# It's Dr. Doctor J to you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772 "2002-05-19T01:54:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/21 "2002-05-19T15:05:51Z")
Congratuations Dr. J! Best of luck to you as you begin your internship. . . just remember to be nice to the nurses! 😉 ---
**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:** [May 19, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/22 "2002-05-19T15:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nightingale \* > \*\* just remember to be nice to the nurses! 😉 \*\* Any intern who isn’t nice to the nurses will live to regret it deeply, strongly, and for a long, long time. The hypothetical non-nice intern will have to alter their personal definition of nurse to: Someone who can help you and doesn’t, or; Someone who can hurt you and does. I have no doubt our good Dr[sup]2[/sup] J. will not fall into that category of intern. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/23 "2002-05-19T19:55:33Z")
Yay for you!! And good luck with your internship! ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/24 "2002-05-19T19:57:29Z")
Woohoo! _runs through the thread_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/25 "2002-05-19T21:16:40Z")
_nods_ Yep…the #1 rule of actually getting things done: Be nice to nurses and secretaries. Congratulations, Doctor Doctor J! jayjay ---
**Author:** ![artemis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@artemis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/artemis)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/26 "2002-05-19T21:40:31Z")
Congrats, Dr. J! Enjoy the giddy sensation of freedom while you can - July 1 will be here before you know it! ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/27 "2002-05-19T21:50:22Z")
Wait, I screwed that up. Let me try it again. [Sifl & Olly] **ROCK!!!** [/Sifl & Olly] ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/28 "2002-05-19T21:54:07Z")
Well, hickory dickory, Doc! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![odd-socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/29 "2002-05-19T21:56:53Z")
Congrats! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/30 "2002-05-20T03:08:36Z")
Doctor, doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case… Of congratulatin’ you! That said, > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\* > > definition of nurse (snip): Someone who can hurt you and does. > \*\* Sounds like a perfect date! Where can I find one of these nurses? ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/31 "2002-05-20T03:52:20Z")
Congrats, and as a fellow Internist let me post my own pearls of wisdom gleaned from residency and practice: 1)On call team on-Off call team get out ASAP-or they WILL call you back! 2)Sleep when you can, Eat when you have to, Leave when you must. 3)When it’s a holiday weekend, you are post call, it’s 3:30pm, you just have to run one more set of blood to the lab before you go home, and the elevator breaks trapping you with an only slightly panicked husband of a patient and the phone in the elevator is broken and they keep paging you anyway-the solution is to hit the alarm button: after 45 minutes they will realize that it’s not a mistake and come to rescue you and someday you WILL hear again (high point of MY intership!) And the answer to a few patient complaints: Q. Doc, it hurts when I do this. A. Well, don’t do that! Q. Doctor, there’s a patient who needs to see you right away-he says he’s becoming invisible. A. Tell him I can’t see him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Theobroma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@Theobroma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theobroma)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/32 "2002-05-20T04:26:35Z")
Congrats! All your troubles are over now, you betcha! 😉 Just a tip on weeding out those nasty hypochondriacs: 1. Does your urine glow in the dark? 2. Do your teeth itch? 3. Does the pain increase when your mother-in-law is in town? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ignatius\_reilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@ignatius\_reilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatius_reilly)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/33 "2002-05-20T04:43:13Z")
Congrats Doctor Doctor from a fellow Lexington Doper. I graduated from the UK College of Law about two weeks ago myself. Graduation is kind of anti-clamactic, isn’t it? Good luck in the future. Are you going to intern here? BTW, I think I read before that you live near Lynagh’s, correct? We ought to meet up at a show sometime. A couple of good ones are coming up: Asylum Street Spankers on May 30th and BR549 on June 7th. ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/34 "2002-05-20T06:05:31Z")
Well, congratulations Doctor J! 🙂 One down, nine to go? Best of luck on your internship–and if you _are_ nice to the nurses, believe me they _will_ remember it and you will be well-taken care of by them! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/35 "2002-05-20T13:11:58Z")
And when you’re tempted to complain about the resident advisors, just remember that my MOM is a resident advisor, so they can’t be all bad… 😉 congratz! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/36 "2002-05-20T13:57:55Z")
I have it on good authority that Qadgop graduated back when you had to taste a patient’s urine to diagnose diabetes. CONGRATS, Dr. J. That’s really great! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/37 "2002-05-20T14:22:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DoctorJ \* > \*\*…by the way, I’m doing internal medicine. (I like 'em old and sick.) \*\* I’ve never been quite clear on that. Internal medicine seems like it would be everything a dermatologist doesn’t do. A quick search showed that internal medicine covers: Cardiology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Hematology Nephrology Oncology Pulmonary Medicine Rheumatology …and probably more. Is it more specialized than that? By the way…I wish I had all the money you’ve spent on text books. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/38 "2002-05-20T15:01:00Z")
Think of it this way: a family doctor sees everybody. A pediatrician sees kids. An internist sees adults. Believe me, I wish _I_ had all the money I’ve spent on textbooks. ignatius–(I replied to this last night, but it got lost in the aether, apparently)–I put off the closing of my house for a few days so I could make the Spankers show at Lynaghs. Unfortunately, I’m leaving the next day in a Ryder truck, so I won’t be around for the Alejandro Escovedo shows that weekend or BR5-49 on the 7th. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/39 "2002-05-20T15:24:00Z")
**DoctorJ** , you frikkin’ badass! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Kamikazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kamikazee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamikazee)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772/40 "2002-05-20T16:42:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DoctorJ \* > **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.** Congrats on graduating from United Kingdom College of Medicine, it must have been very difficult living in Lexington Kentucky and commuting, or did you use the internet? HUH… what do you mean UK doesn’t stand for United Kingdom!?😕 Best of luck with your internship! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-dr-doctor-j-to-you/109772.md?page=3)