To have been left almost completely speechless by my GP?

[thefuturesnotourstosee]

I popped into the local supermarket for some milk yesterday evening. In the queue there was a man behind me who looked vaguely familiar. He said hello to me and dd then started asking how I was - normal polite conversation. I told him I was OK omitting to mention vomiting bug I'd just suffered TMI and he said quietly so no one else could hear

"oh good and how are your breasts?"

I stammered err fine thank you and got out of there with children as quickly as possible looking over my shoulder as I went.

Only half way home did I realise it was the GP who'd treated me for mastitis a couple of weeks ago

A GP should NOT be talking to you about confidential matters in a supermarket.

Haha! Sorry but that really made me laugh

That is a shock for sure.

I had to have an intimate test (years back) I then bumped in to the Doctor at my son's school a couple of hrs later!

You just don't expect it over the groceries do you?

I hope he was being just being kind.

Be thankful you didn't report him to supermarket security.

Omg at least he showed he was concerned....i bumpedcinto my gp after my ds died and she just wrapped her arms around me and gave me a huge hug....not professional ino but they are human too

That's a gp going the extra mile. I would be happy he remembered you and your condition.
He has clearly been thinking about your norks since you saw him last

I know he shouldnt' have done it but in retrospect i don't really mind.

To be fair the last time he saw me I was sobbing, slightly delirious with fever and begging him for anything that would stop the pain in my tits!!

And gaggiagirl I have a very fine pair of H cup norks so maybe its a case of once seen not forgotten

I dunno; obviously they have to be careful that someone may overhear, but otoh they may realise that as a busy, sleep deprived new mum you may have put any niggling problems on the back burner and not got round to making an appointment to sort yourself out. I think that's good service!

doormat, your GP sounds lovely.

hahahahahahaha - that has made me smile, which is quite an achievement today, i would have been tempted to pull down my top and ask if he wanted to examine them!

Doormat I'm so sorry about your DS. Losing your child is the hardest thing. I lost my first DD though she was still born so slightly difference :(

Thx the future but was just reitering the point that gps are human and do show concern sometimescand craic yes they are all lovely x

It's called people out of context syndrome. I'm dyslexic and find faces to names very difficult at the best of times. If I meet someone out of their usual setting I'm utterly sunk.

I think it's lovely he remembered, mastitis is shit and it's easy to think you are being a nuisance getting help.

I used to say hello to a vaguely familiar looking man I passed most days on the way to work. Some months I realised he was the gynaecologist at my family planning clinic. Don't know I should have felt embarrassed but I did.

Like doormat's GP, my mum's one came round on his way home on Christmas Eve to make sure she was all right because my dad had died a few weeks earlier.

I say hello to famous people when I recognise them, and get pissed off that they often don't say it back or seem to remember me. Then I remember that they can't see out of the telly that I can see them in

Nice that he remembered though even if they are such incredibly sized norks that aren't easily forgotten and I kinda agree with Craic in that mums can often ignore themselves because they're so worried about the new small person they've suddenly got!

I find it hard to remember faces out of contact. Unfortunately I see my Gps frequently not to be a problem if I see them in an unusual setting.
If I do see them they quite often will ask how things are going, or how the children are, particularly if there's been something big or ongoing for one of us.

Lovely he remembered-perhaps an unfortunate way of expressing that.

He's lucky he's got a good memory.

Imagine if he asked you how your breasts are but you'd actually gone to see him about an ingrowing toenail

As a GP myself, I'm impressed that he remembered - I'm useless at recognising patients out of context and have the opposite problem in Tesco: people coming up to me and hissing "The discharge has changed colour" when I have no idea who they are.

Works both ways - I'm a practice nurse and have had patients follow me round Asda wanting to show me their leg ulcer, or ask if I can tell them their smear or swab result!

anyoneforturps

Anyoneforturps and Sidge you've made me laugh now. What do you say?

at least he remembered you!. I was approached by a woman in the chemist a few months ago who took a very keen interest in my children - to the point where I was getting worried and started trying to back off. Until she reminded me who she was, she was the midwife who delivered the two youngest. I had no idea.

I had similar in a supermarket in Oman. A young, handsome man sidled up to me and asked if I was a nurse.
I was flumoxed. He said I'd cared for his grandfather. Since it was in a hospice I couldn't ask how he was doing.

YABU for not undoing your buttons and giving him a visual.

thefuture I tend to smile and say "Oh I can't help you in the middle of Asda, why don't you make an appointment to see me?"

(In my head I'm thinking "I'm not at work now, nob off and leave me alone!")

Ha! After my first kidney surgery I saw the surgeon at, of all places, the opera a couple of weeks later. I smiled at him, he sort of looked sheepish, and it belatedly occurred to me that he'd last seen me unconscious with a hole in my guts and tubes up my urethra.