Blind Date With Your Doctor?

According to Alex Cukan, UPI Health Correspondent, one way to find a good doctor is by setting up a "blind date." 

The United Press International article advises, "Make an appointment for a small problem -- just like a blind date for tea or coffee. The visit should be limited in scope and a limited emotional investment -- you're interviewing the doctor, but you don't have to tell the doctor it's an audition."

Hmm...  Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to ...

 

Reasonably healthy MWF with insurance seeks PCP who enjoys long intimate chats with nervous, scantily clad males and females.  You may be my perfect Medical-Match If you like discussing aberrant bodily functions, are tolerant of sporadic whining, and don't easily faint at the site of blood.

Extra points if you are willing to provide occasional comfort and reassurance when it comes to the aforementioned bodily functions, you're up for a challenging battle against the dark forces of advancing age, and you promise to honor the principles of HIPAA by altering my identity if you're a medical blogger and just can't resist relating some humorous anecdote about me to the entire medical blogsphere.

If you think we'd be a good match, give me a call at 555-....

    

Comments

[drcharles]

Hello. I read your personal ad on Medical-Match.com, and would like to learn more about you. I too enjoy many of the things you mentioned and feel we might connect. Unfortunately your telephone number "555" only produced a silence on the other end of the line, a pining in my heart, and a dream of future long walks on the beach. thank you for your kind reply.

[Dr. Deb]

Clever AND so useful.

[Vicki]

This is genius! I wish I had thought of something like this . . . . If only we could screen our physicians this way. Photos would be helpful too! I would not answer any ads where the physician is not smiling (or smiling with a very phoney or pained expression). You are too funny! Keep making me laugh like this and I won't need to see a physician :)

[Rita]

Dear Dr. Charles and Dr. Serani,

Thanks for your responses to my Medical-Match "seeking a doctor" ad. I will give your "applications," along with the many others I expect to receive, careful review and serious consideration.

Vicki - Careful, we never reveal to the doctors of the medical blogosphere that we actually prefer to avoid the necessity of seeing a physician - it makes them question why they spent all those years in medical school.

:)
Rita

[Barbados Butterfly]

LOL!

This reminds me of a private patient who presented many years ago to have a mole removed by one of my consultants. The patient had a number of moles and I was curious as to why we were being asked to remove one of the least conspicuous moles.

My consultant (a highly experienced plastic surgeon) explained, when I asked, that he suspected the patient was testing out his workmanship first. If it went well with the least conspicuous mole, he told me, he suspected that he would then be permitted to take out the others.

Keep up the great work, Rita!

[Kim]

If you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain

If you warm up your stethoscope
And take care of my pain

If you are on call when my health goes bad,
I'll be for-ever yours

But if your hands are like ice cubes,
I won't enter your door!

LOL Rita, this is so funny! And I've heard the Pina Colada song at least four times this week so it was the first thing that came to my mind! LOL!