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One of the doctors at the office is leaving. This means I will inherit his caseload. My dance card is going to get a lot busier. And I will have to get to know a large group of patients - it is hard to walk into Act III of somebody’s personal opera.   On the positive; I become even more of a crucial element so I can be a total bitch and complain more assertive with my wants. 

I recently stopped a patient’s medication. We thought it wasn’t doing any good. He informs me that was a mistake; he was more irritable and labile. It may have been good timing – he was recently mugged and instead of keeping calm he went bezerk. Apparently he frightened the daylights out of the assailants who ran off without taking his wallet.  

Another fellow tells me his medication is having a strange side effect; he is having orgasms when he urinates. You might be amazed to hear he doesn’t like this. Apparently it is a bit embarrassing in the public restroom. 

A man is very unhappy to be here in Arizona. His wife drags him here every year from the Midwest as she has seasonal affective disorder. So now he has a sort of seasonal affective disorder. She is doing OK.  

One young woman has a habit of being flirtatious to get what she wants. She is laying it on rather thick with me. She announced in her last appointment she has keen intuition.

So much for her judgment.  

If you talk to God you are praying, but if God is talking to you, you have bipolar disorder and given lithium or something.   

There are a lot ‘urgent’ calls that haven’t been that urgent – people being impatient with the screwed up telephone system. These cry wolf people are going to get in the way of someone with a real urgent problem.