I am my own follower

Do most people follow themselves, or is it just me following me because no one else is following me?  So not so great at keeping up this online journal, but it's ok because no one reads it!  Ha!  I do have some twitter followers, but I never update anymore - honestly between twitter, facebook, work, support groups, family, who has time to update everyone on everything? 

But this blog is supposed to be my place to spew interesting life happenings about, well, life.  Nothing to report though except that I have noticed more and more that so many doctors don't know how to talk to patients.  Going through a medical issue with a family member now & I see the dr looking at his notes, checking his papers, but making eye contact with the patient?  Not so much.  Dr getting frustrated because the old guy who has memory issues & a hard time hearing and understanding directions, is not understanding directions that good ole doc is yelling at him.  Dr. gets frustrated even more & kind of waves hands up in the air & shoves patient off to the male nurse. Nurse has an easy time explaining what the patient needs to do, because he is not yelling at him, he is getting to his level, looking him in the eyes and talking to him.

Have so many doctors spent so much time in the books & on the computer that they have forgotten to practice healing?  Starting with the eyes people - eye contact.  It should be the first thing they learn and then repeated to them over & over again - maybe instead of sleeping to a white noise machine it could be a soft voice saying 'your patients are people, look them in the eyes.' 

I know not all docs are this way, I have had several that I found approachable & good at listening, but when it comes to hospitals, I have to say....hmmm....have not seen so much of the bedside mannor from them.  The nurses & aides, wow - they should really be the ones making the big bucks.  They do all of the work, caring and bed side mannering.

Enough of my rant about doctors and them not having people skills, maybe I expect too much.  No wonder why I am my only follower, all I do is complain!!

You know what's crazy?

I love to write and always have, but I usually find myseld thinking of great things to write when I am on the go - no place to write stuff down or verbalize to (like into a recording device - honestly I would probably not have it with me when needed anyway or I would lose it or forget to check it).  It feels like if I try to verbalize the thought, it will get distorted.  So I think there should be some kind of technology out there that can read thoughts.  Cool, would make my life easier, would make list writing easier.  But then again maybe that would cause more lazy brain & people would become stupid.  I am always amazed though that there has been such leaps in technology from when I was 20 to now, but we still have so far to go before we can catch up to living in space & scanning people for illnesses (Star Trek).