Whatever

Mrs. Adenoca: "I want you to know, right now, that I won't take any medications. I don't believe in your pills. I'm an intelligent woman, and I do a lot of research on my own. Every drug you use has the potential to cause cancer, and I know you doctors lie and say they don't. I'm smarter than that, and refuse to take anything that could do that to me."

Dr. Grumpy: "Didn't you tell me earlier that you smoke?"

Mrs. Adenoca: "Yes, 2 packs a day."

Dr. Grumpy: "And you don't think that causes cancer?"

Mrs. Adenoca: "You guys lie about that, too."

Neurology made ridiculously simple

Uh, where you fix a Prius?

Thank you, Jennifer!

Wednesday

Dr. Grumpy: "Have a seat, Mr. Needsglasses. Boy, I haven't seen you in about 10 years."

Mr. Needsglasses: "Wow. That long? I can't believe it."

Dr. Grumpy: "Yeah, it looks like you were last here in 2003."

Mr. Needsglasses: "Had no idea. 10 years. Boy, doc, you haven't aged well. You look awful."

Today's contest

A marketing rep dropped off a booklet today, featuring better living through a company's various gadgets. Normally it wouldn't get my attention, but with this picture it was hard not to stare.

So, let's all try to think of some creative captions. Here's a few to get started:

"Yes, nothing makes you smile like matching his & hers pelvic floor stimulators."

"Crank it up and we'll REALLY start swinging."

"These go to eleven."

It's fun to stay at the A.N.Z.C.A!

Next month, for those of you who don't follow meetings outside your own hemisphere, is the annual Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists convention. This year it's being held in Melbourne.

Normally I don't pay attention to ANY meetings. Not even the ones in my own specialty, let alone someone elses' on the other side of the International Date Line. But my reader Rebecca (thank you, Rebecca!) brought this one to my attention.

All these meetings are composed of various lectures and workshops you sign up for, and this one is no different. Here's a sampling of the exciting courses available:

  

If anything sounds more stimulating than a course on coagulation management, I don't know what it is. Oh wait, I do. A can of Diet Coke.

But if you scroll farther down the list, there IS a stimulating course:

Of course, caffeine isn't the only thing you can learn about at the meeting. If your anaesthesia machine (the one that goes "ping!") is all tuned up, why not work on...

After that course, a few cups of coffee, and a bathroom break you'll be ready to move on to...

After a long day of such interesting meetings you've done all sorts of things, but on the way out of the building you discover the elevator has no windows and no doors, which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out!

Of course, there's always my way...

Annie's Desk

Annie: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Annie."

Mr. Lombardi: "Hi, I see Dr. Grumpy for my seizures, and he increased my Nomoshakin dose last week."

Annie: "Okay, let me look up your note."

Mr. Lombardi: "Anyway, yesterday I was playing football with my buddies, and one of them stepped on my left hand, really hard. Today that wrist hurts and is all swollen."

Annie: "Did you have a seizure?"

Mr. Lombardi: "No, but do you think the wrist problem is from the medication increase? Because I didn't have it on lower doses."