Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Huh?

Dr. Grumpy: "Have a seat and let me look at your chart... So I saw you last week and started you on Mariokart. I'm surprised to see you back in less than a week. Was there a problem?"

Mrs. Copay: "No, I haven't even started it yet. But at the appointment you said I could take it in the morning or at night, and I said I'd like to take it at night. I've been thinking about it, and I'd rather take it in the morning. Is that still okay?"

Dr. Grumpy: "Yes... Was that all?"

Mrs. Copay: "That was it. Thank you!" (leaves office)

21 comments:

  1. It's amazing how some patients come in for something simple like this, but others want everything to be done over the phone. I had one patient that couldn't get her Estring out. I asked her to come it so I could remove it. She refused and wanted me to "do something over the phone." Uh, what? There's something stuck in your vagina! What do you think I can do over the phone???

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  2. And she didn't complained about being billed for the short visit? I like her! Time for a Diet Coke in peace and quiet.

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  3. It surprised me, because we encourage people to call with questions. So why she made an appointment for this I'll never know.

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  4. Maybe she has a crush on you and wanted to see you again! lol

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  5. What about mid afternoon ?

    Crush on Grumpy, Nah, impossible, she was of the old school gentility and did not want to impose on the valuable time of the Dr. and Staff. I recognize the type, they are fading quickly from the social milieu--they are the ones with manners.

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  6. And you actually get paid your $1.75.

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  7. so... how would you charge this? lol

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  8. ...or just overly deferential with a basic misuse of could/can versus may?

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  9. It's amazing how the spectrum goes from this...to the people who expect you to call in a new medication for them without being seen.

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  10. Wait wait. OMG.

    I just realised you're American!

    Okay. Dumbass moment over. Because treatment here in the UK is free, of course, we get these clowns in every day. It's like the circus opens up in front of the clinic and everyone with a chipped nail decides they want a doctor.

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  11. I've had simple questions for which I needed clarification, and so I'd call the doctor's office to ask if they could pass the message on to my doctor. I'd get told, "You need to set up an appointment." Maybe that patient on Mariokart got there because of a similar situation?

    When I lived in Alaska, they'd just ask the doctor and sometimes he'd even call me back personally with an answer. Here in Canada, though, I get the "you need an appointment" for pretty much anything.

    And, yeah, "Mariokart" - LOL!

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  12. whoa cowboy: 'Because treatment here in the UK is free', it's paid via taxes (and prescriptions need to be paid for as well); when cyclops of your kind don't get money straight to their hands, they try to put their hands elsewh---

    1. I'm always right.
    2. If you think I'm not right see point 1.

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  13. 'the circus opens up in front of the clinic and everyone with a chipped nail decides they want a doctor.'

    services' level dictates the needs, in your case, chippendales justify circuit, ah, circus, my mistake, mea culpa.

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  14. Well dang.... a call back from a doctor? Am I living on the same planet? At local large teaching hospital that might actually happen.

    At local behemoth teaching hospital, which may or may not, begin with the name of the city in which it is located, unless one considers it's tentacle like satellites spread in other parts of the country and now the world.

    There, such a call might come once in the so called blue moon, or perhaps have a snow flakes chance in the nether regions of hell, of actually occuring.

    Still, I wouldn't pay my requisite $50 co-pay to ask a doc a simple medication question. That definitely rates a call to either the doc or a pharmacist.

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  15. Just chequing.... (Brit spelling)

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  16. MarioKart hahaha

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  17. I thought that is what Pharmacists are for? Answering a simple question like that....

    At least, that is what we encourage people to do in Canada. That's what that little dispensing fee is for when you pick up your drugs....

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  18. rx - mariokart slow iv bolus , thats what i always say :)

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So wadda you think?