Nope, can't do it, Bert. The best I give them is (and this includes those stupid forms that have to be completed before someone can take an exercise class at a gym or the Y) is, "based on the information provided by the patient, the information in my chart and my most recent physical exam of (date), I see no obvious contraindications to the proposed surgery (exercise)." My arse is just as important as the surgeons' and the Y's.


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. "