Doctor Grumpy in the House

I had started writing this a while back, and hadn't planned on putting it up today, but since my esteemed colleague over at the The Angr...

(for those of you who recognized the source of this post's title, congratulations!) As anyone in this field will tell you, the alcohol...

I'm on call again today. In fact, I'm on next weekend, too. For those of you who don't remember how much I LOVE being on call, c...

Thank you for coming in on this lovely Friday afternoon, ma'am. I guess you called around 1:30 today, and since we didn't have a 4:0...

I like most of my drug reps. I'm sure many medical people will be horrified at me saying that, but it's true. Most of them are decen...

I have a nice young lady in my practice who, as far as I can tell, has only made one major mistake in life. She fell in love with, married, ...

Alright folks, I'm seeing a Workers Comp case here. Her documents from the state list her occupation as a "data and document extrac...

He's at the 24-hour Wall-to-Wall-Mart, buying a boatload of decongestants for the stuffy nose that's kept him up all night. And the ...

A guy comes in today, signs in, and sits down in the waiting room. Mary, my secretary, checks the sheet and comes back to me. He doesn't...

My 10:00 today is wearing a T-shirt that says "If It Weren't for the Gutter, My Mind Would be Homeless". That's great.

I was in the doghouse because Mrs. Grumpy asked me to hit an ATM while I was out over the weekend, and I forgot. It slipped my mind today, t...

I'm listening to iTunes on my computer. It's randomly picking songs while I review charts on today's victims (uh, I mean patient...

I'm drinking my breakfast Diet Coke and staring at the screen, wondering if I should make an entry for today. Or, in honor of Memorial d...

My cell phone rings at 12:09 a.m. on this Sunday morning, waking me from a dead sleep. I recognize the caller ID number, which is a bad sign...