Do you believe in providers who are black clouds?
I have worked at two separate primary care clinics, and at both of them I have rapidly become known as the black cloud. Yesterday I had a confirmed case of herpes ophthalmicus (HSV-1) in a otherwise healthy mid-20s male. This is the second confirmed case of this I've seen in otherwise healthy people. Before discharging him I reviewed the plan with my SP and unprompted asked me "why do you always get the weird stuff?"
Before leaving my previous job I had 4 confirmed pulmonary embolisms walk in for scheduled primary care appointments over the span of 5.5 years. That clinic had 4 other FTE spread between 5 other providers, and, of my colleagues, only 1 other PE was seen in the clinic.
I've had a few other notable weird things, but I'm sure we all have. Has anyone else ever noticed that they (or someone else they know) is a magnet for weird things, or is this just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, and now every time I get something odd people just see what they expect confirmed? (My rate of outpatient primary care pulmonary embolisms not with standing).