Lawyers and Doctors
Argh!!!!! What’s up with lawyers and doctors???
I’ve been having such bad experiences with lawyers and doctors recently! They are so full of themselves! I think they are the ones who need to go for service upgrading rather than the supposedly "lower" level service staff like the nice and polite Mcdonalds staff! I mean, at least the Macs staff say hello! and good morning! with a smile. Seriously, I appreciate that.
I just got off the phone with our lawyers. We needed to engage them to redeem our house loan. I called the nice lawyer whom I got in touch with initially and she directed me to her colleague. Fine. Her colleague picked up the phone, heard what I said and immediately said, I don’t handle this, pls talk to my assistant, she’s on the phone, pls call back later in a very up there kinda tone. Argh. I told her, pls take a message and get her to call me back and put her in her place. Hello! I’m your client rem?? Paid $500 bucks?!? Thank God her assistant got off the phone and HER ASSISTANT WAS SO NICE! I so wished the $500 bucks we paid went to her instead! She prob did most of the paper work anyways! Her boss prob just signed the paper. Double argh!
The doctors. Ok they are a better bunch I must admit. But the younger doctors can be such #@*! James asked one so what does the med do? I mean he’s a medic so he wants to know what the meds actually do right. The doctor in the most grudging "why do you even question me" voice ever said it does cefenyrhwnshbage. Something like that. Hello! We’re patients, not doctors. Speak in English please. The doctor was met at the A&E was the worst! We had to bring Sophie in at about 1am some time back. He came out looking like we just disturbed his nap. His accent was incomprehensible. He’s Indian, which is fine but donno why he kept mumbling. He prob thought it was all a dream. Argh. He didn’t say very much nor answer our questions. He said to come back tomorrow for x-ray of the chest and take paracetamol, nothing we can do. Right, tell that to new parents with a tod running 39 degrees! The nurse explained to us what to do and how to do it.
I know that’s why lawyers need secretaries and doctors need nurses – coz they are too busy to care. Come on! If I knew the answers to all these medical mumbo jumbo and the way round the law, I would not call you. The days where people just took what you said is way gone! People want to know and they’ll ask questions. I hope that doctors and lawyers know that despite the high salaries they get and prestige, they are really still providing a service. Thank God for secretaries and nurses.
P/s Argh… ok lah it’s not so bad but it just erks me that people can be so not nice. Lawyer/doc friends n family, I still love you and please be nice to your clients k?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Guess they behave they way they do becos, they just spent a lot of money getting their professional degree and a lot of time doing it, so now it’s pay back time? Also, please don’t disturb me with small things, don’t you know I’ve been trained for bigger and more impt things kinda attitude.
Seriously, not all of them are bad. I always make it a point to use these professionals only if I know them personally or they are recommended by close friends. And it helps A LOT if you have a regular family doctor, someone whom you always go to first if you have health problems, someone who can recommend you to a specialist if you need to. And most imptly, someone you trust with your life (literally!) And keep the phone numbers of those friends who are doctors so that you can call them if you are unsure about anything!! That’s what friends are for
January 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Haha… yes.. the problem is that we go to silver cross and we hardly go to the doctors until recently. But they keep changing doctors, esp with the holidays in dec. the main doc always go away during hols. our regular doc is quite nice. lawyers wise, we don’t know many who do housing loans etc so just went with the one the bank recommended. and all i needed to ask was, did you get my cheque and she was such a #!& about it.
anyways… yes we do have friends but a bit pai seh to keep calling esp since sophie’s been sick so much…
January 18th, 2008 at 7:51 am
dear ailing! Wah, that’s such a handfull. I wrote some negative stuff abt the docs in germany too, in my previous post. I guess it all depends on the individual….. some docs can be superb and some are crap. I really liked my tanglin halt doctor….. just 2 stops from where you live. If u want, I can recommend him to you…..he’s such a great doc, very understanding and he even gave me MC when I had insomnia bouts during the time when mom was sick.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:15 am
hey hi pris! I’ve yet to reply your email.. hope you’re feeling a bit better… you’re right… there are some really good doctors like my gynae n PD but I just haven’t found a trusted GP yet since we moved here. Thanks for the recommendation but I wd really prefer someone I can just walk too…
Prob w silver cross is they keep changing docs on shift. 