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Become a Pharmacist
Topic Started: Jan 13 2006, 11:17 AM (159 Views)
George K
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Everything you need to know here:

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/medic/fitness/home.php?type=video
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
The Gilbert and Sullivan pattershaw was perfect!

BTW, the other day MS and I went to the local pharmacist. He was tatooed and his name was Crook. Just seemed a bit incongruous for someone dispensing controlled substances....
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JBryan
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Actually, it does not seem incongruous at all.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

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George K
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ivorythumper
Jan 13 2006, 02:23 PM
BTW, the other day MS and I went to the local pharmacist. He was tatooed and his name was Crook.

Calling Dr. Doctor
By Howard Bennet, MD

A few months ago, I read a funny article about people who take poetic license with their use of the title "Doctor." In his travels through the phone book, the author found not only a "Pet Doktor" and a "Bike Doctor," but he also discovered someone who billed himself as "The Rug Doctor."

After reading this article, I began thinking about the humorous implications of people's names. For example, although Joseph Heller created a fictional character named Major Major in his novel Catch-22, there actually are physicians in this country named Doctor (18 to be exact). Realizing that this was probably just the tip of the iceberg, I decided to find out how far this Dr. Doctor thing might go. So, with pen in hand, I spent a weekend flipping through the 1990 edition of the American Medical Directory of Physicians in the United States.

The first thing I learned during my research is that there are a lot of doctors in this country. Although I did not get page turner's tendonitis, I did need a stiff drink by the time I reached the Zs. I also learned that doctors' names often bear an interesting relationship to what they do for a living.

There are 22 doctors in the United States named Needle, Probe, Lance and Ligate. Not to be outdone by such simple procedures, there are another 20 named Drill, Scope, Bolt and Pin. I couldn't find anyone named Cut or Clamp, but there are three doctors named Drain.

Many doctors have names that are more generic and, I might add, quite appealing from the patient's point of view. I found 19 physicians named Fix, Cure or Heal. If any of them formed a group with those named Brilliant (6), Able (6), or Best (62), there's no telling 'how popular their practice might be. It goes without saying that they would have a clear advantage over the 9 doctors named Klutz, Croak, Blunt and Blewitt.

Doctors' names often say a lot about the type of medicine they practice. I found a dermatologist named Rash, a rheumatologist named Knee, and an orthopedic surgeon named Bone. My favorites, however, were a psychiatrist named Couch and an anesthesiologist named Gass. Nevertheless, a doctor's name does not always correspond with his or her specialty. There are 10 doctors named Blood, but none of them are hematologists. Similarly, of 11 doctors named Dust, Mold and Pollen, none are allergists. I also discovered a handful of doctors named Eye (3), Nose (2), Tongue (2), Kidney (1), Stool (4), and Surgeon (1), none of whom work in the area suggested by their name. The best in this category belong to Drs. Briss (1) and Stream (4), who, I'm sorry to say, are not urologists.

Sometimes a doctor's initials can be more revealing than his name. I found an obstetrician with the initials R.O.A., a cardiologist with the initials E.C.G., and a neurologist with the initials C.N.S. There is also a surgeon out there who can sign his orders N.P.O. On the other hand, there are no internists with the initials F.U.O., and I couldn't find anyone, not even a pathologist, with the initials QN.S.

Given my affiliation with a medical center, I was interested in those names that had an academic ring to them. Although I didn't find anyone named Publish, there is a physician in this country named Perish. This is fitting, I suppose, because I couldn't find anyone named Tenure either. I did find lots of Grants, however, something my colleagues say are in short supply these days. I also found 3 Deans, 1 Teacher and 48 doctors named Pearl. Given that medical students often complain about their preceptors, the abundance of Pearls seems to balance out the 20 doctors named Bicker, Gripe, Fuss and Grill.

Some doctors have names that might create a little confusion in the places where they
work. Imagine what people think when an operator pages Dr. Page (140) or when the ER puts in a stat call for Dr. Stat (1). How would patients react if they shout "Nurse!" and Dr. Nurse (3) is the one who shows up as they're fumbling with their bedpan? Other names that probably raise a few eyebrows from time to time include the 65 doctors named Flesh, Gore, Ache and Looney. Finally, should you develop chest pain in the middle of the night, whom would you rather meet in the emergency room, Dr. Code (5) or Dr. Crump (29)?

It was amusing to note what would happen if particular doctors got together either as co-authors on a paper or as colleagues in an office. Possible combinations include Vital (2) and Signs (1), and Brain (1) and Stem (5), as well as the more interesting Laurel and Hardy (4), and Abbott and Costello (46). 1 also found 61 doctors named Marx, though I couldn't determine if any of them are brothers.

The next time you send in a check to cover your escalating malpractice insurance, consider the irony in this: There are 43 doctors in the United States named judge or jury. I couldn't find any Attorneys, but that shouldn't be a problem since they never have any trouble finding us.

If all this is giving you indigestion, perhaps you should give your own doctor a call. However, if his name is Placebo, just take some Maalox and call it a night.

Reprinted from the Journal Of The American Medical Association, Dec. 2, 1992, Vol. 268, No. 21, p. 3060. Copyrigbt 1992, American Medical Association.


A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
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ivorythumper
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JBryan
Jan 13 2006, 12:40 PM
Actually, it does not seem incongruous at all.

Maybe not in your neighborhood...
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JBryan
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Or yours if you look on the street corners.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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AlbertaCrude
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Hey a good pharmacist will have forgotten more about the interaction of certain drugs than most GP's will ever hope to know.
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ivorythumper
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Not in my residential planned community. I have to go down the street to score.
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