy
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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- Sympathy
- Freudian script
- Xenophobia FAIL!
- Time
- Sunday reruns
- My kids are jealous (hell, so am I!)
- "Uh, maybe we can sell them on Ebay..."
- Maybe I should start using Old Spice
- Drug company ads
- Family ties
- Your tax dollars at work
- Counting
- By jove, I think he's got it!
- Meetings and conferences and grand rounds OH MY!
- Set to music, too
- Addendum to the previous post
- If you're gonna do it, do it right
- The surgery mindset
- Awesomeness
- Patient quote of the day
- Why do I bother?
- The ink is black, the page is white
- "That was the wrong button, Nigel."
- Doctors behaving badly
- Magazines at the grocery store check-out line
- Clothes make the man
- Sunday musical interlude
- Random Saturday pictures
- Life in America
- Corey Hart, where are you?
- Keystone Medical Transport
- Mary, bring me a strong drink
- Wednesday
- Junior Achievement
- More signs of the apocalyse
- Patient quote of the day
- 2-for-1
- Dear Wikipedia,
- The iPhone 4s with Siri. More useful than you ever...
- Weekend at Grumpy's
- Be prepared
- Deer crossing
- "It was for a Halloween costume, I swear!"
- Is there anybody out there?
- Hello, telephone line
- And it's a Smart Car, too...
- Today's criminal tip
- Mary's Desk, January 3, 2012
- Technicalities
- 2012 - Signs of the apocalypse
- Sunday hot tub reading
- New Year's Eve, 10:55 p.m.
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8 comments:
Was he parked in a fire lane? Because some of the guys I work with here on the Fire Department will block a car in on purpose EVERY TIME they see one parked and unattended in the fire lane. And on the off chance it's a working fire, that car might be there for a few hours...
Happens all the time in England.One guy I know has been threatened with bodily injury if he didn't move his ambulance, and the police being called to scenes because things get out of hand is par for the course. It's not a new thing, either; I vividly recall my dad having an MI in '84 and the paramedics having to call the police and stay inside our house because someone was threatening to beat the snot out of them for blocking the road.
Some people lack an empathy chip - until it's THEIR relative or friend, then it's a totally different matter.
It IS Brentwood, TN after all. I can totally believe it. Like saying Beverly Hills, CA. Rules apply to the rest of us folks, not them.
Taking it a bit farther than deliberatly blocking a car in a fire lane I remember seeing a picture of a car parked next to a fire hydrant where the FD ran a hose line -through- the car.
Hose lines do leak a bit and often are dragged through dirt etc...
Bet that driver thought twice before blocking a hydrant again.
I was in working in North London myself one afternoon, when the bus driver heard the ambulance siren, and stayed parked at the bus stop. Only the road, par for London, was only 3 cars wide (2 if you're a bus), and so, with opposing traffic on one side, and the bus on the other, the ambulance had to sit there for several minutes, until some bright spark in the opposing lane noticed this, and stopped far enough back to let the ambulance through. Bus driver was oblivious to this all, I'm sure.
Wow......what.a.douchebag.
@Francine, the douchebags take offense to being lumped in with him.
Related story from the other side:
My 70-year-old aunt had a heart attack on Thursday but didn't go to the hospital until Monday because she had promised to bake something for a church supper on Friday.
We were all very angry with her when we found out. She said she just thought it was a bad case of indigestion and she'd had worse pain before. She also said how could it be a heart attack when she eats right and exercises and her husband doesn't do any of those things?
She's fine now and back to walking 3 miles a night.
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