Congratuations Dr. J! Best of luck to you as you begin your internship. . . 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.
Yay for you!! And good luck with your internship!
Woohoo!
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nods Yep…the #1 rule of actually getting things done: Be nice to nurses and secretaries.
Congratulations, Doctor Doctor J!
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Congrats, Dr. J! Enjoy the giddy sensation of freedom while you can - July 1 will be here before you know it!
Wait, I screwed that up. Let me try it again.
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ROCK!!!
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Well, hickory dickory, Doc! Congratulations!
Congrats!
Doctor, doctor, gimme the news, I got a bad case…
Of congratulatin’ you!
That said,
Sounds like a perfect date! Where can I find one of these nurses?
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.
Congrats! All your troubles are over now, you betcha!
Just a tip on weeding out those nasty hypochondriacs:
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Does your urine glow in the dark?
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Do your teeth itch?
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Does the pain increase when your mother-in-law is in town?
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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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
DoctorJ, you frikkin’ badass!
Congratulations!
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!