Thanks to all. I would like to think that after 21 years I would be beyond the pettiness of taking offense to patients who choose to leave me but, damn it, I am not. I have a tremendous staff who protects me emphatically from potential problematic new patients and from those who left and want to come back. And so, to reward them for their loyalty and hard work I am taking them to the Tetons and Yellowstone week after next. This has become an office tradition. We take a trip together every year. We spend weeks in planning and therefore "bonding" and weeks upon return reliving our expeditions. It is a great way to boost office moral as I cannot provide them health insurance or other benefits.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "