I remember the days of on-site transcriptionists. This one young woman would call the pharmacy every now and then, and ask if there was such a thing as so and so drug? She had no idea of some of the off-label uses of effective therapies. I'm dating myself, because there was a time when the physician did not have to satisfy the economic decision-making middle-man when a drug was ordered for something in a particular diagnosis.
"I was in this patient's room, and she had expressed understanding. I didn't know that, slipped in it, and fell. That's why I have this cast. Yeah, it was pretty gross. The people who clean that don't get paid near enough."
Hey Doc when are you going to finish the story about Frank and bring lots of towels?
ReplyDelete'It' doesn't have to be wrung out of her?
ReplyDeleteI remember the days of on-site transcriptionists. This one young woman would call the pharmacy every now and then, and ask if there was such a thing as so and so drug? She had no idea of some of the off-label uses of effective therapies. I'm dating myself, because there was a time when the physician did not have to satisfy the economic decision-making middle-man when a drug was ordered for something in a particular diagnosis.
That seem like the appropriate response to some informed consent information.
ReplyDelete"Jeeze, what happened to you?"
ReplyDelete"I was in this patient's room, and she had expressed understanding. I didn't know that, slipped in it, and fell. That's why I have this cast. Yeah, it was pretty gross. The people who clean that don't get paid near enough."
Expressing understanding in this day and age would make anybody sweat. I say give her a stiff gin and have her call you in the morning.
ReplyDeleteNot Prince Andrew then... (or is that a bit too parochial.)
ReplyDeleteIs that like a dog "expressing" its anal glands?
ReplyDeleteI do not want to know how this came about.
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