Sorry, I didn’t mean to touch it…
Yes, you did. But waiting in your doctor’s office is not reason enough to start looking through their things and medical gadgets. Do not touch anything inside the medical cabinet, unless you want to pay for it afterwards.
Joshua Mansour, M.D., a board-certified hematologist and oncologist warns that if you touch and break any medical equipment, not only will you have to pay for it, but it might take a while before being replaced, which could delay the care of other patients. If you’re really curious about a certain medical gadget, just ask your doctor to show it to you.
Just give me a minute…
Sure, because doctors don’t have better things to do than wait for you to finish your phone call. If you’ve just entered your doctor’s office and your phone rings, don’t answer, says Craig Tifford, M.D., a Yale Medicine orthopedic surgeon.
It’s simple curtesy. When you’re meeting someone, you don’t just have a phone call conversation with someone else. There’s nothing more frustrating and disruptive for a doctor on a busy day than to have a patient talking on the phone in the exam room. Oh, wait, there is! When the patient in question raises their finger or hand to indicate they need a minute. In the doctor’s office…Really? This and these other 12 Little Ways Indicate You’re Acting Like A Complete Jerk Without Knowing.
