This morning my practice manager comes to me suggesting ever so gently that I might wish to dilute the amount of venom contained in my letter of response to my female ventolin addict I sent packing last week. My manager is an excellent "vox populi", and I rarely ignore her advice. So gone are my acid comments about her outrageous pleading of poverty as the reason she couldn't take up her hospital appointment. In are an apology for any offence that she may have taken away from the consultation, along with advice for how she might go about getting reimbursement for her bus fare. I retain my original remark about her letter being rude and offensive (manager she say that OK), and the letter is now going out; a marvellous example of measured hypocrisy. I hate not speaking my mind openly, but I have to remember the correspondence might one day be seen by authorities further up the line and they must not be able to find anything in the least bit objectionable. Ahh...
Weather conditions remain extremely unpleasant. The temperature continues to hover around zero, but humidity levels have risen and freezing fog envelops the city. What breeze there is continues to approach from the east. I remember from my earliest childhood being told by my mum not to go out in the east wind. "It's bad for your chest" she would say (I had much more severe asthma in those days)and I think she was on to something. Today I saw a veritable procession of small children with flu like illnesses and chest infections. As for me, I'm positive I will die on a day when the east wind is blowing.
Monday, 6 December 2010
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