Tuesday, November 9, 2021

"Are you Ducky?"

    Those were his first words to me when he entered the room. I answered the only way I could, not knowing what he meant. I said, "Well, I'm not sure."  His response was "What does that word mean anyway, and where did it originate?" I told him I thought it was British, as used by George Bernard Shaw's dialog in his plays. He immediately went to the computer, the one with all the recent medical findings, and googled the word, then reported both the British and American definitions.  Okay, back to the reason for my visit there. But not before he mused, "I wonder where hunkey-dorey comes from."  I said from about 75 years ago. And then he addressed the reason for my visit. 

   I don't judge, but I was reminded of a comment from just last night when the caller said he didn't know how workers could do the same job all day long for days on end, whether cooking hamburgers, engaging in repetitious instructional tasks, or selling groceries. So it seems even doctors may suffer from boredom.

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