Real Doctor Stories

Welcome to realdoctorstories.com!

Chicago Med, ER, Chicago Hope, Night Shift, Code Black. These are all popular TV medical shows telling stories about doctors, nurses, patients, etc. They get big time, prime time audience attention.

But, the stories are fiction.

Realdoctorstories.com was created by Dennis Angellis, MD to give you insights into what it was like to be a doctor in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Since 2000, the doctors in the US have fashioned multiple “silos” in which they practice. For example, a Primary Care Physician rarely goes to a hospital or an emergency room and has little hospital and ER experiences. A Hospitalist rarely sees patients in an office setting and has little outpatient experiences. Specialists have equally fragmented their practices into inpatient and outpatient. This significantly reduces the opportunity for todays physicians to have the type of experiences “real” physicians had in the past

realdoctorstories.com is akin to an online book. You can read it for free. You don’t need a Kindle. The stories on this website are all absolutely true!

Click on “Real Doctor Stories” below under Categories and scroll down the stories to see what it was like to be a REAL doctor! Here is a listing of the chapters (more to be added over time!):

First Workday in the National Health Service Corps

The Three Year Old

Shaken Baby Syndrome

The Four Cardiacs

Back Pain, Back Pain, Back Pain

When a Save is Not a Save

Don’t Give Up When Told to Give Up

The Drunk Driver Walks Away

Physician as Musician

Beware The Impaired

Chaos in the Mental Health Center

Babies, Babies, Babies and Babies

Insulin, anyone?

She Didn’t Have the Right Doctor

Oops! Poops!

Never Sign Away You Rights

The Preemie and the Burger