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[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Why are people afraid of doctors?

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[suffers-vertigo.livejournal.com]

Because they expect us to give them bad news.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, I suppose. But if the bad news is true, it'll still be there whether you tell them or not.

[suffers-vertigo.livejournal.com]

If it's bad news now, it would be worse later, even life ending.

[earlier-tonight.livejournal.com]

They fear what they don't understand. They fear their own mortality. They fear sharp objects. The list goes on.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

People are strange.

[earlier-tonight.livejournal.com]

There's almost no disputing that.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you're a doc?

[earlier-tonight.livejournal.com]

*nods* An anesthesiologist, specifically, so I'm particularly unpopular with some patients.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Because of the needles and such?

[earlier-tonight.livejournal.com]

That would be why, yes. *a little smirk*

I do pride myself on my care with patients, though - precision, accuracy, and painlessness. I try to alleviate the anxiety that it brings in people.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the fear of needles. And I'm sure your patients appreciate that.

[effingconfused.livejournal.com]

Because they remind me of that guy that cut his damn foot off and shot me?

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Uh...that's valid...I guess...

[effingconfused.livejournal.com]

I should hope so. I watched him bleed to death.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Why did he cut his foot off and shoot you?

[effingconfused.livejournal.com]

Kinda went crazy. If he killed me, he could get to his family. And he needed a gun to do that, he had to cut his foot off to get to the gun.

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

...wow.

[im-halfway-home.livejournal.com]

I'm not!

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[im-halfway-home.livejournal.com]

Cause I'm going to be one!

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well. Fair enough.

[im-halfway-home.livejournal.com]

But I want to be a Pediatrician.

Why, are you afraid of doctors?

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

Why a pediatrician?

No, just...a certain one.

[im-halfway-home.livejournal.com]

Cause I like kids... I blame my older sister, Cassie, and her kids for giving me a soft spot.

Ooooh... A creepy one?

[kaydee-did.livejournal.com]

You must be a saint, too.

No. Well...I don't know, honestly.