Wait, aren't YOU the doctor?
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I hate it when I make an appointment that day, it's obvious I'm sick --I look like crap, wearing a hat, and there is pile of used Kleenex (facial tissues) next to me, and that cheery nurse comes in and asks, "So how are we feeling today?" I don't know how WE are feeling, but I'm feeling like taking the last bit of energy I have, holding you down, and rubbing my germ-encrusted Kleenex on you to teach you a lesson on "Why not to ask stupid questions."
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I am Agorophobic, residue of an episode similar to that your hubby is experiencing. Whenever I have to go to see the practice-nurse at my Doctors surgery, she always tells me to get more exercise (very difficult in a small, one bedroom apartment), I always feel like asking if pounding on her stupid face for ten minutes would count? :laugh:
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So once a year I have to see a specialist for my narcolepsy. He's actually a pulmonologist so I get treatment for my asthma also rather than seeing two specialists. My narcolepsy script is basically SPEED so it dries out my mucous glands and I have a blocked submandibular saliva gland. So when I eat, my mouth tries to create saliva, and can't so then I have a huge nodule under my jaw and it's painful. So I asked for a script for a medication that HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF. It basically increases saliva production. Okay, it's not that common so I'll give him a break. I lied and said my dentist recommended it to me. This specialist always forget I've got some med training. Take the script to the pharmacy and realize he forgot to include the length of time to be on it (# of refills). Told them to call him the next day when he was in the office. So I get a voice mail from his nurse asking, "How long should you be on this medicine? He wasn't sure and he figured you probably knew better than anyone." WTF? :wtf: Um, as long as I am on the SPEED. Which will be as long as I am still breathing. It's not like they're trying to find a cure for narcolepsy.
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I can see where you get your material for your stand-up routines from... :D
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So once a year I have to see a specialist for my narcolepsy. He's actually a pulmonologist so I get treatment for my asthma also rather than seeing two specialists. My narcolepsy script is basically SPEED so it dries out my mucous glands and I have a blocked submandibular saliva gland. So when I eat, my mouth tries to create saliva, and can't so then I have a huge nodule under my jaw and it's painful. So I asked for a script for a medication that HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF. It basically increases saliva production. Okay, it's not that common so I'll give him a break. I lied and said my dentist recommended it to me. This specialist always forget I've got some med training. Take the script to the pharmacy and realize he forgot to include the length of time to be on it (# of refills). Told them to call him the next day when he was in the office. So I get a voice mail from his nurse asking, "How long should you be on this medicine? He wasn't sure and he figured you probably knew better than anyone." WTF? :wtf: Um, as long as I am on the SPEED. Which will be as long as I am still breathing. It's not like they're trying to find a cure for narcolepsy.
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Are you sure whatever you are doing is safe? I mean since the doctor does not know about the medicine he is prescribing, isn't there a risk. May be changing the doctors might be better.
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I am Agorophobic, residue of an episode similar to that your hubby is experiencing. Whenever I have to go to see the practice-nurse at my Doctors surgery, she always tells me to get more exercise (very difficult in a small, one bedroom apartment), I always feel like asking if pounding on her stupid face for ten minutes would count? :laugh:
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Henry Minute wrote:
I am Agorophobic
AFAIK the hang gliding helps a lot for treating this condition. ;P P.S: I have a panic fear from flying with airplane, though a have no idea if there is a word describing this phobia.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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Henry Minute wrote:
I am Agorophobic
AFAIK the hang gliding helps a lot for treating this condition. ;P P.S: I have a panic fear from flying with airplane, though a have no idea if there is a word describing this phobia.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I can see where you get your material for your stand-up routines from... :D
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Jim Gaffigan is kind of known as the Food Guy. I seriously have at least 30 minutes on health and medical stuff. My fave rant is when I show two of my asthma meds. One is an albuterol inhaler, the second is the Advair purple disc which is advertised quite a bit in the US. Now, the full cost of Advair is about $250.00 US. OUCH--thankfully my insurance makes me only pay a $25 co-pay. The albuterol inhaler? Costs about $38.00 US. My insurance covers a whopping THREE DOLLARS. So I pay $10 more out of pocket for the cheaper med. That makes sense. To top it off, I have health insurance through [it's a guy's last name and it's the owner of the business hubby works so I don't want him to have a paranoid fit if he reads the name]. [Last name] donated millions of dollars to one of the larger health systems in South Dakota, and they renamed it after him. I told my specialist, working for [Last Name], about this gap in coverage. I thought if anyone could make some noise and at least have it looked at, it would be the top pulmonologist for [Last Name] Health Systems. Yeah, they know about it but no one can figure out why. (Anyhow that's the short less funny version.)
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Are you sure whatever you are doing is safe? I mean since the doctor does not know about the medicine he is prescribing, isn't there a risk. May be changing the doctors might be better.
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So once a year I have to see a specialist for my narcolepsy. He's actually a pulmonologist so I get treatment for my asthma also rather than seeing two specialists. My narcolepsy script is basically SPEED so it dries out my mucous glands and I have a blocked submandibular saliva gland. So when I eat, my mouth tries to create saliva, and can't so then I have a huge nodule under my jaw and it's painful. So I asked for a script for a medication that HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF. It basically increases saliva production. Okay, it's not that common so I'll give him a break. I lied and said my dentist recommended it to me. This specialist always forget I've got some med training. Take the script to the pharmacy and realize he forgot to include the length of time to be on it (# of refills). Told them to call him the next day when he was in the office. So I get a voice mail from his nurse asking, "How long should you be on this medicine? He wasn't sure and he figured you probably knew better than anyone." WTF? :wtf: Um, as long as I am on the SPEED. Which will be as long as I am still breathing. It's not like they're trying to find a cure for narcolepsy.
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cool - and you know what as an ex-medical physcist who worked on salivary gland stuff for me thesis i understood everything you said HURRAY Bryce
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Jim Gaffigan is kind of known as the Food Guy. I seriously have at least 30 minutes on health and medical stuff. My fave rant is when I show two of my asthma meds. One is an albuterol inhaler, the second is the Advair purple disc which is advertised quite a bit in the US. Now, the full cost of Advair is about $250.00 US. OUCH--thankfully my insurance makes me only pay a $25 co-pay. The albuterol inhaler? Costs about $38.00 US. My insurance covers a whopping THREE DOLLARS. So I pay $10 more out of pocket for the cheaper med. That makes sense. To top it off, I have health insurance through [it's a guy's last name and it's the owner of the business hubby works so I don't want him to have a paranoid fit if he reads the name]. [Last name] donated millions of dollars to one of the larger health systems in South Dakota, and they renamed it after him. I told my specialist, working for [Last Name], about this gap in coverage. I thought if anyone could make some noise and at least have it looked at, it would be the top pulmonologist for [Last Name] Health Systems. Yeah, they know about it but no one can figure out why. (Anyhow that's the short less funny version.)
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