Monday, March 19, 2012

Specialists

Dr. Grumpy: "Hi, Leigh, good to see you again. What brings you back in?"

Mrs. Skin: "Well, my internist told me I needed to see a dermatologist about this thing on my shoulder."

Dr. Grumpy: "Um... I'm not a dermatologist. I'm your neurologist."

Mrs. Skin: "I know, but I wasn't able to get in to one this week, and you had an opening. So I figured I'd ask you about it instead."

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like she came to the right place - definetly needs her head examined :)

murgatr

Anonymous said...

And Mary scheduled you to look at this suspicious skin lesion because . . . ?

Packer said...

I think she is smitten, you call her Leigh and she wants to show you skin.

Now , I have these floaters in my eyes and it makes it difficult to read the verification words, what should I do.... Oh, wait it isn't my eyes, the words really are hard to read---whew.

Grumpy, M.D. said...

Generally, when an ESTABLISHED patient calls to say they need to see me again, Mary doesn't question them. Nor should she.

gena said...

Well, that was a copayment well spent. I wonder if her HMO will cover it?

Vivien said...

Maybe you should feel flattered.
"Oh no, my skins gone all funky. But I can't see a dermitologist for 6 weeks. Hmm, Dr Grumpy fixed my brain up, I wonder if he does skin?"

bobbie said...

So much for all those years of specialty training...

Anonymous said...

A specialist is a specialist, am I right?

Unknown said...

I read this and now I'm humming "Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes..." Thanks for the earworm.

Alba said...

Potayto, potahto...

Ledasmom said...

I'm hoping the "thing on her shoulder" was a parrot.

 
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