A question
- by IAN MC
- 2018-09-20 07:08:34
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They say that time is a great healer . Is that why you've got to wait so long to see your doctor ?
Ian
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Time
by Selwyn - 2018-09-20 13:15:02
“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
Sarah Dessen.quote.
OR...
by AgentX86 - 2018-09-22 10:59:46
Time wounds us all. Getting old isn't for sissies but it's better than the alternative.
Then there's the old maxim...
by donr - 2018-09-22 19:59:01
"Never get sick om a Friday afternoon - especially if Monday is Christmas (& Tues is Boxing Day)!"
Donr
Friday night
by AgentX86 - 2018-09-22 20:32:14
You got that right, Donr. Have you seen the class of clients the ER gets on Friday (and Saturday) nights? Scary place to be defenseless! Once, I think I was the only one there not trying to score drugs. ...and I got the morphine. ;-)
AgentX86...
by donr - 2018-09-23 13:01:57
...I see that from both sides. Daughter is an MD running her own private practice. I am her practice manager. I hate answering the phone afyer 5 on a Fri evening. (We are open 1100 - 1930) . The cobversation goes like this: ME: ****Medical Clinic, csn I hlp you? THEM: Yes, my Ornery Gland hurts & I'd like to see Dr. Schmaltz. ME: How long has it been hurting? THEM: Since Wednesday. ME (BITING MY TONGUE) : well, let me ask the doctor if she can see you, the rest of her appts for the day are filled up, bur she can make an exception. THEM: OK. ME (To MD Daughter): Long explanation about patient's peoblem. MD Daughter: Look, you know that Ornery Glands cannot be taken care of here - I don't have the equipment or meds necessary to do them. Now if it were a simple brain trnsplant, it would be different.. Tell them they have to go to the ER. (Whereupon, she throws my worthless butt out into the hall). ME (to the patient: Blah, Blah, Blah, ER, Blah, Blah, Blah, ER, Blah, Blah, Blah, ER, If you maaake it through the weekend, walk in Tues AM at 1100 & we can see you.
So we make it to SAT, when daughter moonlights in a rural ER 160 miles from home. AND what kind of backup does she have - NONE, zero, zilch, bupkus - because all the specialty clinics are closed for the weekend. She has to Medevac them to the closest large city that has 24/7 capability for Ornery Glands. That can be 100 miles & calls for a chopper.
Never get sick on a Friday is worthy of a major momograph & is complicated & has a lot of factors in it - especialy in the Rural US.
Donr
Whew
by Grateful Heart - 2018-09-23 19:05:46
Boy am I glad females don't have Ornery Glands. :)
Grateful Heart
GH: You don't...
by donr - 2018-09-23 23:59:26
...get it! Females have the WORST Ornery Glands of all! When God created woman, he (She?) took MORE than half of Adam's gland & implanted it first. Not only that, He hid it so that the unwary surgeon has to go on a search & destroy mission to find it, because it isn't always in the same place. Further, it's attached firmly to a bone somewhere & it tales a hammer, chisel & a pair of kitchen drawer pliers to get it out.. On every Bovie there is a switch labeled "Ornery Gland Search." You apply the business end of the BOvie to the bottom of each big toe, with the ground plate at the very top of the head. You pulse the Bovie at max power & watch for a quivering action somewhere on the body. The woman must be firmly strapped to the OR table or she might come off & trash the OR. That isn't a pretty sight - a neked woman runing wild through the OR, wires & hoses & IV lines flailing about.
Donr
Don
by IAN MC - 2018-09-24 03:46:00
How long have been having these fantasies ? They are slightly worrying now but if they get any worse you should maybe see a doctor ..... ( oh no, that's where we started ! )
Ian
P.S. As usual, I blame G.H.
You Guys.....
by Grateful Heart - 2018-09-24 12:06:42
Just proved the Ornery Gland is male only.
BTW, I blame the guy that started this thread. hehe
Grateful Heart
She does that to me.
by AgentX86 - 2018-09-24 12:23:04
Don, I don't think that's your ornery gland talking.
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Long wait?
by AgentX86 - 2018-09-20 09:12:51
Why would you have a long wait to see your doctor? If there is a problem, the most I've had to wait for an appointment is a day, as long as I can go to where they'll be. IME, PCPs are somewhat worse about this than specialists but, by nature, the probably book tighter and have more "urgent" calls.