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Good point, Rumor.
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM
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SpitFire, about the only advantage to getting called into the exam room
from the waiting room is you can get away from the 75 other people waiting (our doc works out of a clinic with about 4 other docs), and that snotty nosed kid who is sitting next to you coughing their lungs out and not covering their mouth (even though the Mom is sitting right there with her saying "Cover your mouth..cover your mouth..cover your mouth",..
... like a broken record..
...
posted by
Rumor
on July 27, 2010 at 1:58 PM
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I'm known for that, Lustorlove! LOL
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM
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LOL Sunnybeach! I hear ya...
I know. I've had my back x-rayed and I'm only 5 feet tall! Too funny
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM
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You got to lye down? How lucky for you.
I had to stand "taller, taller (I'm only 4'10" for God's sake!) ...shoulders back, and down. Down. DOWN"
They don't go DOWN any further, what the heck do they want from me?!
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on July 27, 2010 at 10:14 AM
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Katray,
Even though I just posted this as humor, you are dead right about the pharm companies and their reps. I dealt with the reps at my animal hospital. I'm sure it is much worse with human doctors but I admit, I GOT KICKBACKS. I received a check each month for however much product I sold to clients. Now, I wasn't complaining and the products were legit, but still. And, these are the same companies that sell human products; it was just the animal division. If they would spend more money on the right things and less on advertising and wining and dining their clients, maybe health care costs wouldn't be so damn high.
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 10:12 AM
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Hope you're ok, Kabu!
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 10:07 AM
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You're probably right, afzal!
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM
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I love the way you express the way all of us feel thanks
posted by
Lanetay
on July 27, 2010 at 9:57 AM
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Not too much would surprise me anymore when it comes to
health care processes. I can understand the techs protecting themselves from radiation; they're not taking a picture of their innards, so to speak, lol, but I do wonder why they stay gone so long; can give you the willies. Dashing out for a yogurt or something makes sense, Spitfire..:)
Speaking of waiting rooms, I get riled up when extremely well dressed and coiffed people are given preferential treatment at the desk; no waiting for them it seems, especially if they are bearing lunch for the doctors/staff and/or other goodies, like free dinners at expensive places, free vacations, etc. (I didn't realize how strongly big pharma has the medical profession in their thrall til I was unintentionally made invisible by a huge column thingy in an elevator one day at my doctor's building and two drug reps got on and thinking they were alone, started comparing notes about their "targets" aka doctors and how well - or not - they were meeting "quotas" of prescriptions written - one of them complained she was going to have to spend another evening dining not only the doc but his family too to motivate him to increase his "numbers"...made my head spin, but I kept listening ever so silent. The look on their faces when I walked out of the elevator slightly ahead of them was priceless, LOL.)
sigh, since then, it kind of P!$$^S me off when I see these corporate machines.
posted by
Katray2
on July 27, 2010 at 8:57 AM
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very funny.....but oh I have an appointment tomorrow with the DR.
posted by
Kabu
on July 26, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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posted by
MsJudy
on July 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM
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It's their daily job so they don't worry .
posted by
afzal50
on July 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM
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LOL, Taps! True. But further proves my point.
hehe
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM
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I'm ok, Lovelylady. Thank you!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on July 26, 2010 at 5:37 PM
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We eat so much strawberry yogurt because "they" have us believing that the yogurt bacteria has a long history of beneficial impact on the well-being of humans. And, besides that, it tastes good.
posted by
TAPS.
on July 26, 2010 at 5:15 PM
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You okay spit?
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on July 26, 2010 at 4:30 PM
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