Doctors have become very sophisticated these days. This new GP that I found has an app of his own. Maybe it’s time for me to get an app to stay in touch with students because this is definitely not a generation that has developed the habit of checking emails on a regular basis.
The patient questionnaire asks me if I have any “unusual hobbies.” No definition of “unusual” is provided, so I’m left wondering.
“The patient questionnaire asks me if I have any “unusual hobbies. No definition of “unusual” is provided, so I’m left wondering.”
Bullet-making?
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Or maybe even reading socialist magazines. 🙂
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Ice climbing in the Alps? Skydiving? Racecar driving?
There are some unusual hobbies. No telling what the question means, however.
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It’s either meant to establish a bond with you or find out if you are likely to come in with skydiving related injuries.
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I must have a very dirty mind because my first guess was that the question was about whether I’m a swinger.
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In the first place I don’t get all this app stuff. I associate the word with self-installing unwanted menu bars (that would take up half the screen if you let them) and annoying things that randomly highlight words in texts you’re trying to read making for the most unbearable internet experience since the glory days of geocities (angry old man who voice off).
In the second place, if you’re wondering about unusual hobbies, the following might be of help
– making lamps out of dried artichokes
– training butterflies to fly in formation
– collecting q-tips
– adapting Beethoven symphonies for an all didgeridoo ensembles
– racing random people on the street (without their knowledge)
– beetle grooming
– having staring contests with rabbits
– embroidering grapefruit
– being president of the James Cromwell fanclub
I’ll stop now.
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I have now realized that life has passed me by. 🙂 What a plethora of amazing hobbies. 🙂
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People often neglect to check their email. Guilty as charged. It seems like we all have an urge to communicate, but communication is difficult. In this technological age, we keep inventing new ways try to connect. Life must have been simpler when the only two choices for communication were a hand-written letter or a personal conversation.
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Lots of universities make it rather complicated to check in with your official email address*. I can’t simply add my uni address to my phone, I can’t simply forward any e-mails received there to a different address and I can only use a client like Outlook when I am within the my unis network. If I am outside of it, I need to awkwardly go to a website and log in there.
And frankly, I have better things to do than to browse to some website every hour or so to check if someone has emailed me.
* Mine is not alone in this. I have heard from at least 5 other places that do this shit. For ‘security’ reasons.
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I know, we have the same problem with our university email account. It worked well until about 3 years ago there was “upgrade.” Now it can almost never be accessed from anywhere but Outlook. Forget accessing it on tablets and cell phones. This possibility was simply killed for no discernible reason.
Still, since it’s my only way of getting in touch with students, they have an obligation to figure out a way to read their emails. I manage to solve this problem every do, and so should they.
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