# I just had a “who’s on first” interaction with a patient **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982 "2024-02-01T18:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/1 "2024-02-01T18:17:07Z")
Totally my fault. Me:I see you are taking a new medication. Who prescribed it? Patient: You did Me: I am pretty sure I didn’t Patient: No, you did Me: It looks like a rheumatologic medication. Have you been seeing a rheumatologist? Patient: You Me: I am your primary doctor but I am not a rheumatologist. Have you seen a rheumatologist? Patient: Yes Me: And what is the name of the rheumatologist who prescribed the medication? Patient: You Me: No, I didn’t prescribe it. I think your rheumatologist did. Patient: That’s right. Me: So who prescribed the medication? Patient You did. Me: What’s the name of your rheumatologist? Patient: You! My apologies to the apparently new rheumatologist in town, Dr. Yu. If she had only said DOCTOR YU, I wouldn’t have looked so stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/2 "2024-02-01T18:20:28Z")
Pretty funny. It’s enough to turn someone psycho. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/3 "2024-02-01T18:34:12Z")
As in _Fawlty Towers_: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DBwvaxr9TAw/hqdefault.jpg "Fawlty Towers: Communication Problems") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBwvaxr9TAw) ---
**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 1, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/4 "2024-02-01T18:37:29Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Pretty funny. It’s enough to turn someone psycho. - [Psychobunny.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/5 "2024-02-01T18:45:37Z")
Where’s my shield and sword?! ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/6 "2024-02-01T18:58:50Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > If she had only said DOCTOR YU, I wouldn’t have looked so stupid. $10 says she kept saying “Yu” on purpose. I might have. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/7 "2024-02-01T18:59:02Z")
On a similar note, I vaguely recall hearing about a physician named Dr. Hu somewhere (And a Google search reveals there are several doctors out there with that name). ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/8 "2024-02-01T19:03:44Z")
I understand you’re seeing a dermatologist now as well. Can I ask their name? [Hu.](https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-weimin-hu-x63tp) Your dermatologist. What is their name? No, [Watt](https://www.trinityhealthmichigan.org/provider/john-watt-md-hospitalist) is the name of my other doctor. That’s what I’m asking you! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/9 "2024-02-01T19:05:49Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > On a similar note, I vaguely recall hearing about a physician named Dr. Hu somewhere (And a Google search reveals there are several doctors out there with that name). Probably apocryphal but I heard of a medical office with a Dr. White and a Dr. Wong. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/10 "2024-02-01T19:10:21Z")
I feel like a certain Steely Dan song might fit right in here. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/11 "2024-02-01T19:16:22Z")
I always wanted that Steely Dan song to be some kind of oblique Ringworld reference, but the lyrics didn’t really match up with the Ringworld universe, alas. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/12 "2024-02-01T19:16:53Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > On a similar note, I vaguely recall hearing about a physician named Dr. Hu somewhere (And a Google search reveals there are several doctors out there with that name). My dad had one oncologist named Dr. Hu, and a surgeon named Dr. Black. He never failed to add that Dr. Black was indeed Black, but he’d always say “Dr. Black, who is Black,” and I’d say, “Wait, Dr. Hu is Black?” It was a running gag in his dying months. (My dad’s, not Dr. Black’s or Dr. Hu’s.) ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/13 "2024-02-01T19:19:37Z")
I got this prescription from The Doctor. Doctor who? Yes, Doctor Hu. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/14 "2024-02-01T19:23:16Z")
I had a woman ask me about a plant growing along the trail last spring. She couldn’t find it in her plant book and asked me if it was some sort of weed. I told her it was knotweed. She asked if I knew what it was. I said knotweed and again she asked what it was. So I spelled it for her and then we were good. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/15 "2024-02-01T19:25:10Z")
One of my kids had an unmarried female elementary teacher with the Korean family name 유, who was addressed by her students as “Miss You”. Yes, the jokes wrote themselves, given the sense of humor of kids. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/16 "2024-02-01T21:01:48Z")
There’s a reason they stopped with the T family on Krakatoa, and it’s not because of any deficiencies in Ugandan cuisine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/17 "2024-02-01T21:07:57Z")
Watt likes to swim at the Y. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1Evt6As72m4/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny Carson as Reagan, a "Who's On First" spoof") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evt6As72m4) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/18 "2024-02-02T00:26:32Z")
The [rock concert version](https://youtu.be/ludCVowT-DE?feature=shared) by The Credibility Gap. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/19 "2024-02-02T00:33:12Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > There’s a reason they stopped with the T family on Krakatoa, and it’s not because of any deficiencies in Ugandan cuisine. A reference to _The Twenty-One Balloons_, by William Pene du Bois? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982/20 "2024-02-02T00:39:08Z")
After hearing all last year about Taylor Swift on tv and the radio touring the country (she even did a couple shows in our city) I eventually saw a listing for movies at one of our local theaters and saw her concert film listed. My first thought was “That’s strange. I wonder why they changed the name of the tour in the movie from her actual summer tour I’ve been hearing about nonstop. I actually liked the name ‘heiress tour’……” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-had-a-who-s-on-first-interaction-with-a-patient/996982.md?page=2)