I hate the medical profession

[monster]

They're all fucking superiority-deluded asswipes. So there. (With apologies to the rare exceptions).

[footfootfoot]

A doctor dies and goes to the waiting room in the sky along with everyone who are being sorted into groups for heaven and hell. Eventually, the doctor is sent to the line for going to heaven.
The doctor looks at the length of the line and walks to the front of it and demands to be put at the front of the line,
"I'm a very impootant doctor, I can't be kept waiting in a line like everyone else."
Saint Peter says, "I'm sorry, in heaven everyone is equal, there's no preferential treatment, you'll just have to wait like everyone else."
Not to brushed off the doctor insists that he be put at the head of the line and demnds to speak with someone else with higher authority.
Saint Peter says, "Sorry, I'm the final arbiter and I say get back to the end of the line and wait your turn."
Just then, a man in a white coat, with a stethoscope walks right past them both and enters the pearly gates.
Incensed, the doctor shouts at St. Peter, "That guy's a doctor and you just let him waltz on in infront of everyone. How come you won't let me in?"
St. Peter says, "That's god, he only thinks he's a doctor."

[monster]

one of my current favorites, thanks

[orthodoc]

Wow. I guess that's it; there's no more to say. Sorry that whatever angered you today happened, monster.

Said the fucking superiority-deluded asswipe.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Wow. I guess that's it; there's no more to say. Sorry that whatever angered you today happened, monster.

Said the fucking superiority-deluded asswipe.

It's part of her charm.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Wow. I guess that's it; there's no more to say. Sorry that whatever angered you today happened, monster.

Said the fucking superiority-deluded asswipe.

Yes, but you're OUR fucking superiority-deluded asswipe.

(Pretty sure you fall under the rare exception disclaimer)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Monster's a math doctor where everything is cut and dried, right or wrong.
Quite unlike a medical doctor who can only make educated guesses, a thousand times a day, under the lawyer of Damocles, trying to find a treatment with minimum collateral damage.

Because of that, the system to train medical doctors is designed to promote maximum self assurance and minimum doubt in their own abilities, so they don't have a nervous breakdown everyday.

I will admit the only time I heard my mother the nurse say fuck(after too many glasses of wine), was describing the superior attitude of the doctors in the hospital.

But this ain't no stinky island, this is America , where you have the freedom to not go to the doctor if you choose.

[infinite monkey]

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[infinite monkey]

What kinda doctorin' do you do?

[BigV]

orthopedist?

[orthodoc]

Occupational Medicine, Public health, Environmental health. Used to do urgent care, far northern 'do everything' practice, tamer family practice down south (south of the arctic, not southern US). The 'ortho' stands for something else.

I had a long post about doctors. But there's no point.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

Occupational Medicine, Public health, Environmental health. Used to do urgent care, far northern 'do everything' practice, tamer family practice down south (south of the arctic, not southern US). The 'ortho' stands for something else.

I had a long post about doctors. But there's no point.

Oh c'mon, now. This is the cellar, when has pointlessness ever stopped anyone from posting? It's what we do here.

Besides, some of us are interested in what you have to write.

(The ortho means she's right)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Oh c'mon, now. This is the cellar, when has pointlessness ever stopped anyone from posting? It's what we do here.

Exactly, that's what Monster was doing, venting here the frustration we've all felt,(even/especially Ortho), with the medical pros. No one in that field should take it personally.
I hate to think how any lawyers lurking here must feel.

[orthodoc]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

(The ortho means she's right)

No. It has another meaning.

[BigV]

I protest orthodoc.

I read your post, though I can't easily recover it now. You wrote about how you had the terrible duty to pronounce two young men dead and break the news to their families, and how you had to fight off an addict who attacked you for not giving him a prescription that he would sell immediately and how you counseled a young wife/mother from a suicidal gloom due to her abusive home life.

Those are not pointless experiences. *I* respect medical professionals, and I like and respect you and your experience. Please don't accept other people's shit. Like footfootfoot's recent video post from "To This Day", it's important to remember "They were wrong."

I hope I haven't offended you by reiterating what you edited out. You wrote it, I read it, and it's in my mind. Now it's here.