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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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16 comments:
On a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 meams like amd 10 means like; I rate it a Purple.
Did you know that the word "Siri", means "secret" in Swahili?
Legitimate question:
Do physicians normally recommend a particular hospital when telling someone they need to go to the ER? Wouldn't it make more sense to just go to the closest ER?
They make the decision making so easy.
Lemme think about that. Do I have admitting privileges there? Will the ER admit them regardless of what their assessment comes up with if I say to admit them? How long does their insurance cover them? Dos their insurance cover diagnostic workups? What sort of quid pro quo can I expect from Dr. X?
Now what was their complaint again?
(Not that I'd ever consider Dr. Grumpy doing any of those things, but I have bumped heads with a few who seemed to operate that way.)
stay safe.
This hospital? I wouldn't be caught dead in this hospital!!!
"Well, on one hand, the bathrooms aren't really the cleanest and the stalls all have glory holes, but on the other hand they're close to the entrance and easy to find, which can make a huge difference in the right circumstances. So I guess it depends how urgent the emergency is."
Took me a minute to spot it. I was thinking it seemed like a reasonable question, but I saw ten was "not likely" out of the corner of my eye. "Oh, that's weird. Normally zero is the...
"...oh. Yeah. Yeah, that would be a challenging question."
My father would've called this a mugwump question, with the answer somewhere in the middle; mug on one side, wump on the other.
well obviously I just filled out that survey wrong. Changing the parameters mid survey is just wrong.
It depends. General emergency - any ER. If, say, it's a stroke, you'd go to the nearest ER that has a stroke service for best outcome. If you're a child with somewhat complex issues, a pediatric ER may be better. Severe traumas also tend to be airlifted to particular hospitals. Same for giving birth. So yes, hospitals can specialize in certain areas, and it makes most sense to go to those hospitals for those issues.
I don't think most of your commentators looked closely at the scale.
It took me a bit to find the problem... Nurse Lily is right!
Hello, hospital?
I have an emergency. My car is on fire. What should I do?
(snerk)
Not likely. Just different shades of grey in the gray areas of not likeliness. Sounds like an existential question to me. Are you sure it was meant for a neurologist to answer and not a neuroticist?
I wondered about the emPHAsis of 'EMERGENCY'? Maybe it's a trick question, like how likely are you refer a patient to a hospital, and the answer is supposed to be 'not likely' to drum up support for ACA coverage of chiropractors or those in homeopathic medicine and the next question is like, how like are you to refer a patient for 'MASSAGE THERAPY' or 'TRIP TO MUD BATHS'.
(More snerk)
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