Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
You are about 4 years younger than me but you look quite old, especially today when you smartened up to visit a customer, the suit and glasses make you look even older, not flattering.
It'd be nice to retort as he explained how HIS kit kept being used because they had run out...Consultant, consulting file: I see this letter you wrote...you might as well write to a brick wall.
Me: I was just letting off steam really.
Consultant: Yes, a brick wall. A brick wall would be just as useful.
(Shortly after)
Consultant: the level of incompetence is astonishing. I'm going to use what they call 'my kit' to do your biopsy, because we have no disposable ones. They have run out. No-one saw them running out and ordered new ones. When they introduced disposables, they wanted to get rid of my kit, but I insisted on keeping it. Now everyone uses it all the time, because as often as not it's the only one we have. Sheer incompetence...
No, he wasn't aggravatable, he was fine. I did think it was quite ironic that my appointment was 20 minutes late and he then spent the better part of 20 minutes undertaking a five minute procedure because of the time he spent telling me how incompetent and inefficient everything round here was...It'd be nice to retort as he explained how HIS kit kept being used because they had run out...
'You might as well be talking to a brick wall '
But, best not aggravate a doctors who's going to take his kit out on you (excuse the pun)
Must admit I wasn't sure if his demeanour was aimed at you...or something else.No, he wasn't aggravatable, he was fine. I did think it was quite ironic that my appointment was 20 minutes late and he then spent the better part of 20 minutes undertaking a five minute procedure because of the time he spent telling me how incompetent and inefficient everything round here was...
Were they pronouncing it "Rafe"?Two teenagers on a train from Hereford.
Her: Y'know Orlando?
Him: Yep.
Her: I call him Ralph all the time lately for a laugh.
Him: Why d'you call him Ralph?
Her: That's his actual name. Like his real name.
Him: How come he doesn't like being called Ralph?
Her: He thinks it sounds too posh.
It was the A&E chap. He also said "it could be pre-hepatic, hepatic or post-hepatic. I think it's probably post-hepatic."A couple of gems from a speciaist registrar who could do with improving his bedside manner:
"The liver markers in your blood samples are all quite deranged"
"The abdominal x-rays are nearly normal"