"blake murphy" > wrote
> i did briefly have a primary care guy who was a prick from india. he
> seemed to resent the fact that i drank and smoked cigarettes and i felt
> like he didn't want me cluttering up his waiting room.

You have to love these guys. And I know, Kaiser doesn't have the market
cornered on shitty doctors, or good doctors with attitudes so shitty they
make you want to stay away, which is pretty easy to do for some people, and
not a good idea. It does not take much for me to find a reason not to go to
the doctor. The receptionist's a bitch? Think I'll pass. Now I am on Advair
so I have to see them twice a year to get my prescriptions. So I changed
doctors and happily the new place has less shitty people. I had no idea if
it would or would not, it was a crap shoot.

>but it was easy to
> give him the boot and i really like the guy have now. he gets my jokes.

One of the qualities I, too, find most attractive in people.
>
> (not that the current doc doesn't hector me a little, but i don't have the
> feeling he wants me to go ahead and die already.)
>

When I smoked, I had a chiropractor who was really good at what he did and a
real prick too. I was young and easily intimidated, so I would brush my
teeth, eat mints the whole way over in the car, and in the middle of
adjusting me he would say into my ear, "You can eat all the mints you want,
I can still smell it on you." It sure didn't make me quit. Now that I don't
smoke I hope I never turn into one of those assholes.