No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

Anonymous asked:

So I'm in vet school and we've been taught to always do a full clinical exam in every patient even if the problem seems really ovious like a huge lump or something. We're also taught how to best explain conditions/treatments to owners. Whenever I go to the doctor though, they've never examined me beyond the problem I went there for and they don't explain the problem, treatment or how it works. I've never had anything seriously wrong with me but I didn't think they would approch it so differently

drferox answered:

The more you know about medicine in general, the more frustrating human doctors become to deal with.

For example, i was finding myself short of breath very easily after an anaesthetic, and I had to specifically ask the doctor to take the stethoscope off the wall and listen to my breathing.

I don’t know if human doctors are taught differently, but there probably is a degree of not touching your patient more than you have to, whereas in veterinary medicine it’s recommended we check as much as possible. This might be because our patients don’t talk and there are less consent issues, so I’d wonder how this applies to pediatrics.

There does seem to be a certain degree of human doctors expecting patients to tell them what the problem is, though it seems they’re more likely to check paramaters that the patient is unlikely to know might be a problem, such as blood pressure. They also seem to rely very heavily on handouts, which is not necessarily a bad thing in this age of information, and may be a symptom of being time-poor.

But yes, I’d agree it’s frustrating to go to the doctors and expect a certain standard of care only to not get it.

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I love that garak starts out completely in denial that he’s done anything sketchy in his life like he pulls out The Scary Voice and special codes to get out of things and then says ‘Oh that was just something I over heard while I was heming someone’s trousers’ but by the end of the series it’s like “oh hey garak how are you?” “DID I EVER TELL YOU I KILLED A MAN AT EIGHT YEARS OF AGE AND TORCHERED BAJORAN CHILDREN FOR FUN”

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My fiance started rewatching DS9 while I was doing the dishes a few months back. I knew he liked Star Trek in theory, but as far as I was concerned Star Trek meant either 1960s camp or lens flair and macho bollocks. This show had some slightly funny looking prosthetics and those weird shirts I recognised, but I found myself caring about the characters, being genuinely drawn in to this world for the first time. This was Star Trek, but not as I knew it (sorry). Slowly but surely I started to recognise each character, ask what each one was up to in this episode and I would forget whatever else I was doing in favour of getting to know this strange family. Since I’m awful with names, I made up my own - Puddleman, Spoon-Face Lizard-Man, Dr Steal-Yo-Girl, Bumpy-Nose-Bae etc.

Then he put on an episode called “The Wire” while I was making soup one day. Suddenly, Spoon-Face Lizard man became (plain, simple) Garak, seeking comfort from isolation and pain and desperately trying to keep his only friend from seeing his true self. Dr Steal-Yo-Girl became Julian Bashir, the brilliant doctor desperate to heal his troubled friend - scared of what he’ll find digging around in the past, but more scared of losing Garak. Then, they joined hands in the infirmary and Julian offered unconditional forgiveness…

Reader, I burnt my soup.

I am still in the very beginning of my Star Trek journey, but I had this playlist going on Spotify for when I read fic and realised, with a bit of shifting about, it’s a pretty decent angsty Garashir fanmix. So here it is, for your listening pleasure.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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