1) If I answer the phone 'answering service' do not ask me again if this is the answering service, I just told your dumbass it was.
2) Please don't ask me what Dr is on call. I will tell you at the end of the call if I think you need to know.
3) If it was really an emergency you wouldn't have hung up after you found out someone other than YOUR Dr is taking call.
4) If you really feel it is an emergency and I page your Dr, do not call me every 10 mins after you place your first call. I'll tell you that I'll page it again but I really won't just because you pissed me off.
5) If your kid has been running a temp of 103 for a week and you pick 11:30pm to call us, I'm not gonna take you seriously.
6) Your Xanax is not an emergency. Period.
7) Learn to read the god blessed thermometer. Don't call us and tell us you have a 107 degree fever when it was really 100.7 - These are common numbers we all learned in school.
8) Antibiotics are not emergency medications, they're just not.
9) Paging a Dr. for an appointment or work note is not an option, ever.
10) Please don't call me and tell me you need 'a pointment'. It's 'an appointment'. Please speak the language we all agreed on.
11) If your first name is Joe and your last name has 16 letters, don't just spell your first name. I'm perfectly capable of spelling your first all by myself.
12) 9pm is not an acceptable time to call and speak to your property manager about a letter you received because your boat is parked in your front yard.
13) No, we don't care if you got a tow sticker on your windshield.
14) We also don't care that you have 15 kids in your house and your water is shut off because you didn't pay the bill. You have lived there for 3 years, you should know your water bill is due.
15) If you are calling a pharmacy and I ask you what the call is regarding, don't tell me medications. No shit Sherlock!
16) Nurses rarely ever have the correct information and if they do have it, they never have it ready.
17) Please don't call me an answering machine, I don't beep.
18) Pink eye, yeast infections, sore throats, rashes, ingrown hairs and stubbed toes are not emergencies.
19) Do not argue with me because I won't page the Dr to refill your birth control. Try keeping your legs together and you wont have to worry about it.
20) If you call one Dr and I answer the phone, you ask for pain meds, I tell you no, DONT CALL ANOTHER DR. I'll know it's you and chances are I'll tattle on your pill poppin ass.