# Mundane Adventures In Medical Land

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 13, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394 "2016-10-13T06:15:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394/1 "2016-10-13T06:15:20Z")

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Tomorrow (actually today as it is 2:10 AM and I can’t sleep) I will have an adventurous day.

After taking the trash out for collection this morning I must get to see my Orthopedic Surgeon about my fractured clavicle (collar bone), then a follow-up with my General Surgeon (gall bladder removal, hernia repair, espouphical ulcers), my urologist and thy favorite doctor PCP (Primary Care) Mellissa up in Manistee - where once again blood will be sucked from one of my veins for testing. I’m a the star-child for “rolling veins”. I feel sorry for the nusrses who keep trying  
All from 9am to 5pm. I am exhausted just thinking about it. Whew.

Then I get to come home and clean house.  
Fun, Fun.  
**Hope you all have a great day…**  
I will probably end up going to have a beer…or two. And possibly a shot of whiskey.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394/2 "2016-10-13T12:40:39Z")

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By the end of the day, you will have more medical referreal slips than you have now. It is a self-escalating system. Two medical applintments become four, which become eight . . .

When you become sufficiently jaded, you will just cover it all with a single umbrella expression: Insurance fraud.

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**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394/3 "2016-10-14T12:33:57Z")

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What happened? Did you have an accident or just an old body waiting to give out?

Sorry if I missed the thread you might have already posted in

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**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-adventures-in-medical-land/768394/4 "2016-10-14T18:00:14Z")

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> [@WildBlueYonder](#):
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> What happened? Did you have an accident or just an old body waiting to give out?
> 
> Sorry if I missed the thread you might have already posted in

Just a follow-up check-up. The only reason I went there were the cute nurses and the cheese burgers and fries from the room service menu. The “old body parts” of mine is well known around here.  
Oh yes, I did have that beer and whiskey. Just to wash down all those new pills they gave me.