Would this annoy you? - GP

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Just visited our UCC with ds17. Before we left I asked if he could take his height as he hadn't been measured for about 3yrs.
Ds got on the height scale and doctor got up to read his height, "5ft 7! so not tall", he said, i responded thanks about to leave. Doctor then goes, don't worry you won't be picked for basket ball!'.

Was there really any need for this? DS has never had a problem with his height and quite happy with how he looks. We are a very petite family, I'm 5ft 1 dh 5ft 8 and would have been very surprised if my dc turned out to be 6ft.

I'm flabbergasted that in the time of so many MH issues amongst teenagers and obsessive attention to the body, a GP would come out with something crass like this. The odd thing though was that he was shorter than DS so really couldn't understand it.

Am i being oversensitive? DS has since asked me wether I think he will grow any taller? he had never bothered about this before.

So is it not the done thing to accompany your sick teenager to an UCC?

Yes it was random, it wasn't planned, but the height measure was there and thought before we go just hop on.

I think you’re being oversensitive. It wasn’t the best remark ever, but it sounds like he was just trying to be friendly/jokey.

Yes it would have annoyed me too

OP, I don’t think you are being sensitive. His comment would have annoyed me too.
He could have just said 5’7 and left it at that.

I would imagine he is just used to measuring young children so he is used to making 'friendly' comments like that. Did you not have a tape measure at home? It seems strange to use the Doctors time for that

He was probably thinking GTFO out of my office so the next URGENT person can be seen URGENTLY since this is an URGENT care centre.

Get my drift?

Jumpin - Glad you got that off your chest. Hope you feel better now.

How busy was the UCC? How long did you wait? How long was your appointment?

jumping may have a point

I think it’s ill judged and not very professional of gp. But to a small degree. Irritating.

Hey OP, I think you are getting a hard time on here. I’m sorry you were upset by the doctor. It does seem like an unnecessary comment.

Plus, I hope your DS feels better soon.

To everyone mocking the OP, why do you feel the need? Everyone can react differently to different things.

Yabu
Over sensitive

measure your own son in your own time!

It does seem like an unnecessary comment.

Wasting the doctor's time was even more unnecessary. It's the equivalent of being in A&E for a broken arm and asking the doctor to weigh you. Ridiculous.

@MrsZB - Thank you for your well wishes, we feel much better that other more severe things have been ruled out. I appreciate peoples reasoned comments. I think some were confused to be fair and thought the appointment was solely for the purpose of height taking!

We weren't wasting the doctor's time. Appointment slot is 5mins long we were there for less than 3 mins. Height taking takes less than a minute, step on step off!

I don't think getting him measured was odd. Can understand why you'd think 'just pop on out of curiosity, job done'. It's not a big deal.

But I do think you have to learn to roll your eyes and move on. It's a slightly insensitive pointless comment that they could've kept to themselves, but I've found a lot of GP's to be surprisingly lacking in social skills. Certainly not all, some are brilliant, but I've had some terrible complaint worthy crap said to me by at least two gps.

So from my position, a quip about not joining the basketball team isn't worthy of a second thought. If you worry about it your ds might pick up on that and think there's a problem whereas atm you said he's fine with his height. So forget it basically.

And some posters need to chill out too. This is Chat not AIBU. You don't have to be a picky arsehole over here.

Sorry but you are being reaaaaaaallly precious.

Why the fuck would a 17 year old need measuring- unless applying for a job that had a certain height requirement.

@Enid - I think you summed up the situation perfectly. I agree with you and other posters that best to forget it and not make too much of a big deal about it. I think he may have been trying to be funny but it just came out awkwardly.

I would think the GP was a bit of a twat but I would forget about it a few seconds later.

I remember when DS was 2 and he had thrush in his mouth because of all the steroids he had to take. I explained that I was breast feeding and the GP told me it was weird.
I ripped in a new arsehole.
I've actually got an excellent relationship with that GP now, he has extensive knowledge in DS's long medical history and I would be gutted if he left. All is forgiven!

This isn’t real is it? Nobody would surely embarrass their child by making a GP measure their height at an urgent care centre. It’s in the name really - Urgent Care. Poor boy what sort of cringeworthy mother are you? Fair enough go along if he’s seriously ill but most 17 year olds would go in alone even if a parent had given them a lift.
It wasn’t the GP doing the damage! Poor GP was probably as embarrassed as and for the boy as the lad himself.
If he wanted to know his height he could have asked someone to use the pencil mark on a doorframe method.
You sound at best odd.