Doctor Grumpy in the House

Fr om our favorite man-in-blue: Last night, near the end of my shift, I happened upon a disabled car in the middle of a busy intersectio...

Mrs. Autoclave: "Hello?" Annie: "Hi, this is Annie at Dr. Grumpy's office." Mrs. Autoclave: "Do you have my...

This is Mrs. Grumpy. Look, kids. There are all kinds of ways to fake being sick/injured/dead to try and get sent home from school. Pre...

"My blood pressure is intermittently sporadic. It happens randomly."

I recently got a new doctor's bag because my old one fell apart. While talking to a nurse at the hospital, I started fiddling with the s...

Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy, returning a call." Mrs. Adna-Thompson: "Hi, I'm one of your patients, and I'm at G...

First, from our recent trip, we have this picture taken at Lagoon . Apparently to dissuade masochists and guys looking for a painful prosta...

English, like any language, has rules that are needed to convey whatever a sentence is trying to say. Sometimes those are at odds with spa...

Yesterday I got dragged into doing a car accident evaluation for an insurance company. Generally I try to avoid these, but for various reaso...

In case you missed this groundbreaking work last month, the Journal of Caffeine Research (with a name like that they should be hanging out ...

Mr. Tophi: "Look at this thing on my foot. It really hurts. Is this from my Parkinson's disease?" Dr. Grumpy: "No, that...

Reading notes from another doctor yesterday I discovered this line: "The pain radiates from her neck into the right shoulder, then do...

This is Mrs. Grumpy. Dear Parents, I encountered quite a few of you last month, as I got suckered into doing the summer vision and hea...

At my family's request, I am ending the current Summer vacation series. I will return to regular blogging on August 20, 2012.