I had fun patients tonight.

[Laffy Kat]

I handed a patient his MRI screening form and after a few minutes he came back up to the desk and asked me where he should check-off "alien DNA" because he thought he had been exposed. We had a nice giggle and then commiserated over the bat-shit pResident. Later, another patient, an 18-year-old student, told me he loved my "Bernie" mug and we had a nice chat about possible VP picks while his mom underwent her MRI. It was a good night.

[NJCher]

1. always nice to

discover kindred souls.

[cayugafalls]

2. That is so funny! Glad you had a good night.

I saw my rheumatologist today and he asked me what I had been up to and I told him I just finished my Contact Tracing Certification. Well, he went off on trump and told me how hard my job would be due to the horrible way in which trump has handled testing and the fact that it takes a week to get results and even then sometimes they are negative when the person is known to have covid. He was quite animated and obviously a little mad so I told him trump was criminally negligent and he agreed.

It was nice to see that he was so in tune with what was going on.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Oh, I have seen some very angry physicians at my clinic.

One of our radiologists is so sick and tired of seeing patients lowering then masks below their noses that he personally confronts them. We've also had some other staff members that pull their masks down while at work and this physician is on a mission to make sure there are repercussions if they are caught wearing masks the wrong way. I have so much respect for this doc.

[Aristus]

5. I spend my entire day telling my patients "Pull the mask up over your nose,

or it ain't gonna do no good!"

At least masks are required before a patient can set foot inside the clinic...

[eppur_se_muova]

6. You need a poster like this ...

You might add the caption "Don't be a dicknose".

[Amaryllis]

4. I had a similar thing happen on a Comcast tech call yesterday. Spent about 15 minutes talkling about

the state of things with a Comcast tech person who lives in Minneapolis. She asked me how things were going in Portland...and it quickly became apparent we were on the same page.