Doctor Grumpy in the House

Shutting down for the next 3 weeks. See you in 2020!

Phone rings. Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary." Mrs. Latrodectus: "Hello, I need to make an appointment with ...

Early last Friday morning Mr. Party, a heavy-drinking patient of Dr. Smith (an internist downstairs in my building) wasn't feeling well....

Dr. Grumpy: "So that was 2 weeks ago that you were in the hospital... How have you been doing?" Mr. Percheron: "I'm fin...

Seen in a chart:

I think we'd all agree that going through alcohol withdrawal is a bad thing. I think even more of us would say that having a stroke is...

There's a pediatrics office down the hall from me. Yesterday a letter for them accidentally ended up at my place, so I took it over ther...

11:45 at night. My cell phone rings, waking me from sleep. It’s Craig. Dr. Grumpy : “This is doctor. … I mean, hi, Craig. You okay?” ...

Gang, due to a great deal of insanity I'm going to take a few weeks off from the blog. Hoping to be back on November 18, 2019. All is ...

Here's another great computer chart system. When you order a shoe for someone who just had foot surgery, it gives you a list to pick whe...

Jack is a nice guy, unfortunately now progressing through Alzheimer's disease. Although his cognition is shot, his baseline friendly per...

Thank you, Glenn!