[DNME]

Last time I visited my doctor, he asked about my smoking.

You know I smoke, I told him. So why ask?

The feds demand the information, he said. Now, I have a privately paid Blue Cross plan, funded out-of-pocket with no government assistance, so it’s none of their damn business.

The feds will screw with his other insurance payments if he doesn’t provide the information, he told me.

The Death Panels are now compiling information about you. Be forewarned.

[goat granny]

My doctor usually says.....guess its useless to tell you to quit smoking.....he knows me well.....He also knows I pay for my own medication, so before he gives me a prescription he brings out this gizmo from his pocket to check on generics for me....He knows when I am really sick, he walksinto the room and says***you look terrible***then he listens closely to what I tell him....doesn't pre judge before talking to me about what may be wrong...

I am an old nurse and we don't make great patients, but he said one time, you know your body better than I do, so I've been patient with you...we were having a debate about weather I needed a colonoscopy or not.....he won that one..

He hinted that I night need high bloodpressure meds...on the way home I stopped at the drug store and bought a BP cuff and took my own BP for a month until my next visit...and handed him my BP log....he said OK bring me in your cuff so I can test it against mine in the office...I did, he checked it against his cuff and we never talked about BP again....I love my doctor.....