Comments on: The Downside of Being a Teacher

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:25:49 +0000

“You can judge a teacher by the quality of their students”
Uh oh.

By: arzt4empfaenger

arzt4empfaenger — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:25:09 +0000

Haha, the ups and downs of being a teacher indeed. I’d have expected a bit more courage from your “students”, though. (I mean, didn’t they wonder what you’d think, i.e. why no-one had the guts to just reduce it?)

In retrospect, it’s funny to read that you had to pay the fees for your own work (but I understand your explanation above with not officially working there, can’t change that). Oh the irony. I hope your wife was at least pain free for the waiting time? If that wasn’t the case, that’d have pissed me off the most in this story.

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:29:37 +0000

So ..if roles were reversed ..would you have fixed it?

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:27:10 +0000

The bill from the docs was written off as a professional courtesy. I did get charged for the hospital portion of reducing the fracture, though. Didn’t want to get the docs in trouble by saying that I was the one who did the procedure when I wasn’t even credentialed to practice at the hospital, and came out ahead overall, so we just paid the bill.

By: serenitynowhospital

serenitynowhospital — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:09:37 +0000

doest that mean that one of the providers billed for your procedure??

By: Dr. Dredd

Dr. Dredd — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:22:45 +0000

Since you reduced the finger, did you at least get part of the fee?

By: Chrys

Chrys — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:56:41 +0000

I’m with Christine up there. I would have said, “Nah, no relation what so ever.”

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:23:53 +0000

Ha! I can’t imagine WC being a psychotic PIA!

Unless he has us all snowed.

I’m curious WC ..what would *you* have done if the roles were reversed?

Is that typical of med professionals ..to pass the buck? I thought doctors were cocky and liked the opportunity to test their metal and prove themselves?

I thought this was gonna be a middle finger bandage joke.

By: ERP

ERP — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:33:11 +0000

Wow, that is weird. If I were your “student” and you were not a psychotic pain in the ass, I would have reduced the damn thing after talking to you.

By: christine

christine — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:40:10 +0000

next time, your wife should deny that she knows you!