You may remember "Chopper" from a long ago post where we suggested an attitude adjustment for those who frequent the ER. Here's a new take on a great old Christmas tale. Enjoy.
Friday, December 05, 2008
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Random thoughts from a few cantankerous American physicians. All contributors are board certified. Various specialties are represented here. I do not know where this will lead but hope it will at least be an enjoyable read. All of the names mentioned in this blog are pseudonyms, the ages have been changed, and in half the cases the gender as well. All photographs are published with patient consent or are digitally altered to preserve anonymity. Trust us, we're doctors.
We all need to remember at this time of year to HTFU!
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ReplyDeleteWhen my kindergartners get hurt I just say "Grow Up!" or "Act Your Age!"
ReplyDeleteActually, the school refuses to tell me which ones are HIV+, so the universal precaution does slow me down. And they're always bleeding, barfing or worse.
ReplyDeleteWell, if they bleed, barf, or shit on each other and some parent complains that his or her little one is now going the route of Magic Johnson, you can deduce, with a little fucking detective work, who the infected ones are.
ReplyDeleteGenerally the parents tell me, but not always, so I'm very careful.Every single day a child is my class is bleeding, and I have a mainstreamed child who picks skin into hamburger all the time.
ReplyDeleteDevo, ya gotta ass-ume everyones got the Hivie, just like in battle, its the bullet you don't hear that gets ya...Anyway, thanks to those great anti-retrovirals(Where are they keepin the anti-lung cancer pills??) AIDs patients today are just as fat as the General Population, and with that Multi-Drug-Resistant TB goin around, I wouldn't go anywhere near a classroom without one of those Andromeda Strain style Respirators...
ReplyDeleteAfter the nuclear holocaust only the cockroaches and kindergarten teachers will survive. I haven't even had a cold all year.
ReplyDeleteDevorrah-the first year I taught Kindergarten, I was sick all the time. After that, I had a super immune system. Well...except for the big things my immune system doesn't fight off of course.
ReplyDelete911-australian accents are hot. When I lived there, I had a good friend that I could have listened to all day because the accent is just so soothing. Even when he was mad, his voice was like music to me.
Hey Radioactive Girl, did you know in Austrailia, they think AMERICAN accents are hot? if it wasn't for that whole driving on the left thing, and being happily married I'd have moved there years ago.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's all great (?), but I'm a lurker and Gator, and I know college ball is important over here.
ReplyDeleteSoooo, the J. Hillis Miller Medical College, Shands Teaching Hospital welcomes Oklahoma or Texas Tech to the Last Dance.
First this.
ReplyDeleteThen Cymbalta has a ad telling us the depression causes real pain. So fraking Merry Christmas, Lilly Pharmaceutical, for the implication that my fibro is depression.
What's next? Some Pharma is going to say my pseudoseizures are fake? How am I going to get my disability bailout, and pay for my BMW. They may even take my fibro helper dog from me!
It's the end of the world, I tell you.
It IS the end of the world...a Black President, Yankee Stadiums gonna be torn down, Bob Dole hawkin Viagra, I'm glad MY antrax shot is up to date...
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