Doctor And Patient

[poliphilo]

 I was at the hospital yesterday- not on my own account but to provide moral support for a friend who suffers from white coat anxiety.

 In my youth (said the sage as he shook his grey locks) doctors were figures of authority- and dressed the part- which meant wearing a kind of Edwardian fancy dress. One of my indelible memories is of a fatherly GP who tried to hypnotise me (I've no idea why) by swinging his pocket watch in front of my eyes. Incidentally it didn't work- something about which I remain smug. These days doctors have only there first names printed on their badges- and agree sympathetically with everything the patient says. My friend doesn't want to undergo a particular procedure and the doctor didn't attempt to argue. They are shopworkers and we are customers and always right- a relationship I prefer to the previous one. My friend is a very nervous guy and the doctor was a shaven-headed bull of a man but my friend got his own way on every point.

Comments

[paserbyp]

In case of my white coat anxiety I tried to avoid doctors, but in these days, specially in post-covid days it became more difficult due to business reasons to make money from medical insurance.

[poliphilo]

I do my best to steer clear of the medical profession....