So, looking ahead on our outpatient schedule a few days I notice we have a pediatric patient. <hospital> doesn't really get many pediatric patients as most of them go to <children's hospital>. I haven't done one myself since I was a student at <children's hospital>, which was several years ago.
Standard procedure is if we see anything weird, we call the radiologist. Lucky (not) for us, we usually have Dr Prick. I've talked about him before. Despite how difficult he is to work with, I will give him that he is very thorough and as such is actually a very good radiologist. It would just be nice if he wasn't so unpleasant to work with.
Anywho, no sooner were the words "pediatric patient" out of my mouth when he interrupted me with "Children's Hospital. Period." Alrighty then, I'll call the ordering doc and get things switched. Whelp, doc's office calls back and Kid's Mom is adamant she is not taking her kid to <children's hospital>. Okidoki then. Lucky me gets to call Dr Prick back.
New assignment then: call <children's hospital> for their dosing information and also get Kid's height, weight, and menstruation status from the other office. Then get in touch with a pediatric rad for Dr Prick to talk to. Done, done, and also done because I'm just that good. Called Dr Prick back with all the info, including the ped rad's name and was just about to give him the number when "I'll be sitting here waiting."
Do what? Doc, lemme tell you what I've got on my plate today. Thing One and Thing Two decided to skip off to lunch together, which means my partner in crime is covering cardiology and I'm running two cameras and three scans. I don't have time to be your secretary. I get you're reading scans for, like, 5 modalities, but you keep calling us to see what we've got. My assumption is you're bored. The other rad is probably busy as well. But hey, I've got 30 seconds before my next patient so I'll call him and give him your number.
And yunno the real insulting thing? Other Rad basically told Dr Prick the exact same thing I was told by the tech at <children's hospital>. He just wanted confirmation that we had correct information. Apparently we have to have the letters MD after our names before our information is valid. Not that they do those scans every day or anything.
Oh, and he wanted me to pass along to my boss that he was "unhappy" about the situation. Well, doc, I don't like it either cuz I'm really not looking forward to the possibility of having to hold down an 11 year old. And the mom sounds like a real piece of work too. But I'm more "unhappy" about having to make all these phone calls when I have work to do. Taking care of patients who are actually here right now.
Standard procedure is if we see anything weird, we call the radiologist. Lucky (not) for us, we usually have Dr Prick. I've talked about him before. Despite how difficult he is to work with, I will give him that he is very thorough and as such is actually a very good radiologist. It would just be nice if he wasn't so unpleasant to work with.
Anywho, no sooner were the words "pediatric patient" out of my mouth when he interrupted me with "Children's Hospital. Period." Alrighty then, I'll call the ordering doc and get things switched. Whelp, doc's office calls back and Kid's Mom is adamant she is not taking her kid to <children's hospital>. Okidoki then. Lucky me gets to call Dr Prick back.
New assignment then: call <children's hospital> for their dosing information and also get Kid's height, weight, and menstruation status from the other office. Then get in touch with a pediatric rad for Dr Prick to talk to. Done, done, and also done because I'm just that good. Called Dr Prick back with all the info, including the ped rad's name and was just about to give him the number when "I'll be sitting here waiting."
Do what? Doc, lemme tell you what I've got on my plate today. Thing One and Thing Two decided to skip off to lunch together, which means my partner in crime is covering cardiology and I'm running two cameras and three scans. I don't have time to be your secretary. I get you're reading scans for, like, 5 modalities, but you keep calling us to see what we've got. My assumption is you're bored. The other rad is probably busy as well. But hey, I've got 30 seconds before my next patient so I'll call him and give him your number.
And yunno the real insulting thing? Other Rad basically told Dr Prick the exact same thing I was told by the tech at <children's hospital>. He just wanted confirmation that we had correct information. Apparently we have to have the letters MD after our names before our information is valid. Not that they do those scans every day or anything.
Oh, and he wanted me to pass along to my boss that he was "unhappy" about the situation. Well, doc, I don't like it either cuz I'm really not looking forward to the possibility of having to hold down an 11 year old. And the mom sounds like a real piece of work too. But I'm more "unhappy" about having to make all these phone calls when I have work to do. Taking care of patients who are actually here right now.
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