Gwyneth sans makeup = Sissy Spacek in Carrie

I don't think they settle for firing you. I'm pretty sure the celebrity whose privacy you violated gets to watch as you get tortured.

I guess working in a hospital has really desensitized me. I was eating when I started reading this and tried to brace myself for a possible lost appetite, but nope. Nada. I guess having to hear/smell/discuss people's bowel movements on a regular basis has just taken all the romance out of it for me.

At the request of my sister, I made an Amazon list. And it was good. Truly, I outdid myself with this one. Reasonably priced items (our price limit was $50), each and every one I would be psyched to get. I got, instead, what I can only describe as $25 worth of gag gifts that will go in the back of the closet and/or…

As far as your situation with your sister goes, you said you're both in your late 20s, which means, depending on her specialty, she is either still a resident or a new attending. My point is that she's inexperienced, possibly still learning herself, and you say you're concerned about the Munchausen's diagnosis simply…

If your medical records are on an electronic system (which I suspect they are as most health systems are using these now) then you can prove that she accessed them. These systems track which users enter a given patient's chart and keep a log of this, down to which specific documents within a chart they looked at. This…

Ohhh, well that's a horse of a different color!

Still—and I understand this has nothing to do with RSVPing—if someone invites me to a party they're throwing, whether it's at a restaurant or banquet hall or other venue, I don't expect to pay. Especially, but not necessarily, if I'm expected to bring a gift. Just like I wouldn't expect to pay for my dinner at a…

I'm sorry...refused to pay? Were you charging people to come to your boyfriend's birthday dinner?

Even known drug-seekers can't just be dismissed without at least a basic workup because many of them do have actual disease in addition to their drug-seeking (probably how they got hooked on pain meds in the first place) and if you just send them away you're asking for a lawsuit when it turns out that their pain was…

To me, psych cases are the best because they provide some much needed variety to a day chock full of abdominal pains and chest pains.

I work as a scribe in an ER, which means I do the charting for the doctor, including taking what a patient says and basically translating it into a concise story. The whole no-tangents thing is so on the nose. But also, a big thing to keep in mind as a patient in the ER is that while it may be tempting to give the doc…

Believe it or not, some ER docs don't have to deal with impactions. The patient is an automatic admit. Of course, disimpactions, unpleasant though they may be for all involved, only take a few minutes and aren't common enough to be the worst part of the job. Plus there are WAY smellier cases, like good ol' GI bleeds.

Also, sometimes tests are only ordered based on the results of other tests, so it stands to reason that you would order initial tests and then wait to see if additional tests are indicated.

This woman is my hero and I wish I could send her a big hug!

One time at college a guy passing me on the stairs made a really lame joke. I didn't laugh or even respond because frankly I wasn't even sure if he was addressing it to me or just talking to himself. He then yelled "bitch!" at the top of his lungs as I walked away, with startled students staring at me like I'd done…

Poor Jake apparently isn't familiar with the old talking-to-someone-in-another-room-who-isn't-there-anymore trope.