Narc Hounds

The following is from the Daily Flos. Funny writing and good stories. I am sure everyone has had this experiance:

Sorry about no recent posts - I’ve been busy trying to find a new assistant and the like, as well as covering the full schedule for my associate, who was in England for a couple weeks.

So a couple days back I’m in the office on a Saturday, doing some paperwork and seeing a patient for an emergency. My cell rings and it’s a young woman…we’ll call her Jessica Thompson. Jessica says she hasnt’ been in in a while but she’s a patient of record and she has a toothache…what can we do? I told her to just come on over and we’ll take a look.

When she arrives I take a few xrays and discover that she has a blown out wisdom tooth on upper right…the lower right one is a bit dodgy too, and she has tons of big fillings, so who knows what’s going on with those… I told her that she has an infection in the upper wisdom tooth and needs it extracted. She’s concerned about money, since she’s Medicaid. I told her we’d take that and could extract those teeth. “I’m very anxious, and need to be put to sleep.”

(I love it when patients ask to be “put to sleep,” meaning sedated. I kinda wanna say, “Well, have you talked to your family vet? I”m told they offer that service…”)

OK, well, I”ll refer you to an……..MORE

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Henry on the Park Resident)