Dr. ERP: "Boy, your throat looks awful... why did you wait so long to see a doctor?"
Lady: "You know how it is with us medical professionals! We always try to treat ourselves first."
Dr. ERP: "What sort of medical professional are you?"
Lady: "I'm taking classes on medical billing."
"I was thinking of studying the molecular mechanisms of cancer formation, but I decided I wanted to go into a more complicated and challenging field instead."
ReplyDeleteWell, that's almost as good as graduating from medical school! I foresee a fast track career path for her right into the preauthorization claims review department at one of the national for profit insurance companies! She will be very successful with her particular skills in 'conflating unrelated data into absolute facts' and 'integrating non-evidence-based positions and unconditional positive self regard into an image of career competence'. These seem to be especially desirable in much of the world of work in America today.
ReplyDeleteShe ought to have stayed at a Holiday Inn last night...
ReplyDeletewell those folks DO run the show . . (Laughing while backing away slowly)
ReplyDelete"So I can prescribe medicine and procedures."
ReplyDeleteToday I had a college student, who claims to want to go into medicine, explain to me that modern research studies must be wrong because they conflict with what it says in his textbooks.
ReplyDeleteWith no offense to your fine staff (staph?), medicine does seem to attract the whackos.
Reminds me of a person I know (I won't call her a friend) who makes sure that everyone calls her Dr. Asshat. She makes reservations at restaurants for Dr. Asshat. She talks about all her work as a doctor. She is a doctor. She has a PhD. In English. Sigh.
ReplyDeletePeople with PhDs are absolutely entitled to use the title Doctor. I have a PhD and I use it.
ReplyDeleteIssue of being called a doctor after receiving the doctorate (and, not just an honorary one!) is that only my mother addressed me in that 'tone' (and professional organizations that want me to donate money), and, yet my mother doesn't even think to ask me about her medication-related concerns. Maybe, she thinks I'll scare here into consideration of monitoring blood sugars on principle, or other matters that her own doctor reminds her about. I love my mother, don't 'get' me wrong, but I did earn that degree more than fair and square, and I wish that she'd 'use' it.
ReplyDelete