Dad was in town visiting. Found out he drove to my office today and sat in my waiting room for 30 minutes just to hear patients check in to see “Dr. Panuganti” 🥹
A patient came to see me for an elective, non-life threatening issue. He decided to hurl racial slurs at me upon the first time ever meeting me. In training, this would happen on occasion and it almost was expected we dealt with it silently. Now? I dismissed him from my practice.
Wife is a bridesmaid in friends destination wedding, $2k to attend bachelorette party, $1500 for bridal shower, another couple hundred for a dress, spending around $5K as a fam to get to wedding.
Terrible thing to do to your friends, should really make your worst enemies do this
Very proud of my HOA community. A Karen took a picture of home & posted it to the community FB group saying she didn’t like the color they painted it & she shouldn’t be forced to look at it, was reporting it to the HOA. Everyone banded together to criticize her & now she’s moving
Did I argue with the carnival ticket lady why the pricing for 20 tickets made no sense? Did I then proceed to buy 20 individual tickets after she disagreed with me? Sure did.
New low.
@Humana
is refusing to approve necessary surgery for my patients. Impossible to get through with the denying doctor w long phone waits & no call backs. When I asked for doctor’s medical license number or NPI, they refuse and just give me the name “Dr. Johnson.” Pathetic.
Please do not check your temperature via your urethra. And if you do, don’t shove it so far that it goes into your bladder and you forget about it for 15 years.
For anyone curious it was a dark blue color with white accents. I didn’t think it was bad at all, my wife thought it was ugly but apart having our own personal opinions it doesn’t matter & none of our business.
One of my fav memories of residency was when I was called for a patient w an obstructing stone & fever. Told him he needed a stent. He refused & said he was going to another hospital. Hours later, I told him the same thing at the other hospital because I was on call there too.
@StephanyCarolan
He did the same for my sister. Couldn’t understand a word of it, but bought an “official” copy from her university to keep in his home office.
Godspeed to the Stryker rep who is wearing our cysto nurse’s monogrammed lead and when she kindly asked for it back he said, “I’m wearing it now, go find your own.”
We all got Epic generated emails about late first case starts. However, when an actual human looked at the cases, very rarely was actually due to the surgeon being late. Now I send selfies of myself in the room to admins of me being in the room prior to 7:30am every OR day.
A physician group I’m part of mentioned a post of an EM physician at the hospital in Maine who received many shooting victims last night that a formal complaint was placed against him by another patient with a cough that felt they waited in the ED too long last night.
When I was in residency there was a toxic transplant surgeon who at M&M would yell at the residents/other attendings, belittling them on stupid things like font color in their ppt, even making some cry. Then he put a kidney in the wrong patient and didn’t show up for its M&M.
Pro tip:
Costco is often the cheapest place to get prescriptions on GoodRx. If you have a patient that needs it to buy scripts, tell them they can go to Costco. They don’t need a membership to use the pharmacy, it’s illegal to have a membership service to a pharmacy.
One of my favorite jokes is right before a surgery when a patient says to me, “I watched a few videos last night on how this is done,” I always respond with “yea me too” followed by an awkward silence.
One of the first things you learn when rounding on patients in the morning is that the first light switch you flip on never turns on the light you actually want to turn on. This won’t change for the entirety of your career.
One of my friends was a bartender there. When I pointed it out to her she said, “yea I told my manager and they want you to stop telling everyone because they’re embarrassed and now we have to clean more glasses.”
I would like to announce the final results of my 10 year research project in the making:
It’s completely possible to be an attending surgeon and not be a psychopath.
There’s a vanishing door into the wall to go into my bathroom. I just finished mounting my TV. Went to go use the bathroom and the door seemed stuck and wouldn’t slide close. And that’s how I realized how stupid I am.
One time the ER sec accidentally paged me instead of neurology. I let the resident present on & on about stuff like headaches & CSF, yada yada. Then I told her I was urology.
She asked why I let her give her whole presentation
I said I wanted to see if I could help
I couldn’t.
@BornAt3B
Yup. She could have admitted that yea it doesn’t make sense but she’s just there to collect the money and do her job. But she didn’t. Said I was wrong. So then I bought 20 singles.
This is a good time to point out that a bar in college used to sell “Big Azz” margaritas 13oz for $7 but would also sell 7oz margaritas for $3 during their happy hour. So I would routinely just order two smaller ones instead of the “Big Azz” and soon all my friends followed suit.
I'm at the airport for a scheduled flight with my daughter. Departure was 9:20. ID checked and went thru security, but still waiting to takeoff.
Reason
#30584
of why flying in the US sucks. Why can every other sector keep appts, but pilots can't?
One time my wife bought me Knicks tickets for my bday. As we were walking to MSG, she goes, “I don’t know how people can afford games like this regularly.”
I was like ???
Reader: our seats were behind Tracy Morgan. She just went online, picked best available & just bought 2 tix
Leaving for a trip with my wife’s family soon
Wife- EM
MIL- FM
SIL- cards
SIL husband- neonatologist
BIL- ortho
BIL wife- trauma surgeon
Hoping for no priapisms, difficult foleys or torsions on the plane when they call for a doctor overhead, because I’m useless in comparison 🤞
@pgipe
Was a great opportunity for a suit administrator to stand up for the doc and shut the complaint down then and there but they didn’t because the complaint got back to the doc.
Got routine screening labs for my annual PCP appointment. Lab values resulted to MyChart at 6:30am, I promptly sent a series of messages at 6:31am asking why all the values weren’t green and it’s 7:30 and I haven’t heard back. Healthcare is a nightmare!!!!!
My parents saw my son randomly eating Pringles during a FaceTime call about a month ago.
Going to visit them now and my dad, without provocation, bought a massive Costco sized supply of Pringles for our 5 day trip.
Grandparents are a different breed.
General surgeons: what is the purpose of the add on robotic cholecystectomy? Isn’t it a procedure that has essentially been perfected w pure lap at a fraction of the time & cost?
I write this on a Sunday waiting 4 hours a robotic chole to be finished- historical 45 min lap case
I’ve had a student literally fall asleep in my OR before. More often than not for required rotations, you have someone just serving their time and interested in a completely different field. If you don’t make the rotation torture for them, they may actually try to care more.
Undoubtedly we all know that medical students need to eat. However it’s disheartening to see my alma mater seeking donations for a food pantry for students. This should be a clear sign tuition is too high and their financial assistance to students is not where it needs to be.
This
#GivingTuesday
, make a donation to PCOM Student Food Pantries so that every student who attends PCOM has what they need to not only survive, but thrive. Make a gift today:
My wife is an ED doctor. 5 years ago she asked to borrow my stethoscope that she found buried in our closet when she couldn’t find hers. She gave it back to me today (bought a new one on Black Friday). What do I do with it? How do I use it? Are the batteries still good?
@Just_NutherJoe
My guy. That was the carnies posting over a piece of paper trying to update their sign. You think if I took the effort to photoshop (which I’ve never done before), I would have done a better job?
The sheer number of 18-19 year old guys that being their mothers to their new patient appointment for “erectile dysfunction” is a lot higher than you think.
Moving today and movers will probably be here close to 6 hours. So I went out and got them all lunch (after asking for dietary restrictions). They were thankful and said no one ever does this for them. Do people normally not feed people that have been at your house all day?!?!
I am looking to get a vasectomy. I want to go in total anonymity and not have the urologist know I am one as well. Does anyone have any recommendations for one that doesn’t have a Twitter? Preferably one that doesn’t even know how to turn on a computer. Willing to travel.
@SlickTweetsSC
This is true. When I was a first year in medical school, a professor threw a foley into the seats of the lecture hall and it hit me in the face. Now I’m a urologist.
@sabarizvimd
Come on, pharmacists are more than qualified to administer vaccines. How many physicians outside FM and pediatricians administer IM injections anyway? That’s all done by nurses and MAs at virtually every other practice. They’re more than capable of increasing pts access to care.
I live within walking distance of the NC/SC state line and a tree has fallen down in the road literally on the state line and this is going to be an administrative nightmare.
My wife doesn’t like eating at chain restaurants but she hasn’t realized yet that her favorite breakfast place we go to is a chain. When do I break the news to her? Do I ever?
Filling the candy bowl in preparation for tomorrow and realized my wife bought mostly Whoopers, 100 Grand and Almond Joys. Only have like an hour to buy new candy and save us from this tragedy.
@stillinatl
Because when I was like hey the pricing here doesn’t make sense, instead of looking at it and being like hey, you’re right, I’ll let my management know her response was, “no, you’re saving $5 like the sign says.”
I was like, oh, okay then. I’ll buy 20 singles. No discount for me