Poor Fred
Do you watch the TV show Embarrassing Bodies? Well, they always say on there “please don’t be embarrassed about coming to see us. Whatever the problem is, we have seen it before and we won’t be embarrassed.”
Now, this may be the case for 99% of doctors, but I know one who doesn’t fit that criteria. Yes, he falls in to the miniscule 1%.
His name is Fred. Fred has been my friend for many years, ever since we started learning medicine (and he quit his job at the 24 hour fuel oil suppliers to chase his dream of becoming a GP). The only problem with Fred, as good a doctor as he is, is that he gets rather squeamish around people when they start to undress, and for that reason he always shuts his eyes almost all the way, so that he doesn’t have to see whatever it is in all its gory detail. And this presents a problem, of course. Because what tends to happen is that the receptionist, who likes a laugh, will book the worst most embarrassing patients in with Fred and not the other doctors. For this reason Fred spends his days perpetually squinting at people who have very embarrassing problems.
Now then, this had led to Fred himself getting a problem: he squints as if the sun is in his face all the time, even in a dark pub. So recently I went and had a word with the receptionist to get her to stop her campaign of terror. It worked, but I get the feeling thta she hasn’t finished with Fred yet…
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