Flu jab = little hitlers

[vzac]

Here it is covid booster in one arm & flu jab in the other. All done at a large indoor centre. All booked by phone call direct to you. No input from drs. No choice with not having flu jab I don't believe?

as peter kay quotes " don't do gravy (covid) here" have to go next door same building though.

 

[St3v3]

How else will they change?

I've formed the opinion that they are from a special gene pool, who have been further trained for years to become what they are.

There will be no change.

 

[Two of usI]

Same here, it must be a Northern thing.

No its not.... ours are the most impolite ladies who think they run the practice..... thats of course when they are answering the phone, as you wouldn't possibly get in there for a face to face appointment.

 

[Nanniemate]

About 20 years ago I had to give a stool sample and my doctor asked me to drop it in at the surgery.

Having done the deed I thought it best to conceal the see through plastic test bag inside a Tesco carrier bag.

I went to reception and in a low voice I explained I had come to drop off a stool sample and handed the Tesco bag over.

The old bag behind the desk pulled a right face and said loudly "I hope it's sealed!"

I can't tell you how much I wanted to say " No, I just opened the Tesco bag and shat in it"

your a better person than me I would have

 

[63720]

Kirkham and Wesham Cricket Club, 15 mins down the road from Cod central, walk in covid and flu no appointment needed

Lucky you, just tried for a booster and the closest is 19 miles away with a 45 minute appointment - I said no thanks I'll pass on that.

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[busby]

About 20 years ago I had to give a stool sample and my doctor asked me to drop it in at the surgery.

Having done the deed I thought it best to conceal the see through plastic test bag inside a Tesco carrier bag.

I went to reception and in a low voice I explained I had come to drop off a stool sample and handed the Tesco bag over.

The old bag behind the desk pulled a right face and said loudly "I hope it's sealed!"

I can't tell you how much I wanted to say " No, I just opened the Tesco bag and shat in it"

You should have done,,BUSBY.

 

[MattR]

If the Receptionists are little Hitlers, what is the collective noun for the entitled, demanding, impatient and rude patients they often encounter?

 

[Ingwe]

About 20 years ago I had to give a stool sample and my doctor asked me to drop it in at the surgery.

Having done the deed I thought it best to conceal the see through plastic test bag inside a Tesco carrier bag.

I went to reception and in a low voice I explained I had come to drop off a stool sample and handed the Tesco bag over.

The old bag behind the desk pulled a right face and said loudly "I hope it's sealed!"

I can't tell you how much I wanted to say " No, I just opened the Tesco bag and shat in it"

I’d have been tempted to reply “ Sealed? Why are you hoping to take it home for tea on the bus?”

 

[vzac]

If the Receptionists are little Hitlers, what is the collective noun for the entitled, demanding, impatient and rude patients they often encounter?

Gastric morons

 

[GJH]

Same here, it must be a Northern thing.

North West maybe, ours are fine

Mind, Fleetwood is a funny place. When we were there a few weeks ago I noticed a sign on a building saying Fish Curers. Made me wonder why they didn't just call them Vets like everywhere else

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[St3v3]

If the Receptionists are little Hitlers, what is the collective noun for the entitled, demanding, impatient and rude patients they often encounter?

Previous practice visitors?

 

[GJH]

About 20 years ago I had to give a stool sample and my doctor asked me to drop it in at the surgery.

3 legged milking or 4 legged bar?

 

[vzac]

North West maybe, ours are fine

Mind, Fleetwood is a funny place. When we were there a few weeks ago I noticed a sign on a building saying Fish Curers. Made me wonder why they didn't just call them Vets like everywhere else

Cause the humans would probabely think vets is for them, after all a lot of them are called animals, by the wider population

 

[MattR]

Previous practice visitors?

Does that include most of us? I'd suggest that many folk are appreciative of the work that Receptionists do and understand that they have to put up with some very rude, angry, upset, sensitive folk who may be in pain or at the end of their tethers. They also deal with some rude, entitled, impatient etc. folk who are just nasty.

 

[Ingwe]

My experience with doctors’ receptionists has, for the most part and with a few exceptions, been poor. Mostly, they’ve seen it as their life’s vocation as doing what they can to minimise the contact between the public and ‘their’ doctors. Of course that is a generalisation and I’ve donned my staaldak (steel helmet) in anticipation of the flak I’m about to receive. But that has been my experience.

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[St3v3]

understand that they have to put up with some very rude, angry, upset, sensitive folk

Doesn't anyone in a customer service role? However, it seems anyone except doctors receptionists have to grin and bear it and be polite to the next guy.

My last interaction - which is about normal...

I walk in.

R: Have you got an appointment????

S: Good morning.

R: (Mumbled) Hello.
R: Have you got an appointment????

S: No. (Slight pause, in disbelief at the speed of pressure build up on her face) I've come to collect a sample pot for my son.

R: (Gesture to other side of room)

S: Thankyou!

R: (Silence)

It costs nothing to be polite...

 

[pagey]

our 2 Receptionists are direct decedents of the SS

 

[Jonno1103]

My experience with doctors’ receptionists has, for the most part and with a few exceptions, been poor. Mostly, they’ve seen it as their life’s vocation as doing what they can to minimise the contact between the public and ‘their’ doctors. Of course that is a generalisation and I’ve donned my staaldak (steel helmet) in anticipation of the flak I’m about to receive. But that has been my experience.

No I think you're description is fairly accurate.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Same here, it must be a Northern thing.

Nah, I'm up North and our lot are brilliant!

 

[David and Sally]

We used to have a receptionist who asked so many questions I’m surprised she needed any doctors at all to do her job.
Now long gone thanks.

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[Wee Bold Davy]

Most of them are ex nightclub bouncers.
"Nah, mate, you'n not on t'list ..."

I heard that they got thrown out of the Gestapo for cruelty

 

[maison]

At our local surgery I told our receptionist that she simply was not cut out for the job………



…..:because she was too pleasant and helpful.

 

[Jezter]

Yea I keep getting told not to go for the jugglier. Better to rant on here and keep it lightship hearted, and a coffee.

I agree. Don't go for the jugglier. Go for the mime! Miserable pasty-faced silence-jockeys deserve it.

 

[Spriddler]

Yea I keep getting told not to go for the jugglier. .

TBH it's not a job I'd want with so much pressure trying to keep all the balls in the air.

 

[vzac]

TBH it's not a job I'd want with so much pressure trying to keep all the balls in the air.

I would rather keep them in my trousers thanks.

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[Hirsch]

A friend of mine is a doctors receptionist and one day an old man dropped off a stool sample in a brown paper bag she says you would be amazed what people do

Save the planet. Recycle

 

[Tea Bag]

All booked by phone call direct to you. No input from drs. No

Hi Gus.
Same here. Third Covid jab went in the left arm. Flu jab in the right arm.....NO GUS !!! In the RIGHT ARM...which was the right arm.......................DOH.
On a lighter note.our last Drs in Derbyshire had a secret weapon........ The Nurse in charge..... I THINK. .. Her name was Carol. You could be dying on your feet at Reception,Carol would walk by...................You would be cured in an instant. ( Some times i went when i wasn't ill.. )
Tea Bag.

 

[Conrad J]

There was a traveller approaching a town. He asked someone he met what people were like in the town.
"What were they like where you came from?"
"Rude and miserable."
"Well that's how you'll find them here."

 

[Conal]

Had the flu jab today. Asked the nurse how many she does a day. 120, nice little earner.
I also asked her if she had ever had a needle break off in a patient. She hadn’t but had had a “needle spike”. That’s when a patient flinches or moved suddenly when being injected and the needle comes out and spikes the nurse. She said she was very polite to the patient and then informed the surgery and had to go to A&E immediately. The clinic was closed for the day.

 

[The Wino]

I suppose the reason they come across like that in part is because they get the usual lot who demand an appointment more or less on an emergency basis because of two sniffs and a cough.

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