I was offered plenty of cups of tea, which I politely declined. I don't tend to drink tea in patients' houses as they tend to make it with PG Tips or Typhoo tea strong enough to melt the average teaspoon, with sterilised milk and 2 sugars. I'm an Earl Grey tea man, which has to be quite weak (my mother would call it "Weasel's", as it resembled the urine of a large rodent).
When I teach young doctors and students about visiting people in their homes, I suggest that they look at the pictures/photographs on the wall or the mantlepiece. It tells you lots about people.
One I visited this evening was of a couple who were pictured when they were 'courting' (for modern readers that is when they were going out together, but were not engaged or married), and this was during the war (in 1942). They made a mightily handsome couple. The vibrancy, the youth and the love in their eyes was there to behold.
Now they are old and ill (that's why they needed the doctor), but the love was still there.
It is very precious.
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yes it is, but they didn't have the slightest idea what earl grey tea was, because it wasn't. Stick to what you know and you'll be able to make a good point. You sure as hell didn't get fed earl grey tea as a lad.
My mum used to Mix Earl Grey and English Breakfast tea in the caddy when I were a lad.
'Appen.
Where did she get it?! and how??!
I'm amazed that people in your neck of the woods can still buy sterilized milk (in its distinctive narrow-neck bottle sealed with a crown cork). Most people in my neighbourhood have refrigerators.
Sterilised milk ("Stera") os still common round here.
showing that you're near the blackcountry there
House Calls home care services, aimed at helping the elderly maintain their independence and quality of life at home.
If they're a bit frail, I always try to look in the fridge. Empty fridges, expired food, rancid milk are signs of someone struggling. Even so, photos always tell me about them as people rather than patients and I like that
"(in 1942). They made a mightily handsome couple. The vibrancy, the youth and the love in their eyes was there to behold.
Now they are old and ill (that's why they needed the doctor), but the love was still there.
It is very precious. "
This is what life is really about, lucky couple, and lovely post
Your patients are lucky to have a doctor who is interested in their lives and sees them as people.
Do you mind engaging in a spot of taxonomic accuracy, please?
A weasel is not a rodent; it isn't even close to being one. It is a mustelid, a branch of Carnivora and about as evolutionarily far from a rodent as we are.
Do try for accuracy, please.
I always thought ferrets were related to snakes rather than rodents.
Evidence being their impressive flexibility, and the tendency to devour anything of a food-y nature to the last morsel, bones, fur and all.
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