DISQUS

A Happy Hospitalist: http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-am-specialist-in-hospital-medicine.html

  • Frank Drackman · 8 months ago
    Never understood people ashamed of their specialty...
    Um, well I do, but why'd you go into it if you're ashamed of it??...

    Come out of that Closet, Happy,
    Embrace the Flea, Smell that Coffee in the OR lounge you sneak into like "Rudy" did in "Rudy"

    Go to Med Schools around the Country, and tell them...

    "I'm Happy and I'm here to Recruit You!!!!"

    Sorry, had to watch "Milk"
    last night,

    Frank, M.D.
  • Anonymous · 8 months ago
    i say " i am Dr.XXX , I am a Physician working with the hospital, how are you ms. smith"
  • Anonymous · 8 months ago
    Dr. D
    Sometimes I LMAO when I read your responses to Happy's posts, but, sometimes you scare the s*** out of me, and I wouldn't want to be alone with you in an elevator! I hope you aren't lurking in midwestern hospitals...
    -Second career nursing student
  • Allen · 8 months ago
    I knew a terrific cardiothoracic surgeon who always introduced himself as "I'm a heart and lung surgeon" and never once had to explain it.

    I think your intro is letter perfect. (Anon, I wouldn't say you're working with the hospital, as that brings into question whose best interests come first).

    GruntDoc
  • Toni Brayer MD · 8 months ago
    I have always hated the term "primary care" and it is a manufactured term that health insurance companies made up for managed care and to lump everyone together as "providers". I say I'm a specialist in Internal Medicine. For the term primary care patients say "Oh you're just a GP". It's the "just" that is insulting.
  • Anonymous · 8 months ago
    I think it's reasonable to introduce yourself that way.