I don't think I've had doctors tell me about other patients (er, at least, not when I was a patient--when working with them, sure, but never names)
I did once have a gyno tell me that she hadn't gotten laid recently either...
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
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meara - Jun 14, 2011 5:39:18 pm PDT #23274 of 30000
amych - Jun 14, 2011 5:40:09 pm PDT #23275 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
That would seem weird to me, Aims, but I think it's mostly a matter of context, not confidentiality -- all my health provider friends vent the way people do about students, clients, etc., and they're all very good about keeping it totally non-identifiable. If you hung out with your doc socially & were having a beer, I wouldn't even blink, but it's the part where it's in a clinical situation that feels odd to me.
(I also have a bubble the size of Cleveland when it comes to personal/professional, so...)
Cass - Jun 14, 2011 5:41:55 pm PDT #23276 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Unethical, but not surprising. Especially as you seem to have framed the relationship as friends that includes them being your doctor but not strictly being your doctor. Friends talk about their jobs often. And if it was unidentifiable, whatever.
Nora Deirdre - Jun 14, 2011 5:45:52 pm PDT #23277 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
re: food and diet, I'm pretty much in the "I really don't care anymore what I die of anymore".
Heh, me too. Though I have enjoyed colon regularity since we've been trying to eat through the weekly box of veggies from the local farm. Also helps us menu plan better instead of eating out all the time.
§ ita § - Jun 14, 2011 7:01:59 pm PDT #23278 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is it weird? It happens to me a lot. Like, every second doctor's appointment I might hear something like "I have another patient whose headaches..." or "Another woman I treated your age presents..."
Not to mention the conversations that spring up around the ER about cases I can hear from my bed.
Cass - Jun 14, 2011 7:10:51 pm PDT #23279 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Is it weird? It happens to me a lot. Like, every second doctor's appointment I might hear something like "I have another patient whose headaches..." or "Another woman I treated your age presents..."
I think there is a difference in that it's applicable to your situation and it's a situation where the professionals are still searching for a way to treat you, ita. There's relevance.
Liese S. - Jun 14, 2011 7:23:30 pm PDT #23280 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't think it's that weird. I'm pretty sure Dave's cardiologist talked to him about other patients' cases.
-t - Jun 14, 2011 7:29:46 pm PDT #23281 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My therapist used to talk about stuff that went on with her other patients. Sometimes it was relevant to my situation, sometimes it seemed like she was just chatty.
meara - Jun 14, 2011 7:50:46 pm PDT #23282 of 30000
Hmm, I guess if you put it the way ita did, but I think most of mine have tended to generalize even more ("many of my patients find that Vitamin B...", "I've recommended yoga to many...")
Vortex - Jun 14, 2011 8:00:05 pm PDT #23283 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Oooh. For your birthday?!? Yeesh. So did you leave? Kick some ass.
Long story short, I didn't feel like doing anything for my birthday this year (with anyone, not just my mother), but my mother INSISTED, so I agreed to lunch. So, then she called and cancelled lunch and we rescheduled to dinner (imagine that, her getting what she wanted). Then she cancelled dinner because she was tired from all of the activity on Memorial Day the day before, so we rescheduled to tonight.
I would not be surprised if she was being passive aggressive, but OTOH, there was no reservation for tonight, so she may have just forgotten. It's fine with me, I didn't want to see her, so I'm not mad. And I can be gracious and defeat her purpose.