Yes true. I do feel that when doctors were like that you felt supported and it is a factor in today’s loneliness , as people don’t feel that sense of someone is there for them and are afraid to bother anyone for being classed as a nuisance . If doctors could bring back that community caring role , many would feel supported. Otherwise it is far too clinical .I will ask Father Christmas for mycwish I think .
I hope Santa brings what you want. It seems the way society seems to be going, like with self check outs at the supermarket, everything is done in a hurry and there’s no social interaction. Thankfully where I live there is still a strong sense of community, and the shop where I work is more like a social club. But even here it’s one of those doctors practices where you rarely see the same doctor twice, there’s no rapport or relationship because you’re just another stranger with a medical condition that you need to explain over and over each time because it’s a new doctor who doesn’t know you.
Candyred....that brought back a memory..."tell your daddy, I'll see him at the Club for the tournament on Saturday...tell him to buy lots of mulligians, I am. Are you going to the pool?" Happened alot....thanks, I needed a smile today!!!
Yes Don our family doctor in the 40s would pap his horn and wave as he passed by in his car and naughty naughty would sit smoking a cigarette whilst writing your prescription oh those were the days
I suppose we have to be pretty ancient to remember that far back when the doctor in his Rover car was a familiar sight. 🙄
Asking how the family were...Our doctor used to go through a great, long list of family members asking how they all were and to each reply of "Fine" he make the sign of the cross and smiling say "Saints be praised". He would make his diagnoses mostly by watching you while you answered him.
He'd been the family doctor for two generations before me. The last time I had an appointment with him he was propped up in his armchair, leaning against his now nearly grey red setter.He had a terrible palsy? Parkinson's?
Oh! I've just remembered he used to call me Mary, my middle name because my first name " Isn't real because it's not in the Good Book".
Our doctor in the 40s was a lovely man. My mother took me to see him due to my eating habits and said all she wants to do is play out and eat jam butties and chips. He looked her in the eye and said, does she ail anything Dorothy? No said my mother, then leave her be until she does what she has must be doing some good. She gave me Cod liver oil and malt every night which I loved.
So true. I have lost count of the number of doctors I have had to nurture, and I miss being able to see the same doctor regularly. Oh well. On the plus side, I am meeting some nice young doctors, and helping educate them.....
When I got my flu shot this year the doctor used the wooden spatula to push down my tongue, to check my throat. It brought back memories of when I was a child. 😁 Thanks for another lovely poem. xx ☕🍎
Oh Don a Great Poem from you again. I also have a Good memory of all of us Kiddies being put to Bed together so we could all catch each others ailments, from Chicken Pox etc, Mum would walk to the surgery (no phone in our House) to request a Doctors Visit, he would come to the house after Morning Surgery. Cold hands, Cold Stethascope, Thermometer in the Mouth or under arm pit. Rest he would say, we were given some Calamine Lotion, Cough Linctus if needed and in a few days, back to School. xxx
AH , HOW TRUE ! .... I ASKED MY DOCTOR THE OTHER DAY AFTER AN EXAMINATION = " HOW DO I STAND " ? , HE REPLIED - " I'VE BEEN TRYING TO WORK THAT OUT FOR THE LAST TWENTY MINUETS ....!
I moved to my wife Practice when we got married and one of the docs delivered The Wife so felt close to the famly. The receptionist always asked how the family was etc. But our Surgery now We are numbers and being polite is such chore!
OH so true, bedside manner has changed so and the facts given are sometimes harder to handle but times have moved on just as the responsibilities of medics have.Machines have taken over brain power, all it feels like is that you are communicating with a computor that really cannot sense your pain, or anxiety or difficulty in getting up from a chair, its not really care these days just answers based on computor data.If you don't fit the data then you must be well so to speak.
A brilliant rhyme.. and so so true. Sometimes, doctors today even forget to look at you when talking to you, they stare at the screen and mutter to that. Progress eh?
This resonates with alot of us, I can remember my Mum saying she used to pay a penny for the doctor, I can still remember our family doctor was more like a friend and would call in regular for a cup of tea and cake. Thanks Don for the memory x
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