A good doctor

One final blog about doctors and medical care.  Good doctors are hard to find and if you have one then great for you!  You are very fortunate.  Just remember that doctors are "practicing" physicians and many of them are still practicing ... on you.  Hopefully they'll get it right soon.  Now somebody told me about his good doctor and he related the following examples:

* If you tell him you want a second opinion, he will gladly go out of the room and then come in again.

* He once treated a woman for yellow jaundice for three years before he realized that she was Chinese.

* Another time he gave a patient six months to live.  At the end of six months the patient hadn''t paid his bill, so the doctor gave him another six months.

*While he was talking to a patient his nurse came in and said "Doctor, there is a man here who thinks he is invisible."  The doctor said, "Tell him I can't see him."

* Another time a man came running into the office and yelled, "Doctor, my son just swallowed a roll of film."  The doctor calmly replied, "Let's just wait and see what develops."

* One patient came in and said, "Doctor, I have a serious memory problem."  The doctor asked, "When did it start?"  The man replied, "When did what start?"

* One time my friend told the doctor that he had a ringing in his ears.  His advice?  "Don't answer it?"

*The doctor has his share of nut cases.  One said to him, "Doctor, I think I'm a bell."  The doctor give him some pills and said, "Here, take these, and if they don't work, give me a ring."

* Another guy told this doctor that he thought he was a deck of cards.  The doctor simply said, "Go sit over there.  I'll deal with you later."

* When a patient told this doctor that he broke his leg in two places, he told the patient to stop going to those places.

* But doctors can also be frustrating.  You wait a month and a half for an appointment.  Then he says, "I wish you had come to me sooner."

So how is your doctor?   I hope better than this one.
        Now enough about doctors and medical care.  Thankfully we have many good doctors and specialists in the Lancaster area.  And we already have more of them than I ever wanted in our address book ... been there ... done that.  But now it's time to move on to other topics in future blogs.