Doctor Grumpy in the House

Dr. Grumpy: "How are you doing? That was a pretty bad concussion." Mr. Cantu: "I'm not myself at all." Dr. Grump...

Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary." Voice: "Hello, I'm calling from Major Illness Insurance to verify your o...

Seen in a chart:

To give you some background, Duchenne's Disease is a form of muscular dystrophy. I don't see it at all because there's an MDA c...

Keep in mind that the Grumpy/Pissy Medical Emporium is on the 6th floor of our office building. Mary: "If you could just fill out th...

Nortriptyline is an old antidepressant, now used primarily for pain and migraines. I recently put it in a note, and the spell-check featur...

I get a fair number of emails from people asking me for advice on careers in medicine. I don't answer them often, because realistica...

  Dr. Grumpy: "Okay, so at the last visit..." Mrs. Bickerson: "Doc, what's with the box of clothes by your briefcas...

Actual message left on Mary's voicemail at 3:43 p.m. yesterday: “Hi, I saw Dr. Grumpy about 10 years ago for something or another. A...

Monday afternoon, 4:35 p.m. Annie: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Annie." Ms. Daughter: "Hi, this is Mrs. Substantia&...

Here's this memory from 2010: The twins (Craig and Marie) routinely beat the crap out of each other. This is such a normal occurrenc...

"Barfing is much worse than diarrhea, though I think the caveat depends on the exit velocity."

Dr. Grumpy: "This is Dr. Grumpy, returning a call." Dr. Hack: "Yeah, this is Mike Hack, I'm an internist on the east si...

On Friday a grateful patient brought in a little basket of goodies for the office. Which included this tea bag: