# Ask the maximum security prison physician **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001 "2002-12-16T02:37:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/81 "2002-12-18T21:56:44Z")
**QtM** , I haven’t been around much lately but I saw this thread and had to check it out. As usual, any thread with your name on it is both entertaining and informative. And it’s nice to hear that things are going well for you! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/82 "2003-02-14T23:05:40Z")
How has being a prison doctor changed your colleagues (in other prisons) over the long term? Say 10 and 20 years. Are you concerned by what you see? Do you think your new mode of behaviour is going to be of assistance when your daughters (if any) start dating? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/83 "2003-02-14T23:37:10Z")
Wow interesting… I’ve been reading all the prison threads now that I actually know someone in prison (my brother) He had to wait a few weeks to get in to see the doctor even with a fever/vomiting and ringworm! How long does it usually take for inmates where you are to “get an appointment?” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/84 "2003-02-14T23:52:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by qts \* > \*\*How has being a prison doctor changed your colleagues (in other prisons) over the long term? Say 10 and 20 years. Are you concerned by what you see? > > Do you think your new mode of behaviour is going to be of assistance when your daughters (if any) start dating? 😃 \*\* My colleagues were a mixed bag of nuts even in private practice. I’m not worried about how it will affect me in the long run. My 18 year old daughter is in college, so she’s out from under my thumb. My 14 year old daughter will have to abide by the same rules as the older one did. The only difference is that now I have actually qualified with weaponry. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/85 "2003-02-14T23:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tanookie \* > \*\*Wow interesting… I’ve been reading all the prison threads now that I actually know someone in prison (my brother) > > He had to wait a few weeks to get in to see the doctor even with a fever/vomiting and ringworm! How long does it usually take for inmates where you are to “get an appointment?” \*\* Depends. Ringworm is pretty low priority. Vomiting up everything for over 12 hours would merit a trip to see the nurse, who would drag me into it if indicated. If the visit is deemed to not be truly emergent or urgent, the inmate will need to come up with the $7.50 copay. I find in prison the symptoms are quite frequently inflated to sound far more impressive than they are. One twenty-something guy complains of horrible back pain which is incapacitating him for weeks and requires narcotics, which I don’t give him. Then security reports he’s been playing basketball 4 times a week during the same time period he tells me he can’t work! ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/86 "2003-02-15T01:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* I’ve a psychiatrist friend who got tattooed all over when he was in the army, with such provocative and outrageous designs that he’s not allowed by his wife to let their kids see him in a swimsuit, or even in shortsleeve shirts. \*\* A psychiatrist covered in outrageous tatoos - there’s something really ironic about that. I think I would either be really wary of going to a shrink like that, or it would be really cool. Not sure which, though… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/87 "2003-02-15T01:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gassendi \* > \*\*A psychiatrist covered in outrageous tatoos - there’s something really ironic about that. > > I think I would either be really wary of going to a shrink like that, or it would be really cool. Not sure which, though… \*\* Oh, it’s waaaay coo. He’s one hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/88 "2003-02-15T06:03:47Z")
**QtM** - Do you know in what way Uruk-hai are different from Orcs? I know Saruman bred them, but from what? Thanks! StG ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/89 "2003-02-15T17:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by StGermain \* > \*\ ***QtM** - Do you know in what way Uruk-hai are different from Orcs? I know Saruman bred them, but from what? Thanks! > > StG \*\* Ummmmmmmmmm. Yes, I do. Ask me in Cafe Society. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spankthecrumpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@spankthecrumpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spankthecrumpet)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/90 "2012-02-23T18:13:44Z")
What are the top five (or so) things you have learned since the last post in this thread, almost a decade ago? Humerous anecdotes are also acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/91 "2012-02-23T18:19:55Z")
> [@spankthecrumpet](#): > > What are the top five (or so) things you have learned since the last post in this thread, almost a decade ago? > > Humerous anecdotes are also acceptable. He probably learned to stay away from [bagel-dogs.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273825&highlight=bagel) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001/92 "2012-02-23T21:06:13Z")
\*\* whimpers \*\* Oh, man, I’d almost forgotten that thread. Thanks for reviving an almost-dead neuron! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-maximum-security-prison-physician/143001.md?page=4)