Doctors with that much experience no longer are affected by the deaths of their patients. Well, they are but only temporarily and they can learn of the death of a patient in the middle of the afternoon and still have a good time in the evening. They wouldn't be able to enjoy life otherwise.
Poll Which doctor would you NOT want to treat you?
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Doctors with that much experience no longer are affected by the deaths of their patients. Well, they are but only temporarily and they can learn of the death of a patient in the middle of the afternoon and still have a good time in the evening. They wouldn't be able to enjoy life otherwise.
Meanwhile, I've dealt with so many incompetent doctors that I don't care if they are a nice person or an asshole, as long as they're good at their job I can deal with any personality.
I don't see why bedside manner would be overrated. If a patient is uncomfortable dealing with his or her doctor, it will affect the patient's mood and thus their health, wouldn't it?
That's pretty much the way I feel about doctors.
Apparently he thinks he's the only doctor who ever lost a patient.
He doesn't have a whole history/childhood, adolescence, medical school etc history to draw from of his own in order to make decisions and process feelings. You're asking somebody who was almost born yesterday to deal with something that's never happened to him before.
As long as they do a good job and don't abuse me, I don't have a preference.
He pulled the plug on his father at his father's request. Not the same thing as screwing up and losing a patient.
Phlox is one I'd least like to be treated by. As soon as I saw one of those leeches, I'd be out of there. Although if Pulaski was an option, it might be a tougher choice.
Some of you think that they stopped using leeches hundreds of years ago. Except.........some doctors never got the memo.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...eeches-20110116_1_leeches-sherman-marc-miller
If leeches are the dealbreaker that makes you not want to be treated by Phlox, it's time to boycott Johns Hopkins and any hospital affiliated with University of Maryland. That said, the usefulness of leeches doesn't make them any less gross.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...eeches-20110116_1_leeches-sherman-marc-miller
If leeches are the dealbreaker that makes you not want to be treated by Phlox, it's time to boycott Johns Hopkins and any hospital affiliated with University of Maryland. That said, the usefulness of leeches doesn't make them any less gross.
What kind of abuse are you thinking of?
I voted for the EMH only because I'd be afraid of his technology going out in the middle of a procedure. I really don't get all the hate for Phlox though, he's a very competent doctor who was able to produce medicine from nature (guess what, it's how it's done in a lab people and leeches are still used today) among other things. Plus he had a love for exploration and discovery.
In Phlox's case they were just trying to do something different from another blueshirt waving a hand-scanner, and I can't blame them for that.
Different ok, but animals in an infirmary??? That's against the most elementary rules of hygiene. If you do that in real life, half of your patients will die of infectious diseases due to the animals themselves.
We would have to assume Trek tech means their containers are self sterilizing. I highly doubt any doctor serving with the Interplanetary Medical Exchange would have been so negligent.
Most of them are in simple cages. The bat flies around the room in the dreadful A Night In Sickbay.
And clean up could probably be don't with a push of a button. Ask your doctor, etc what they use now when you leave the office. It's a spray and wipe called Cavicide/Caviwipes. Hospitals use them in the er too (I work in the medical field) Kills bacteria, etc dead in its tracks. I would imagine by the 22nd century one button and a disinfectant spray or ionization would zap a room clear
Regardless, I don't think they have many pets in E Rooms.
Well, the thing is the animals he keeps have some sort of medicinal applications or another. The saliva of one creature, the droppings of another, and so on. Phlox really is one of the few original and interesting ideas Enterprise had.
I know, I said I wouldn't want to be treated by him because of the animals, and I stand by that, but as in terms of interesting setting for a TV show, Phlox and his animals are a great idea.
As fiction maybe but definitely not as anticipation of a possible future.
I'll take that kindly old time country doctor McCoy....thank you very much
Definitely, of all the doctors he's the most plausible one.
Verbal - like they don't pick on me with a bad attitude. I guess I'm thinking of the EMH, then.
McCoy sometimes gives his patients "what for" too, but some need it.
If you know the guy as a friend,not just a doctor, that helps, too.Similar threads
