Random Thoughts

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Indeed.

Here we often say' Jimbo', or 'Davo" for David  or perhaps 'Pauly', long before mafia flicks.

I had a terrific nick name which I had from grade seven until  I left school. I was called "Deadly" or 'Dead' for short  by my intimate friends. It was Mr deadly by the school principal who thought he was funny. He was uniquely of that opinion.. School boys have  merciless wits, with a good sense of irony. All I'm saying is that my nick name was the result of an incident at cricket. Nobody was killed or even injured, except from laughing.

I often wonder what my old doctor' s nicknames might have been - but I never asked Dr Carrion before he retired.... 

It would have been funny if he had chosen pathology instead of family medicine.

 
While I was in the army, in Malaysia, Our MO's nickname was "Doctor Death". He misdiagnosed two blokes and they died. Not really his fault. My ailments have the same symptoms, even the same syndromes.  Doctors will take note of where they are (climate etc) and the age and general health of the patient. The doc wasn't expecting a fit 23 year old soldier to have a heart disease, but he did and died. Another bloke, pretty similar had pneumonia and he died.. Who'd have thunk. 

Takes a special kind of person to enter a profession where their name will be ironic/humorous. Can't work out if it's a matter of compete insensitivity, ignorance or stunning level of self confidence. While I was visiting the Philippines  in 1979, the senior Catholic prelate was Cardinal Jaime Sin.