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It might be much like a dentist lecturing you on brushing your teeth. You’re in there because you don’t. The dentist might resent this, stuck with disgusting i
by regpertom 5y ago
It might be much like a dentist lecturing you on brushing your teeth.
You’re in there because you don’t. The dentist might resent this, stuck with disgusting idiot after disgusting idiot in their mind. Alan watts says the dentist should make peace with it.
Maybe you know you’re meant to brush your teeth but you don’t remember to, or a tooth fell out after brushing once and you thought it caused it etc.
Some people avoid the dentist completely because of being ashamed of that lecture/disappointment. Then there’s the seeming popular “victim blaming is a hate crime” angle of doing anything more than prescribing something.
Anecdotally, the super rare, in tales: old man doctor, who calls you a dumbass and tells you how it is straight is a treasured item. Various comedians have bits as such. Much like a professor who sees right through your self deceptions and justifications. They want their delusions shattered.
To other people though the insolence and condescension that they perceive from that same person is seen as trash, doctors and professors should of course empathise with me instead of putting me down kind of thing. They don’t want their delusions handled too roughly.
Trash or treasure.
It’s not an even field though because if you did the “wrong” thing, the former doesn’t get the most useful help to them but the latter may try and bring down professional consequences upon thee. Which is probably why the mystical “no heck’s given” doctor is always old/bitter in the stories.