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This is not a new post [post-it?]; I should have used the Wizard's photo instead of my own. It allows you to read the text more clearly [assuming you want to.......]
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And no, this is a "private" doctor's office.
I have probably said most of those unladylike comments [we're talking me having to prove I'm not a liar, here] but you can't say them too loud. You can get asked to leave the practice if you're "non-compliant" and then all you have is a few very hard choices and an empty cup.
I think I'm with khalling, I want to hear your comments. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours....
....see what happens when you're bad at Scrabble?
and remember, amorous activity is good. Don't wish it on 'em.
But web-footed waterfowl are good, and using a word to describe or insult someone sets up a tiny cognitive dissonance: good?/bad?
I do like at least attempting the walk the narrow path of perfect understanding, leaving the insulted person looking mystified until he tries to take a step and finds that you have sliced him in half.
Although I know any of you can outdo me, some examples:
The short set:
Senate Restroom Attendant
Tax Audit supervisor
the fourth guy not even trying to look like he's doing something on the road repair crew
House of Representatives vomit basin evacuator
Supreme Court Justice
moving on.....
You perversely effective sewer inspector! I KNOW it doesn't take 7 trips to fix the main drain line between my house and my septic tank! The last two times you were carrying a knife and fork!
Yes, I will take it up with your overseer, the Fifth Assistant - the one in charge of the examination of the shoes of all the sewer inspectors. I'm sorry his magnifying glass didn't arrive yet, he'll just have to continue to identify what he finds by taste.
"You have the flag position for the highway work crew today. Sorry, checkered was all we have left."
Get in line! Drooling vegetable fondlers to the right, mammering morons to the left.
and the ever-popular "See what happens when we let cousins marry? Their offspring grow up to be... you. or an OOFP, second class [that's official officious pheasant plucker who doesn't know which end is up]."
it's not easy, but there's a lot of English that doesn't get used much; we really shouldn't let the 4-letter ones get too much exercise. They'll get all.....puny.
*tiny letters: I have a feeling I'm going to regret pushing "reply".
steaming pile of goop
toe jam inspector
primate lice picker
anal gland expeller
or sheep toenail sniffer
or he-goat urine sniffer
-- j
for my first "supreme commander" who wanted
animals and no children ... and, if you will, enjoyed
lamb + apricots + wine ... perchance, and then took
the late shift with the critters. elucidating!!! -- j
p.s. did you know that there is a scent gland
between the hoof-halves of sheep? and that
cattle have no upper teeth? well, molars.....
before supper. -- j
I went to the bank the other day to draw out some cash and they asked for a urine sample. Nah, just kidding, didn't really happen, but then again "why not?" If Obamacare or some Welfare Clinic has silly rules why not the banking industry?
The reason patients have to pee in a cup randomly [I know there's something wrong with that, but it's the best I can do] is to make sure they are TAKING their meds - as opposed to selling them.
The whole thing is extremely stupid and the parallels to gun control are scary.
Pain management clinics usually involve 'dispensing physicians' who prescribe restricted drugs. These clinics are closely monitored by the FDA. The doctor prescribes you medications A, B, and C for pain management. Your urine test (which, in most of the clinics I have dealt with are scheduled - but perhaps random as well) shows that you have drugs A, B, and D present. This implies that you are selling drug C on the street and buying drug D illegally.
What is more, since drugs A and B are positive your urine sample will usually be sent off to a reference laboratory for analysis for the metabolites of those drugs. If drug A has the metabolites of A present, but the drug B does not have the metabolites of drug B present, then that implies that you have crumbled up a little bit of the drug B and put it in your urine after you peed in the cup...which implies that you are selling most of drug B on the streets as well.
I am saying this because the cause of these testing procedures is a step removed from the clinic itself: If the doctor cannot meticulously document to the FDA that he has been performing these tests he risks (a) loosing his license as a dispensing physician, and (b) going to jail.
So he must jump through these hoops in order to stay in business.
Since we are dealing with an aging population, pain management clinics are springing up like puffballs after a rainstorm. They are very successful businesses, but they have to be verrrrry careful to document their patients use of their prescribed drugs.
Of course, were drugs not illegal, we would not have this problem to concern ourselves with in the first place. But I thought that you might like to know something about the mechanism of what the doctors themselves are dealing with.
Jan
(I like the explicatives!)
The point that really burns my cookies is that the doctor CHOOSES to enter this business, knowing what it entails. It's not like the DEA sprung it on him suddenly one day. So he has chosen to make his living by crawling into bed with the DEA and any other governmental body that wants to make it their business.
He could shrug instead.
This wouldn't be an issue if the government stuck to its core function, as Rand laid out.