Medical Catchphrase Bingo

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Several years ago, around Thanksgiving, my good friend and incredibly witty DPC colleague Shane Purcell e-mailed me a hilarious “Christmas URI Bingo” card he’d created. It was a black and white 4×4 grid. I laughed SO hard. He and I subsequently came up with another 9 tiles for it to make it the traditional 5×5 bingo card, added the obligatory free space in the center, added some color, and shared it with the DPC community. It immediately went viral-it went around the country in medical circles, and like a boomerang actually came back to me from a colleague who is NOT in DPC in only a couple days, who had no idea that I had helped Shane write it in the first place.

The “Holiday URI Bingo” card now resurfaces every year in November, and when I hear Bing Crosby sing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”  I’m sure to find the bingo card circulating online. It brings me tremendous satisfaction to know that something I helped write brings laughter and joy to so many medical colleagues every year. 

Recently my partners and I were lamenting that there’s only a bingo card for URIs, and how cold/flu season will soon come to an end, and we’ll have to wait a year to play again. So today I decided to fix that. Perhaps I can make this a series, but at least this will give DPC docs far and wide some friendly competition to make tougher appointments more bearable outside of URI season.  Did your patient just use the phrase “brain fog”?

 😑  

Yes. Yes, she did. But you also checked off a “Medical Catchphrase Bingo” box, and you’re that much closer to winning the office pool.  And hey, ten bucks is ten bucks.

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About Vance Lassey, MD

Dr. Lassey earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Program, where he served as the chief resident. He went on to practice rural inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, and obstetric care, in Holton, Kansas. He found the calling he loved to have been hijacked by middlemen. Stuck in a broken system, mired in bureaucracy, clicking boxes, coding, not seeing his family, and hearing patients complain bitterly about medical costs he had no ability to control, Direct Primary Care (DPC) became the solution for him, his family, and his patients. He is passionate about restoring the physician-patient relationship, bringing transparency and sanity to medical costs, and advises physicians around the country on how to get out of the FFS system. He serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, is the recipient of numerous clinical and teaching awards, and is a founding member and the past President of the Direct Primary Care Alliance.