# Re the paging of QtM, I'm beginning to understand why doctors dread cocktail parties **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364 "2004-11-06T17:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/21 "2004-11-06T23:09:42Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > For the record, every time I see your name, I wonder if you’re going to tell us more about turtles breathing through their butts. 🙂 What more would you ever want to know about turtle butts? ---
**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:** [November 6, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/22 "2004-11-06T23:11:46Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Far, far too many. 😉 Have I mentioned I’ve got _The Hobbit_ and _The Silmarillion_ as well? [leer]Wanna come over and see my edition of “Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien”?[/leer] ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/23 "2004-11-06T23:23:28Z")
FWIW, although I’ve been grateful a number of times for free advice from our resident MDs, I’ve never specifically started a thread calling one of them. Until he moved away, I attended church with a pediatrician; I never asked him medical questions at church functions. I can only imagine that were I a doctor, I’d get sick and tired of people seeking me out for medical advice. So, I certainly can see the point of the OP. OTOH, I would assume that, no matter how gentlemanly he is, if it _really_ bothered **QtM** to be paged, he would have come in at some point and said “Hey, knock it off, wouldja?” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/24 "2004-11-06T23:30:52Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Hi, um, [sub]she came back. They usually don’t do that. What should I do now?[/sub] And how many times have you read “Lord of the Rings”? I’ve been through three editions of them in the last 14 or so years. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/25 "2004-11-06T23:37:51Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > [leer]Wanna come over and see my edition of “Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien”?[/leer] Love to. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/26 "2004-11-07T00:15:14Z")
This thread needs 10cc of happiness, STAT! And a Rubella inoculation. Uh-Hee-hee-hee. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/27 "2004-11-07T00:41:19Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > FWIW, although I’ve been grateful a number of times for free advice from our resident MDs, I’ve never specifically started a thread calling one of them. Hey lady! Didn’t you see what furt said? If you weren’t mentioned by name then this thread is obviously not about you! /hijack How is Gothie doing? Drop me an email or IM please, I’ve been thinking about you guys lately. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/28 "2004-11-07T01:21:52Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > I’ve been through three editions of them in the last 14 or so years. 😃 **24** , not 14. :smack: ---
**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:** [November 7, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/29 "2004-11-07T01:28:26Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > **24** , not 14. :smack: Denise, you know where I live. You can pop by and see my entire JRRT collection! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/30 "2004-11-07T02:36:03Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Denise, you know where I live. You can pop by and see my entire JRRT collection! I’m not in that neck of the woods real often, but I’ll probably take you up on that when I am. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/31 "2004-11-07T02:48:48Z")
Your real life last name isn’t Bombay, is it? That would be so cool to hear that page in a hospital. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/32 "2004-11-07T02:51:48Z")
I have often wondered if the people on this board know just how lucky they are to have the likes of **Qad** in their midst. I mean here’s this amazingly knowledgeable, profoundly sensible, and frighteningly eclectic doc, and he’s there for everyone. Believe me - he is _unique_! OTOH, if he continues to post stuff like “KarlGauss … keen medical intellect”, he will soon lose all credibilty! 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/33 "2004-11-07T03:38:43Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > I’m not in that neck of the woods real often, but I’ll probably take you up on that when I am. 🙂 You can email me and we can set up a meeting. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/34 "2004-11-07T03:41:41Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > OTOH, if he continues to post stuff like “KarlGauss … keen medical intellect”, he will soon lose all credibilty! 🙂 Tsk, tsk. One day you’ll have to come to grips with the fact that you’re more than just competent. Is it not written “Do not bind the mouths of the kine who tread the grain”? (I never knew what that particular biblical quote meant, but it sounds deep) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/35 "2004-11-07T03:56:28Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Tsk, tsk. One day you’ll have to come to grips with the fact that you’re more than just competent. Is it not written “Do not bind the mouths of the kine who tread the grain”? (I never knew what that particular biblical quote meant, but it sounds deep) To me, it sounds like an open invitation to allow skimming off the top: Look the other way when the people who do the work to dip into the till every so often. But I’m no Biblical scholar. Paging **Diogenes**! 😉 I’d see it as flattery if someone were to `page’ me with a specific problem, or to recognize me as this place’s most knowledgable (or most visible) expert on a specific issue. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/36 "2004-11-07T04:59:32Z")
Paging QtM! I just took an enormous dump that overflowed the toilet. And by overflowed I don’t mean I clogged up the toilet and the water ran over, I mean the actual feces pile was so high it ended up on the floor. Should I be worried? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/37 "2004-11-07T07:09:59Z")
Um, ignoring BruceDaddy’s um, problem for a moment, I just wanted to say that I truly appreciate Qadgop, DSeid, DoctorJ, KarlGauss, picunurse and all of the Dopers who share their knowledge on the issue that affects us all the most intimately and frequently, what’s going on inside of our skin. Thank you all for being patient and generous with your time and learning. You’re all the coolest. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/38 "2004-11-07T08:04:35Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > Um, ignoring BruceDaddy’s um, problem for a moment, That seems like a good policy to me. What say we continue it for the forseeable future? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/39 "2004-11-07T08:58:14Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > Paging QtM! I just took an enormous dump that overflowed the toilet. And by overflowed I don’t mean I clogged up the toilet and the water ran over, I mean the actual feces pile was so high it ended up on the floor. Should I be worried? > > Thanks! Remove the feces from the toilet and bury them in a cat’s litter box. Watch hilarity ensue. Incidentally, if anyone can find the post that I’m referring to above, can you paste a link? I tried searching but couldn’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364/40 "2004-11-07T12:47:44Z")
The only time I paged QtM is was a question about transexuals in prison. Since I don’t know any transexuals who have been in prison, it seemed logical to ask someone who went to prison every day (gosh, that sounds awful, doesn’t it?) to work who would have contact with any transexuals who happened to be in that prison. Seemed less rude than to say “Paging Doper transexuals who have gone to jail”. But **Qadgop** is way cool, I’m glad he’s here and I’m glad he’s so generous with his time and knowledge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-paging-of-qtm-im-beginning-to-understand-why-doctors-dread-cocktail-parties/273364.md?page=3)