Doctor Grumpy in the House

I'd like to thank my reader Beverley, who sent this picture. She says it was in the window of a Tesco supermarket in the U.K.

"It's such an unexplainable thing, because, you know, I can't explain it. It's like something that is totally, entirely, n...

Thank you for your catalog of spiral-bound medical coding notebooks. I've been trying to save money. But when I saw that if I spend only...

(Lady in scrubs comes in, stands at the front counter) Mary: "Hi! Can I help you?" Ms. Tooth: "Hi! I'm Cindy Tooth! I w...

Dr. Grumpy: "Did you call her back last night?" Annie: "No. I'll do it this morning. I couldn't bear to do it at the ...

More grainy, faxed pictures from a GI doc of the inside of my patient's rectum. This will really help me treat his Parkinson's disea...

Look, I think it's great that you, a busy man in his 50's, would take the time out of your day to bring your mom to her appointment....

Us guys get a bad rap. And, in all honesty, we at least partially deserve it. I myself am recently guilty of selective hearing . There are t...

I'm evaluating a pleasant, but very forgetful, older gentleman. His family is in the room. Doctor Grumpy: "He seems to be very forg...

Looking through the chart on a new consult. 22 year old female, who suffered a concussion yesterday. I went in to see her. She had a HUGE br...

On call today, there was a batch of young student nurses (maybe they were student nurse aids) at the hospital. I was sitting at a nurses sta...

Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy, returning a page." Miss Myelin: "Yeah, I see Dr. Cortex for my MS, and I woke up today with...

A grateful patient brought me a box of chocolates yesterday. So I took it home to share with my kids. I got home, and they were all excite...

Dr. Grumpy: "Do you take any other medications?" Mr. Nike: "Umm... I like jogging."