->  TC> Glen Cook wrote a series of books where one of the main characters
->  TC> was named Croaker.  He was a doctor, of course.
-> 
-> Ah....what do I know? (g)

Well, at least you didn't buy the entire series of books thinking they were
about another character altogether.  I suppose I should have read the first
one before shelling out the cash for all the others.
 
-> I love the "so they claim".  Sounds like the local
government....if the
were
-> as good as they claim....well, you catch the drift.

Well, I just didn't want to pass along their claims as if I was convinced
of their validity.

I irritated a couple of drug reps once.  After asking them to not park in
the no parking zone, they told me they had to park there because they were
delivering drug samples to the doctors and it wasn't safe for them to carry
the samples all the way across the parking lot.  I shouldn't bother them
because the samples were given away free by doctors and that helps keep my
drug costs down.  I told them that if the company fired all the drug reps,
quit giving away the product, and quit advertising drugs on TV to the
public when only doctors can prescribe them, they could afford to sell the
drugs much more cheaply.  Plus, the waiting times for my doctor would be
shorter because he wouldn't be seeing drug reps all day between patients.

I think I got an official complaint on that one, but it was worth it.

-> Perhaps they are Bolemic?

Nutritionists with an eating disorder?  Actually, that's better than my
idea that they had some secret insider weight loss info.  I know from
experience that most people in the mental health field are previous
clients.  It only seems logical that people with eating problems might
enter the dietary health field.

-> The story was priceless....it reminds me that every time I see my
Doctor,
-> I ask ih he's taken his blood pressure meds...and then suggest to him
that he
-> loose some weight.

Working at a hospital, I get to meet a lot of doctors and nurses.  It's
amazing how many of them smoke, are overweight, abuse alcohol or drugs,
suffer from high blood pressure, etc.  We used to have a heart surgeon that
I swear weighed 350 pounds.  I don't know how he stood up long enough to
operate or got close enough to the table to reach the patient.

-> Ha Ha....and you were to call about the letter...I'll bet you'd get a
voice
-> mail system that doesn;t let you leave a message!

I've called before.  I either get the staff which never lets me talk to who
I need to or I get the answering service which won't take a message and
won't contact the doctor unless it's an emergency.  And then just to tell
the doctor to meet me at the nearest emergency room.

-> Ah well, we keep on chugging along, don't we?

Of course.
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