Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I was in my Favorite Family Practice Doctor's office this morning for a check up. He was writing a refill for a drug that I use which has to be prescribed on one of those extra special Lord of the Drugs prescription pads that have all sorts of information printed on them that guarantee to the Federal Department of All Lords of Drugs that the doctor who has the pad is a real doctor, with a degree and everything. We were chatting a little about the prescription pad and I commented that it has his DEA number on it. It has another number on it called DPS. I asked him what that number is and he said he wasn't sure, that it's just another thing that he has to have and that he has to pay a fee to have.
There is all this brouhaha these days about how family practice is dying in America, that FP docs are under paid, over worked, under appreciated, and that everyone wants to be an anesthesiologist or a dermatologist.
So I asked him.
Me: Do you ever think about getting out of Family Practice?
Him: Naaaah
Me: Oh c'mon! Hospitalists have it so much easier! No overhead, less paperwork, set schedules...
Him: Hospitalists get calls in the middle of the night like "This patient can't sleep" or "That patient is unhappy". And all their patients are sick.
Cracked me up.
P.S. Dr. Elephant is not my doctor.
Labels: medicine, personal urban drama
# posted by Carol : 9:14 PM
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Maybe he just feels good about doctorin'. You know, "hepin'" people. And then again, maybe I'm high...
Oh yeah - he's totally into hepin. I went to him once with an abscess. I told him it was very painful and needed to be drained. When he saw it he said "Wow Carol that's HUGE!". Yes, it's great to have a doctor who's not afraid to tell you the truth, while chuckling at you. I agreed. Then, because he likes hepin so much, he refused to drain it, saying it was so big he wouldn't touch it because it scared him, and sent me to a surgeon. He's such a freaking chicken. Next time I saw him I told him he was chicken. He readily admitted it.
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