Saw three patients today:

Patient #1: A old biker who was on disabilty. We talked about how bad the Royals were, how he hated reality shows, how he had dated three Karen's (Karen #2 twice) and how all the trees were being cut down on his streetand he was taking them to get cut and going to make stuff out of them. We also talked about medical stuff, but that wasn't as fun.

Patient #2: Under lots of stress taking care of a niece who had a stoke. Found out she was only taking her blood pressure meds every other day or every "couple" of days because she couldn't afford it. She said she would call her son and have him send money so that she could actually buy her meds after we stressed how danergous her BP was. It was really sad and there was nothing I could do for her.

Patient #3: In such bad of pain when he sat that he paced the room while I interviewed him. (He had also been in the hallway pacing, so I had seen him several times when seeing my other patients.) He has lost his job because he was in such bad pain and had no insurance or money. He told me that he couldn't believe a man that had worked 20 years for the city would only qualify for food stamps and nothing else. He too was not taking his meds like he should. Nothing we could do to help him either and he didn't appear like he had anyone to get any money from either.

Tons more of our patient's stories are like 2 and 3....
Sometimes we all forget just how lucky we really have it......