Why Your Doctor Is Late
He or she is desperately pleading with the patient in the other room to go to the ER, because they’re dangerously sick and don’t believe it.
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He or she is desperately pleading with the patient in the other room to go to the ER, because they’re dangerously sick and don’t believe it.
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I believe it.
My favorite eye doctor, who performed my lovely Lasik and gave me 20/20 vision for the first time ever was always hours behind.
When I was a teenager, I had a NASTY viral eye infection. The doctor was really late, but he was in the next room trying to explain to a VERY deaf woman and her driver/nextdoor neighbor WHY she was going blind and what might be done to help. The Neighbor got it but the patient required multiple reiterations.
I like this about eye docs. They do what they need to do…