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Old 12-10-19, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
You'd think they could afford a colour TV.
That would just thin out the margin.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Death!?

God forbid, but just sayin.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Contraction of not a doctor. Pejorative term for a PA or NP, especially if they are practicing more-or-less autonomously without close physician oversight. It's the new normal. Sad.
I visited an urgent care facility this summer and was informed I would be seen by a PA. I thought, Oh?

Fortunately my visit was only for poison ivy and errors are not fatal. Usually.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
I visited an urgent care facility this summer and was informed I would be seen by a PA. I thought OH?

Fortunately my visit was only for poison ivy and errors are not fatal. Usually.
As my grandfather, also a doc, is reputed to have said, "There is no medical condition so benign or insignificant that, in the hands of a competent physician, cannot prove fatal."
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I am still full from dinner last night. Our department went out to a small BYO. Took over the entire place. They literally served us a tasting menu of everything they had to offer except the lamb neck and venison. The food was excellent.

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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
As my grandfather, also a doc, is reputed to have said, "There is no medical condition so benign or insignificant that, in the hands of a competent physician, cannot prove fatal."
Excellent.

"If your car is running right, we can fix that too."
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As my grandfather, also a doc, is reputed to have said, "There is no medical condition so benign or insignificant that, in the hands of a competent physician, cannot prove fatal."
That's the reality, because there's always an ever so slight chance they could screw up the prednisone prescription. But I'm sure the pharmacist would catch the error, right? Right?
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Excellent.

"If your car is running right, we can fix that too."
Love that.

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That's the reality, because there's always an ever so slight chance they could screw up the prednisone prescription. But I'm sure the pharmacist would catch the error, right? Right?
I have no idea what the kill/save ratio is for the US health care system, but evidence suggests it's high.
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I might take the day off from road cycling today, due to scheduling issues, here in my unstructured life. I did ride my town bike though, so it will still count toward consecutive days riding. My former town bike, the '95ish Giant Yukon MTB, will go to its new home today, seatpost still stuck. The next guy is a welder, so plans to use heat on it. It weighed in in the neighborhood of 35 lbs. this morning. Good riddance. It's the first bike I built up from scratch, in the Athens, Ohio bike co-op, which no longer exists.
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I see I'm approaching 12,000. I wonder if it will be this year, or next.
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I see I'm approaching 12,000. I wonder if it will be this year, or next.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I hope you’re riding today, Dougie, or else you’re toast. Then again, there have been some interlopers on the board lately that have nothing to do with Addiction as far as I tell. Then, there are those pesky indoor guys...
I can hear you, ya know...
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Originally Posted by datlas
I surpassed 24,000 last week without even realizing it. Hope I didn't waste it in something like A&S.
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I surpassed 24,000 last week without even realizing it. Hope I didn't waste it in something like A&S.
And you joined just ten months ahead of me. You're coming up on ten years.
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I surpassed 24,000 last week without even realizing it. Hope I didn't waste it in something like A&S.
Kudos.

I will probably do something similar for 30K.
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Originally Posted by ls01
I can hear you, ya know...
You must be training indoors because you're not an interloper.
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I surpassed 24,000 last week without even realizing it. Hope I didn't waste it in something like A&S.
Yeah, but if we deleted all of your "in before the lock" stuff and pics of your bike, you'd probably be below a thousand!
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Yeah, but if we deleted all of your "in before the lock" stuff and pics of your bike, you'd probably be below a thousand!
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Originally Posted by BillyD
I visited an urgent care facility this summer and was informed I would be seen by a PA. I thought, Oh?

Fortunately my visit was only for poison ivy and errors are not fatal. Usually.
As a young boy, maybe 7 y.o. my family moved from NYC to the country 70 miles north. I spent a lot of time tramping around the fields, stone walls and woods and caught a serious case of poison ivy, a real serious case. The long term result is that I am mostly immune now. I can rub it al over my body with almost no effect. This is what got me in trouble in the first place.
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It’s snowing out. Stupid winter.
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It’s snowing out. Stupid winter.
Is it messing up the roads up there? We have a bare dusting on the flower beds and the govt is open, which means the roads are no deadlier than usual.
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Is it messing up the roads up there? We have a bare dusting on the flower beds and the govt is open, which means the roads are no deadlier than usual.
Roads are just wet with occasional slushy spot. Just bad enough to ruin today’s ride.
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Since I had to cancel my club ride today, I signed up for a group ride on Zwift. It’s not quite as much fun, but better than nothing. The ride has a voice chat too, which can keep it interesting.
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It's -7° out. Stupid weather.
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