Episode 13

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Published on:

1st May 2024

Bad Reviews

In this episode...

In this episode of "Afraid to Ask," Jamie and his better reviewed half Dr. Erika discuss Jamie’s foursome, the best way to find a doctor, and how much you stand to gain if your doctor cuts off the wrong leg.

 

Chapters

00:00 - Google Reviews For Doctors 

03:30 - Good Reviews Vs Bad Reviews and the real effect they have

06:50 – Question answered: Has Erika Seen Two Boners at Once 

07:40 - Jamie’s Foursome 

11:00 - Erika Has Sex With 100 People In The Room 

15:00 - Why Doctors Get Bad Reviews 

17:00 - Patients Trying To Sleep With Erika 

20:00 - Erika’s Doctor Voice 

25:00 - Worst Thing You Can Do To A Doctor 

27:05 – Unexpected Heart Attacks 

30:20 - Bad Reviews For Comedians 

31:20 - Why Bad Reviews Can Negatively Effect Doctors 

36:45 - Surgeons Have It Tough 

37:30 - Best Way To Find A Doctor 

39:40 - Cutting Off The Wrong Leg & How Much Could You Get 

40:45 - Comedians Have No Health Insurance & Why Jamie’s Fingers Are Deformed 

42:30 - Shock Is Dope 

 

About the Podcast

Comedian Jamie Lissow and his smarter half Dr. Erika answer all kinds of medical, dating, sex, divorce, questions some might be afraid to ask. Listen & subscribe for prescriptions and punchlines.

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Warning:

This is an uncensored podcast that will include adult language and topics. Viewer discretion is advised.

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check 1 2 well hello there boyfriend how are you

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it's fine day I'm really good is it working

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yes excellent

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let's not tough shit

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I'm afraid to ask but I have a great question

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I don't even know what I was gonna say

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I'm so disturbed right now

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I would like to jump right in with a question

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this is Jamie Lisso and Doctor Erica

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this is afraid to ask I have so many questions now

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it's really fun to choose one

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and this one I enjoyed for a variety of reasons well

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let me give you your choice

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let me give you a choice

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we have a question about picking doctor

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picking doctors but also Google reviews about doctors

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which makes me angry okay

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I want that one maybe we go right there

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so I didn't know that was a thing

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I've never once get a review for a doctor

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I thought I got an option for we talked about today

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so that's the first one

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the second one is kind of a funny question

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about pooping and women

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and um

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what is what is the medical term for like passing gas

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flatulence

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defecation in flatulence is a question about that

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so that one seems like a little more fun

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more light hearted

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the doctor one seems you're gonna get all

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all heated up you already look pretty pretty

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I hate reviews of dog okay

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what's I think you've chosen

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those are the two to choose from yeah

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poop or people yelping me we'll do both

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what do you wanna start with

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well fuck it

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let's go into reviews cause I am heated now okay

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this is wild

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it basically says this is the exact words okay

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this I don't wanna offend you

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this exact words from a um oh

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that's a great way to start

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it says how the heck means you're gonna offend me

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how the heck am I supposed to pick a doctor

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that's what it says

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how the heck am I supposed to pick a doctor

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all the pediatricians in my area have bad reviews

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and I need to find a good doctor for my kids

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um I have a theory I'm not a doctor what's your theory

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theory is that I don't think anybody

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you know

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when you see a semi truck and on the back of the truck

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it says how is how's my driving call

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when I don't think they get a lot of calls where they

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where you call up and you go man

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this guy did a he parallel parked so beautifully

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that I had an erection oh

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I mean this guy can drive

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he flashed his lights to say

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thank you for me letting him in

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I love this guy I would say it's 1,000 to 1

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and so

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I think that's why there's actually parallel parking

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I'd get an erection if you parallel parked well

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have you ever seen me parallel park what

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have you ever seen me parallel park

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um

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maybe when we were in Florida dying

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you had that huge rental car

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yeah

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so that's like extra points

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that's like two boners

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I have to go two dicks to get two boners

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I don't um you did you parallel parked at that really

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oh I I know I believe you

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I just was gonna say you at you

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when you said you liked my parking

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I was like yeah

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and then you were like two boners

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I was like she's invited someone else

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hmm I meant it was so great

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I would grow two penises and centers okay

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I just only think about you

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I what with two boners

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I didn't like think about you with a boner

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unless it's this one oh my gosh

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seriously okay

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well no I never call semi trucks

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oh yeah I've never been near two bars

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no I bet it's 1,001

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I also though have never called when I was pissed off

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and they did something bad right

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I think there's a lot of people that are like

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super trigger happy and they're like

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haha yeah

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I wanna screw someone over

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even if they don't deserve a bad phone call either yeah

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maybe they're middle ground

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but the person behind them is having a shit day

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and they left for work late right

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they spilled their coffee all over themselves

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because they weren't paying attention

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cause they were on their phone right

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it's almost hit this driver who did nothing wrong

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and then they're like fuck you

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and then they call and leave a bad view

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and he didn't need or she didn't even deserve it

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don't you know that they hire

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I'll bet they hire some semi driver

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these 18 wheelers you see him drive around

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I look at him when I get stressed out

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it's so crazy

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like can you imagine I get stressed out driving

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can you imagine if you were what is it 4 5 car lengths

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all this weight someone could dive

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you ever seen the videos where they go

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there's this video on Instagram where it says

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it's a guy in a truck and it says

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here are the blind spots of a of a semi truck right

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and it shows out this window out that window

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and then they pan back

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and there's kids all around the truck

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and from inside the truck

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he couldn't see anything there's a kid on a bicycle

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a kid in a skateboard and you're like

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damn scary scary yeah

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and that's the

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I think that's what they're trying to invoke is like

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hey be careful

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so I'm saying do you know

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maybe they're putting like

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the fear into the drivers of like

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anyone can turn you in yeah

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fuck up yeah

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but I wonder if the companies know that

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assholes are usually the ones who call in

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yeah and they mostly disregard it

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unless someone has a very valid concern

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I think you're right on video yeah

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anyone could just lie and be like

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they completely cut me off

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I almost died yep

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and they're probably where's the police report

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cause it didn't happen

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I don't know if you've ever noticed it

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but um

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I just worry that a lot of people feel empowered

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yeah a lot because yeah

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just like on the internet where they control you

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there's no accountability absolutely

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I bet some of them even let you stay anonymous

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which is worse yeah

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because there's no fear of retaliation from the driver

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if someone calls and there isn't a police report

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they don't know who it was

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they drive all over the place

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so they should be like well

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who are you if you're gonna take your

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I don't know I just feel like people agree more

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when they think that there's a veil

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do you know I don't have ever noticed

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but you know that I have a tattoo of my asses

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how's my fucking

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because I like the accountability I go

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let's keep me on my a game why is it on your ass

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so it's people can see about oh

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I see what you're saying your ass when you're fucking

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I'd like to redo it I was imagining

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someone's watching me have sex with you

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fucking like behind is what I want

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okay well these are logistics that backfired

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it should be on my yeah but you could be on your ass

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I was picture was a third party

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because you could be on my ass

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why would a tattoo be on your ass

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cause people walking by

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cause I was pretending I was like a porn star

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people were like oh

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I'm gonna call up this guy

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but they wouldn't see it unless you were naked

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and who sees your ass if you're naked

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you know what I'm not gonna really do it now

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I'm just cause you made a lot of great points

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now I'm thinking about two boners

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so I don't know if you

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I don't like the two more okay

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no but I a guy you

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I have a question I'm afraid to ask

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have you ever seen two boners in real life

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at the same time

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is it bad that I have to pause

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yeah I'm holding my breath

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not in real life

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okay probably like a porn or something

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it's a weight this has been lifted it would be fine

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oh you mean like if I had a threesome or something

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no no

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no no

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trying to subtly ask that no

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yeah foursome

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I'm kidding I'm kidding

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that almost be better if it was three decks in me

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well you just naturally assume okay

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you took you assume that's not what I meant by foursome

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why I think one could argue I had a foursome once

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I think one could argue

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but I was in a hotel room with a girlfriend

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and a friend of mine with his girlfriend

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and we were all in the same room gross

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but we didn't touch each other gross

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it was just us in here wait

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are you being serious yeah

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we didn't touch wait

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wait wait

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we were just with our own

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you're being serious

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I thought you were just saying like hypothetic

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no but I didn't touch his girlfriend

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wait a minute

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you both fuck someone else and they fucks that

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you and the other

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you both had sex with someone in the same room

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like you were Voyers

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we had sex with our girlfriends in the same room

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and did not look at each other

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we didn't have a lot of money

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it wasn't cause we thought it was cool

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you didn't even have a shower curtain

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I mean someone could have pack up a fucking sheet

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it just kind of happened no

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it didn't it didn't just happen yeah

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no it didn't

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who was having sex first

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and then they walk in and they're like

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maybe we should do it too

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I did I'll be honest with you

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I heard I heard sleeping noises and I go hey

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I think we're good

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and so we start doing something and then I was

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and then I heard other noises

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you want like a twin bed not a twin bed

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no we were on a we were on

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we were on oh

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the twin bed offends you

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but fucking with someone else next to you

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who's also fucking doesn't offend you

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did I say we're in the same bed

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that's not what I meant you said room

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same room I'm thinking you and some girl

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two queen beds

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two queen beds in one room

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what else is in the room

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it's like a cameraman couple sound guys

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no I mean a television studio apartment no

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it's a hotel room it's one room oh

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I miss the hotel room park oh

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we're trying to save money

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we got a hotel we didn't want to do all that okay

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that's the only reason we did this

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it was out of convenience okay

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okay okay

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I'll give you that yeah

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I miss the hotel room part and I was like

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this is your apartment you do this all the time

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that's kind of fucked up yeah

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okay fine

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you woke up you wanna

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have sex you started having sex

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you were under the sheets

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and then they woke up hearing you have sex

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and they're like oh

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good idea Jamie

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let's do it too and then it become a contest

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you know when someone's someone yawns and you're like

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I should yawn well

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how long were you having sex before they joined in

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it was probably like two minutes so we're done

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so did hahaha I was just gonna say

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so then was it like in your head like

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I gotta last longer than this guy if he's gonna stop

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yeah well

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I raced to the fast orgasm joke

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before you could hit me with it

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I wasn't trying to do fast orgasm joke oh

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you were saying did we have a friendly

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were you trying to sustain it because you were like

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I can't finish before this guy

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now he's in it to win it

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we both got to keep pumping where you like

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don't go yet don't go yet can I be honest

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I would love to try to be funny right now

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but to be honest I have never had a complex

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I have many complexes and worries many many

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many a lot of anxieties things I wish I was better at

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things I wonder about

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never had a complex about lasting a long time to the

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in the sense of like

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I feel like if you're if it's good

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it shouldn't last that long for either person

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that's something I think is a bit of a misconception

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guy having sex for an hour

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oh God that be terrible

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everybody would be raw but I mean

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like the guy next to you I feel like I'd be like

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oh we had sex for two seconds

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they're still going and it's been 20 minutes

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what did we do wrong you're right

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what did we do right in that situation

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I would try to make it last longer yeah

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weird situation when I say threesome

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what who are you picturing as far as guys and girls

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how many of you when you say foursome

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I assume all four people are seeing each other

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not just four people in one room

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what gender is because by that stipulation

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I've had a 100 some sorority up house

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Trinity's house hot

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very hot

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talk about myself here

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are you saying so I'm surprised at that response

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but all right

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was it in a big room yeah

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the sleeping porch were there walls

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it's one room with like 50 bunk beds

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you would have sex with people in it

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well not multiple people

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but yet you're like oh

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you're so crazy

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you in your hotel room and you have a whole

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you're having like a like a

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like a like you're having like a Squid Games orgy

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I first of all have never watched that

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so I don't understand the reference

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damn they all sleep in one room

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bunk beds second of all

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you didn't specify hotel room

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you said for some

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so I'm just thinking you're in the studio apartment

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strip naked next to a pizza box in a fucking fridge

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no and getting it on

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when you say foursome to me

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I picture four guys in golf outfits fucking

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when I say threesome or foursome

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what genders do you imagine

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when I said threesome to you

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was it a girl and two guys

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or was it two girls and the guy

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when I said it to you I feel like it's ubiquitous

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you didn't picture anything for a threesome

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for you personally what did you pick

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when I said that if I was involved

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no you're not involved

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I just say the word threesome

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I got my friend at a threesome

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he's a guy who would you picture

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I would be two girls and a guy

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yeah that's the threesome

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girl wants another girl and a guy give me two guys

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this is dangerously close to the feeling I had

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when you set two boners

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why would you give me two guys would you want

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no not you want another guy

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no it was your threesome

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no thank you

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well so why would I want it

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why would I want a girl why is it assumed that I'd want

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no I just curious

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I wasn't even single but that's

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that's a little bit of a I don't enjoy that

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like

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why should I be expected to wanna have sex with a girl

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but it's gross if you're wanting to have sex with a guy

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can I be honest with you though

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I did not make an Assumption

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all I did was ask you what genders you pictured

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and then for me I may have said

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that's a threesome the good way

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meaning for my point of view

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so you're allowed to have your point of view

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yeah you could say I have

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like for instance

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well you asked me and I told you

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and you look very surprised

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oh I thought you

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okay that's what it was

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I thought you were saying that I was putting on you

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that a threesome had to be too girls

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I understand what you're saying

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no they're saying my look of surprise

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you seemed a little bit shocked that I was like

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two dicks not shocked

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just upset the early bird special

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um but you're right

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if I was in that hotel room

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right lights are off

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I start doing my thing I don't think I hear some

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but don't listen listen

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oh Sam in there

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I start doing my thing he's there

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he starts making those noises right

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lights come on

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he's alone

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haha the girl's gone

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oh that's a threesome

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the bad way that's a bad way

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we're getting into like the technicalities here

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because if he's just watching us

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you're right it's not a foursome

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it's just two people having sex in a room

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for sure with a creepy

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I'm kind of being facetious

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but yeah but if someone yeah

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but someone's over there

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and they're pleasuring themselves

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uh huh that's not a threesome that's more like a

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I don't know what that's called cucking

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what isn't that called cucking when you watch fuck

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believe it or not

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all of this came for me asking you

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how do I pick a pediatrician

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well let's let's not give this as an example

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I don't think that would go over very well

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how do we get here

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how do we get to here

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1 800 how's your driving

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I was saying oh

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I was gonna have a sign on my ass that said 1 800

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how's my sex

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so my point was gonna be

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you don't call when things are going good

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that's why there's so many negative reviews online

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yeah of doctors

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yeah well

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it's the same thing with like restaurants right

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like there could be an amazing restaurant like

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oh my gosh

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like you are so you were the best waitress ever

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like I'd love to give you a review

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help you out and then you get busy and you don't

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it's like our anger

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and our hate

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and all that fuels us to go online and write a review

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but when you're really complimentary

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I feel like you say you're gonna do it

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then you just you don't or you don't even think it

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you're just like wow

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you're really nice you give him a bigger tip

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but you don't go online and say stuff which is sad

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it's unfortunate that it's like that

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it is and you're right like

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especially with I would think with a with a doctor

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I think you guys get

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I assume you it's all gonna be great all the time

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so you don't get my positive review like restaurant

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I think even more

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people might give a little bit of a positive review

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cause they don't people look at them

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they wanna recommend it doctors

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when I had looked online today

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after never looking at doctor reviews

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it's like 100% negative

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for all doctors in the whole world

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like no one's like oh my god

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he his hands were so warm when he cut my balls

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I think he he went like this on the heart thing

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I love this guy right

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like it to feel for you also unsanitary

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and it's a pho mitinitis for infection

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it feels tough on a stethoscope

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but continue so I'd give a bad review for that

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a lot of patients I mean we'll think about it this way

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you're in a good mood you go out to a restaurant

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you're happy you go to a play right

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like you're excited there's build up

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nobody comes to the doctor because they want to right

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so you're already kind of grouchy

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and then you typically do have to wait a while

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at the doctor's office

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and I think that's a misconception that we're like

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always running late ha ha ha like

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like it's like a intentional thing

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why is there a way to the doctor's office

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that's a great question why do I always

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is it because why well

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two reasons happened to me

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one

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people lie a lot about why they're coming in to be seen

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right so they'll say it's a cough

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and so I'll look at their chart beforehand

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and I'll prep in my free time

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before I even come to the office yeah

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after hours

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I'll look and I'll look at they've had chest X rays

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or if they've had previous pneumonia

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if they were recently in the hospital

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and I'll get everything ready for a cough

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and then they'll come in and I'll be like

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oh no I have erectile dysfunction

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I was just too embarrassed to tell you and I'm like

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what I wasted all of this stuff

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and now I have to cancel all of my presumed orders

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and things that I've teed up and ready to go

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and I have to start from scratch

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so that gets me behind

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so you're saying just to clarify for

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I almost missed it because I'm not as smart as you

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as a doctor

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but you're saying so much people come in and they have

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you are and they have a reason they want to see you

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but you are very oh

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thank you I thought you said you were very smart okay

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I'm a good listener

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um I was gonna say that

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so you're saying sometimes people have

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something in mind

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the reason they actually wanna come to the office

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but they tell you something different for instance

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like a guy could write down

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oh I wanna come in

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cause I have a little bit of a chest cold

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when really he's just trying to fuck you

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and that might take longer those appointments

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wow do you ever have you ever had that where you go

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nothing's even wrong with this guy

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you've told me that you had guys do like

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I get erections or whatever

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do you have you ever had a guy where you go

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nothing is wrong with this guy

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uh huh he's coming in here to see me yeah

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you know what I'm being

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I was trying to be funny and then now I'm like

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I don't like that's creepy yeah

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it's inappropriate yeah but I'm a trained professional

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and I will be respectful and professional in the room

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and if I get uncomfortable

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or if they pull something that's inappropriate

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I have shot it down quickly

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and then gotten an assistant

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left the room

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I'm not gonna put up with that bring somebody else in

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are you alone in a room yeah

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wow

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but we have like a panic button on the wall

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I've never utilized it or honestly

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I think the biggest thing is just to say

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that's inappropriate you can't talk to me like that

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and I've said that to a couple of male patients

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I'm sure you have

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and don't you think there's doctors that haven't though

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you're very direct you're very confident

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especially when you're in your doctor um

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I just say get up

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and I feel like that would be disrespectful costume

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costume that's Halloween

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you're wearing your lab coat

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listen

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let me try to can I be serious for a second

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you're in your disguise

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your disguise I'm sorry

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you look so good by the way

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when I see you in your

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when you put on that doctor outfit

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what do you call it uniform

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I don't look like spirit of Halloween with like

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red crosses over my nipples

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I have a fucking lab coat and scrubs on

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oh no

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you're not wearing a sexy nurse outfit

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my disguise Halloween

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costume

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and believe are the exact words that you utilized

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but so your eyes I um

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you look you dig yourself out of this one

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can I be totally honest with you

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yeah let's see how you get out of it

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you are as I am when I get a microphone

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not this one

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I feel like I'm pretty close to exactly how I am

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when I get a microphone on stage

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I get a little bit something happens

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I amp up a little bit I gotta be

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when you put on that lab coat

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I'm not I'm not fucking with you Erica

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when you get the lab coat on

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you got the thing around your neck

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the heart listener that's the stethoscope

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yeah yep

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heart listener

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I you have a

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I'm like fuck man

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cause you're very professional

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of course I am but do you worry about my job

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but I don't know I think there's some

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correct me if I'm wrong

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sorry to keep asking additional questions

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but are there doctors that you

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that will not stand up for themselves

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that could be a victim of something

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where a guy comes in or to become a doctor

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do you have to be the way you are

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and the sense of confident and

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well the training is incredibly arduous

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to the point of you get sabotaged

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consistently berated as a young female often I've been

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propositioned more times than would ever be

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one time is not appropriate

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yeah a lot of inappropriate things have happened

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and yes unfortunately

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as a woman in society

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don't think it's just unique to doctors

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we get catcalled and things happen all the time

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so you develop kind of like a thicker exterior

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yeah yeah

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I think

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there's a balance between someone being inappropriate

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and saying fuck off

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and someone being inappropriate and me taking it

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like you have to find that middle ground of like

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being stern uh huh

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yet professional I have absolutely

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had a couple of people who have broken that trust

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on my uh

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behalf when they've been in my room

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and they've gotten the fuck off

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though they've deserved it

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because they've been so ludicrous in their statements

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to me or their propositions

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that it's your advances are not well

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mean guy stuff guy like asking

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asking me out or something

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you're saying not just asking me out absolutely

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but you know asking if I would do a pelvic exam

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when they had nothing wrong

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there's things that happen that shouldn't happen

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a good rule of thumb is doctors

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if you notice oftentimes

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oftentimes

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will put themselves between the patient and the door

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so if we need to excuse ourselves

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especially with um psychiatric patients as well

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you never know what could happen

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it's just the two of us

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I have to have a Kleenex strategy

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why I fell off knocks I don't know if you remember

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I often reference you in patient rooms

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by the way oh really

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you're my scapegoat now oh

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say I have a boyfriend huh

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oh wow

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I like that I feel really bad now

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because I was joking around just now

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but I do remember this one time

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I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about this

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cause of hip hop but I think this is me

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but I do feel really bad

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cause I remember I went into the examining room

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and I go I think I have a spot

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I have a spot licking on my balls

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and then I was you go

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oh it does

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does it hurt and I go no

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it's just a spot that I like

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that feels really good when people touch it

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so

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well I'm sorry that uh

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happened to you sometimes guys are really creepy

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maybe we could cut to me on that one

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um

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so okay

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so I can get bad reviews because I shut down a guy

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I was gonna say does that lead to bring it

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cause they get mad that I'm like

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no yeah not interested

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they're not gonna go on Google reviews and say hey

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I tried to fuck her and she said no

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they're gonna make up some other story

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you also get a lot of bad reviews from drug seekers

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patients who go into the office

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expecting something and not getting it

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I can't tell you how many times

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every doctor will tell you this one

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someone comes in and says I have a cold

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I need antibiotics and we actually did

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you know we have mock trial

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like patients where I've had to do like a

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almost like oral boards

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where we have a bunch of other doctors come in

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and they'll give me a situation

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of a very difficult patient

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and I have to reenact it

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someone pretends to be the patient

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and in front of a whole panel of physicians

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I have to speak to them as if they were real patient

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while everyone watches and judges me

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and telling me if I did it correctly

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that's cool so it's like a mock trial

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but it's a mock and one of them is about um

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someone who has a virus you know

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it's a virus and demanding antibiotics and they

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won't leave and how you get out of that situation

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that doesn't help a virus

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it happens all that it doesn't help at all in fact

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it's worse for your body because of couple things 1

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it will kill all the good bacteria in your body

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leading to can't commit and subsequent infections

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because you've lost the good bacteria

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the good flora

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that helps protect against bad bacteria growing

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or two it creates multi drug resistance

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if you take something over and over and over again

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it's not gonna work

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so then you're like the boy who cried wolf

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with antibiotics 50 antibiotics later of the same one

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it's not gonna work that great

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so we're actually doing you a favor by saying

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hey listen

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this is not a bacteria and antibiotic will fix it

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and they know what else sucks

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they'll go to an urgent care and they'll be like

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my doctor wouldn't give me something

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give it to me and often times

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it's so much easier to just write a prescription

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and make that patient go away

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and then they'll take it

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and then seven days later they're better well

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no shit

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because the virus got out of your body in seven days

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right because the antibiotics works

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antibiotic is antibiotic correlation pure real

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not causation yeah

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so it's frustrating

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so you get a lot of bad reviews that way

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they didn't treat me well

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and the other thing is

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when we were talking about me getting behind

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in office right

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we got all distracted about the penis

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oh about the long way in doctor's office yeah

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another one is people stack up like 50 complaints

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and they're unrealistically

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think that they can talk to me for two hours

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when typically

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I get about seven to 10 minutes with a patient

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yeah and you had a great answer to quick review

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you said they tell you one thing

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and they come in for another thing

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it takes way longer you're not prepped in them also

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they just keep asking you and asking you

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because they're thinking

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I wanna get the most for my money

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what happens and they get mad when you

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I've actually had so many times to step out

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like I will physically put a foot out of the door

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and be like I'm sorry

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you booked an appointment

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a quick get in visit for a cough

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I don't have time to go over 10 things

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and that's just being respectful

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cause the next person's already waiting

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so I'm not being rude so that I can go shopping

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no I'm excusing myself

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so the next patient

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who also made an appointment a month ago

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gets their fair time

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and the person in the room is very inconsiderate

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and gets mad and it's like

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but I just need this it's not quick

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yeah you're making me now set up for

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for worse visits that happen next

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of course they're

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and then you have questions ever than ever

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really for anybody and they're like

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I waited forever and I'm like

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sorry yeah

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the guy before you had 10 minutes and took an hour

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so that's that can I send the third one

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yeah can I make two suggestions

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to help with that particular problem

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go for it

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in comedy when I'm doing an hour set on the stage

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the sound guy goes uh

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he goes hey do you want a light

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do you know this

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yeah you do know this

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so am I supposed to like do the Oscar

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like music comes on when I'm talking

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I was gonna suggest I was gonna suggest a light

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a light you go oh

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they're like oh also my knee go oh

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I'm getting the light and then loud music swells

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so we do that

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your cue is a doctor stands up and starts to walk

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if I put my hand on that door

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be quiet your visits done

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and then the third one is

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people do have heart attacks in front of me

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you know like people come in and they'll say no

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that's nice but no

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so like they'll tell me an emergency and they'll say I

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I can't feel half of my face and I can't move my arm

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and they're slurring their speech and they're confused

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and I'm like you're actively having a stroke

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so I have to call an ambulance so drop everything

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massage them

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call the er get them pre boarded to go straight in

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wait for the ambulance take care of them

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monitor them I've had people completely pass out

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we've had to administer medication to help you know

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resuscitate them while that takes a long time right

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and you can't

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you don't want to just to get a guy that maybe wants

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right honest by the way

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just to review

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if I had a triage it be one guy two girls but sorry

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go ahead

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French fur that was well played

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I'll give you that one okay

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that was funny thank you

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that's I like that better than a laughing wait

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did you show up I wish the whole crowd was just like

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that was funny instead of laughing

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we didn't show up

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no good answers though and then for that one

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I've told patients the next patient

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I'll often have like my staff go in the room and back

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we are so sorry

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like she's dealing with an emergency for hipaa reasons

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I can't tell you what it is

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but if there's a life threatening thing next door

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you're here

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because you wanted to talk about your toenail fungus

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do you wanna wait or do you wanna reschedule

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and when I reschedule them for that it's usually like

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hey you already waited a month to see me

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I'll fit you in tomorrow

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but I wanna be conscientious of your time

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but you also

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and I've had people yell at me and be like

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why didn't you tell me you were gonna be late

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well sometimes all of my staff yeah

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is taking care of the patient who is having a seizure

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yeah if you go and tell everybody that person

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sometimes I don't have that time also

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cause it takes a long time to control the seizure

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with multiple peoples they don't have had neck trauma

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and by the time it's done

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patients will be on the hallway like

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what did you forget about me

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and I'm like you gotta realize like this isn't like um

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I don't know I don't wanna put down any career

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so I don't know what I would compare

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but it's not lifeless in other careers

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there's not life or death

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if it's a restaurant and your steak doesn't come out

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because something fell on the floor

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or because a restaurant critic came in

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yeah you

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you have to drop everything

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so those are the three things is it's

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somebody expects me to go over 500 problems and I can't

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but they get mad at me and I keep trying to be nice and

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and do more

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somebody lies about what they're coming in for

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and they have something totally different

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and it throws me or there's a life threatening thing

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and the problem is none of them are anticipated

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so I can't have the ability to plan my schedule

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and give this person two hours

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sure so what happens

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I get bad reviews

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and then I get torn up online for something

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I have no control over this is a

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the other thing that bothers me

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is the systemic integration of what's called press

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gainy and it's a huge review about

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if the patient had access to care

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if they could get in in time uh

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it's a survey and it goes out usually after the visit

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pretty soon after

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it's supposed to be anonymous and random

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but every time I go to the doctor

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and every time another health care

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professional goes to the doctor

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we always get the survey

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so I don't know that it's random

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and I'm probably gonna get in trouble for saying

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can I ask you a question here

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you don't have to answer it

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does it affect cause with comedy

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one could say a bad review on Twitter or something

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most likely not going to affect my career

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it could someone could go like

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wow

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that guy if if a comedian got like tons of bad reviews

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there's a guy that's really popular right now

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that just had a Netflix special release

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I'm not gonna say who he is cause I like him um

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his specials getting like horrible

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horrible reviews and

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and hip it might affect his live touring because right

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right now he's selling out

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because no one had ever seen a special

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and I don't know if it'll affect it or not

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but you could argue like those bad reviews might

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if he'll be fine but for me

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I'm not at that level where one plus or so I don't get

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like it

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you know it's the majority

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I'm doing okay when I get used

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and most people don't review

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what do you do what do you care

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do you read them does it affect you

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yeah well

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so press gaining is very important

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because hospital systems look at that

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to measure your quality metrics

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how successful a doctor is

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is measured in the most bullshit

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bogus way that's insane

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you're saying they're looking at these reviews

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from someone that might have been coming in

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to make an advance at you

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or someone that waited a long time

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because there was a heart attack in the back room

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and that's what they're using to determine

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completely subject for hiring

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like to hire you somewhere for my pay

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so that's insane it's also access to care right

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so like

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hospitals force us to see so many patients a day

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over and over and over you have to see this meeting

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if you say no I don't want to

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they change your templates

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now I love where I work right now

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it's not like that

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but previously they would change our templates and say

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your patient can only have 10 minutes

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when you knew they would take an hour

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because they had multiple comorbidities

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they were stoked to speak

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or they had a developmental delay

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they needed more time they needed an interpreter

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and they unrealistically gave us a

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so now it took forever to get them in

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um they call and they ask for an appointment

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and they need an hour well

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the next hour appointment is 5 months out right

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because they won't let me like

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block my schedule for that right away

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can I so we get bad reviews

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if they are on the phone too long

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waiting for the secretary to answer

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it affects my pay

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I get bonuses based on that and I have had I've had um

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like upper management come to me and say

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hey listen reviews are terrible

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nothing you can do though your reviews are great

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actually they said that

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they gave you a really high review for a doctor

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but they couldn't get in to see you

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they waited a long time on the phone

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so we actually took

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and we're talking thousands of dollars I've lost yeah

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I'm sure across the board so physicians hate reviews

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I can give you tips on how to find a good doctor okay

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be honest can I tell you though

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as a response to what you just said

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like if I was paid

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if my pay was reflect

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like changed based on bad reviews

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I would get paid nothing for sex

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what are your tips for

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well here's one other thing

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I think is really important to drive home

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remember

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we talked about antibiotics and how easy it is

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just give it and get rid of the person

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because they're happy

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this system is so flawed

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what do you think is gonna happen

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if I have an angry person come and say

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I have to have antibiotics

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you see

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I want the good reviews because it gives me more money

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right I give them the fucking antibiotics

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you give me antibiotics

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you sleep with that guy that's coming on to you

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you do whatever it takes

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so if you have morally conscious physicians

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which I believe almost all of us go into this field

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because we're good natured

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and we're not in it to make money

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or we would never go into medicine

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we're not gonna have that problem

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but absolutely

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you're gonna have people who the system comes down

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your review suck pick them up

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how do you pick them up you people please

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you stay in the room longer

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all your patients wait

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you lose money there

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but they all get the 50 things that they want

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and then you're burnt out

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you're exhausted and

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you're prescribing stuff that you shouldn't prescribe

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you're giving pain medicine more than you should

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because that's what the patient demanded

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oh my god if I got bonuses

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I'd give everybody happy I do whatever it take

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can I back up to clarify something that you said

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I think I understand it because I'm dating a doctor

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but I don't think other people would

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you said we don't get it in medicine for the money

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I think some people might go

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well yeah you do you make all the

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but there are so many different types of doctors

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and couldn't couldn't she be like a plastic surgeon

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where you're not dealing with that type of stuff

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in my own plastic surgeons have kind of the worst

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some of the worst patients there are though

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cause they're so demanding

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they're more demanding than any of you

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know what I do though on right when I had them um

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what is it called when you when I had them unconscious

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I put a smile on their face just so they looked happy

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when they left

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as a surgeon I feel like hey

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another satisfied customer take a photo

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what did so what did you mean by

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you mean like there's other ways to cause medicine

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I think you make pretty good money

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but you're saying like

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the risk reward is like so much work

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so much stress so much liability

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I assume that their bills are so high

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that our revenue is extremely high as well

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but the overhead is exponential

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so if you strip away all of the costs that we pay for

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malpractice insurance

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and all of our staffing right

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it's a I mean it's a significant portion of my income

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yeah

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if I wanted to make a ton of money work versus yeah

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gross pay onlyfans it would absolutely be

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going into some type of business

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I think

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majoring in business opens the doors for a lot more

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medicine has lost its luster in that regard

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and also with the advent of fucking reviews

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and social media reviews

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and how you can just really destroy a practice

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yeah um

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doctors aren't held in the highest regardless

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they used to be right

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so it's not as lustrous and truthfully

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I think

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it's gotten rid of some of the people who went into it

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for the wrong reasons I think

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people going into it now go into it because they love

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and they care

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think about everybody who entered medicine after Covid

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those are badasses yeah

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we saw how the pandemic destroyed us

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cause we were already stuck in there

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like the doctors who already existed in practicing

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but people who weren't even in medical school and said

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uh uh

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fuck it I'm gonna sign up

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we we actually

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saw quite a significant increase in interest

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in medical fields

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and I'm very proud of that fact that initially

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people were dropping out cause we were exhausted

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but what an amazing group of people coming in yeah

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they're getting into and they're getting through anyway

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it's like a boot camp I think it's incredible

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they survived to the end

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or my sister who's a nurse was wearing like

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I think she was wearing three masks at one time

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including a face shield which you go all get over it

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her face would have like indentations

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and she's also trying to she's working with babies

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so she's trying to like

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look through a thing and do what she said

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it's like super complicated

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and you're running from room

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to room and that I always felt bad for surgeons when I

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when everyone started wearing like the Covid masks

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I feel like surgeons were like

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I fucking they do it all day without mask yeah

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I've been in a 10 hour surgery where I'm scrubbed in

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I couldn't touch you can't break sterility

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so you can't touch your face

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it's like this little box

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from like your shoulders to your belly button

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that's where your hands can go

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you can't touch your face

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you can't 10 hours of wearing a mask

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without being able to scratch and itch or anything yeah

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we're fine I'm not breathing in so much

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yeah

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I remember this was like first night we were together

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you were like hands above right there

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and I want keep them up put on those gloves

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scrubbing do you say scrubbing

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so you're saying

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best way to find a doctor is to ask a friend

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I really believe that

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because I take pride in my profession

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and as a family medicine doctor

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I want to see families and friends of those families

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and then Learned about their families

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I love that about my job for the continuity

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and if I have someone say

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I've referred my sister to you

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that's the best compliment I can get

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because the sister's gonna trust the other sister

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and be like whoa

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if you like her

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and then they'll say like this is her personality

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this is how she practices medicine

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and then I get people that are on my same

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like reviving right

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I don't get

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the people that don't understand my personality yeah

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do you ever

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I would think if I had a good patient

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someone that didn't come in

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and tell me a different thing

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that they were coming in for

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someone that didn't get upset or leaving it

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I think if their relative is coming in

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I'll be psyched like oh

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I love them I love this other

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but I love this other person

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but I would think if someone was like shitty

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shitty patient and they said

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oh I told all my cousins to come in

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uh huh I would be like

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oh we're full

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uh huh I don't know if you're allowed to do that or not

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you can't and it does happen

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so great answer ask your friends

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don't and I

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and maybe don't even don't take the

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these reviews so uh

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I wouldn't take it to heart seriously

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and I think also I've gotten great reviews

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and I've had some that were true

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like I knew the patient based on what they wrote

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cause occasionally I look at them

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I usually don't cause they hurt my feelings

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and often they're not true

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they're so conflated to make me look like an asshole

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and if you strip away what happened at the very bottom

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it'll be like she didn't give me 1,000 norcos

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like it's just

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it's unfortunate that anything can make its way on

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the internet but anyway um

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I think there's something to be said about

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if a doctor is practicing

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they're usually pretty good hmm right

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like you can look up

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to see if they've been in malpractice suits

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and if it was valid well

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that's a good one cause that's more of an objective

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that seems to be more of a statistic

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especially for like a surgeon right

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yeah like the surgeon has had failed cases

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of course there's always risk with anatomy

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is it failed

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because the patient had a very complicated case

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the surgeon couldn't do anything about

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or was the surgeon neglectful

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ever hear those cases about where a guy

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they cut off the wrong leg yeah

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I check my alarm four times before I go to sleep

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I lean over I check it four times yeah

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how does that shit like I mean

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that's gotta be

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if someone leaves a review and they're like

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hey one star

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he took my one good leg that I had left like that's

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but that's not a review that's and you can find it

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you can search your doctor well

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that be like a malpractice

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maybe a malpractice suit and that's huge

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I would maybe I wonder how much

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or that's like a millions dollars of lawsuit

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I would say yeah

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I want my lawn keep my legs though he took the good one

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do you know what I mean

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so not only there was the wrong leg

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like the bad

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one that's just really tragic to have another surgery

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it's awful tragic

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so now do you know how to pick a good doctor

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yeah I asked my girlfriend to look at me no

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I totally think I got you a great answers

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you are lucky

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because I put you in touch with all of the best

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that I know personally

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for all of your healthcare

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so like you're kind of like

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I'm very lucky

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before that you know

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before that I was a comedian

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I would just ask people just how they thought I looked

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just strangers like I had no

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I I would never go to the doctor

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I have

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you think I'm making a doing a bit here

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I'm not before I met you

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I have two fingers that do not straighten

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do you know why

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cause I didn't have good health insurance and I go ah

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now I am deformed

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is that the correct use of that term

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my fingers are deformed they are messed up

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this is as straight as they go

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both messed up due to I went to CVS

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I'll fix this thing and I try to keep it straight

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and now both fingers have the same injury

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would you jam on different

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I used to

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yes

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first one was wrestling

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second one was jammed with the basketball

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I blacked out blacked out from pain

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black like just like a blinding light

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first time ever

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but that's why my fingers look like this

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if you're wondering

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that's actually a great pain response

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by the way

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it's a good it's my body protecting me

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it's incredible yeah

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cause a lot of times the pain is so severe

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you go into a shock or it's neuroprotective

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so you just pass out and people take care of you

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I woke up and there was a

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I was with my

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my kid Charles and he was playing with his friend

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I was playing 1 on 2 basketball

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and I was definitely at that moment feeling like

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this is amazing I'm young again

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and then the ball hit my finger

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and I fully flasher paid and I opened my eyes

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and in Alaska we have a lot of military

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and there were two like Navy seal looking tough guys

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like leaned over me uh huh

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and um

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I was like oh

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it's fine it hurts so much

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but because shock is sometimes really helpful

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I mean no

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granted if you're in a body of water or something

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it's horrible cause then you would drown

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but shock is a really

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powerful thing that our bodies have done

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and I'm marvel at it because if you think about it

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what if you're in an accident and you're like

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something's cut off you are like fight or flight right

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yeah you need those hormones to circulate

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and surge your body

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to make you get out of that car and run

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to go call someone or run for help

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or go to the nearest store

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like where there's people who can take care of you

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and then you pass out but your body sometimes makes it

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but that shock prevents you from having the pain

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so

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you can still run on the broken foot when you have to

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if you're in a desperate situation yeah

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but he's good at that shit right

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it's pretty it's very impressive

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I read an article recently

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I might have sent it to you

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as to try to impress you

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that I keep up on my medical news

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I recently read an article about um

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it was it said that like guys

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there are two different articles

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maybe two different articles

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maybe citing the same research

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all right

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it said that when a when a woman is administering

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they're doing like a study and there's a woman

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I don't know if they said attractive or not

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but I'd like to add that variable

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when a woman's get poking a guy

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or whatever they're doing in the study

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that he will say it's less painful

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that's what women do when scientists are studying men

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they poke them I didn't read the details clearly

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I don't know if it was a

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it was a poking study that you read on TikTok haha

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it was probably not much better than that

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but it said guys will act like it doesn't hurt as much

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as there's a woman

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I feel like that should be in the journal of

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fucking obvious and we don't need to waste that money

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cause that's so obvious

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but you know what's equal to that what

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waking up with two Navy Seals over you

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same thing yeah

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oh

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you're not gonna faint anything you're about I'm good

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I'm good yeah

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so I feel like that I get the girl thing

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but I also absolutely

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acted like I was fine in front of those

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those dudes

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coming up on the next episode of afraid to ask

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I used to buy this one magazine

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it was a cover for me swear to God

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don't don't fucking say Toys R Us

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that was automotive the giraffe

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poor giraffe

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no hey

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just to be clear I just realized what you were saying

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look at you just to be clear

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I'm not talking about the animals

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National Geographic to see the neck on that one

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this is the rule you cop your friends by the way

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and you're like Geographic

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check your mail there's a fucking nipple on page 73

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yeah check out Serengeti

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did you no

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this was something oh

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this is closeted so you were ashamed hey

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guess how I Learned a lot of stuff

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he hasn't wrote back thank God

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but I don't think he's gonna write back something like

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oh I fucked every page of that series catalog

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not every page just the brow section

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About the Podcast

Afraid to Ask
Prescriptions from the Doctor. Punchlines from the Comedian.
Comedian Jamie Lissow and his smarter half Dr. Erika answer all kinds of medical, dating, sex, divorce, questions some might be afraid to ask. Listen & subscribe for prescriptions and punchlines.

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Jamie Lissow

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Actor and comedian Jamie Lissow is currently a regular weekly guest on the #1 rated late night talk show, Gutfeld! on Fox. Jamie is best known for his starring role in two seasons of the Netflix Original Series “Real Rob”, alongside SNL alums Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald and David Spade; a show Jamie co-wrote and co-produced.

Jamie has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Last Comic Standing, has his own half hour Comedy Central special and a Dry Bar Comedy Special with over 20 Million views. Jamie recently wrapped his first movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, where he appears alongside John Cleese, Rob Schneider, and Micheal Bublé - a movie he co-wrote and produced.

Jamie is currently working on the feature film, The Animal 2, for Fox/Tubi and continues to headline comedy clubs across the country.

Erika Aragona

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Dr. Erika, DO, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who focuses on Women's Health and Wellness. Her clinical practice is almost exclusively female-based, and she regularly educates on contraception, hormone replacement therapy, libido and sexual health. She is an associate professor at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she lectures on Women's Health, and she serves as a physician expert consultant and writer for several female-based health and wellness companies.