Tales from the Nuthouse: Lest You Think I have a Really Suck Job

wolf · 09-20-2008, 01:06 AM

So, I was dealing with this teenager and her parents. I don't even remember at this point what was wrong with her. It really wasn't that spectacular. Relatively normal teenage stupidity, with some minor drug use for flavoring, probably. The specifics aren't important. I was talking to her insurance company, trying to convince them why my hospital should get paid for dealing with her. I found myself saying to the insurance company care manager, "Well, what it comes down to, really, is that these people do not need Dr. Tim (our shrink d'jour). They need Dr. Phil."

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Phone call from last night

wolf: Emergency Service.

caller: Oh, I have a wrong number. Is Jeffery Smith there?

wolf: (*transfers obvious blonde without further comment*)

richlevy · 09-20-2008, 11:26 AM

OK, I was an English major who read Catcher in high school and liked it. Send the nut wagon.

Seriously, back then there wasn't a lot of good fiction about teen angst.

Plus, any book that so many people want to burn or ban must be good.

09-20-2008, 01:06 AM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	So, I was dealing with this teenager and her parents. I don't even remember at this point what was wrong with her. It really wasn't that spectacular. Relatively normal teenage stupidity, with some minor drug use for flavoring, probably. The specifics aren't important. I was talking to her insurance company, trying to convince them why my hospital should get paid for dealing with her. I found myself saying to the insurance company care manager, "Well, what it comes down to, really, is that these people do not need Dr. Tim (our shrink d'jour). They need Dr. Phil." ~~~~~~~~\|~~~~~~~~ Phone call from last night wolf: Emergency Service. caller: Oh, I have a wrong number. Is Jeffery Smith there? wolf: (transfers obvious blonde without further comment) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-20-2008, 11:26 AM	#2
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	OK, I was an English major who read Catcher in high school and liked it. Send the nut wagon. Seriously, back then there wasn't a lot of good fiction about teen angst. Plus, any book that so many people want to burn or ban must be good. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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