Re: Boating and Colonoscopies


"Wayne.B" <waynebatrecdotboats@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:55:15 GMT, "Bryan" <bryan.459@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Guys are the worst patients until we're hospitalized. I don't know what
it
is about us, but we just don't see the doctor as often as we should.

Here in FL the doctor is doing you a favor if they actually agree to
make an appointment to see you in person. Our guy likes to do phone
diagnostics via his nurse practitioner.

Appointment is the wrong word of course since it implies a commitment
to do something at a certain time. A doctor's appoinment in my
experience, and especially here, is a commitment to wait for an hour
in a room with crummy magazines and/or day time network television.
How about some internet service at the very least?

Women seem more willing to put up with this for some reason, don't
know why. I'm willing to pay more for a barber who makes meaningful
appoinments and would do the same for a doctor if I could find one.

I used to find doctor's in Manhattan to be better in this respect,
perhaps because they tend to have smaller waiting rooms, perhaps more
competition, or maybe it's because they have fewer retirees as
patients.


Where I work, we consider it a failure on our part if we don't see our next
customer on time; right on time, if not early.
I'm pretty sure I understand the guy thing about not going to the doctor.
If we can't see the bone or the internal organ, and we're still breathing,
it must not be that bad.


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