My doctor is a trip. She’s 52 years old and has only been a full-fledged physician for about 7 years, I think. At 39, after being a PhD researcher for 15 years or so, she decided to become a doctor.
Here’s the thing: her office and exam rooms are plastered with 8x10 signed headshots of pretty much everyone who ever had a line of dialogue on any * Star Trek * series. Seriously. Dozens and dozens and dozens of them. This means she spends her weekends going to conventions and getting these signatures. I haven’t asked her if she dresses up or not.
She has a poster up in one exam room, “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned on Star Trek” or something to that effect.
She is a great doctor. She’s very paranoid, which I like. And I have a personal affection for her. But still…
Would this bother any of you?
(I admire the fact that she’s comfortable with who she is, and obviously doesn’t care if anyone is going to judge her for being a Trekkie.)
If she holds up her PDA at you and mutters under her breath sounds like “meemeemeemeeemee,” also worry.
Seriously: As weird as hard-core trekkies are, they tend to be pretty intelligent and imaginative. Sterotypically speaking, what we… er… I mean… they tend to lack are social skills. If her bedside manner is up to snuff, I’d say it’s nothing to be concerned about, and probably a good thing in general.
She doesn’t wear her uniform to work, and dress the office up like the trek set, like the dentist in Trekkies, does she?
It wouldn’t bother me personally as long as it didn’t affect how she treated me. If she started saying I should go to “sick bay” or how she is going to use a phaser in a medical procedure, then you should be worried.
I don’t see how this is any different than if your doctor were gay. Some people might not want a gay doctor, but if s/he were qualified and the are capable of treating you, what they do on their own time shouldn’t matter.
Nah, don’t stress it. I’ve a really cool doctor as well - though not a Trekkie, is a big LOTR fan. Last time I was in, he and the hubby got into an arguement when somesuchorother character died in which book… They even bet on it! Hubby won, btw
I helped run a poetry group in Cheyenne for a short while. One ickle fella who joined us frequently wrote all his poetry in Quenya and read it in Quenya as well. It was SO beautiful to see and hear. Good on ya!
[Bye Jack!]
Also, as long as she doesn’t challenge you to fight to defend her honour if you ever ask for a second opinion…
Our doctors have all sorts of weird movie posters in the examining/waiting rooms, most of them having something to do with monsters with huge/many eyes (I work in Ophthalmology) or the like. I think most of the ones about insane doctors are kept in their private offices though.
OK, she’s a geek and doesn’t mind displaying that fact. I can appreciate that, personally!
QtM, it’s a good thing you don’t work in a mental hospital, you’d probably have patients freaking out that they’re displaying new symptoms or something if you started up with that.
