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."
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8 comments:
Hey Doc when are you going to finish the story about Frank and bring lots of towels?
'It' doesn't have to be wrung out of her?
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.
That seem like the appropriate response to some informed consent information.
"Jeeze, what happened to you?"
"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.
Not Prince Andrew then... (or is that a bit too parochial.)
Is that like a dog "expressing" its anal glands?
I do not want to know how this came about.
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