Firstly, I get a limited time with you. If you want to know why there’s blood in your stool, don’t bore me with seven minutes on the finger you caught in the door first. Likewise, waiting until you’ve got five issues needing looking at before turning up makes it hard for me to prioritise which really needs the attention ( Read more... )

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Clinics are nuthouses at the best of times. I've had the woman who thought a D&C was where the President lived, the patient who described her husband's massive myocardial infarct as a 'massive internal fart'. The one who liberally applied KY Jelly to her toast.So far today? Seventeen patients TTFO, and I've stopped counting the totally unnecessary ( Read more... )