1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Like writing in our diaries. We call him blogs Kaylin. 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, dear blog. 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 3: So we've talked a lot on this show about how 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 3: some of us have anxiety going to the doctor's office. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: Fred will admit that he sometimes. 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 3: You know, won't tell the full truth because he's ashamed 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 3: or embarrassed. 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Are you talking about me, Like, I'm not right here? 9 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 3: Well, I'm just recapping the ones who are scared because 10 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 3: I don't have. 11 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: That anxiety at the doctor. 12 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 3: I am very much of the anxiety of if I 13 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 3: don't tell them, I'm going to die. 14 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 2: If I don't get this checked out, I will die. 15 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: Well, it's not, but I just want to be clear. 16 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: It's not like I'm with holding important symptoms or like 17 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: hiding It's like if my stomach hurts is something and 18 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: they're like, well, do you have this symptom and that's. 19 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: Your bashful and then that's what it is. 20 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 3: You had too pretty of a doctor one time, and 21 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 3: that also gave you a little. 22 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: Bit Yeah, I couldn't possibly tell her what was going 23 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: on with my booty if I had anything going on 24 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: with my booty at the time, which I didn't, but 25 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just thinking ahead, what if something 26 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: was wrong with I gotta tell this very attractive doctor lady, 27 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: who I understand is a professional and doesn't care, but 28 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 1: I care. 29 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 2: Thing ya is. 30 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: I don't like talking about myself, like yeah. 31 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 2: And that's a common thing. 32 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 3: I mean, Rufio wouldn't go to the doctor for the 33 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 3: longest time. I mean, it's you know whatever. 34 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 2: But I don't have that. But the anxiety I do 35 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: have is when I speak to the receptionist, okay, because. 36 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 3: What gives them the right to ask why I am 37 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 3: making an appointment? And how much detail do I give? Okay? 38 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: Because sometimes it's just, oh, you know, just my annual, 39 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 3: which is like very easy to say. But sometimes I 40 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: don't want to tell a woman who is not my 41 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: doctor or a man whoever's answering the phone, what's really going. 42 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: On with me? What's really going on with you? You 43 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, what's really going on? 44 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 3: Well, first, I mean mine is a little intense, so 45 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: you just don't want to like say that to the receptionist. 46 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: But sometimes it's embarrassing. 47 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 3: You know, people will have self oozing or you know, 48 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 3: you might need some kind of salve or. 49 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: Oa miss salve. You know, I've heard it all though, 50 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: you know, I'm saying, like they see the charts. 51 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: And I think they have to know because they have 52 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: to know how much time you're gonna need. They have 53 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: to know how urgent it is. I think they want 54 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: to prep the doctor, like as far as what they 55 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: might be up against, like because the nurse will come 56 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: in and you have to tell the nurse all the 57 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: same stuff you have to tell the doctor. And me. 58 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: I don't like that though, cause it's like, why I 59 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: gotta tell you twice? 60 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: I know, but there are nurse like they want to, 61 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: you know, I just like, I don't know. I just don't. 62 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: I feel like it's it's it's not then it. 63 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 4: I feel you is this And I feel like it's 64 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 4: a new practice because I feel like I only started 65 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,839 Speaker 4: getting access question in twenty twenty four from the receptionist. 66 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 4: Like before you could just make an appointment, you know whatever, 67 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 4: come in, But I feel like now they're like, so 68 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 4: what's the. 69 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: Issue, right, And I'm like, girl, how much time you die? 70 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 4: Because let me tell you, you know, Like I feel 71 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 4: like this is a new practice. 72 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: I don't remember this always being the standard. 73 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: I just tell people I have a like a sore 74 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: throat cough, allergies, and then once the nurse is out 75 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: and the doctor have done no, apparently it's pretty common. 76 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm what I'm told is that, like it's not uncommon 77 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: for someone to lie to everybody until the doctor comes 78 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: in and then be like Okay, here's what's really going on, 79 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: or to spring them, to spring it on at the end, 80 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: like be like, oh, I got a little sniffle by 81 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: the way, my butt hole's falling out or whatever, you 82 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: know what I mean, like that kind of thing. And 83 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: so you had allergy, so we you know, here's some clariton. 84 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: But like, let's talk about Oh, that's an interesting twist. 85 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: You know. I think it's pretty common. 86 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 3: If you're going to the guy no, and it's anything 87 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 3: other than your annual I don't want to tell, like 88 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 3: I don't know. 89 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 2: And then you go to the office and she's like, yeah, 90 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 2: let's see. 91 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: I don't think they I don't think they are for 92 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: a person to call with, you know, whatever's going on. 93 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: So I don't I don't think that. That's what everyone 94 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: keeps telling me. It's like, it's to you, it's deeply 95 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: personal to you. It's uncomfortable to medical professionals it's just 96 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: another day. 97 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: But are is the reception to receptionists. I can say 98 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 3: that a medical professional. They work in a doctor's office. 99 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 1: I don't think you have to be a nurse necessarily, 100 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: but like you have to uphold the hippa and all 101 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: the rest of it. 102 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: You have to go to school to be a receptionist 103 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 3: at a doctor's office. 104 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 4: I don't know what you have to do, but you 105 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 4: don't have to just like here. Some of them have 106 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 4: dual duties just like here. You know, like some of 107 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 4: us do, like eighty five different jobs. I think some 108 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 4: of them may be CNA's or maybe nurses. They just 109 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 4: sit down at that's okay. 110 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: This same rules apply. They still have to because they 111 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: work at the doctor's office. They still can't divolte anything. 112 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 3: But they might not have the same you know, like 113 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 3: my doctor. I'm like, they've seen a million, they've done 114 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: a million. I'm not the worst. 115 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 4: I definitely think they're looking up your Instagram, thanks your name, 116 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 4: looking up your Instagram, laughing at your own lunch break. 117 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 4: I'm telling you, and I found your boyfriend page. They're 118 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 4: telling him what's going on. 119 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 2: I believe. 120 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: They'll take a can over here. So the girl this 121 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: guy she's dating. That's where it happened right there. God. 122 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 3: But then I'm like, okay, well, just I talked myself, 123 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: and then it's like I over shared the last time 124 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: I made the appointment, which was the direct opposite of 125 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: what I wanted to do. 126 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: I just kept talking and she just kept letting me. Yeah. 127 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 4: I figured out that's how you get a quicker appointment 128 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 4: to the worst. Like when she asked me, my grandma, almost, 129 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 4: did I think I am dying? You said, it's not 130 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 4: to January. I'm I feel like I'm gonna die right now. 131 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 4: She's like, we're going in today, so. 132 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: You know, I don't think my buckle can hang out 133 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: like this. I feel like I'm going it before then. 134 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 5: I don't know. 135 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 2: It's fine, okay. 136 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: I don't think it's uncommon to mask the real cause, 137 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: you know, here we go and we're about to get verification. Here, Hi, Victoria, 138 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: how you doing? 139 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 4: I'm done? 140 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 2: How are you Victorias? 141 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: So yeah, very well, thanks for calling, thanks for listening. 142 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: So you're saying it's true, people like me and like Caitlin, 143 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: we lie about it, but the real cause of the 144 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: issue until we actually get to the doctor. 145 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 5: Yes, one hundred percent. Like I work in a hospital 146 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 5: and I'll go in and see my patients in the 147 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 5: morning and I'm like, are you in any pain? Are 148 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 5: you nauseous? Like what's going on? They're like, no, we're fine, 149 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 5: We're fine. And then the doctor comes and finds me 150 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 5: and they're like this patient said this, this, this and this, 151 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 5: And then I'm like, no, it looks like I'm not 152 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 5: even doing my job, Like why didn't you just tell 153 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 5: the doctor or tell me so I could tell the 154 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 5: doctor how anytimes? And I'm just like stupid, and I'm like, 155 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 5: why don't you want to tell me what's wrong with you? 156 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 5: But no, it's so true. 157 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: See, like people are texting. I need my schedulers to 158 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: get the info so I can prep for patients someone else. 159 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: I'm a nurse practitioner in GI and most people are 160 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: still uncomfortable talking about their bowel movements. Again, I am, 161 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: I don't like talking about that stuff, Like I don't 162 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: I'll do it one time and even then, I'm like, 163 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: I can't look at any eye. And I understand I'm 164 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: the one who has the problem. Everybody else. I get 165 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: it all you guys who do this every day. It's like, oh, whatever, 166 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: We've seen worse than this, so it's fine, though, this 167 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: is whatever's happening to me is the worst thing that 168 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: could possibly happen to me that day at that moment. 169 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 5: It's so true. But sometimes it's just so embarrassing because 170 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 5: sometimes most of the time they come and check in 171 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 5: with the nurse first and be like, hey, what's going 172 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 5: on with this bed? And we tell them, and then 173 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 5: they come out of the room and they're like, they 174 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 5: just told me all this stuff, and I'm just like, and. 175 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 3: Then you have to go back in there after the 176 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: doctor's I'll be like, why did you lie? 177 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 4: Yeah? 178 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 2: Boy on fire your pants? 179 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fun, Victoria, thank you have a good day. 180 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 2: He does too. 181 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: I know I'm the weirdo. I guess Caitlyn is too. 182 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: I mean I don't like, like, I don't mind telling 183 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: the whatever, the reception is, all that stuff, But then 184 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: when you get to the doctor's office, they give you 185 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: that chart and. 186 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: I gotta fill this all out, like I told you everything, 187 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 2: Like why do I got to check all eight hundred 188 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 2: more boxes? You didn't listen to me? 189 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: And I also wonder how like when they ask you 190 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: questions about like drinking, like, no one tells the truth 191 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: about drinking. No one tells them. Yeah, a couple drinks 192 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: a week, a couple drinks a minute per week, you know, 193 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: I mean like no, yeah, And I just I wonder, 194 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: like they ask all those like how many partners have 195 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: you had? New partner? All this, it's like how many 196 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: people are you're supposed to tell the truth because they 197 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: need that information, like statistically in their mind they can 198 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: be like, well, there's a higher likelihood of this or that. 199 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: But like most people I think are probably lying, you know, 200 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: because they don't want to be judged, or they don't 201 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: they feel like they're being judged. And really all the 202 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: doctors trying to do is his or her job. But 203 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: it's like, em, I don't really feel like him. So 204 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: I'm a virgin. What I tell them? 205 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 2: According to you young, yeah, I'm a virgin. 206 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: But my butt is falling out and someone needs to 207 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: fix this immediately. There going next