Comments on: The Endless Tide Of Unwashed Humanity http://www.agraphia.net/the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity Medical Tragicomedy Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gabbiana http://www.agraphia.net/the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity/#comment-768 Gabbiana Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:16:19 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/?p=695#comment-768 Ooooh, OldMDGirl, I am totally gonna track you down on facebook now. Because I know how much you'd like that! Anyway. Dr. Zac, yes. As a med student, I found shifts in the pediatric ER to be uniquely unfulfilling. Granted, as a med student, I was allowed to do even less than a typical intern... but still. Needy parents, kids who scream at the sight of a white coat, no one particularly sick... which, sure, ought to appeal to the humanitarian side of me, but I didn't go into medicine because I was nice, despite whatever bullshit I poured into that essay. And I still don't take drugs before I go to the doctor. If I sound shitty, he will give me a z-pack! Doy. Ooooh, OldMDGirl, I am totally gonna track you down on facebook now. Because I know how much you’d like that!

Anyway.

Dr. Zac, yes. As a med student, I found shifts in the pediatric ER to be uniquely unfulfilling. Granted, as a med student, I was allowed to do even less than a typical intern… but still. Needy parents, kids who scream at the sight of a white coat, no one particularly sick… which, sure, ought to appeal to the humanitarian side of me, but I didn’t go into medicine because I was nice, despite whatever bullshit I poured into that essay.

And I still don’t take drugs before I go to the doctor. If I sound shitty, he will give me a z-pack! Doy.

]]> By: Old MD Girl http://www.agraphia.net/the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity/#comment-767 Old MD Girl Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:21:34 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/?p=695#comment-767 What I also want to know is why my avatar is my facebook picture and not my blogger picture. See, facebook does not have either this email or my blog information. That is WAY creepy. What I also want to know is why my avatar is my facebook picture and not my blogger picture. See, facebook does not have either this email or my blog information. That is WAY creepy.

]]> By: Old MD Girl http://www.agraphia.net/the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity/#comment-766 Old MD Girl Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:20:03 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/?p=695#comment-766 Before I went to med school, I used not take tylenol myself when I'd go to the doctor because I was afraid she wouldn't believe me when I said I had one. I now see that this was foolish, and I find myself wondering why my patients do this to themselves. However it doesn't address the underlying issue that I didn't trust my PMD. I'm not sure how this happened, since I had mostly non-negative dr experiences growing up. Oh wait, yes I do. It was because she SUCKED!! Hee. Before I went to med school, I used not take tylenol myself when I’d go to the doctor because I was afraid she wouldn’t believe me when I said I had one. I now see that this was foolish, and I find myself wondering why my patients do this to themselves.

However it doesn’t address the underlying issue that I didn’t trust my PMD. I’m not sure how this happened, since I had mostly non-negative dr experiences growing up. Oh wait, yes I do. It was because she SUCKED!!

Hee.

]]> By: Doctor D http://www.agraphia.net/the-endless-tide-of-unwashed-humanity/#comment-765 Doctor D Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:56:52 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/?p=695#comment-765 My favorite is when the parents say they didn't give tylenol "because we didn't want to mask the symptoms." Like I wouldn't believe your child had fever in the middle of a flu epidemic? Go ahead home and mask the symptoms till he gets better. I'm really enjoying your blog. My favorite is when the parents say they didn’t give tylenol “because we didn’t want to mask the symptoms.”

Like I wouldn’t believe your child had fever in the middle of a flu epidemic? Go ahead home and mask the symptoms till he gets better.

I’m really enjoying your blog.

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