I came across the old refrain of “What have you done for me lately” yesterday, but not in an employment situation. Rather, it was in the usually routine process of getting a prescription refilled.

In this case, it didn’t involve my family physician but my eye doctor, who refused to renew the prescriptions by phone since I had switched (by dint of being laid off) from a PPO plan to an HMO plan. I plaintively asked what I was supposed to do, and the answer was “find a doctor in your HMO.”

This seemed like a take on “What have you done for me lately?” But in this case, it was more like, “What has your insurance company done for me lately?”
So much for the Hippocratic Oath, eh?