I loathe & detest medical waiting rooms

[kaberett]

Fuckin' radio talk shows. In particular, at the moment we've got dudes saying shit like "doesn't matter if it's offensive as long as it's funny" and "... the experience of being a teenage boy, which I think everyone can identify with -- well, more if you're a boy I guess".

AND I HAVE ANOTHER FIFTEEN MINUTES HERE, and I think the first round of spiro tests --> blood pressure crash, so THAT'S hilarious. As is the bit where, uh, the nurse doing the spiro... is a smoker. Around whom I am having to breathe deeply in close proximity. This isn't causing any problems at all.

eta spirometry still says no response to bronchodilation; got x-ray on Monday, and my lower lungs looked decidedly brighter than upper, but I only glanced at them on my way out the room & am not trained to x-rays etc etc.

Comments

[redbird]

It occurs to me that one of the blessings of my current medical practices is that they don't have TVs in the waiting rooms. Back in New York, it ranged from the slightly amusing of local cable news—meaning I was getting details on political stuff that I had nothing to do with—to the day that I spent two hours in the waiting room with CNN on, covering the fall of Lehman Brothers in real time. (A good doctor in other ways, but he was always overbooking himself.)

[kaberett]

Unfortunately most medical places I end up there's really passive-aggressive notes up about leaving the radio on to protect YOUR privacy... i.e. the consulting rooms are inadequately soundproofed.