doctor visit
second time’s the charm
for blood draw
Tag: doctor
#quikfic 101
“You actors should be more careful what you wish for when you’re performing.” “I always wanted applause, Doctor, not the clap.”
Fiction: Hippocratic Oaf
Shawn began a lap around the hotel’s pool. He wore shorts, sandals, a tank top, and a white lab coat with the name Dr. Kemann stitched underneath the hotel’s name and logo.
This was one of his favorite parts of his most excellent life in Ecuador. He had spotted a nubile young blonde on the other side of the pool. She was sunning herself and was a scant few centimeters of fabric shy of getting an all-over tan. Kemann would go over to her, introduce himself, caution her to take care in the sun, offer to apply more medically thorough sunscreen, and — if history repeated itself — end up in her bed that evening.
The beautiful young woman, and more than a hundred others before her, was why he had become a hotel doctor in the tropics.
As he approached her, the pager in his lab coat pocket chirped at him. He frowned; this was no time for some guest to have indigestion. Still, such interruptions ensured his continued employment.
The little screen said merely “Urgente.”
Fiction: Request Granted
Ned sat in the least broken chair against the inside wall of his dingy apartment. A strong ammonia smell pervaded the place, but he hardly noticed. He ran down the list again, as he had done for the last three days.
Wife threw me out.
Filed for divorce.
Kept the kids.
And the dog.
Girlfriend not returning my calls.
Parents and sister ditto.
Lost my job.
And my medical license.
D.A. considering criminal charges.
Patient’s family considering civil lawsuit, too.
Reporters hounding me.
BMW trashed by angry mob.
Rent on apartment overdue.
Loan shark looking for me.
That covered things.
“It’s going to take a miracle to get me out of this,” he muttered.
The meth lab in the apartment next door exploded. The two meth heads and Ned died instantly.
“That butcher doctor sure got off easy, didn’t he?” everyone said later.