Bert,

Go to courtesy staff, as did I. Then if there was a special patient that I really wanted to follow in the hospital, I could. Over the years, however, the number of special patients has dropped to zero.....I really love not going to the hospital. It made a tremendous change in my attitude and was the saving force behind my being able to tolerate medicine any more at all. I do still miss at times being able to manage patients, especially to have the power not to order things again that were done as an outpatient last week!! That crap really burns me up.

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. "