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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.
21 comments:
Wife or adult daughter...Nurse Judgy McJudgerson at your service.
For those who haven't worked in bedside care - you might not get how difficult this is to ascertain. Say the wrong thing, piss off the patient (or even worse, the individual you just insulted is the one who will be filling out the survey), get the Press-Ganey survey back, your manager reads it and chews you out, it goes into your file. Asking something as benign as "Hello, who do we have visiting you today?" can set off a stupid firestorm of insanity....
which is why I find this entry so funny, and I can completely relate!
Whoever shows up that day
...or possibly some combination of the above
Best way to establish 'What is your relationship to Mr X, and are you his legal next of kin?'
Anonymous @8:13: and here I thought I knew all the reasons to hate Press-Ganey. Thanks for a new one.
Clone. Just say Clone.
If it matters, ask. If it doesn't matter, "female visitor" covers nearly all the bases.
computer charting - allowing daily opportunities to appear foolish.
Female facilitator in the witness protection program, you will think back on it and you will never know exactly who she was or why she was there.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Some female dood.
Perfect timing! This morning I went to a medical appointment with my ex-husband and was asked my relationship to him. I said, "I'm his former wife." Nursing assistant says, "To us, you're still his Significant Other." Um... if you say so....
I used to take my father to his cardiologist's appts. Mother never went with us. Some years passed and an occasion arose to give the doctor's nurse my phone number. I must have also mentioned that I was his daughter. The [very middle-aged] nurse immediately became relieved to find out who I was, since she had been thinking my father was a dirty old man for having a much younger wife. (P.S. My mother started accompanying us to these appointments after she found this out. Damn that nurse.)
My dad was in hospital one time, in attendance were his current SO, ex-wife, and four adult daughters(none of whom particularly resemble him).
Every time there was occasion to mention us, it would be "your....family" or "Mr (Dad) and his ....family"
I'm now wondering if they all thought this very fat, self-deprecating, middle-aged man had somehow aquired a harem.
'Er, hmm.' EMR leaves no option for 'discrete cough'. The non sequiter side-track, like, 'wasn't wearing my tri-focals this day, and did not note whether anyone was wearing matching wedding bands' could've been covered by 'elderly female visitor', or in the interest of Press-Ganey, perhaps 'visitor in green coat'.
If you ever want to bake, Dr Grumpy, do it artisan style... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00629K4YK
They forgot "b!tch".
I'm so sad. I just reached the "end" (actually beginning) of your blog. Now I don't know what to read.
"The label was hard to read because it was behind the air valve."
'Whatever' works for me.
Dawn, that is exactly how I felt when I first started reading Dr Grumpy's blog.
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