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(AP) Scary Money talks, doctor walks: surgeon leaves patient on table to go cash paycheck.   (seattlepi.nwsource.com) divider line 62
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2002-08-08 01:26:44 PM
hey, banksclose early, whadda ya gonna do.
 
2002-08-08 01:27:31 PM
Geeze, no one got hurt. It's not like he was giving a heart transplant.
 
2002-08-08 01:27:51 PM
Hello!?! Direct deposit, farktart. Stupid Simpso-- er, Doctor...
 
bug
2002-08-08 01:27:54 PM
i did this once when i was a male whore
 
2002-08-08 01:28:35 PM
yep, still filtering.
 
2002-08-08 01:28:56 PM
he had to go. imagine if he had left the check inside the patient?
 
2002-08-08 01:30:05 PM
On the way back he stopped at a 7-11 to get a money order to pay his phone bill.
 
2002-08-08 01:30:26 PM
He had to go get some more quarters to put in the patient to play another game.
 
2002-08-08 01:30:35 PM
eh, i can imagine really needing to get the money in there, and the patient didn't suffer cause he was gone for a small amount of time. but yeah, why doesn't he use direct deposit?
 
2002-08-08 01:30:36 PM
An orthopedic surgeon who lives paycheck to paycheck? Talk about poor financial planning.

I'll bet he cashed the check at Money Mart.
 
2002-08-08 01:30:52 PM
Interesting new filter...no more references to the Former Soviet Union.

Now all we need is a filter to filter out "damn filter."
 
DB
2002-08-08 01:32:09 PM
repeat!

oh wait. damn.
 
2002-08-08 01:33:41 PM
He is also licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana.

Guess who's going to Lousiana.
 
2002-08-08 01:34:12 PM
 
2002-08-08 01:35:22 PM
I would have loved to have overheard the conversation around the operating theater...
 
2002-08-08 01:35:23 PM
On a slow news day, a story like this is a godsend for your 5:30 lead.
 
2002-08-08 01:35:40 PM
JoshShmenge</b): Just what I was thinking.
 
2002-08-08 01:35:45 PM
Would his license have been suspended if he had left to take a 35 minute dump?

A 6 hour operation, let the man have a break.
 
2002-08-08 01:35:47 PM
why do they put filters in anyway? whats the point? how stupid is that? god I'm getting so sick of the internet.
 
2002-08-08 01:36:13 PM
I'm beginning to think we need an Asshat tag.
 
2002-08-08 01:36:34 PM
I'm picturing him in full hospital scrubs, running down the street with his hands in the air, palms facing in, and paycheck in his teeth.
 
2002-08-08 01:38:11 PM
Can anyone explain to me why banks close so early?
What is the rationale beind it? Tradition?
 
2002-08-08 01:38:16 PM
Methinks DUMBASS tag applies here, too.
 
2002-08-08 01:38:34 PM
life begins to resemble Caddyshack.
Where's the faithless priest?
And bill muray?
 
2002-08-08 01:38:38 PM
Hi everybody!
 
2002-08-08 01:39:12 PM
Getting fired is the perfect way to get out of financial crisis.
 
2002-08-08 01:39:16 PM
In the Former USSR, filters fark you!
 
2002-08-08 01:39:25 PM
ArmyofFun: A 35 minute dump?
 
2002-08-08 01:41:20 PM
08-08-02 01:39:25 PM Bass555
ArmyofFun: A 35 minute dump?

Thank God he'd already be in a hospital!
 
2002-08-08 01:41:33 PM
Wow, I know where this hospital is and I have been there once as a kid for a dislocated collar bone - I think I waited 2 hours in the emergency room...
 
2002-08-08 01:42:04 PM
should have had the dumbass tag.
 
2002-08-08 01:42:29 PM
Bass555 I dunno, you get to reading that Reader's Digest, you lose track of time.
 
2002-08-08 01:42:47 PM
So... whats worse? Doctor's hours or banker's hours? LOL
 
2002-08-08 01:43:36 PM
08-08-02 01:39:25 PM Bass555
ArmyofFun: A 35 minute dump?


No biggie, I used to do that when I was working summer jobs in college. Take a good magazine in with you and you can burn an hour or more.
 
2002-08-08 01:43:38 PM
FLA Chickie you must have caught them on payday...
 
2002-08-08 01:44:00 PM
Damn.
 
2002-08-08 01:45:44 PM
FLA Chickie, you shoulda disclocated your collar bone after the bank was closed. You'd have been taken care of in 45 minutes. Tops.
 
2002-08-08 01:45:48 PM
35 minute dump?

One of the last perks the working class have left is the PPS (paid personal shiat).
 
2002-08-08 01:46:31 PM
 
2002-08-08 01:48:16 PM
I'm so proud I inadvertently changed this thread into a discussion on 35 minutes dumps.

My day has come.
 
2002-08-08 01:49:11 PM
Hello....Is there anybody in there?
 
2002-08-08 01:49:15 PM
FLA Chickie

Yeah, I work right near that hospital. I even had to go there to the emergency room too. After I got checked out and ok, they left my ass sitting in one of the rooms for 3 hours, supposedly to run some tests, but the doctor had gone home.... bunch asshats!
 
2002-08-08 01:49:16 PM
A 2 hour wait? That's nothing. Many years ago, I crushed my hand between a bumper jack and my car that decided to roll back a few feet. After working the jack to get my hand out, I got to see the pretty bones in my hand. Well, I was the only person in the locked garage for the whole weekend, so I had to get myself out. Drove myself over and checked in to the hospital here at Research Medical in Kansas City in the morning. It was about 9pm that night when a doctor would find me in the emergency waiting room.

I could have done all what that doctor did myself and saved the $300. Nothing like scrubbing the oil and tar out of a hand that is split open at the joints. But he charged a lot for the pain and I had to wait for it.
 
2002-08-08 01:52:34 PM
Dattaway has the best stories.
 
2002-08-08 01:53:12 PM
FLA Chickie: I've always had to wait 2 hrs. at every emergency room I've had to visit. ...... now what about my apology the other day...do you forgive me?
 
2002-08-08 01:58:44 PM
ER waits wouldn't be so damn long if people wouldn't go to the ER every time anything hurt. The ER is the emergency room, not the 'come here for all your medical needs' room.
 
2002-08-08 01:59:39 PM
I'm picturing him in full hospital scrubs, running down the street with his hands in the air, palms facing in, and paycheck in his teeth.

BillDarryl, that's farking hilarious.
 
2002-08-08 02:01:30 PM
AntiNorm, I went to the emergency room because I thought it was going to be dramatic and exciting, like that TV show: Empty Nest. Instead, it was long, boring and painful, like that other TV show: ER.
 
2002-08-08 02:05:25 PM
Ok, it's weird enough that the doctor took a 35 minute break to cash his paycheck during a spinal surgery.

What I find even weirder is that the other doctor interrupted the surgery to bring him his paycheck.

What's next, interrupting a surgery so that Dr. AssHat can gossip about the head nurse?
 
2002-08-08 02:06:23 PM
Impaler And I don't know how that scene would go in Boston, but in New York, no one would bat an eye.
 
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