My first dose of ‘on-the-face-criticism’

From the day I started my practice 2 ½ yrs ago I had never ever been subjected to criticism regarding my medical and surgical skills… atleast no one said it on my face… this wk I had a patient who was an old patient of my mom… she had some problem in her eye from 3 4 months… she told me she wanted to come to show me but she was told by some patient that I wasn’t as good as my mom… so she went to another doctor… after she didn’t get relief she then came to show to me… she told me this directly on my face… I didn’t show it on my face but inside I was hurt… well I wasn’t for the reason that tht other patient had felt that I wasn’t as good as compared to my mom as I still have miles to go to come in that category… but I was hurt as the ‘wasn’t good’ was good enough for the patient to ask her not to show me… tht hurt… but then guess even I am a human being and bound to make mistakes at some or the other time of my life… maybe the treatment I gave to tht patient didn’t relive her of her problem… but here the irony was inspite of the criticism this patient turned up to show me…!!! That brought a little bit of solace in me… praises and criticisms are part and parcel of all occupations, I guess… and one just needs to forget it and move on…

'MAMA'

have u(all the boys) ever wondered y the british and Americans never kept separate words for mama and kaka…??? And kept a common word uncle???
Well last mth a woman had come for check up with her small kid along her…I out of my liking small kids, asked him whts his name… and the woman told her child “tell mama your name..” that left me thinking afterwards why was I made a ‘mama’??? And during the after thought I realized all females did the same… all told their kids “say hi to mama”, “tell mama ur name”… I mean it was an indirect indication that they considered me their brother or rather told me indirectly to consider them as my sister… but y??? was there anything on my face that revealed that I was probably going to make a pass at them??? But then because of this I started to hear conversations between others and realized that this is a common ‘weapon-in-disguise’ used by all females against all men apart from their husbands… I didn’t bother to go to check wether is worked or not… but surely the English people didn’t take chances and didn’t invent separate words for ‘uncle’… J