No respect

[Kris]

I had a few moments to spare this morning and I watched part of a real life TV show set in a North London medical center. Why people would want to let the world know their medical problems I don't know, but I was surprised by how rude some of these patients were to the doctors and nurses. One Charlie George lookalike felt the need to question and doubt everything he was told. After the doctor gave him some medical facts the patient replied "That's not strictly true". Then when he was told two pints of Guinness every single day was too much he said something like "No it is not. I was told by a specialist to drink Guinness everyday because I need the vitamin B." The show then showed an Irish traveller and her kids running around the surgery uncontrolled. One of the kids was even caught nicking 20 pound notes from his mother's purse.

I rarely watch TV so this might have been an unfair sample of patient behaviour, but when I go to the doctor I treat him and his staff like demigods even if I suspect that he bought his medical degree from a Karachi market stall. Is this an unusual attitude nowadays? Do you see doctors as just ordinary people who are no more deserving of respect than the bloke who lives next door. Do you address them as your social superiors? For example, "yes doctor" verses "Ok mate".

I question my doctor if I think he has something wrong.

Only last week, he had his finger up my bum and I felt compelled to tell him that I had only gone in for the flu jab.

[noodles]

I question my doctor if I think he has something wrong.

Only last week, he had his finger up my bum and I felt compelled to tell him that I had only gone in for the flu jab.

[noodles]

I think Doctors deserve the greatest of respect along with nurses and everyone else employed in the health service.

[Colonel Cærdiffi]

I think Doctors deserve the greatest of respect along with nurses and everyone else employed in the health service.

^THIS

And (NASAASWAD) anyone not prepared to offer the utmost respect to doctors and nurses should be shown the door.

[The Alien]

I think Doctors deserve the greatest of respect along with nurses and everyone else employed in the health service.

Agreed.
My GP is a legend. She goes out of her way for myself and my family.
Mind you it does help that she's best of mates with my daughter.
At my daughter's wedding last year she even bought me a beer. How cool is that.

[Wales-Bales]

I remember a senior government number cruncher once said that 50% of the medical staff employed by the NHS were not up to the job. They derived this information from statistics, but the way the data was recorded didn't allow them to identify who exactly was a part of this underperforming 50%, they just knew they were a potential danger to patients.

[David Vincent]

I remember a senior government number cruncher once said that 50% of the medical staff employed by the NHS were not up to the job. They derived this information from statistics, but the way the data was recorded didn't allow them to identify who exactly was a part of this underperforming 50%, they just knew they were a potential danger to patients.

Some doctors might be "a potential danger to patients" but nowadays because of our entitlement culture a lot of patients are a real danger to doctors.