5 words that you never want to hear in a Doctor’s waiting room… We’re not inmates at Stalag Luft III getting to know each other because we’re going to spend the next considerable portion of our lives stuck in a 4x6ft cell discussing methods of escape… It’s a sodding waiting room! I don’t want to discuss my medical history with a complete stranger (other than my new Doctor), I also don’t care what you have and I really don’t want to know, especially if it’s contagious; and it probably is judging by that slab of lung you’ve just coughed up onto the floor…
I hate waiting rooms, other than the aforementioned weirdo who wanted to know the exact nature of my need to see a quack, the clinical smell gets right up my nose, to the point where I have to look around to make sure there isn’t a cleaner spraying me in the face with Windex or something. They just seem to be an incredibly hostile place where various people will group as closely together as possible (for reasons unknown to me) and share their exact reason for going as loudly as possible as if they are trying to prove that their condition is far worse than anyone else.
I also get that feeling that everyone else IS much worse off than I am and I start questioning my reasons for being there in the first place, especially when the old lady trundles in, squeaks at the receptionist in a raspy high pitched voice that breaks every other syllable and then trundles to a seat and effectively falls into it. That’s when I start asking: “Why ARE you here? Man up it’s just a few chest pains… What are you, a wuss?!?!?”
And then your name gets called!
It’s like taking a long walk of utter shame, I just went in for an ECG and I felt as if everyone was looking at me like I had some sort of very visible, very disgusting disease. I dunno if it’s just me being paranoid or whether people were actually staring, but it’s a horrible feeling nonetheless… I despise and detest going to the Doctors, I’ve not had to go in years so I was most displeased to be bullied into going by my friends, especially when nonsense like the above happens… *seethe*
Anyway, mini-rant over, glad for it though, not had a good old-fashioned complain in a while!
Cheers all,
Martin ^_^
