"What people don't seem to get is that I'm doing this whole apply-to-med-school-graduate-from-med-school-do-internship-and-residency-and-be-a-radiologist thing ironically."
Back in the day, when I was teaching med students and young doctors, I used to ask them to consider the situation where the witticism they was about to write in the notes or in a report would be read out in Court and the judge would fix them with an icy stare and ask “What exactly does NFN (or ‘whatever’) mean, Doctor?” . (NFB = Normal for Norfolk).
"When you've been in the radiology game as long as I have, it's hard to work up much enthusiasm over anything short of Ultra-Mega-Hyper-Turbo-Charged Super-Duper X-Treme multilevel discogenic spondylosis."
You're going to be painful for life. Whatever.
ReplyDeleteGlad that's not my physician.
Hazards of an open mic.
ReplyDeleteThat just about describes how arthritis is viewed by modern medicine.
ReplyDeleteAren't those the lyrics to "Smells Like Teen Spirit?"
ReplyDelete"I mean, we're all going to die someday anyway, so what difference does it really make?"
ReplyDeleteThat's why you should always tip your radiologist well.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense if the finding was already known.
ReplyDelete"What people don't seem to get is that I'm doing this whole apply-to-med-school-graduate-from-med-school-do-internship-and-residency-and-be-a-radiologist thing ironically."
ReplyDelete"6-7"
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, when I was teaching med students and young doctors, I used to ask them to consider the situation where the witticism they was about to write in the notes or in a report would be read out in Court and the judge would fix them with an icy stare and ask “What exactly does NFN (or ‘whatever’) mean, Doctor?” . (NFB = Normal for Norfolk).
ReplyDelete"When you've been in the radiology game as long as I have, it's hard to work up much enthusiasm over anything short of Ultra-Mega-Hyper-Turbo-Charged Super-Duper X-Treme multilevel discogenic spondylosis."
ReplyDeleteNever in history has the word "disco" seemed so grim.
ReplyDeleteMy patient died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.
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