Friday Funny: Circuitous Route
Sorry, don’t have a source for this. We didn’t do it but it is very Placebo Journal like.
TGIF.
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
And all of us know that NP/PA should be squeezed in between “Self-Prescribed Drugs” and “Doctor” to match reality!
But be sure not to tell the doctor the original health problem. Just talk about your journey through the maze.
In all fairness, it’s epidemic in medicine, too. I had a primary care patient discharged from hospital for COVID pneumonia. (Actually left a little early AMA.) Hospitalist decided that the patient needed URGENT labs today, but our lab is closed (coincidentally, because all the lab techs are out sick with COVID.)
40 years ago: 1) Want lab, 2) Draw it yourself, 3) Ask PCP politely to draw as a favor, or 4) actually see the sick patient.
Now: 1) Want lab, 2) Call colleague to see if it can be done at the clinic, 3) Have tantrum because clinic director closed lab, 4) Call my chief of service to complain about ME because I am being unhelpful, 5) Chief of Service calls Nursing Director to demand that nurse draws labs on patient, 6) I will actually see the sick patient today and determine what all the fuss is about, 7)Draw the labs myself.
I am finding very little difference between spoiled bratty patients and spoiled bratty colleagues who fling themselves on the floor and bawl until someone gives them a treat for being good.
3 years: Retirement.
You’ll like retirement Steve.