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SlowPocono

How does it make you feel when your medical doctor refers to your motorcycle as a donor cycle? How do you respond to your doctor when he makes remarks like that? Do you respond differently when other people say donor cycle? Am I unique when feeling offended when hearing comments using that term?

When my internist used those words at our first meeting I restrained myself from grasping his neck and throttling him but I’ll admit to you, here, that I wanted to. I decided that I should get to know him better before taking any extreme action. I’ll give him another chance before seeking a different doctor.

Blockhead

My younger brother is an MD. He says the same thing. I feel
sorry for the people who say it, because they just don't know...

Block

R100Pilot

I'd pull out my DL and show him the "organ donor" endorsement on it and ask if he's got one too.

Then I'd give him the same come back I do to everyone who talks about how dangerous bikes are: When someone's injured in a car wreck, nobody tells 'em they should stop driving. And when somebody's killed, nobody says it's because they were driving a car, and maybe if they'd been walking/bicycling/etc. instead they'd still be alive.

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Nickwiz

Id laugh and say

"so which bits do you guys need? Let me know cos I don't want to stuff the order up! "

:-D

bovefrankj

It's a pretty common comment. Shows a lack of originality on the part of the speaker. With the level of education required to become a doctor they should do better.

Normandy

I don't respond, they don't get it so why bother.

TechmanBD

My Dr. didn't say anything like that, instead he was asking questions, in a cool way, like what is the gas mileage. More like he was interested.

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davidc

I am sure I would laugh a bit - I've never heard that one. Moreover, the new "sensitivity" of this politically correct age in which all are a victim of one thing or another concerns me, and I will not succumb to it. We near a point in which it is safer to speak not at all in fear we may offend someone. This thin-skinned attitude suggests self-absorbtion, that the individual is the center of the universe and anything outside it is merely there for the individual's explotation - much like a child's view.

To expect society to weigh each and every psyche, to protect from each and every interpretation of insult is absurd. Better to lighten up.

I do not mean to suggest that hurtful insults do not exist, sure they do. But the ability to discern the difference between the passing comment, the dab of satire, and the barbs of intentional insult is on the wane. Its absence will leave us an egoist gang of primadonnas.

97sprint

Mine reacted the same way. In a good way.
When he does my BP he asks if I rode over!!
When it's normal or on the lower side I tell him yes, I did 120MPH to get here, I didn't want to be late

I also gave him a brochure for our MSF classes.


Others, I ask the same Do you tell people not to drive a car? if they've crashed?

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Keith

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Wombat

Don't confuse education with intelligence.
They are not the same thing.
There are alot of highly educated idiots out there.

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