DISCLAIMER: This is a joke, this is only a joke. If I had actually been serious, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area to vote. This is only a joke. Apparently I must have sounded serious. It's not directed at all doctors -- I have great respect for all of the doctors that I've known in my 46 years, except for this one. Had he tested me for the obvious (and it was very obvious), he would have found reactive arthritis and treated that, not with drugs that gave me acquired aplastic anemia. Instead, he would have started antibiotics. Fortunately, I have found a new one, he's wonderful! Brilliant! The problem with the old one is that he makes jokes about being happy to be an underachiever, and the final straw was telling me (after my marrow was dying and I could no longer be treated) that I would "just have to live with a few aches and pains." If that's all this was, none of us would be given meds of any type. I don't think he's adequate, and made a joke about it. Sorry for offending anyone.
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Original post:The last time I saw the old rheumy, he asked me how grad school was going. I told him fine, I'm at the top of my class, etc. He laughed and said, "In med school our saying was, 'C=MD.' You don't need A's to get an MD, C's will do just fine!" I was so impressed (yeah right!).
(Remember that he's now referred to as the "old rheumy.")
My proposal is that doctors should have to post (framed!) their transcripts from med school, on the waiting room walls, so we can see their grades in each subject and how they did overall, and run before it's too late. Also, their standing in there class should be listed, too -- top 10%, 50th percentile, last, etc. (We just had that old joke recently -- what do you call the doc who finishes last in his class? "Doctor.")
What do you think? Vote here!
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Edited by PattyG on 03/16/03 05:52 PM (server time).
