Doctor Grumpy in the House

I was giving post-call checkout to Dr. Brain last night. The list was REALLY LONG. Dr. Grumpy: "And that's it. Sorry about the li...

So following the time-honored tradition of my Bible (Chapter 20- Execute Forms at Dawn) I'm sitting here doing miscellaneous paperwork...

I found this in a pile of scratch paper this morning. Obviously, I missed out on whatever fantabulous deal it was. In medical languag...

Patient quote: "Doctor, I've had so many of my friends die from brain cancer that it isn't funny anymore."

There's a new hospitalist in Grumpyville, who's either a medieval time traveler or frustrated Renaissance Faire participant. In the...

This week is the AAN (American Academy of Neurology) annual meeting in New Orleans. For neurologists, this is THE event. To outsiders, it ...

Today is Administrative Assistant's Day (formerly Secretary's Day) and this is dedicated to my awesome staff, Annie and Mary.

Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary." Mr. Azz: "Yeah, I need to see Dr. Grumpy urgently today." Mary: ...

This Saturday in Grumpyville was a fundraising walk for breast cancer research, so while I hauled the kids to various Boy Scout/Girl Scout...

I stopped by the office today to get the mail and change Ed. A patient for Monday had faxed over some of his records, which included this ...

Gee, why do I think drugs are involved ?

Medical marketing surveys usually ask, at the end, if I have any recommendations to improve them. But last night I took one that had the que...

Dr. Grumpy: "I haven't seen you in a few years." Ms. Glunk: "Well, I didn't need to come back until now." Dr...

A while back I wrote about the strange things that show up on my patient info forms about marital status. We've recently had a few mor...