I used to, but if you treat or see one motorcycle rider with severe road rash it will cure you like it did me. I used to have a Harley that I took out on the weekends. I sold it soon after residency.
I am much more introverted on the internet then I am in real life. Though I am pretty introverted in real life as well. In the personality assessment tests I am right on the line between introvert/extrovert.
Lucious, I used to post on here quite a bit. Life handed me a big lemon (or a few) and I am not on here much anymore, but I still have friends on here.
Some better than real life friends if the truth be told.
First off, I never loan money without a signature.
Once I have that, I simply leave them a message...
"Hey man, I know it probably just slipped your mind, but you forgot to pay me like you agreed to. If you just forgot, no problem, this is a reminder. If however you deliberately failed to make your payment, can you let me know why? Do you need an extension? I will work with you, but you have to communicate with me."
If it has happened several times, I let him know that the arrangement was not being honored and that I need payment in full by ____ date.
Then if the date arrives and he hasn't paid I file in court.
Fortunately I have only had to file once, but he paid before the court date.
I have health insurance and I support reform, but not reform that includes a government socialist program and constrains me as a doctor from delivering care or doing as my education and experience has trained me for.
Entering patient data and treatment into a database so that I have to seek that database for treatment guidelines is not what will control health care costs.
We need meaningful tort reform, and we need less government intervention, not more.
Fortunately all is not lost. I knew I could not keep the kind of pace I used to in the ER, but emergency medicine has always been my passion.
But with my move to the Northwest (I won't even go into the stupid set of circumstances that caused that), I was looking at opening my own emergency medicine clinic. That way I could keep daytime hours and wouldn't need to feel like a vampire.
But, I found a not for profit health clinic that basically does emergency medicine - no traumas, mostly stuffy noses, broken bones, bites, sports injuries, and the pace suits me well.
Plus, they let me pretty much keep my own hours as I am basically there to divide work load away from the primary doc that works there. Of course the pay is nothing like what I was making, but it is still comfortable given that I don't have any debt.
Thanks for the comments on my writing. If you saw my handwriting, you would change your mind, lol.
Yes, an aneurysm is a rupture of vessel or vessels in the brain. It can be caused by a number of factors, however I don't seem to fit the mold for any of them - which does rarely occur.
Aneurysms are often fatal, however I had mine at a hospital I was interviewing for a new position at. I was speaking with my would be supervisor on the sidewalk out front after observing for a shift to see if it was a team I could work with.
I was attended to very quickly which was very important to my survival. Rehab has been difficult, but if it was easy my progress would not have been possible.
My only regret is that although my life was spared, life has seen major changes for me - most of which were not positive.
I had an aneurysm and 2 weeks later had a subdural hematoma. I have been in recovery. My license that I refer to is my drivers license because of paralysis and loss of gross motor function, I was not permitted by my physician to drive. But have progressed enough now that I can drive with some modifications to my vehicle and was able to get my Washington DL - I had just moved from CA when this happened.
I am doing well. I am nowhere near 100%. More like about 50%, but after this happened I was about 10% so I have made progress.
Still sound like a drunken sailor though. Not sure I will ever get rid of the slur.
Sorry to hear owen. I just saw this - first time I have been on since Friday.
How old is he again?
If I had a dollar for every head shot I took growing up, I would be a very wealthy man.......oh wait, in light of my recent problems, that may not be too comforting.
Ok, yesterday was interesting. Since I have been working with this therapist, she has always been flirty.
I just kind of looked at it as her way of motivating a guy to strive and succeed in therapy. No biggy, and she is a cute girl, so it makes it kind of fun.
But now I am faced with what I would consider a breach of ethics with her - I will spare you the details.
Now I have to decide if I want to find another therapist.
I have to admit that she is doing a good job with the actual physical therapy with me, and I am definitely making progress. But as a doctor, I understand very well the ethical boundaries we have to have between doctor and patient.
The fact that she is married is also a concern for me having been cheated on myself.
I guess I am on a line between speaking up and saying that her advances - while flattering, takes our relationship somewhere where it just can't go, or just finding another therapist all together.
I would have if life was different. But sometimes life throws curve balls that knock your teeth out and you have to spend time at the dentist getting your smile fixed and it distracts you from fun.
I was at vocal music camp with 17 of my other singer mates. Some of the girly girls decided it would be funny to raid my cabin , load my underwear with shaving cream and throw it up on the roof of the cabin.
This was at the beginning of the year. I warned them that they had done a very bad thing and there would be a reckoning.
The day of prom, I loaded their door handles on their cars with vaseline, 3 of the 4 went to open their car doors and their newly done nails broke off.
I was more depressed than stressed. What has been stressful is having to rely on people to get me places since I have not been medically cleared to drive yet. that has been very irritating.
Druid, you picked up exactly on what I was saying. I don't know of any reputable studies that would say that stress causes cancer, but certainly stress can cause conditions that complicate cancer once you have it.
And predisposition is definitely an issue....which is very disconcerting for me since my mom died of brain cancer and now I am having all the head problems.
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RE: What's your Phobia?
I have doctorophobia. I am afraid of doctors.