Going to the Doctor

[NotAllThere]

I heard about a potential client who acted like that. If he found any contractor consulting reference material they got their marching orders.

After the first few times, nobody wanted to work for him.

I can't be bothered to hold reference material in my head. I prefer to leave room for the problem solving capabilities.

Ok, fair enough comments and I get the IT contractor analogies but consulting a book for a common or garden ear infection would be like me having to consult Google when I get an integer divide by 0 error.

If you'd programmed it properly in the first place, you wouldn't have got a divide by zero error.

[pacharan]

Cretin™

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[SueEllen]

Am I being unreasonable here but I don't expect a doctor to consult a book whilst deciding what drugs to prescribe me for my ear infection.

They use the BNF to ensure they:
1. Give you the right dose that so the medicine won't kill you or make you deaf.
2. Check what the generic name of the medicine is so they can write that on the prescription which is cheaper for the NHS (and the taxpayer)

While the pharmacist will check the prescription again the prescribing doctor are the only ones with your full medical history.

Another thing too, she looked about 16. I'm sure Is feel very uncomfortable discussing certain issues with someone so young.

I went to the doctor today and had a GP trainee.

GP trainees tend to be keener than others in sorting issues out as they aren't yet use to the tulip they see in the practice plus they are glad they aren't stuck in the branch of medicine they managed to get out off or could have been forced into like their mates.

To me, doctors have always been kind of patrician figures. Sign of getting old I guess.

More and more GPs are female so get use to it.

Also the older women tend to be mean if you get on the wrong side of them or say something they feel is stupid.

[pacharan]

Also the older women tend to be mean if you get on the wrong side of them or say something they feel is stupid.

Yes, like the one I consulted when I came back from India with a boil on the end of me knob.

[SueEllen]

Yes, like the one I consulted when I came back from India with a boil on the end of me knob.

Too much information.

The teenage brats I know enjoy watching the Sex Education Show and Embarrassing Bodies with as many adults in the room as possible shouting out the answers to the conditions.

[ChimpMaster]

GPs are basically failed surgeons, i.e. they would have wanted to qualify for a more specialised career in medicine but didn't have the brains to get there.

So they're stuck in an office all day looking at the boil on your penis.

[d000hg]

Am I being unreasonable here but I don't expect a doctor to consult a book whilst deciding what drugs to prescribe me for my ear infection.

Would you expect a software developer to memorise the entire Java/.NET libraries?

[Lockhouse]

GPs are basically failed surgeons, i.e. they would have wanted to qualify for a more specialised career in medicine but didn't have the brains to get there.

That's not true. Several people I know have gone into medicine specifically to become a GP.

[NickFitz]

Ok, fair enough comments and I get the IT contractor analogies but consulting a book for a common or garden ear infection would be like me having to consult Google when I get an integer divide by 0 error.

As you aren't a doctor you don't know whether that's the case or not.

[SimonMac]

If a contractor screws up nothing much will happen apart from a few sore arses from the round of spankings that get handed down. If a doctor prescribes a drug which has certain side effects or worse still reacts to any other medication someone might be taking, a quick reference check will make me feel a little better.