Meanest doctor ever

So two calls to my doc, one call to the county nurse, and several hours of Internet research later, I wind up at the emergency room. I do my paper work and wait. A nurse checks my vital signs, then I wait some more. Then in comes this short, squat emergency room doctor with a chip on her shoulder the size of Texas. "Did you call the public health nurse like I told you to?" she asked in a rapid, clipped voice. "What'd they tell you?" "Well, they," I started. "That's right. They said if you're not bitten, there's no chance of infection." "But my finger was in the bat's mouth." "Doesn't matter. If it didn't break the skin, you weren't bitten." "Well, according to my research, even a bat gumming me is cause for worry since rabies is transmitted in slavia and brain matter." "Look, if we give you the PEP now, and you need it again later in your life, there's a very good chance of you having an anaphlacitc reaction."* "Well, if I don't get it now, but I was exposed, I'll die." "Fine. I'll call the CDC and see what they say." The doctor left in a huff, and the wife and I were sitting there, our mouths hanging open. She recovered first. "That's some bedside manner..." Fifteen minutes later, the doctor comes back in. "The CDC says that it wouldn't hurt to give you the series, so I guess it's up to you." It's up to me? Great. I have two doctors and a public health nurse telling me it's no big deal, and a whole stack of litterature on the Web saying it can be a *really* big deal. I don't want to die, but I really don't want to have to deal with this most obnoxious doctor anymore. That's right, Memorial Medical Center, I chose death through siezure and coma over you emergency room physician. "Well, since you and my real doctor seem to think this is no big deal, I guess I'll let my potential death rest on your conscious," I wish I had said. Three hours later, I checked voice mail and guess who left a message. "This is the doctor from the MMC emergency room. I got another call from the CDC, this time from a doctor who specializes in rabies. He said you should get the treatment, so if you want to come back in, I'll be here until tomorrow morning."