Reply to: Going to the Doctor

[shaunbhoy]

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

In essence, this doctor today was diagnosing the knob at the opposing end of your knob then.

[d000hg]

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.

Poor trolling. That's like positing every software developer wants to work for Google.

[AtW]

So you went in there with some sort of STD? No doubt she has seen them all before.

Watch out mate, whilst you were on enforced holiday this place has switch to "family forum" model...

[Sysman]

Spot on.


How many times have you been on the plane and heard 'If there are any passengers who are IT consultants, specialising in SQL server all versions, would you please make yourself known to the cabin crew'

Aaaarrrggghhh-the-plane's-run-with-Windows-where's-the-parachute-please?

[OwlHoot]

My expectations are somewhat higher.

Anyone can look things up in a book. Dents my confidence in their ability somewhat.

There are literally tens of thousands of drugs in current use - A modern pharmacopeia (if they still bother publishing them in book form) is thousands of wafer thin tiny-font pages long, and is out of date within a few months.

Perhaps you'd be happier if the doctor simply prescribed Anadin Extra every time you visited.

Thought not ..

[EternalOptimist]

Same number of times I've heard them ask if there's a doctor on board

ok. apart from Ryan Air

how many times

[Arturo Bassick]

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.

Not familiar with safety critical systems then?

[Bunk]

Spot on.


How many times have you been on the plane and heard 'If there are any passengers who are IT consultants, specialising in SQL server all versions, would you please make yourself known to the cabin crew'

Same number of times I've heard them ask if there's a doctor on board

[EternalOptimist]

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.

Spot on.


How many times have you been on the plane and heard 'If there are any passengers who are IT consultants, specialising in SQL server all versions, would you please make yourself known to the cabin crew'

[EternalOptimist]

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

which end was the boil ?

[BrilloPad]

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

So you went in there with some sort of STD? No doubt she has seen them all before.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?