This brought up a memory:
I was with my then girlfriend at a gynecologist as she was getting a UID put in. I sit in the waiting room just browsing my phone and out of nowhere I hear screaming and stuff getting thrown around. I couldn’t make out exactly where it came from so I of course got worried it might be my girlfriend (not that I had a reason to think it was her out of anyone else), but it’s obviously not like I could just go and open doors to look.
After about a minute of hearing this, so much stuff thrown and broken, a girl comes out of a room bright red with anger and as she walks by me, who’s the only one in the waiting room, she says “I came here for things completely unrelated to my period and the doctor fucking asks about my fucking period like that’s everything women are, periods!”
I really didn’t know how to respond so I just go “yeah, fuck 'em.” and she just looked at me with an oddly angry smirk then walked out.
Reminds me of the one time one of our sales people video called me with an urgent bug report that his demo unit wasn’t responding via SSH or HTTP and that it’s probably broken because of our last update and whatnot.
I asked him if he checked the power and network cables. He gets angry and tells me that of course the cables are ok.
So I ask him if it’s the unit I can see on the shelf behind him. He says yes. I say, “All the LEDs on the front of the unit are off. Are you sure the power cable is plugged in?”. It wasn’t.
This is the doctor equivalent of that video call.
Not every time it’s the simple answer. But sometimes it is, so you ask the simple question every time.
This brought up a memory:
I was with my then girlfriend at a gynecologist as she was getting a UID put in. I sit in the waiting room just browsing my phone and out of nowhere I hear screaming and stuff getting thrown around. I couldn’t make out exactly where it came from so I of course got worried it might be my girlfriend (not that I had a reason to think it was her out of anyone else), but it’s obviously not like I could just go and open doors to look. After about a minute of hearing this, so much stuff thrown and broken, a girl comes out of a room bright red with anger and as she walks by me, who’s the only one in the waiting room, she says “I came here for things completely unrelated to my period and the doctor fucking asks about my fucking period like that’s everything women are, periods!” I really didn’t know how to respond so I just go “yeah, fuck 'em.” and she just looked at me with an oddly angry smirk then walked out.
Okay, but like, it’s the gynaecologist. Periods are a big part of their jobs.
Edit: I hated working service desk for IT. I’d probably hate being a doctor more.
Reminds me of the one time one of our sales people video called me with an urgent bug report that his demo unit wasn’t responding via SSH or HTTP and that it’s probably broken because of our last update and whatnot.
I asked him if he checked the power and network cables. He gets angry and tells me that of course the cables are ok.
So I ask him if it’s the unit I can see on the shelf behind him. He says yes. I say, “All the LEDs on the front of the unit are off. Are you sure the power cable is plugged in?”. It wasn’t.
This is the doctor equivalent of that video call.
Not every time it’s the simple answer. But sometimes it is, so you ask the simple question every time.
And what’s funny is she probably was pregnant and just in denial