Prejudice Is In Her Blood
Bigotry, Doctor/Physician, Medical Office, USA, Utah | Healthy | July 29, 2019
(I just found out that my fiancé of five years has been cheating on me for three of those years. To be safe, I make an appointment to have a full STI panel done. The only appointment I can get is with the physician’s assistant and not my usual doctor.)
PA: “Okay, dear, I’m just going to give you the swab and let you take the sample.”
Me: “You aren’t going to do it? I don’t know what to do.”
(She explains how to take a culture and leaves the room to give me privacy. When I finish, she collects the swab and begins to leave again.)
PA: “Okay, we should get results in about a week and we’ll call you.”
Me: “Aren’t you going to take my blood, as well, for HIV and syphilis testing?”
PA: *laughs* “Oh, you only have to worry about that if you’re gay.”
Me: “You know what, I’ll just go and make an appointment with the actual doctor.”
(That was the second issue I had with her, and the last time I ever saw her working there.)
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Seize The Day, And The Planet!
Bizarre, Hospital, New York, Patients, USA, Weather | Healthy | July 26, 2019
(I am in a hospital being treated for epilepsy. We have a button to push if we think we’ve had a seizure.)
Nurse: *to me* “You pushed the button, sir?”
Me: “Yeah, it felt like I had a tonic-clonic seizure, only I was awake and fully conscious when I was shaking so that shouldn’t be possible.”
Nurse: “You felt that shaking, too?”
Me: “Pardon?”
Nurse: “You didn’t have a seizure. I think there was an earthquake.”
(Note that earthquakes are very uncommon both where I live and where the hospital is, and this is the first time I have ever experienced one.)
Me: “Oh, okay. I wonder how many other people in this ward thought what I did?”
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