### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/1 "2002-05-19T01:54:04Z")
Just pausing between graduation parties to say…I graduated! Despite my recurring fear that I’d get a call from Student Affairs at some point telling me that there had been a horrible mistake, the UK College of Medicine has officially granted me an M.D.
The obvious jokes have been played to death, the #2 “What’s up, Doc?” Coming in only to the Chevy Chase (was it _Fletch_ or _Spies Like Us_?) multiple handshakes: “Doctor.” “Doctor.” “Doctor.” \
Thanks to everyone around here who has encouraged me and taught me (especially my fellow board physicians, QtM in particular) and generally listened to me bitch for all these years. I’m sure that the bitching will stop as soon as I start my internship. 😃
Dr. J
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### Author:  [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/2 "2002-05-19T02:16:08Z")
Congrats, and well-done! 🙂
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/3 "2002-05-19T02:31:06Z")
Congratulamundifications, Doc! Are ya coming to Greensboro? I’m a half hour away, and would be glad to welcome you! Anyhoo, well done on a hard course!
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### Author:  [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/4 "2002-05-19T02:39:57Z")
Congratulations, Doc!
Would you mind looking at this mole I have. . . ? 😉
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### Author:  [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/5 "2002-05-19T02:41:16Z")
All right! You’re a doctor! Does this mean you can get prescriptions?
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/6 "2002-05-19T02:50:42Z")
As a new intern up to your eyeballs in debt, you’ll now get to hear great lines like “Yes, here is our second cheapest bottle of wine, _doctor_.”
Just kiddin’. Congrats.
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/7 "2002-05-19T02:56:47Z")
Props to ya, doctor!
By the way, I’ve been having this little, nagging pain right _here_. Do you know what it is?
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/8 "2002-05-19T03:01:23Z")
By the way…what do you plan to specialize in?
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/9 "2002-05-19T03:02:39Z")
By the way, I like to say “by the way.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/10 "2002-05-19T03:07:45Z")
Best wishes!
Now, you just learn to pick a banjo REAL good, and we’ll start calling you **Doctor Doctor DoctorJ**.
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/11 "2002-05-19T03:08:11Z")
Congrats, Doc! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/12 "2002-05-19T03:28:39Z")
Just re-read The House of God at least once before July 1st. And remember:
**THE PATIENT IS THE ONE WITH THE DISEASE**
Congrats!
(course you’re really not a real real doctor until you get your state license in a year or two. and when you do, i’ll tell you you’re not a real real real doctor until you pass your boards. and when you do i’ll claim you’re not really a real real real real doctor until you’ve managed to survive in private practice. when you do that, i’ll claim that to really, really be real, you have to fail at private practice at least once, bouce back, do it again, succeed for a decade and a half, then move over to (bail out into) the public sector to escape the insurance hassles and shrinking re-imbursement rates… but i guess you get the idea. but rest assured once you’re dead, i will say "that dr. j, now he was a **real** doctor! unless i’ve been dead longer than you at that point.) 😃
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### Author:  [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/13 "2002-05-19T03:28:53Z")
Doctor Doctor
Mister M.D…
'Grats, man!
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/14 "2002-05-19T03:51:10Z")
Congratulations, **DoctorJ**!
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### Author:  [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/15 "2002-05-19T04:51:13Z")
Thanks for all the kind words.
All the relatives came out of the woodwork for the graduation. They all, without fail, asked me if I’d write them a script for something. I _think_ they were kidding. 🙂
Rysdad–you really should see a doctor about that. Oh, hell, I can’t use that one anymore, can I? It’s worked so well for the last few years…by the way, I’m doing internal medicine. (I like 'em old and sick.)
elelle–yep, I’m Greensboro bound, end of this month.
Uke Ike–If I’ve never told you my story about being personally stiffed by Dr. Ralph Stanley, I must at some point.
QtM–Yeah, back in your day, they didn’t have those fancy “stethoscopes”, right? You just put your ear right up to the chest, and you got the patient’s rash all over your face while you breathed in his tuberculosis, and you LIKED IT! You liked it just fine!
Dr. J
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/16 "2002-05-19T13:03:07Z")
Yeah! Congrats!
Now the true question is…will you accept payment from your patients in the form of chickens?
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/17 "2002-05-19T13:09:56Z")
Good work, doc, but can I ask you about this funny little pain I’ve been having in my elbow . . .
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### Author:  [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/18 "2002-05-19T13:24:40Z")
Congrats!
Now about this crusty scabbing butt-rash just I’ve got that’s weeping this foul smelling green pus that sort of glows in the dark and has bits moving in it… oh no, please feel free to finish your meal/do your shopping/watch the movie in peace, I’ll just wait here and scratch it a bit till you’re done…
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/19 "2002-05-19T14:26:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by DoctorJ \*
> \*\* QtM–Yeah, back in your day, they didn’t have those fancy “stethoscopes”, right? You just put your ear right up to the chest, and you got the patient’s rash all over your face while you breathed in his tuberculosis, and you LIKED IT! You liked it just fine \*\*
It was the plague, I think. All those bubos…
I don’t think we had ears then, either.
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/20 "2002-05-19T15:03:43Z")
Well back in my day we didn’t even have turkey basters. We impregnated people using real turkeys dang nabbit. And that’s the way we liked it.
No doctor jokes here. Congrats DoctorJ.
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