Moniker is a nickname or pet name. I have picked up a few over my career, so I need to share these with the rest of the world. This passage is dedicated to all those who called me less-than-noble names and were assholes (I thought you knew)

So this is for all the “tobacco chewing-, Skoll-spitting, donut- eating, trailer park living, cheese whiz sucking, cousin-marrying assholes that gave me their own terms of endearment, I thought you knew?

Sorry, not sorry….

1) Renegade-apparently, when I showed up at this world-renowned hospital, only minimal care was dedicated to cardiovascular diseases. I started doing lots of heart procedures, and they said I was a renegade for doing all these life-saving procedures. “We ain’t a Heart hospital.”

2-The wolf” from pulp fiction by Fronden surgical intensive care unit” because of constantly cleaning up the mess of others and cleaning up the dead bodies.

3- Magic hands, I really don’t know why the operating room nurses call me this.

4- Robodoc- because when I was on call, I did not fuck around.

5-Swiss Army Knife, i was used over so many disciplines of cardiovascular practice.

6-Big dog-One of my patients called my Physician associate and said she was sorry she did not make it to my clinic, “Last Night we got FUCKED up, drunk, smoked some weed, and did some COKE, can you let the ‘Big Dog’ (Dr. Durand) know.

7-Batman from Frondren Surgical Intensive Care Unit, they would always call me. I would leave the call room, see the patient, write orders and notes, and disappear back to bed, so they called me “BATMAN”.

8-Superman- A new faculty member had worked, she called me one morning, and knew I was willing to do procedures on high-risk patients. She called me and told me exactly what she wanted me to do (although she never did one, and I thought this shit better work), so she named me “SUPERMAN”!!!!!!!!

9-Mr. President- When Kanye said he was going to run for president, I told one of the schedulers that I was throwing my hat in the ring. From that day forward, she called me “Mr. President”.

10-“7-11- Because no matter what time of the morning the nurses came in , they called me 711, I was always open for business.

11-Redneck doctor-One of my patients started talking about hunting and guns, and I had a deep discussion with him about firearms. Every time he came to the clinic, he asked to be seen by “THE REDNECK DOCTOR”.

12-Pablo Escobar, Pancho Villa, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, I came in after a weekend on call with a big ass mustache; they called me all the above.

13- Call me anything you want but you cannot call me a loser.