Surgeon leaves patient on the table to go to the bank

[Jzero]

Yahoo news article


At first glance, this is simple--the surgeon is a wacko. I agree.

But this article hints at an even larger issue--how the hell do banks get off keeping the ridiculous hours they keep? A lot of banks are closed on weekends and their weekday hours are like 10:00AM-4:00PM
I mean who the hell can get to the bank during those hours if they work a normal day job?!
WTF!

 

[StattlichPassat]

Yeah! My credit union closes at 4:00 too! How am I supposed to cash checks?! :disgust:

 

[astriy]

for a harvard guy, he's not very smart.

and how does someone with a surgeon's salary live paycheck to paycheck?

like I said, not very smart.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: astriy
for a harvard guy, he's not very smart.

and how does someone with a surgeon's salary live paycheck to paycheck?

like I said, not very smart.

There is an inverse relationship between being "Book Smart" and having "Common Sense."
I know a lot of people who were "book smart" enough to go to places like Harvard, MIT, Yale, U Penn, Princeton, yet from a common sense perspective, they are utter morons.
They know how to do open heart surgery, but they can't figure out simple stuff like how to dim the dashboard lights in their car (true story--I have a friend who was a CompSci major at MIT and one day came in and said her dashboard lights had died. I asked her if maybe she just accidentally hit the dimmer and darkened them. She didn't even know such a thing existed!).

 

[pulse8]

Someone making that kind of cash should definitely have an assistant doing that kind of work.

 

[deftron]

Bank hours are totally wack.


Like 9am to 12pm

Closed for 2 hours

2pm to 4pm (drive thru only)

 

[Azraele]

Geez, what if something had gone wrong while he was at the bank? Not the smartest thing that surgeon has even done.

 

[IcemanJer]

I guess he has never heard of a thing called DirectDeposit

 

[Michael1897]

that's why you are supposed to have a trophy wife to handle this kinda stuff for you.
Wonder if the doc ever heard of direct deposit.

then again maybe the trophy wife was the reason for the over due bills

 

[vi edit]

You want pissy hours? Try getting to the post office in a small town when you work 9:00-5:00.

Christ.

Hours - M-F 9:00-11:00, 1:00-4:00
Sat - 9:30-11:30

And they want to reduce the hours!!!!

 

[pyonir]

where the hell do you guys bank?

I use Wells Fargo and my bank is open 7 days a week 10-7pm during the week and saturday, and 11-5 on sunday.

 

[IcemanJer]

I was very happy when my bank here decided to open till 5pm weekdays and open until noon on Saturday. but of course that doesn't quite help cuz I'd sleep in until noon on Saturdays... I have directdeposit anyways, so that don't matter... and the ATM machine is 24 hrs.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

2 words:



electronic deposit.





Geez that doc aint got no sense at all. What a dumbass! Surgeon or no, he should be smart enough to figure out how to manage his basic finances.

 

[Jzero]

I have direct deposit and just use MAC for withdrawals. My bank used to have at least the drive thru open until 9PM 7 days a week and it was one of their biggest selling points, but they have since cut back.

Anyway, I think it's nuts what the surgeon did, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to use it to take a dig at one of those little nuisances that seems to annoy many people but there really isn't anything you can do about it

 

[cavingjan]

Allfirst has banks that are open until 6:30-7:00. I can't remember which.

I don't think I would want a doctor working on me the whole time without taking a break. The problem I see is that the guy had to scrub in again which accounts for good chunk of that 35 minute time period.

 

[vi edit]

The hospital where my fiancee works at, you are REQUIRED to have ED. There is no other option. You want a paycheck? You give them a bank account number to have it dumped into. They also get paid once a month which really sucks