Was that ever a thing?
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed. For our scheduling department please press 1. …
Any household that can afford that many monkeys can probably afford to have a family doctor.
The phrase “snitches get stitches” makes a lot of assumptions about the availability and expediency of healthcare.
In the US we say, snitches better get that thing looked at before it gets any worse.
Snitches without health insurance get butterfly bandages and some nasty scarring.
If I want to call MY doctor, a specific person, then no I can’t.
If I want A doctor, then yes, I can just call. Any time 24/7, I can talk to someone. Worst case, it’s a nurse.
And I don’t have to be rich, it’s free.
Please crosspost to different communities, rather than making separate posts. It keeps a link between the comments so they don’t need to be duplicated.
I did do that but manually removed the “cross posted to” thing. Guest that undoes whatever process identifies as a cross post.
called up the dr and the dr said
The next availability is the 27th of next month.
We’re open from 12pm to 4pm Tuesday to Thursday, please feel free to call back during open hours.
If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial 911
If you’d prefer to leave a message, please do so after the beep. After you’re done, you can hang up, or press # for more options.My family doctor made a house call in 1978, that’s the last time I heard of it happening. Though he probably continued until he retired in the early 80s.
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