I went to the Doctor the other day. If you want to know why click here. The NHS wait doesn't always apply to my GP. Last time I went I was seen within a few minutes but as I go less than once a year maybe that is not representative. After 50 minutes I was asked to go and see Dr Beatus.
Dr Beatus is a slightly blubbery Israeli with a Welsh accent, a skull cap and dodgy skin. He's a nice bloke and whilst diagnosing my interesting ailment he decided he would try and show me a diagram of it. So he called up Internet Explorer and went to Google Images.
Now, in my day job, I have had customers complain of the sort images you can get on Google even when you type in something innocuous such as "hamster". So when he was looking up my part of the body I watched with some interest. The pictures were ok but he was incapable of wading through the pop-up advertisements and gave up.
Whilst taking my blood pressure he asked me what sort of business I was in. I confessed - Internet access. First off he was embarrassed but he soon got over that and enquired about contention ratios and should he move up to a 2Mb connection etc.
Anyway, the NHS is free so some info from me seems like a fair swap.
Posted by grahame at April 3, 2004 04:06 PM | TrackBack