Nick is Unwell

[Snoopy]

On the subject of over familar use of your first name by Hospital Staff.
In the Manchester Royal Infirmary on one occasion a fat staff nurse plonked herself on my bed and said "Just a few questions"
"OK" said I
She "Name?"
I told her
She "What do you like to be called?"
Me "Mr Snoopy will do ~ there is no need to be any more formal"
She "No I mean do you like being called Malc or Malcolm?"
Me "Nobody who wants to live calls me Malc and only my late Mother ever called me Malcolm"
Her (getting shirty) "Well what do they call you at home?"
Me "Daddy mostly"
Her "You are being difficult"
Me "No I am not I told you right at the start what to call me .... It's you who cannot work it out not me"
She stalked off in a huff that Wenchy would have been proud of.

Now here is the question ~ why do the nursing staff all want to call you by your Christian name but the Doctors always use Mr XXXXX and the Consultant will call you Sir?

[The Moan Ranger]

On the subject of over familar use of your first name by Hospital Staff.
In the Manchester Royal Infirmary on one occasion a fat staff nurse plonked herself on my bed and said "Just a few questions"
"OK" said I
She "Name?"
I told her
She "What do you like to be called?"
Me "Mr Snoopy will do ~ there is no need to be any more formal"
She "No I mean do you like being called Malc or Malcolm?"
Me "Nobody who wants to live calls me Malc and only my late Mother ever called me Malcolm"
Her (getting shirty) "Well what do they call you at home?"
Me "Daddy mostly"
Her "You are being difficult"
Me "No I am not I told you right at the start what to call me .... It's you who cannot work it out not me"
She stalked off in a huff that Wenchy would have been proud of.

Now here is the question ~ why do the nursing staff all want to call you by your Christian name but the Doctors always use Mr XXXXX and the Consultant will call you Sir?

Atta boy Malc 

[Nick]

I am still puzzled 

Mal?

[Snoopy]

Brother calls me Malc, Children call me Daddy, Wife had better not call me late for dinner 

[Nick]

So what do nurses have to call you?

[Pastis]

Now here is the question ~ why do the nursing staff all want to call you by your Christian name but the Doctors always use Mr XXXXX and the Consultant will call you Sir?

When my Dad was in they omitted the Q&A because he was practically comatose; they called him by his first Christian name for nearly a week and couldn't understand why he never responded...

He always used his 2nd name 

[Nick]

There was an old girl on my ward (oh yes, mixed wards) who was sort of pretending to be ga ga. The male staffnurse said he had to ask her a few questions. She mumbled something.

He said, "Can you give me your bank account details?"

She sat bolt up right and started slagging him off, then realised what she had done.No more ga ga!

[Pastis]

 

[Snoopy]

So what do nurses have to call you?

I am quite happy with Sir until they are properly inroduced. Then Mr  is acceptable.

[Darwins Selection]

There was an old girl on my ward (oh yes, mixed wards) who was sort of pretending to be ga ga. The male staffnurse said he had to ask her a few questions. She mumbled something.

He said, "Can you give me your bank account details?"

She sat bolt up right and started slagging him off, then realised what she had done.No more ga ga!

How did you persuade them you weren't ga ga?

[Nick]

 

[Grumpmeister]

There was an old girl on my ward (oh yes, mixed wards) who was sort of pretending to be ga ga. The male staffnurse said he had to ask her a few questions. She mumbled something.

He said, "Can you give me your bank account details?"

She sat bolt up right and started slagging him off, then realised what she had done.No more ga ga!

How did you persuade them you weren't ga ga?

How do you know he did. For all you know he could be in a straitjacket at the moment typing with his nose 

[Nick]

I am at home being cared for by Cruella De Mrs Nick

[Grumpmeister]

Now here is the question ~ why do the nursing staff all want to call you by your Christian name but the Doctors always use Mr XXXXX and the Consultant will call you Sir?

Back when I was a student nurse it was part of the training, the idea being that it helps to relax the patient. Of course a degree of common sense was also needed for it to work.

[Nick]

a degree of common sense was also needed for it to work.

Quite 

I was quite content to be called 39