Doctors and Doctors...

[PMRpro]

In this month's edition of Scope, the magazine for the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, there is a historical article about the man who founded the society that preceded the IPEM. After his death his family found the following poem in his papers. Remember, he was a doctor himself!

Doctors and Doctors

One little doctor, looks you thro' and thro',

Can't diagnose your case, and then there are two.

two little doctors, failing to agree,

Call a consultation. Then there are three.

Three little doctors, poke you o'er and o'er,

Send for a specialist. Then there are four.

Four little doctors, wonder you're alive,

Order in the x-ray man, then there are five.

Five little doctors, trying funny tricks,

Another brings the stomach pump - and then there are six.

Six little doctors, preparing you for heaven,

In comes a DD, then there are seven.

Seven little doctors, decide to operate -

Call in a surgeon, then there are eight.

Eight little doctors, think it is your spine,

Send for a neurologist, then there are nine.

Nine little doctors, all of them are men,

Send for a lady doctor - then there are ten.

Ten little doctors, standing by your bed,

Come to a decision, find that you are dead.

[piglette]

Love it!

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Mmmm. Nuff said!

[birdwatcher]

Excellent, well done.

[DavidMF]

Just goes to show how important it is to have the support of PMRGCA.uk and all its friends. Keep involved, increase your understanding, search out others and their experiences. Only then can you hope to get the best out of the team of Doctors who genuinely want to help.

[karools16]

Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Made my day.

Karools16.

[annie_marie]

Just brilliant. how many, I wonder relate to this??

[Fernan in reply to annie_marie]

All the doctors I've met have been knowledgeable, professional and run off their feet. Certainly no time to hang around in groups of ten!

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Fernan]

I think you'll find groups of 10 at daily/weekly meetings for discussing patient management. Our local hospital achieves that most days on the medical wards...

[Fernan in reply to PMRpro]

And I doubt whether they've been hanging around helplessly in disagreement until the patient dies.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Fernan]

I'm sorry if this offends your sense of humour - after all, it was a practising doctor who wrote it...

[Fernan in reply to PMRpro]

If this forum were generally more supportive of the medical profession and it's practices then maybe it would seem less disrespectful to laugh at it

[polkadotcom in reply to Fernan]

What is it you would like us to support?

[Fernan in reply to polkadotcom]

I would like to see more consistently positive comments about the professional knowledge and commitment of our doctors. I would also like to see more support for the concensus of medical opinion regarding alternative therapies and unusual diets.

[polkadotcom in reply to Fernan]

So would we all! But we can only have what is there....

[Fernan in reply to polkadotcom]

If the 4 or 5 leading members of this forum decided that the unwell and sometimes vulnerable people reading their posts needed to have confidence in their doctors and the treatments they were getting then the ethos of this site would quickly change. As it is, last time I looked, 25 people said they liked a disrespectful poem about little doctors who didn't know what they were doing.

[Daisychain12 in reply to Fernan]

I’m delighted so many have a sense of humour

[HeronNS in reply to Fernan]

Can you expand on your comment about alternative therapies and unusual diets?

[HeronNS in reply to Fernan]

People on forums like this are usually here for a reason, one of which may well be perceived if not actual mishandling of their condition by the medical profession. I personally am happy with my GP in so far as she diagnosed me accurately, and she allows me to manage PMR at my own pace.

I encountered a rheumatologist recently who was so patronising towards me and so puffed up with her own importance (she's the only osteoporosis specialist around here) that I could hardly bear to speak with her, and got absolutely no satisfactory answers to any of my carefully prepared questions.

[HeronNS in reply to Fernan]

I'm sure doctors are secure enough in themselves to appreciate a bit of humour!

[Fernan in reply to HeronNS]

But why would that make it appropriate to laugh at them?

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Fernan]

I repeat - it was written by a DOCTOR, A DOCTOR was laughing at his profession. A lot of them do you know.

[Fernan in reply to PMRpro]

It was not posted by a doctor. In any case, whoever posted it, it was not at all respectful to a group of people to whom I for one am very grateful

[HeronNS in reply to Fernan]

It was taken from a PUBLICATION - something in the PUBLIC domain, a journal for doctors, no less.

[Fernan in reply to HeronNS]

If you say that this site is partly for people who are dissatisfied with their doctors then that is a completely different context to a professional publication which is presumably generally supportive of them.

[HeronNS in reply to Fernan]

I surrender and retreat. We are all entitled to our opinions. As the daughter of two doctors and stepdaughter of a nurse, I found nothing offensive in this poem and I know my parents, were they still on this planet, would have appreciated it. Peace.

[Daisychain12 in reply to HeronNS]

Oh dear. You are wonderful Heron. All we do is relate our experiences. Good and bad. We must be allowed to speak our truth. Sadly there are some shocking doctors. Xxxxx

[HeronNS in reply to Daisychain12]

It's a pretty old post. I'd forgotten all about it. It's a funny poem!

[Daisychain12 in reply to PMRpro]

I repeat: we merely relate what has happened to us.

[Daisychain12 in reply to Fernan]

People are writing about their experiences. Things that happened to them. How is this disrespectful? If bad practice occurs it is hardly the fault of this group.

[Cemmein]

Lovely poem!! Sometimes there are more than 10!! Thanks for printing in it!

[JJackdaw]

Ain't that the truth pmrpro 😂

[polkadotcom]

Love it, very funny.

[isabella2015]

Loved it! And I bet a lot of doctors would. I love this forum. It has certainly helped my knowledge of PMR and anxiety much more than my gps have had time or interest for. What a shame some people are so touchy they miss the point.

[Rocketronzy]

Mmm funny but not funny. 😂🤔😢

[Pollypuds]

😂😂 was lucky enough not to have to visit doctors hardly until my 50's had rose coloured specs view that you had a problem, went in and they diagnosed and treated you accordingly....how silly of me I now know 😜