Friday Funny: Otolaryngology Is Easy!
Cheers to the ever-expansive world of NPs!
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Entertaining, Educating, and Criticizing Our Broken Healthcare System for 22 Years
Reminds me of the “hospitalist NP” who was ‘listening to a patient’s lung” over their iliac crest. Saw it with my own eyes, which told me all I ever needed to know about that hospital
Yup, Glad I bailed out and was able to retire. Most of the time, the antibiotics worked especially if they really had a hot ear on exam. If not, the Z-pak usually worked anyways. Those that had recurrent, visible hot ears, kids or adults, got referral to ENT and usually got tubes. I would not see them again thereafter as they got better.
In a rural area, people only came to the Doc if they were “sick”. Never heard of this “health maintenance” stuff. I had to back off on my trying to save the world routine because if I pissed off patients too much about health maintenance, they never would come back. Had a good career anyways. Glad I’m gone now though.
Those tubes were like a miracle, weren’t they? Sometimes I wouldn’t see them again until they needed a camp or school physical months or years later.
Does “NP” stand for Nose and Pharynx? Easy peasy…Just pretend you know what you’re looking at with your Welch-Allyn wall-mounted scope and then write the inevitable worthless Z-pak…Pay the lady at the front desk on your way out!