So let me get this straight, just so I know I'm not being the stupid one
You went to see your doctor for a cold you've been suffering from for three days. Your doctor questioned you regarding any possible contact with swine flu, due to the PANDEMIC currently taking its grip on the world. You became objectionable and demanded drugs for your cold. You came here to whine about it.

Sound about right?
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:40, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Where did I say I demanded drugs for my cold poptart?
I say again - it's a flu - a quickly spreading one yes - but still a flu. I'm not that stressed about it. I'm more stressed about my friggen wisdom teeth, in all blunt honesty.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:44, Reply)

Penicillin is not known for its flu curing abilities
hence why I came to the conclusion that you demanded them. If I'm wrong then I apologise, but I refuse to believe that I am wrong
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:48, Reply)

I don't have the flu - that's my point, I knew I had a cold or infection, he knew too,
he made me cough up sputum into a cup, looked at it and said "You have an infection." The reason I was laughing is because I have had virtually no social life for the past month because of exams.
I haven't been out of town - I haven't been in contact with people who have had swine flu. He asked me three times even though I was clear enough when I answered the first time around. A basic summary for you about my trip to the doc's leaves out details of my sexual activities and my social life.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:53, Reply)

And yet you're still here whining
why is that? You've stated that people all around you have confirmed cases of swine flu and yet think the doctor was being unreasonable in making sure that you haven't been in contact with them.

I wish you all the best with your cold and hope that you don't get swine flu because then you really would be unreasonable any hysterical.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:58, Reply)

Where did I say I thought the doctor was being unreasonable?? No where.
Ta poppet - I hope your head deflates soon as well, any larger and you won't be able to move.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:05, Reply)

He questioned you and you clearly didn't like it
Went to the doctors today because I've been feeling utterly ratshit for the last two or three days, headaches, sore throat, coughing a lot, runny nose. No up-chucking, runny bums or joint pain reminiscent of arthritis.
First thing the doctor asks me, after having me tell him my symptoms was, "have you been in contact with anybody with swine flu or travelled up to melbourne recently?"
"no"
"Are you sure?"
"yes."
"So you've not had ANY contact with ANYBODY who MIGHT have been infected with Swine flu, and you HAVEN'T travelled up to Melbourne at all?"
"I just said that?!"
"Oh okay - have you got a sore throat?"
*rolls eyes*
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:08, Reply)

Thats not being unreasonable,
that's being annoyed that he doesn't listen properly the first time round. I listen when I take people's orders at restaurants, and I never fuck it up - it's not that hard to take note of what's wrong and remember, is that too much to ask?
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:10, Reply)

you really shouldn't compare being a waitress to being a doctor love

(PsychoChomp, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:11, Reply)

But it's a SKILL, dammit! Just as important as your fancy-pants doctorin'.
Now make with the visa.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:20, Reply)

Taking down a customer order in a restaurant is a little different to diagnosing someone with a potentially life threatning disease
But then you'd know that if you werent fucking stupid.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:12, Reply)

I wish I had your mad SkillZ I really do.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:12, Reply)

BECAUSE TAKING AN ORDER FOR A FUCKING SALAD IS THE SAME AS DIAGNOSING A PATIENT?!?!?!
Fuck me sideways, there's no point in trying to debate with you, is there?
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:13, Reply)

My point is - it's not hard to listen. I listen. You listen,
doctors SHOULD listen.
My pop was diagnosed with senile dementia because the doctor was too busy being full of himself to listen to my mother when she said "he's deaf - he needs his hearing aids to understand you." It is NOT hard to listen properly the first time around.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Is it so wrong for a medical professional to want to make sure that their patient is listening to and understanding what they have said?
When it's his job on the line?
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:20, Reply)

Of course it isn't.
But I'll say it again:

Being a doctor and being a waitress are very different things. You, while taking an order, are not trying to work out if the person who's ordering it really wants a steak. A doctor, however, is trying to work out what is wrong with you via several lines of questioning and physical exams. To compare the two is weak argument.

Doctors do listen. You tar people with the same brush too easily.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:21, Reply)

If you aren't happy with your MEDICALLY TRAINED PROFESSIONAL, then see another doctor
it really is that simple.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:22, Reply)

this medically trained professional was not my usual medically trained professional.
My usual one is lovely and LISTENS - she doesn't ask me the same question twice or treat me like I'm some dumbass kid.
She respects her patients and knows what she's doing. This guy doesn't. Every single person who went into that room came out looking grumpy.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:29, Reply)

You went there for a cold or suspected infection, they dared to ask you questions and you threw a strop
you DO sound like a dumbass kid to me.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:35, Reply)

I never said I threw a strop?
Where did I say in my original or any other posts that I threw a strop? Rolling my eyes and saying "yes - I said that" does not equate I threw a strop.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:06, Reply)

You're basing that assessment of me over a couple of hours on b3ta.
You don't know me in person so you cannot judge me, you don't have the right - the same way I don't have the right to judge you.

Asking the same question three times is not smart under any circumstances. Not in my opinion. If you're all House like and jaded and cynical and think that everybody lies, whether they really want a steak or they really haven't been out of town because they've been drowning in study - then you're just going to end up pissing people off.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:25, Reply)

But your opinion doesn't carry much weight here
becuase you're not a trained doctor. So he wanted to be especially sure that he wasn't witnessing the first case of a new strain of flu in his area and he checked thoroughly to be sure.

Get.

Over.

Yourself.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:28, Reply)

/rolls eyes.
Okay, I will - when you do Al. When you get over yourself is when I'll get over myself. Take it or leave it.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:31, Reply)

I find myself in agreement with Al here
really, when a doctor wants to confirm that you are not in current contact, or have been with someone who is now infected, is that such a bad thing to claify it several times to be sure?
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:32, Reply)

When did I judge you?
But how many times does anyone have to say it? He. Was. Just. Doing. His. Job. You may not have liked it. You may have thought he was dumb because he kept affirming the information you gave him. But he did his job. I really wish I hadn't bought the waitress analogy in to this, because it doesn't work very well. However, the fact remains that the Doctor did his job to the best of his ability (viz. - he diagnosed you, and gave you a prescription), and then you come online and whine about it.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:39, Reply)

golly gosh, when it become not okay to have a laugh and a differing opinion to everybody else as to what is funny and what isn't?
You all thought I was whining - I wasn't, I thought it was funny and was only merely and briefly annoyed at him triple checking. I was more annoyed at the fact there was a 45 minute wait for a two minute consultation.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:51, Reply)

You better get used to that
If you're en route to the U.K.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:58, Reply)

I can get used to anything, and have done so before,
but it doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have a laugh does it?
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:00, Reply)

But this thread wasn't about you having a laugh though was it?
It was about you wanting to have a whine about the treatment you received at the doctors and wanting validation from strangers.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:02, Reply)

well I was having a laugh until everybody attacked me
and now I feel entitled to one - but I can't be fucked. this has gotten boring.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:10, Reply)

It must just be the way that you tell 'em, then.

(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 12:07, Reply)

OH SHIT.
The restaurant over the road has put a sign up looking for waiting staff.

GET OVER HERE, QUICK. They'll probably sponsor your Highly Skilled Migrant Visa and everything.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:18, Reply)

Oh golly, maybe I should.
Or maybe I should just come over there and give you the love and fluff and kittens that are so clearly lacking in your life.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:20, Reply)

Believe me, I have enough of that.
I know al. IRL.
(Slip Digby is a meat puppet, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:22, Reply)

Ahem
He isn't lacking in fluff. FACT.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:23, Reply)

Identifies lady
see VC, I can tell when most people are male or female. I just have trouble classifying you for some reason.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:27, Reply)

possibly because those binoculars you have don't work internationally.
Or because your cock shrivels whenever a girl stands up to you. Not sure which.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:32, Reply)

Oddly enough I don't have binoculars, but if I did, I wouldn't be looking at you
Not judging, just being honest.
(Buckminsterfuller Bring out yer meat puppets, it's time for some fun, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:37, Reply)

That's okay,
I wouldn't be looking at you either. :)
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 18 Jun 2009, 11:46, Reply)