The doctor will see you now, an assistant
announces as though conferring a favour
from the royal house of the healing arts.
Well, of course the doctor will see you
she is after all your link to good health when it
begins to fail and you have contracted with
her for her professional services. In an era
when children casually inform their long
suffering parents that they erred when at
birth assigning gender, when LGBTQ2
rights trump most others as they redirect
language to channel their preferences and
when anyone in any service industry has the
socially-approved entitlement to address the
infirm elderly by their given names, doctors
invoke the privilege of restraining patients
from the use of theirs. Consider this: medical
school enrolls students who have a proven
record of academic and social prowess much
superior to that of their peers, where rigorous
study of anatomy and biology and illness
fatigues the mind and the body's elusive rest
quotient to produce a medical degree, an
obvious distinction not undertaken nor lightly
rewarded. Yes, patient-physician social distance
is recommended and for good reason, and no
you may not resort to a first-name basis, patient.
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