So yesterday I get this email from a physician friend. . .
Subject: On Call 24/7 🙂
Some on-call text messages from my patients:
“I fell better just hearing from you”
“Good deal thanks!”
“Enjoy your family this week!”
“Well,
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A friend just got back from a big medical conference at a fancy hotel. The cleaning ladies actually pulled her aside to ask, “What’s with all the grim faces and sad eyes?”
Do doctors realize medical conferences look like funerals? That’s what the cleaning ladies think.
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I believe we choose our parents before we are born. I hit the jackpot.
I picked an unlikely pair—a radical feminist and a guy named Ted Krouse. Mom wasn’t home much (she was finishing up her psychiatry residency) so I became head of the household. Dad always kowtowed to the strongest woman in the room.
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