As my regular readers know, before I went solo I worked for a large group called Humungous Neurology, Incorporated (HNI).
I left them for a lot of reasons, one of which (as is usually the case) was money. I won't go into too many details, but when I left my "contract-guaranteed" salary had been slashed by roughly 75% (to less than I'd made as a resident) because the money was needed for "the research budget."
By coincidence, my last day working for HNI happened to fall on Halloween.
So that day I came to the office (with a full schedule of patients) wearing an old pair of pants that I'd used to paint the house, a shirt with holes in it, a sock on only 1 foot, a pair of badly mismatched rundown shoes, and, for the pièce de résistance, this horribly hideous 70's era tie that I found while cleaning stuff at my grandparents' house.
When people asked me what my costume was, I told them I was an HNI neurologist, who couldn't afford decent clothes.
11 comments:
Absolutely brilliant !!!!!!
Well played!
oh, you devil, you.
I worked for a company for a few years went to Law School and stepped off the sidewalk. I was scared going out into traffic, were you ? 30 years later I still think about that choice and how right it proved to be--not in the financial sense-- in the personal sense. Happy Anniversary.
No response from the HNI PTB (Powers the Be)?
Did any patients ask if HNI stood for Homeless Neurologists, Inc..?
OMG *LOL* The seventies era tie! I'm sobbing with laughter at the mental picture in my head!
(Laughs herself silly.)
That is just evil. I love it!
WIN!!
Me, too. The mental picture is just pathetically hysterical. I would've suggested the pilot-style frame gold-color specs with the gob of white tape over the nosepiece myself.
My first reaction was "is he serious? Did this really happen?"
Then I recall the too-insane-to-be-true medical stories that others question but I have no trouble believing at all, and I realise yep, this is true. It's all true...
I will continue to exclaim "is this for real?!" at each blog entry, and I will continue to remind myself which blog I'm reading and that "Yes. Yes, it is."
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