This is the 500th post from the Dr Rant Team!
To celebrate our many and enduring achievements in blogging mediocrity, we are launching a competition entitled Rant Idol TM
We are looking for the 'next big thing' in medical blogging, and offering aspiring bloggers the opportunity to join our team. We have a few readers, and apparently some of those are 'important' people, so your efforts will not go unheard!
The rules are complicated, opaque, and arbitrary. In fact, they are so arbitrary that we haven't decided what they are yet........but needless to say, the word of Dr Francis X Rant will be law and final.
Here's what were looking for:
Something Different, or just something really offensive that 'pushes the envelope' of acceptability. Polemic, invective, abusive, artistic, satirical, surreal, poetic, musical or just indescribable - the choice is yours.
You don't even have to use the word 'cunt' if you don't want to.
You are cordially invited to chance you arm should you consider yourself to be of sufficient durability.*How to enter:
Send your rant, artwork, music or whatever you fancy to Dr Rant at:
dr.rant@drrant.net
Please include the text 'Rant Idol' in the subject line of your email so we can differentiate it from the usual hate mail.
Suitable submissions will be posted on the blog as Rant Idol TM entries, and comments invited from the readers/trolls.
The competition will be open for as long as it takes.
The winner will be invited to join our motley crew, and assist us in churning out what we do best. Frankly, most of us are so bloody busy at work we find it difficult to keep up with everything, and the rest are a bunch of lazy fuckers, so we need a bit of new blood. We may even let you chose a colour for your avatar.
* Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!
Dr Rant
Dr Cardigan
Dr Blue
Dr Brown
Rev Dr Green
Dr Mustard
Mr Orange
Dr Pink
Dr Purple
Mr Salmon
Dr White
Mr Beige
Ms Scarlet
Dr Informed
10 comments:
Are there extra points for using the word "cunt" as the root in our profanity?
For eg "cuntrag", "cunthead", "cuntyballs" etc
Just wanted some clarification :P
Cheers,
Dr. Thunder
www.twoweeksonatrolley.blogspot.com
I noticed that you'd set up a 'nurse rant' blog - is that going to be unleashed anytime soon?
H.
(actually, I rather hope that A&E Charge Nurse enters because I think that he should really be blogging in places other than the comment box)
Nurse Rant will indeed be coming to a blog near you sometime later in the year.
(Assuming we can find nurses daft enough to want to join the team!)
Dr Thunder,
I've checked the Regulations, Rules, and Other Guffins (Competitions) section 44 of the Rant Handbook, and I can confirm that there is a positive points weighting of +69% for neolocuntisms.
Frank
'Something Different, or just something really offensive that 'pushes the envelope' of acceptability. Polemic, invective, abusive, artistic, satirical, surreal, poetic, musical or just indescribable'
Or 'vulgar' which is what I do sometimes when I am full of 'passion' about something ... then pull it back when I calm down a bit ... Passion does hurt!
I've just found out that even when I pull back the trash I somtimes post, you can still access it from Google Reader! Maybe it is only me who can access this material so I will unsubscribe from my own blog and 'see' if it goes 'clever thing to say,huh? :-)'
My intention is never to offend really, this is why I take them off air.
We might also get a patient participation group (for free and frank interchanges of course)...although an alliance of doctors and patients against the management would be better still. And we have said on here that (mostly) the patients are not the problem.
How about a scaly dragon receptionist? The receptionist's tale deserves to be told.
Or what about a Mrs Rant? Where's me husband? What's he up to now? etc.
There might be a few characters who could add to the fun on here. With or without the swearing.
if i get any time ill put an entry in
been a bit busy recently
the real no one
not the fucking imposter cunt
Happy 500th blogiversary.
Can I suggest you put all your cancer patients on the Liverpool Palliative Care Pathway and just get rid of them?
My father was told he had kidney cancer that was all over his adrenal gland, liver and lymph nodes and up his vena cave - they said it was inoperable and decided it was in his best interests to palliate his symptoms - neither he nor anyone in his family consented, but the next thing we know he's slumped unconcious in bed, and they blame it on the cancer. they only performed a shitty ultrasound so indistinct it looked like a footprint, and told us no biopsy was needed. Would nt shift from their position and all stood firm together reciting th e words 'in my expert opinion, its futile care' We got on drfoster to try to find a second opinion, feeling his age was beign used against him - he was 85, but still workign full time in engineering, still paying full tax and ni, and acting as unpaid carer for stroke disabled girlfriend. fit as a flea, karnofsky status at least 80-90, but you know, these time limits....at 3 horus 50 in A & E, they had said he was well enough to go home!!!
Anyway, he died at 5.50 on the 6th morning.
They put the cause of death down as 'renal cell carcinoma' so we had the coroner do a post mortem - and the inside of the kidney was viable tissue, the adrenal and lymph nodes were 100% clear, and the renal vein just had blood in it. worse still , immunohisto we paid privatelyfor showed it was a lwo grade tumour borderline onco. worse still, he was given alfentanil and midazolam sc (which means they slipped it in iv and knew no one knew that was the anaesthetic route they use to supress respoiration on a ventilator.
found loads of pubmed articles that show age is no indicator of survival or success in surgery - eg 5 eyar cancer specific survival is 85% in patients all over 80 years (pubmed 18410435).
Coroner was happy it was 'natural causes' - he is a legal appointee, and his 'pathologist' is a clapped out gp with absolutely no rcpath qualifications at all!
police arent interested, and of the 56 solicitors contacted, all are too busy to help with either med neg claim or judicial review to get coroner to hold a full inquest - SOOOOOO,
just shove all your cancer patients over the age of 79 on the Liverpool Express - no one will give a shit, not the police, the coroner, or a single solicitor -
fuckers!
Something in the area of pharmacofuckinggenomics perhaps? It's the next biggie. Allegedly.
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