There's a Rodney Dangerfield documentary that came out after he died. Harold Ramis is interviewed about directing Caddyshack and giving Dangerfield his breakout role in the film.
Dangerfield was so fish out of water he didn't even realize what it meant when "Action!" was called on set. According to Ramis, "by the end of the shoot, he finished the scene and he came over to me he said 'I guess I'm an actor.'"
Over years ago, I applied for a job where they let me use retinal cameras. I think the point of hiring me was proving that they didn't have to use nurses and that any monkey could use them.
I was the first monkey who could, leading me to the point where I trained others around the country.
I even got my name on a research paper. I didn't write it, but I "wrote" i.e. gathered the visual data from numerous patients whose retinas I photographed.
The telehealth department I was part up dried up, and I was moved from retinal cameras over to Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) devices.
After over a decade of waiting, I was placed on another research project. The doctor I work for showed me a photo a poster from a special research presentation this past weekend.
I guess Chad Parenteau, MFA looked a little weird to the person putting it together (it is). They added an OD to my name.
So here I sit at my computer, just a another schlub monkey making the same repetitive hand motions with a joystick I've been making for decades. And I feel the need to say: "I guess I'm a doctor."
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