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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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Doing a survey last night, one allegedly for neurologists, and this question came up:
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
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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
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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:
... just where are people getting those jellyfish stings?
sheesh, Dr. G., in your practice couldn't come up with at least one patient experiencing jellyfish or jellybird, or even jellyreptile stings, bites, or pokes in the eye?
I think, though I have no evidence to support this, that the test was for anyone in internal medicine. Since your primary certification is probably in IM, the people who send out the surveys take a chance that you are practicing IM as well as neurology???
As an aside, why do you persist in trying to make sense of these marketing surveys? :-)
Moose, Virginia Beach. Seriously, my son was attacked by jellyfish at Virginia Beach a couple of years ago. We were in the water, I actually saw the jellyfish, it was right next to me, but it did not sting me. Just as I was going to my son, who was maybe 10 feet way from me, to get him out of the water (I couldn't yell, he's deaf and wouldn't have heard me)a huge wave crashed into us, throwing us toward the shore along with the jellyfish which landed on my son. He didn't go in the water for the rest of the weekend!
I am not certified in IM. Neurology is the only medical subspecialty that doesn't need to be, for arcane reasons.
So, none of your patients come in for their neurological problem and as you are ready to leave the room say, "Oh by the way, doc, my butt hurts. Can you look at it?"
All the freakin' time.
Just a FYI, when you're taking screenshots like that one you should save them as a PNG file. When you save a screenshot as a JPG it looks really ugly around the text areas.
How many of your patients have severe anal/rectal pain caused by jellyfish stings and a 2nd degree (or higher) burn?
What about that study linking cold sores and memory loss? http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/25/17459529-cold-sores-may-be-tied-to-memory-loss-study-suggests?lite
Grumpy:
Maybe you should tell your patients what they do at PrivateU. They're not internists, because the neuros train with the psychiatrists, and maybe they need a competency exam after a 72 hour commitment.
At least, they might get out of the office faster. Just a thought...
this is screening test to determine if really completed by neurologists. all answers should be zero. if you answer any otherwise, you are not neurologist!
I am sure someone sets their 8 y/o on these, to earn those extra medical equipment promises...
Too bad they didn't have a box asking about patients with their heads up their ass.
jellyfish sting and rectal pain on the same survey - ouch!
I guess that could happen when you skinny dip in the ocean.
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