# Attn: Qadgop the Mercotan
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 2, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694 "2001-08-02T21:14:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/21 "2001-08-03T04:44:29Z")
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> \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \*
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> > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \*
> > \*\* And if we meet in a medical situation, there’ll be no charge for any needed digital rectal exams! And I only use one finger! \*\*
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> One finger? What a ripoff. I thought you _cared_, man. \*\*
There’s a great cartoon by Callahan (he’s the one who’s mostly-quadroplegic and has a _sick_ sense of humor)\*:
Doctor, to man lying face down on table:
“My examination technique is a bit different in that I have no arms and I’m gay.”
\*His autobiography is called “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.”
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### Author:  [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/22 "2001-08-03T13:52:26Z")
**Qadgop** thanks again from me (wife’s hand wound). Please do stick around. 🙂
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/23 "2001-08-03T14:26:26Z")
Family Practice? God bless ya, man. I love my family practice doctor and when I got knocked up, I didn’t switch to a obstetrician, I stuck with him. And when Cranky Jr was born, no pediatrician, either. Still the family practice guy. He sees all of us.
I’m a big advocate of family practice for prenatal care and baby care. I think it’s a huge, huge benefit that my relationship with this doctor is continuous, that he knows our whole family, and that he’s a good generalist. And to me, I like knowing that the decisions he made about my pregnancy and delivery (this is theoretical, as the bastard had the nerve to be on a camping trip in Canada with his damn son when I went into labor) were based on the fact that the end result (both mother and baby) were both going to be his patients when it’s all over. And that he’s seen the long-and short-term effects of events during pregnancy and labor and delivery and neonatal care.
That’s enough yacking out of me–I just wanted to say yours is a noble calling.
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### Author:  [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/24 "2001-08-03T15:28:14Z")
Qadgop, I love your posts, and the way you freely share your knowledge with this community and explain things in plain (but witty) English.
Second, I want to agree with Cranky - family practitioners rule. Props out to Dr. Harrington who dealt with my family’s entire brood and treated me from diapers to my first birth control prescriptions. If I still lived in my hometown he’d be my doctor until the day one of us died, and I’ve never found a better one. Until Qadgop, that is.
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### Author:  [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/25 "2001-08-03T16:25:15Z")
All I can say is that I’m really looking forward to OklaDope\* next weekend. See ya at Joe’s.
\*[sub]If you missed that thread, Qadgop’s visit is the only incentive great enough to get the rest out in this heat for a Dopefest. Of course, if Cecil were to venture down old Route 66 (and tell us he’s coming), we’d line the sides of the road just to wave to him as he drove by.[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/26 "2001-08-03T17:38:34Z")
**Qadgop** shows up in all the best threads, and always has something interesting to say.
Another “Whoohoo!” for Family Practice. Our doc has treated three generations of the family, and really knows his stuff. The “speciallists” would be proud to be so skilled… 🙂
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/27 "2001-08-03T21:06:39Z")
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> \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \*
> \*\*Hey, **Jack** , make sure you only turn your _head_ to the left, or you’re definitely going to need a doctor. \*\*
If he can turn his head to left without turning the rest of it, he’ll need one a lot more than if the whole thing turns:D
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/28 "2001-08-04T04:11:52Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Whammo \*
> \*_I am as appreciative as everyone else, you RULE the answer why my stuff is swollen/red/leaking/smelly kingdom! We LOVE that! We NEEEEED that! However you sure seem to have a lot of time to visit the message board for a doctor_… how come?
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> **note that I do not have any doctor friends or relatives so I do not really know how much extranious time doctors really have… the only thing I have is my mental image… oh and lets just not go there** \*\*
Cable modem on my office desk and at home!
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/29 "2001-08-04T04:17:56Z")
He sometimes agrees with me. For what more could I ask?
😉
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-qadgop-the-mercotan/74694/30 "2001-08-04T04:29:31Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \*
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> Cable modem on my office desk and at home! \*\*
He really is dreamy!
Five minute downloads. Quick grab access to the open spot on the server. At work and at home.
:::sigh:::
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