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!

@Florence My brother in law was a psychiatrist I understand you. It happens in reverse though too. I have scrubs on and I'm leaving the OR and I'm promoted to doctor. Even when patients knew I was there to perform medical imaging they would want to unload. One patient, about 75: "I get nervous coming here so I drink two martinis with one klonopin, don't tell my doctor". I said, just don't drive yourself, then I went all Sgt Shultz like a good hipaa disciple

@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'!!

@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.

@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!