docs have no sence of humor

cmiddleton

cmiddleton

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my wife had some surgery yesterday.
i tried to get a laugh or at least a smile out of the doc.
i told him i could handle the surgery i had just gutted two elk. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif he never cracked a smile. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
then i told him its easier on these girls if you spade them while they are still puppys. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif still nothing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
the nurses laughed my wife laughed the doc never cracked a smile. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
tough crowd, i don't know if jeff foxworthy could make that man smile. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Neither do FBI agents, Postal Inspectors, etc /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif. I have met some on occasion (no, not because I was having a "problem") and they seem to lack a good (my definition) sense of humor /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif. Life ain't all that serious /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif. We are not on this earth long enough to really have an excuse for not having one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
 
A close elderly relative, was dieing of Testicular Cancer. He went to his doc. Doc, told him of various treatments.

Doc remarked, "You could have an [Orhci-ectomy], that could give you more time"

Relative; "No, I'll keep them"

Doc, "You don't use them anyway....do you?"

I told my relative, "You shoulda reached over & grabbed his" & said, How about I rip these off...You don't use them anyway...Do ya?"
 
police officers and CO's definitely don't like to be joked with. seems they bring their work home with them at times as well. my neighbor's brother is an officer and trying to get him to laugh is as easy as milking a wolverine.
 
Smithers, I can back that up. Years ago a co-worker and I walked into a donut shop in Camarillo, Calif. There were 12 or more officers there. There were city police, highway patrol and county sheriffs all sitting at one end of the donut shop. I turned to my co-worker and said "see, I told you we'd find them all here". If looks could kill, I would have been dead 12+ times over! Sheese! What a bunch of sour pusses.
 
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Smithers, I can back that up. Years ago a co-worker and I walked into a donut shop in Camarillo, Calif. There were 12 or more officers there. There were city police, highway patrol and county sheriffs all sitting at one end of the donut shop. I turned to my co-worker and said "see, I told you we'd find them all here". If looks could kill, I would have been dead 12+ times over! Sheese! What a bunch of sour pusses.



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Wish I would have been there with you. I would have been ROTFLMHO! They would have shot the both of us. My wife tells me someday I am going to be in big trouble because I laugh at things most folks wouldn't. Life is too short to carry around a straight face all the time.
 
I just remembered the time I said to a chiropractor whom I had not known very long, "How is the back crackin' business going?" He got mad at me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif, no sense of humor there either /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
my wife's aunt got mad, understatement of the year, at me for asking how her public access show was going. apparently they are subcontractor's and run a small community, 3 to be exact, television station here in the Detroit area. she went into a 20 minute rant about the amount of money they make and the cost of their equipment etc. etc. i apologized and dropped the subject. i pictured her and the husband doing some wayne's world type show in their basement and she's now led me to believe they are on par with 60 Minutes. oh, well now i know better than to ask stupid questions because she's Katie Couric and he's Phil Donahue. just ask she'll tell ya.
 
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police officers and CO's definitely don't like to be joked with. seems they bring their work home with them at times as well. my neighbor's brother is an officer and trying to get him to laugh is as easy as milking a wolverine.



Not true, I have been both and I just had a good chuckle at that one smithers. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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police officers and CO's definitely don't like to be joked with. seems they bring their work home with them at times as well. my neighbor's brother is an officer and trying to get him to laugh is as easy as milking a wolverine.



Not true, I have been both and I just had a good chuckle at that one smithers. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif



/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Me too! Now thats a critter I never thought of milkin'. That ought to be in a rodeo contest. Where's Smith /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif?

You are different Jeff, we all know you have a sense of humor /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif. You would not be here if you didn't /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif.
 
Most of the guys that I work with are a blast. When they deal with the public though, they are buttoned up and reserved. It is easier to be a prick than be jolly and then get a complaint or a formal IA because they "seemed" to be happy giving a citizen a ticket. I see it both ways honestly.
 
I'm in EMS and I can go both ways, depending on how I think the patient / family are humor wise.

I've been on scene with PD when everyone else has left, and they have the same sick "black humor" as I do and we can get to ROFL at some things, but have a car pull up and you can almost hear the switch clicking on, and the humor get's turned off. Like J Holly said, straight laced, is expected from the public and humor is frowned on by the general public as inappropriate.
 
It's NOT always true. I recently underwent a colonoscopy. While being prepped, I told the nurse that I thought I might be demented. When she asked why that was, I told her that a theme song from an old TV show had been running through my mind all morning. She asked what it was, and I told her "The theme song from Candid Camera". After she quit laughing, and the procedure was starting, she squealed on me to the doc!!! Some delay followed !!!
Mark
 
Cmiddleton, I hope your wife is ok.I took my daughter to the emergency room for a severe sinus headache, the dr supprised me by telling about a fellow dr's daughter. She was to deliver her baby, the dr saw her piercings, said they would need to be taken out, she said no way, so she ripped, he said, but she couldn't feel it anyway!!! He told us and the nurse where all the piercings were, that cracked me up, never thought he would say stuff like that.
My wife's cancer dr's and nurses are mostly ok with jokes, but some are probably just snobbs or over stressed. I feel a lot of well to do people are somewhat snobbish. Some of the police officers I have done work for are easy going, but others like my dad are just control freeks that want to throw their authority around.T.20
 
sheesh....Am I the only clinician that thinks it's better to laugh with a patient than to be a frump? Perhaps I'm just the only one who'll admit it. My nurses will attest to the fact that they're usually trying to get me to be serious...rather than lighen up.

In the last hour, I have sewn up two people....joking the whole time about not having done it since closing the vet practice....and just before coming back in the office, I was on my knees dancing with the four year-old daughter of a patient..... I think people are miserable enough when they see me...they don't need to be made more miserable "because" they see me.

No white coat.

No superiority complex.

No problems finding happy patients.

WNYS
 
WNYS,
You sound more like my doc. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif We are always talking hunting or fishing. I started talking fishing or hunting to patientss on the way to the hospital in the ambulance and really had some respond and relax instead of thinking about their condition. You can tell someone having a heart attack to relax but they usually don't listen. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I had to have rotator cuff surgery redone a month ago. First surgery in February was not successful. So I said, "Doc, this second surgery is covered under warranty, right?" No response but a glimmer of a smile. Second surgery went fantatsic and is healing well. Now I am planning on having the other shoulder done. At my checkup yesterday I asked, "Doc, most places where I shop when I buy two of something I get a third one free. How about it?" Again, only a faint smile.
 
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