My Equivalent to Philosophical Questions.

[m_oaksmd]

Can a person exist on cold pizza and coffee? (I sure as hell hope so)

If a clinic patient pulls a groin muscle is it wrong to tell them they should exercise it more? (But how could something that feels so right be wrong?)

Does anyone actually read the paperwork we do? (And by 'we' I mean other doctors and occasionally-rarely myself. Another way

Comments

[doc_paul]

Wanker is just such a great word, possibly my favorite insult.

[m_oaksmd]

Personally, I favor the blunter profanity. But, of course, wanker does have its own appeal. Thanks, by the way.

[doc_paul]

Bluntness does have it's place in my heart, but there's nothing like a little color in the profanity. And, hey, any time.

[msteele_md]

agreed. I started using that word after going to a Stereophonics Concert.

Q&A

[eachan_emt]

Q:Can a person exist on cold pizza and coffee?
A: Yes, I've seen doctors (and interns especially) do it all the time.

Q:If a clinic patient pulls a groin muscle is it wrong to tell them they should exercise it more?
A: Dude, the Clinic sucks. The ER can take it any day. I find it wrong for you to have to work there initially.

Q:Does anyone actually read the paperwork we do?
A: I'm an EMT, so ER physicians have to read mine all the time (though it's mostly oral reports- how kinky), but for you silly doctors... I shrug in your general direction.

Re: Q&A

[m_oaksmd]

1) I've become my own field test on the matter. This is not a shock.

2) No way in Hell. Clinic kicks ass. We handle the real stupid stuff. And, as it's rarely life-or-death, we get to laugh at the patients while we're treating them.

3)There are lots of responses to this. But, I'm gonna go with my favorite.

Rowr.

Re: Q&A

[eachan_emt]

Oh, it's war, kiddo. The ER's where the macho people dwell. You're all sissies with your little bouts of humor and lack of endurance. The ER ownz your Clicical rear.

:D

You've got to be kidding.

[m_oaksmd]

Hah. Hah. Uh-uh. Don't even mess, 'kiddo.' You're aiming for an ass-whupping.

The clinic is for the cool kids. ER is for God-complexes and those who need to over compensate. :P

(Macho my ass)

[jameswilson_md]

Screw the pizza. Coffee is it's own food group.

[m_oaksmd]

Don't blaspheme. Pizza's got it all. And coffee's more of an unearthly deity than a food group.

[jameswilson_md]

Pizza dilutes the effect of the straight coffee.

[m_oaksmd]

So you're what's regularly bouncing off the walls of the Oncology wing.

... By the way, you sound like a junkie.