Good News, Bad News
The guys coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan are getting a great kidney specialist, which is good.
My Mother has to find another kidney specialist, which is always a pain.
The real problem is that her current specialist is too damn old for the military crap. He did his bit and got out, but he’s been recalled because they are short-handed. He’s willing to serve, but wonders when some of the others are going to get to sacrifice for this mess.
I’m waiting for them to tell him to get a haircut. He is not exactly a diplomat.
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ouch. a pain indeed. is this the guy with the [non] decorating scheme?
No, although they both deal with internal plumbing, the kidney guy is divorced because he spends so much time working and his wife wanted to enjoy life a little.
The kidney doc is going to lose a mint withdrawing from the joint practice, and is going to have to do something with his house, like rent it out, to cover some of his expenses.
He’s a good doctor, and lets the practice do the decorating.
I’m awfully sensitive to having doctors, young or old, called away from their practices for service in combat zones. The young dentist who saw me through much of my adolescence was called in the “doctor’s draft” in Vietnam.
I last saw his name on The Wall.
Dr. M is going to the main receiving hospital in Germany. He’s a specialist, but he still keeps up on other parts of the body.
It is probably a two year tour.