The Stethoscope

Mr Sim was on medical leave the last few days. It was a massive operation to cancel all his classes over the weekend. I think he had prawn noodles last Friday night and was down with food poisoning. Strange what food could do to you. Haddad was admitted to the hospital twice this month. The last one was for asthma after eating three hashbrown at one go for breakfast. His stay only lasted a few hours because he couldn't stand the moaning and wailing of his fellow patients in the ward. I don't know why the people there moan and groan, either there are too many people dying or the nurses are having a good time with the patients. Not surprisingly, Mrs Amy had to rush down from class to bail her son out that night.

The thing I find amusing about hospitals is the doctors walking around with the stethoscopes round their necks. You cannot missed them. They go everywhere with it and sees the need to be identified every moment, from the elevators to the canteen ....

Is that really necessary?? They think we cannot tell the difference between a doctor and the air-con technician? I don't see my car mechanic walking around with the spanner round his neck all day long and teachers going to the washroom with their overhead projectors??!! Or they think if someone is doing the stitches that we may mistaken them as the tailor? Maybe one day I like to go up to these doctors and tell them:
" Look, we all get it. You are very good at saving lives and I am not ... ok? You are the top 1% of this population and you probably have straight A's for your O-Levels. But can you remove that door knob tongs from your neck and start living normally? "

Someday I like to see doctors walking into the ward without the stethoscope and get noticed for something else like the patients would go " wah, Calvin Klein underwear, cool siah ..."

That would be my kind of doc!