Last week, overheard at the front desk:
Patient: Can I book in to see the doctor?
Receptionist: Which doctor would you like to see?
Patient: The new one, you know, the one who looks too young to be a doctor?
Receptionist: You mean Dr. Jun?
Patient: Yes! That's the one!
Yesterday, during ward rounds:
Me: Hi Mrs P! I'm Jun and I will be your doctor today!
Patient (looking slightly taken aback): Oh! My god, are you really a doctor? Gosh, you look like a teenager!
Today, in clinic:
Patient: With all due respect, are you really a doctor??
Me (not-so-discreetly adjusting my stethoscope around the neck): Well, yes.
Patient (burst out laughing): Oh gosh! Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as being rude, but you look like a baby!
+_______+
Deriving from the above encounters, we can conclude the following:
1. Must be something in the water. Somehow I appear to be getting younger as the weeks go by. Maybe I will revert to being an embryo next week. Screw Creme de La Mer.
2. Must remember to run a Mini Mental on my >40 year old patients and make sure they aren't demented (or heading in the direction of La La Land).
3. Must stop wearing skinny jeans to work.
4. Must buy Armani suit for work.
5. Must stop wearing super comfy baby pink crocs with teddy bear jibbitz to work.
6. Must buy Chanel pumps for work.
7. Must use the term "doctor" instead of "registrar" because no one knows what the hell a registrar is but pretend they do so they don't look stupid, and then ask you if you're a "real doctor" 10 minutes into the conversation about hemorrhoids.
8. Must start walking around with that "TRUST ME, I'M A DOCTOR" badge I got as a first year med student.
9. Must be the first time I feel delighted at being short petite.
10. Or must be all that baby fat from too much ice-cream. FML.
Hello, I'm a doctor and I luuurrrve ice-cream! Yes, I'm a doctor. D-O-C-T-O-R.
PFFFTTTT!!!!!
11 Durian(s) Thrown at Jun:
This ice cream is a bit .... big hor?
OMG! the ice cream is nearly half of your face. Jun!!! its really huge la!!! but i would luv to have a go at that except that i need also to check my sugar level.ha! ha! hey u can always put on your white medical overalls with the stethoscope hanging round your neck and also wearing those black frame glasses so that u will look more professional like a "doctor". he! he! anyway, i think u look great as a doctor. just keep it that way.
Uncle Richard
my usual respond to "you look too young to be a doctor!" is "I'm older than I look" or "I'm blessed with good genes"..haha
thong: what's wrong with big ice-cream???
richie: er... no one walks around with white coats these days :P
b: hahaha i sometimes do that too but it's frustrating cos no one thinks u know anything! (uh, which is kinda true sometimes but shhh....)
be thankful u inherited pa's peter pan genes. he takes delight in seeing the shock on some faces when he tells them he's already 63!
~ mom.
It is certainly better to look young, cheerful and hopeful than to look old, grumpy and hopeless.
viv: i sure dun wanna look like him when i'm 63.
koh: tinkerbell is prettier than peter pan.
Don't be like anybody, not even Tinkerbell or Peter Pan. Live your own happy way and be your own happy self.
koh: hahaha wat if i wanna be u?
Don't be me. Love me.
koh: if there was a "like" button on ur comment i'd click on it ;) u know i love u.
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