A while ago, somebody told me about a website where you can rate your doctor. Having gone through university and becoming familiar with the popular, often hilarious and side splitting site Rate My Professor, I thought I would give the medical version a try.
Of course, the purpose of these two sites is rather different. In general, Rate My Professor is a place where disgruntled students go to complain about their professors after receiving bad grades that they, in all honesty, probably did deserves. Of course, there are actually valid reviews, both good and bad, and some professors are truly awful, but having gone through four years of university and hearing the complaints people have about their professors, it is obvious that a lot of the reviews are not well founded. Anyways. You can rate your professor on things like helpfulness, clarity, the easiness of a course and... hotness. Yeah, that's right. You can rate your professor on hotness. Because that is one of the most important things to consider when it comes to choosing which courses to take or which professor to work with for your undergraduate thesis. Not his skill, knowledge, lecturing ability, and professional attitude, but how much eye candy he will provide as he stands in front of several hundred students lecturing for two consecutive hours...
Meanwhile, the site where you rate your doctor is meant as more of an informative thing, offering advice (or warnings) about doctors in pretty much every medical field there is. You can rate your doctor on punctuality, helpfulness, knowledge and his or her staff. Thinking about the number of orthopedic surgeons I have had, including the good, bad and absolutely abysmal, I thought I would give it a shot.
The reviews, in general, are what you would expect on a site rating doctors, individuals who you would expect to be professional and skilled in their area of expertise. The majority of the orthopedic surgeons I have seen were pretty good. By far, my current surgeon had the best reviews of all of them. Not that I was expecting any less. As you may know from previous posts, my surgeon is amazing. I wouldn't switch to another one for any reason, ever.
But amongst all the reviews - Best surgeon ever, Wouldn't trust him with my life, Avoid him at all cost, We are blessed to have him - that I saw when I looked up the surgeons I have had, there is one in particular that stuck with me. One of the first surgeons that I had was horrible. And by horrible, I mean he couldn't be worse if he tried. He was the guy who refused to believe that anything was wrong with me to begin with and told me not to come back to his office. Look were that ended up, right? Chronic osteoymelitis, three PICC lines, a relapse, three surgeries, an external fixator, endless months on crutches and at least one more surgery to come. So I don't really hold that surgeon in high esteem. I think this is only natural given my experience with him.
But back to the main part of the story. I was looking through the reviews written about this horrible surgeon - some good, some bad, others in between - when I came across this little gem: [This doctor] had the personality and bedside manner of a turnip!
This is honestly the best review I have ever read. I had to reread it several times before I realized that what I was seeing was not some sort of hallucination or something. Somebody had actually submitted this as their review of him. There was a lot of laughter and then I called my mum over to see it, followed by even more laughter. Any time that he ever crosses my mind or I think about what could have been different if he had believed me when I first said that I was in pain, I think of this line. It couldn't be more fitting!
On a side note, imagine if you rated you physician based on hotness!
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