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Doctors Should Get Your Name Right...

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CheekyRedWineGirl · 10/05/2010 15:29

Was at the doctors this morning for reasons i dont want to go into.

Anyway im there laid on the bed with the FEMALE doctors hands messing with my Foo Foo and then she says:

Arr Hold Still VICTORIA

My name is Lisa. Now iv had Drs/Nurses call me Rebecca before (my middle name) but VICTORIA!!

Oh and the Knicker Thread came in handy this morning, i made sure:

Trousers COVERS Knickers

Lol

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curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 15:31

I find it annoying being called 'Summer' instead of 'Sumner'! That's bad!!!

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CheekyRedWineGirl · 10/05/2010 15:32

Is that your name then? Thats nice

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HamShine · 10/05/2010 15:33

Well, if you use words like foo foo, maybe she was thinking you were of a certain era...

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CheekyRedWineGirl · 10/05/2010 15:34

haha! Was going to say Fanjo but it reminds of the music instrument a banjo Lol.

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deaddei · 10/05/2010 15:35

Ah but did he have to google Tourette's syndrome to see what it was as one of our doctors once did when I was concerned about dd?
FFS,even the DM knows what it is!

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CheekyRedWineGirl · 10/05/2010 15:39

OMG your joking? A Dr googled Tourettes?

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deaddei · 10/05/2010 15:40

Said he'd never come across it before
He's not going near my foo foo.

SwissCheeseIsHolyCheesus · 10/05/2010 15:40

Hee hee, thats quite funny !!

Least your doc dosent try to murder you with penicilin every time you go like mine does

Pmsl at foo foo btw, I prefer 'flange' btw

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CheekyRedWineGirl · 10/05/2010 15:49

Minge, Floo, Fadge, Minnie i could go on! lol

No she just tried to split my cervix in two with one of the duck beak things that was nearly twice the size of 'flange' - bare in mind i am only 4ft 11in! lol

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curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 16:23

lol flange!!! My last name is 'Sumner' but all the doctors and dentists have all of us in the system as 'Summer' despite me correcting it several times... It pisses me off royally because they made me bring my marriage certificate to prove my new name and I had to fill in new paperwork and they still got it wrong... I am a PITA... They are too, basically!

It won't have been google that the GP used. They all use a computer system to look things up now - used to be a book, one of the problems with General Practice - you can't and shouldn't keep all the info in your head.

deaddei · 10/05/2010 16:25

He had never heard of it though.

nickelbabe · 10/05/2010 16:26

that's annoying: good job you were only having something routine done. god knows whose file she had!

i had that once with the duck beak: the nurse shoved the thing inside, and started cranking it wide open really harshly. i complained that it bloody hurt and she just replied "well, surely your husband has been in there?" and i said, shcoked, "well, yes, but he doesn't thrust bits of metal up me!"

i hate that nurse. she has awful bedside manners and has made me cry once, too.

ooh, now i'm all

curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 16:28

deaddei - perfectly possible for a GP as it may well really be called something else and just called that by the press or have previously been called something else. I'd say it is fairly unlikely a GP would ever have seen a patient with it so possible they hadn't heard of it.

deaddei · 10/05/2010 16:33

Find that hard to believe.

curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 16:49

deaddei - seriously, very possible. All GPs need to look up things they have never heard of a lot of the time. Really good GPs do it as well as rubbish ones. Being a GP is about diagnostic skill and understanding of prescription medications, mostly, with some counselling thrown in. GPs are not expected to have heard of everything, that's why they refer to specialists.

4andnotout · 10/05/2010 16:52

Dp got called Mr Willy (instead of Lilley) by the receptionist in the packed waiting room, everyone else tried unsuccessfully not to laugh!

KiddingAnxiously · 10/05/2010 17:16

My legs could be dangling off and our GP will just say to take paracetamol.

DH only has to go in with a headache and she sent him for a brain scan!

deaddei · 10/05/2010 17:19

I remain unconvinced
I have just been to my doctors- new system on Monday night, you get a number (sm2) and are called in thus. I think it's because they have lots of locums on.
At least I got antibiotics, not paracetamol KA!!!(but then I have sinusitis )

KiddingAnxiously · 10/05/2010 17:56

Poor you deaddei

Ours is notoriously awful at taking woman seriously (why I don't know) so you can console yourself that if you lived here, you would have paracetamol

curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 20:46

lol deaddei you don't need to be convinced really, it is just true. My mum, dad and sister are doctors.

cory · 10/05/2010 20:52

The worst I've ever come across was a Swedish GP who claimed to be unable to find out how long chickenpox is contagious for (dd stricken on holiday). She had a laptop on her desk and several medical books on the shelf above her head. Lazy cow!

bruffin · 10/05/2010 20:55

The report from DS's paediatrician talks about his mother Crystal. My name is not Crystal

curiositykilledhaskittens · 10/05/2010 20:55

cory lol that's quite bad! "so how long do we need to keep her away from people? " lol

marriednotdead · 10/05/2010 20:59

Rofl cheekyredwinegirl!
As I use my middle name, it's highlighted all over my notes. Still manage to call me by my hideous first name sometimes and mispronounce my surname too for good measure

wukter · 10/05/2010 21:04

I don't care about them getting my name right as long as they get my diagnosis right.

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