Today, I just have a thing against docs lah! Thou I DIDN'T do it on purpose. Both were slips of de tongue. Serious. I swear! These (this?) is how it went:
Doc 1
Location: enclave
Although I'm fasting, I go to de enclave whenever I'm on break. At least being with de team beats being alone in de day room in de ward. De enclave is de staff canteen at NUH, fyi for those not in de know. So anyways, after everyone were done eating just now, we just chatted. Not chatting all de way lah. Intermittent chats and silence. During one of de silence, my thoughts wandered to some of de docs I've crossed paths with in 58. So I said 'Some doctors have this air of arrogance'. And de best part is that I dunno why, I forgot that de table beside us are doctors! It just slipped my mind lah! One of them got so embarassed (I think), she stood up, said to me 'Do I even know you?', and walked away. I was feeling kinda weird sitting there too, so in de end, everyone went back. Thou we still had some time left for our break!
Doc 2
Location: lift
There was these two doctors with us on de lift. It was obvious one was much senior than de other. Reason being his paunch and his receding hairline. He mentioned to her smthg abt not limiting her choices. Smthg like advising her lah. Halfway from basement to level 5, some healthcare assistants shooed us away. Cos we were in de Patients lift, and they had to transfer some patients. De senior doc had already left lah. So it was us, de younger doc n some others. This younger one, a female doc, I was looking at her during de time we were in de lift. She's this petite lady. If not for her NUH staff pass n lanyard, I wouldn't know she's a doc. So outside de lift lobby, as another lift was opening up, I said to a fren:
Me: Just now that one doesn't look like a doc.
D: Which one?
Me: The girl.
R: Shut up! As she was saying this, her eyes were pointing to someone behind me.
And wanna guess who was behind me?
De petite lady doc! Nice one, right? She came from behind me, and walked into de lift.
This time round, in my defense,I didn't see her lah. She was behind me, what.. And D and me broke out in laughter! Guffaw would be a better word lah!
So you see, I DIDN'T do it on purpose. Both were slips of de tongue.
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On a serious note thou, some docs ARE like what I said as above. Arrogant. I dunno why. Yes it's true that ppl generally look up to them, but I don't see why they have to be so stuck up on that, right? And for sure, you docs don't have to look down on nurses like they're some lowly runk on de health services ladder! It's just so putting off!
Doc 1
Location: enclave
Although I'm fasting, I go to de enclave whenever I'm on break. At least being with de team beats being alone in de day room in de ward. De enclave is de staff canteen at NUH, fyi for those not in de know. So anyways, after everyone were done eating just now, we just chatted. Not chatting all de way lah. Intermittent chats and silence. During one of de silence, my thoughts wandered to some of de docs I've crossed paths with in 58. So I said 'Some doctors have this air of arrogance'. And de best part is that I dunno why, I forgot that de table beside us are doctors! It just slipped my mind lah! One of them got so embarassed (I think), she stood up, said to me 'Do I even know you?', and walked away. I was feeling kinda weird sitting there too, so in de end, everyone went back. Thou we still had some time left for our break!
Doc 2
Location: lift
There was these two doctors with us on de lift. It was obvious one was much senior than de other. Reason being his paunch and his receding hairline. He mentioned to her smthg abt not limiting her choices. Smthg like advising her lah. Halfway from basement to level 5, some healthcare assistants shooed us away. Cos we were in de Patients lift, and they had to transfer some patients. De senior doc had already left lah. So it was us, de younger doc n some others. This younger one, a female doc, I was looking at her during de time we were in de lift. She's this petite lady. If not for her NUH staff pass n lanyard, I wouldn't know she's a doc. So outside de lift lobby, as another lift was opening up, I said to a fren:
Me: Just now that one doesn't look like a doc.
D: Which one?
Me: The girl.
R: Shut up! As she was saying this, her eyes were pointing to someone behind me.
And wanna guess who was behind me?
De petite lady doc! Nice one, right? She came from behind me, and walked into de lift.
This time round, in my defense,I didn't see her lah. She was behind me, what.. And D and me broke out in laughter! Guffaw would be a better word lah!
So you see, I DIDN'T do it on purpose. Both were slips of de tongue.
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On a serious note thou, some docs ARE like what I said as above. Arrogant. I dunno why. Yes it's true that ppl generally look up to them, but I don't see why they have to be so stuck up on that, right? And for sure, you docs don't have to look down on nurses like they're some lowly runk on de health services ladder! It's just so putting off!