Dr. Grumpy: "Is your family doc still Dr. Stevens?"
Mrs. Unsure: "No, I had to change."
Dr. Grumpy: "Okay, who..."
Mrs. Unsure: "I think she moved away, or retired. Actually, she may be on maternity leave. I could have that mixed up. She may have died, or maybe she didn't take my insurance anymore. Anyway, it was one of those sorts of things. I'm not really sure.
I hope Mr. Unsure or daughter Unsure has HIPAA privileges because Mrs. is for sure going to forget she even HAD this appointment.
ReplyDeleteWhat gloriap said.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Unsure forgot that Dr. Stevens is actually on a trip with Doctors Without Borders where they are feeding the cannibals in some remote South Pacific Island.
ReplyDeleteAren’t you Dr. Stevens? No? Well why am I here? As you get older and you start collecting Dr’s like tchotchkes, it gets hard. My Gastroenterologist took leave because he had his own health issues, he should be back, my orthopedic passed me off to his PA for knee injections, have to return next month for more rooster cartilage, my cardio gave me to kid doc I like kid doc cause he is up to date and does not want to leach me like my family guy who is now part of corporate practice, so I probably will never see him again. My dermatologist retired during Covid and split for the high desert waving good bye and yelling “wear a hat, use sun screen” My Dentist practices with his wife, so now I get both sides of their child raising issues. My Urologist pisses me off with tele med, bend over and with your index finger enter and tell me is it plum like just is not working for me. So leave the unsures alone
ReplyDelete"Anyway, who has time to read every single restraining order?"
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's a quantum superposition of all those possibilities simultaneously.
ReplyDelete"I was sitting in the examination room waiting for her to come in, I had to pee really badly, and the sink was right there. If she'd just shown up two minutes later, I would have been done and all the evidence would have been washed away."
ReplyDelete"I still think she was a Nazi for insisting that I wear a mask even though it's a clear violation of my constitutional rights. But next time I key a swastika into someone's car, I'll make sure they're not sitting in it at the time."
ReplyDelete"Why, what have you heard?"
ReplyDelete"Turns out she was just a Russian bot."
ReplyDeleteHmmmm . . .sounds like an informal mental assessment test. But, as Packer said, you do tend to accumulate specialists as you age. Become a caregiver to a relative with dementia AND have a stroke and sometimes the looks you get from other doctor's "Marys" are priceless.
ReplyDelete(Seems it's definitely not Stevens, but whether it was in the nursery or the retirement home with a library card or a health insurance card, or with a stethoscope or a proctoscope, is still debatable and remains to be seen.) "Anyway, it's been three years since I've seen anyone else that wore her hair like that. Although I did hear she was on Zoom, whatever that is."
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