The funny thing about certain branches of medicine, is that folk don't realise you're still a doctor!
Patients used to say to me 'I'd like to see a proper doctor' (I was a psychiatrist in my earlier years) and I used to say 'I AM a proper doctor' and they would say 'are you? I never knew that'!
It's astonishing that people are happy to let you literally into their minds, while having no idea at all who you are!
@MidnightRider That's fantastic! I think many patients really have no idea who all the different staff are, which is alarming really. We all dress so similarly in certain branches of medicine. But it's so funny who they choose to offload to. It's like confession time. I used to say people said stuff to me that previously they would have told their priest. And I used to think 'it's such a shame I'm not into blackmail'!!
@BFBucky1 @MidnightRider In the UK, Mr's are surgeons and Dr's are medics.
@Florence @MidnightRider You have to love the Britts! I worked for Johnson Matthey for years. I love their speech patterns.
@Florence @MidnightRider
I should have said "your" speech patterns!
@BFBucky1 I'm a US/UK dual national, born in NYC! But I've also worked in the UK. I'm now in Europe.
@Florence It is a small world for sure. I lived in NYC for several years. Wondering if Brooklyn and Brit accents can be mixed. LOL
I had a prostatectomy via Davinci robot, I did get a look at it. I was in one day and out the next. I had 6 "bullet holes".
I also had throat surgery at Penn and I was not sure what the robot was. I was hospitalized for 2 weeks and lost a good piece of the base of my tongue . They were working on developing a new robot at the time. I am still kicking at 78 and very thankful to all those in the medical field. Especially now with COVID.
@Florence @MidnightRider
I will suppose by Dr. they mean MD. I had robotic neck surgery. Before being wheeled in I had a conversation with the anesthesiologists. Before I went to sleep I would have thought he was an computer engineer. Maybe he was.