Computers and Childbirth

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

Do you see the connection between computers and childbirth?

Neither do I until I received a tech call from a wife of a doctor. They were both passing the phone back and forth to each other trying to answer my simple questions.


Me: What Operating System are you running on your computer? Windows 98? Windows XP?

Wife: [muffled phone] BERNerd...what type of windows are we running? XP? [to me] XP.

Me: Okay...and how is your modem hooked up to the computer? Ethernet or USB?

Wife: [muffled voice] Do you know if we use ethernet or USB...here you talk to her! [sound of a freaked out wife because of USB and ethernet]

Husband: [Arrogant sonofabitch who took the phone] Look, asking me about ethernet or USB would be like me telling you how to deliver a baby. It is a long complicated process and you wouldn't understand it.

O.o

And that has to do with high speed internet in what way?

Nice bedside manner from a baby doctor. The sad thing is, when I looked at the address, that call happened to be from my area. How many of his pregnant patients dumped him because of his arrogant attitude?

Comments

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because Ethernet and USB are *so* difficult to understand.

Bet it was hard not to tell the guy to fuck off.

[methedras.livejournal.com]

Retort - "Yes sir, but this is in reference to something being plugged in as opposed to being pulled out. There are two sockets, and the necessity for myself to know which method you are using is as relevant as you knowing whether or not a mother is having a single child or twins."

Heh.
I hate arrogant customers in high paying jobs, they're usually the least intelligent of the lot.

[boredevilperson.livejournal.com]

Eh?

I would've been like "How about I try . . . Does it look like a big phone jack or a small rectangular metal plug?"

Then after they answer I'd be wanting to say "So delivering babies is THAT easy??? I'm in the wrong profession, I'd make way more doing what you do!"

[teriwyn.livejournal.com]

I used to work for a medical records software developer.

Usually, our calls would come from the HIM (Health Information Mangement) or HIS (Health Information Systems) folks. But our software was designed to allow physicians to dictate their reports, and every now and then a physician would call us directly.

Save a few, they were the most arrogant people I'd ever dealt with.

[tmercenary.livejournal.com]

Conversation between a doctor and my friend:

Doctor: I spent 8 years in college to do this, and am multi-board certified, and an award winning, published doctor, young man.
Friend: I spent 8 years in college so could party with 19 year old girls every night.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Magic words I always use with an arrogant shit

"I'm sorry sir, if you won't accept my help / have no interest in resolving this problem, I am going to have to terminate this call"

:)

[rustymarble.livejournal.com]

Yea... cause women have been having babies on their own for centuries and (some)men still can't tell me which cable they're using.

[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

right right right.... because its not important to know where the baby comes from, just that its a difficult process

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

hmmm childbirth huh? isn't that something they teach to elementry kids?

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Or which hole they're plugging it into

*zing*

[ximinez]

"I have a child, and I delivered her in the back seat of a taxi. If I can figure that out, I think you can figure this out."

Hey, it doesn't have to be true...

[lovely-shan.livejournal.com]

Oh man! I had my baby at home, so had he said that to me, he would have gotten an earful about unassisted birth and how women just "know" how to have a baby and stupid docs don't need to tell them how to do it... Good thing I don't work in tech support right now.. ha ha..

There are certain professions that should not be allowed computers--Doctors, Realtors....

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

I dumped my gyn for being an arrogant ass. I wasn't a breeder so he wasn't making money off me.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"That's OK, sir. I'll hold while you go get your mother."

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

I really really wanted to!

The mute button just wasn't enough on that call! :\