The Ultimate Threat!
Every part of the country probably has a colorful media personality who becomes locally well known for championing the rights of the disenfranchised underdogs in the community. In southeast Texas, we have the prototype: Marvin Zindler.When all else fails, people here count on Marvin Zindler because they know he will cut through the red tape and overcome the frustrating obstacles preventing them from getting whatever it is they so desperately need. And the evil villains will soon get their comeuppance, guaranteed, or his name isn't Maaaaarvin Zindler.
So when a patient is discharged from the Emergency Department without a prescription for his drug of choice, or he is sent back to his lonely ramshackle trailer after being denied the
It makes me tremble just to think about it.
posted by scalpel at 8:13 AM
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Wow, a lifetime contract with ABC! WOnder how that went. "You give us your life and soul, and in return we make you much, much more famous than you could ever hope to become on your sad lonely own." I expect some dramatic posts coming up involving Mr Tinted Glasses and a television crew at your hospital...
P.S. By the way, I still haven't gotten over my SNL addiction sparked off by that post of yours. If I fail my exams I'm blaming you. Hmph :)
I'm no longer in Houston anymore, but I still love this list - especially the last one about our old friend, MAR-VIN ZIND-LER, EYE-witness news
We have a news show that goes after evil-doers. It's called "7 On Your Side." Angry patients are always telling us that if they don't get their drugs, they are going to call the news show.
To quote my youngest daughter (eye roll) "What-ever."
MJ
I can hear it now: "Award-winning medical blogger exposed as Pain-med Denier!" Similar to Holocaust and Global Warming Deniers, these pain-med deniers callously refuse narcotic pain medications to large numbers of patients who must then travel from state to state seeking relief from serious factitious pain disorders.
Ironically, I'm quite the liberal when it comes to prescribing narcotics to those who need such things.
Anybody else notice the striking resemblance to Jim Jones?
I grew up thinking Marvin Zindler was perhaps the coolest person on the planet. I feel bad now because I didn't realize he was still around, doing his thing. This man must be immortal.
I think I made it exactly 3 days in the ER before someone threatened to sue me. Yawny yawny.
"I'm calling my lawyer!" is ER patient code for "I'm full of shi-zat and you caught me!"
I have but two words, Oh dear
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