Odd behaviour

Posted by: Rockingdoc on 24 December 2010

As I sit in my office watching the pilgrims gather in the waiting room, I see that the culmination of my life's work is to have become a mere item to be ticked on a pre-Christmas list. Somewhere between filling the car with petrol and fetching the turkey from the butcher.
Perhaps I should be pleased for the apparently widespread belief that presenting your perfectly well child to the GP will ward off all the evils of Yuletide. I still rather like the notion of having magical powers, and perhaps these appeal to those whose list also includes "annual church attendance" on this day.

Ho ho ho, merry Christmas

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by Svetty

Just don't start me off!!

We'll have Bruce along too soon no doubt...

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly

Yule was tuesday.

Humbug.

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by Phil Harris

*chuckle*

I'm your other worst nightmare I'm afraid ... I don't hit the docs until something on the "faults" list has started dropping off or has turned a funny colour!

As a confirmed northerner (even though I live down south in Shandyland) I'm just setting off to my folks up in Yorkshire and - after having checked the weather for the journey - the roof is off and in the boot...

Happy holidays!

Phil

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by Bruce Woodhouse

Cheer up Rockdoc you miserable bugger.

My waiting room is full of melting snow, and as a result fewer people than normal. It has not been above freezing day or night for a considerable length of time, and the nights have been consistently -10 or below all week. A lot of people cannot be bothered to come to the surgery-or fear breaking limbs on the icy streets. Phil, it may not be snowing but you will lose your ears to frostbite.

Xmas does of course mean that people say things like 'I would not normally come with 'x' because I know you cannot do anything about it but I did not want to be ill over Xmas'. Such logic is hard to counter.

Ho hum. My well known aversion to Christmas has not stopped the good people of this parish furnishing me with home baked mince pies, Xmas cake and puddings, some farm sausages, a recently plucked pheasant and numerous bottles of vino/boxes of chocolates. They know the way to my heart....

Happy Xmas all

Bruce

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by backfromoz

Beware the pt bringing gifts.

When i was a student a pt used to bring us brazil nuts each year.

She was a fan of CHOCOLATE BRAZIL NUTS.

So she licked off the chocolate and brought us the Brazil Nuts.

Yummy.

YEEEEEUUUCCCHHHHH.

Unfortunately a true story.

have a very merry Xmas.

regards david

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by Bruce Woodhouse

A delightful lady of 90+ yrs I knew well used to bring me home baked biscuits and cakes on a regular basis. She always smelt of flour and baking. I was getting a bit embarrassed about these regular gifts and thought I ought to ask her to desist but her granddaughter told me she baked for most of her neighbours, the milkman, postman and all of her friends. Making cakes and biscuits kept her going so I continued to accept them with pleasure until she keeled over at the Aga and died just a week or so later. Every Xmas her family still send me a small pack of biscuits and a card in her memory. No value to the gift but considerable pleasure in the giving, and receiving. I hope she is having a smile in some buttery afterlife too.

Bruce

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by winkyincanada

quote:
Originally posted by backfromoz:
Beware the pt bringing gifts.

What's a "pt"?

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by hungryhalibut

One would assume that it's a patient, given that it was written by a doctor.

Nigel

Posted on: 24 December 2010 by BigH47

quote:
One would assume that it's a patient, given that it was written by a doctor.

Unlikely we could all read it!

Posted on: 27 December 2010 by Dungassin

My sympathies re. the unnecessary consultations.

Pre-retirement I always used to volunteer to be on on Christmas day (I was a "gasman"). The theory was that : Christmas Eve is busy, Christmas Day all non-urgent "emergencies" got delayed until - Boxing Day - busy with its own workload and the backlog from Christmas Day.

We had a lovely Christmas with our youngest and her family, BTW.