call etc

i'm on call with a friend on call and i am his boss for the time being and while i'm blogging he's checking out the cafeteria menu to see what high cholesterol high salt diet to eat at 2AM.

now we're both blogging but while my blogging tastes are slightly more bourgeois he's reading (aloud) about a blogger called *Laura's Bush*(no more be said..)

i was paged urgently today about a clinic patient of mine..scrambled to answer the phone (ok maybe not quite scrambled but answered) to see what the problem was. The great emergency was that the patient had been switched from his viagra to some other market equivalent of viagra, took half a pill and developed nothing but a mild headache. The burning question was:

-half a pill did not work so....should he take the FULL PILL?
-But, if he takes the ENTIRE PILL, what would happen to his head since it ached mildly with half a pill?????

so today and on this blog, and to all my colleagues who have accused me of choosing my own patients and carrying "The Clinic of the Healthy and the No-Shows" .... i have to agree that my patients are, ok they are, healthy...

BUT YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT I COULD NOT IN MY RIGHT MIND HAVE POSSIBLY CHOSEN THEM!!! HELLOOOO??