Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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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.
8 comments:
I work for a market research company and they put questions in like this to make sure the surveys are being answered by actual people. Some scammers write survey bots or programs that answer surveys in order to earn money and other compensation. I took a survey once and there was a question that asked "How many fatal heart attacks have you had in the past year? Thought it was funny, but if you didn't answer "0" you g0t terminated - obviously.
LOL...it's a wake up call.
It's so that even a first-grader can fill in the blanks. Nowadays, a lot of kindergarteners know the answer, too. One of my son's cats could probably answer the question as well if he wanted to, but I would guess that for the purposes of helping you out, he'd prefer not to answer.
Yeah, I understand about the need of bot defense, but they can be too aggressive. I've had a survey terminate because of such bot detection--when in reality the problem was I correctly answered the control question--on the wrong line. It was a grid of questions on the left, ratings across the top.
This is super common. I've seen them in surveys for professional stuff and for "what kind of soap do you buy?" stuff.
Sometimes, it's done differently. Example: after the "We want to know your opinion about soap for Upper Respiratory Elm Disease" bit, it says, "We know sometimes people aren't really paying attention, so please check the box that says "I like tacos."
And then it says
Treat them for two weeks with bug spray
Give them an NSAID and tell them to stay out of the forest
I like tacos
Immediately perform surgery for splinters
Well, ok, not JUST like that...
I like the thought of contracting upper respiratory elm disease from climbing trees and acting like a nut, too! Doesn't seem to be one of the options, though.
I guess I'm safe. I'm scared of heights, although I have to admit I do occasionally (ahem!) act like a nut.
Well, you know what they say: Sometimes you feel like a nut...
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