Friday, March 16
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Sticky Office Situations
I have a new pet peeve: patients who lick their fingers to pry their health card from their wallet. It's not a warm fuzzy feeling either when later I see them coughing into their fists.
There are things that I like though: patients who instead of giving me their health card, give me their driver's license or credit card. I'm careless like that too. And asking bossy women (if they didn't bring their health card) their date of birth and then repeating it after them to clarify, darting my eyes to and fro, screen to face, screen to face.
And then there are things I don't know how I feel: patients who walk in, rifle through the file cabinets, retrieve their file and then wait for the doctor. It makes my job easier, but what if I walked into McDonald's, threw a batch of french fries in the batter, whistled a little, scooped them into a container, left exact change and then left. Wouldn't that be a little strange?
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