Doctors! Can't Live With'em...Can't Live Without 'em!

Where the heck did the phrase, "bedside manner" come from...and how did it get to be associated with doctors and nurses? For this to be such an important part of their interaction with patients, I still find doctors who appear to have no clue as to what it is. For instance, I once had a family physician who didn't really want to touch me. At first I took it personally...until another male family member went to the same physician and got the same treatment. After two visits, I moved on and sought another family physician. That dude was just creepy. Then there was the nurse whose hair and make up was so perfectly done, she didn't want to mess them or her manicure up by actually helping me wash up after I had surgery. The other day, I experienced a physician who kept trying to tell me what I felt and what I didn't. Wow...know THIS was new. I've never had anyone tell me, "You shouldn't feel anything there." or downplay MRI results that another physician saw as a major problem. It seemed like everything I would say to this dude, he'd downplay it, like it was really nothing. It's really nothing...but there's a surgical procedure that could possibly correct it up to 70%?!? This dude was S-T-R-A-N-G-E!

Well...it looks like I'm going "under the knife" once again. I'll be undergoing a cervical discectomy and I think this will be the 9th surgery I've had. I'm hoping it will be as "easy peezy" as "Dr. Downplay" says it will be. I'll have a scar that I can't hide and I was told my voice would become deeper (Ha!) but as long as it takes the pain away, I can deal with sounding like a female Barry White. :)