Behaviour in the Doctor's Waiting Room

I mean, are there unwritten rules about not chatting in the doctor's waiting room?

Maybe he was worried in case someone called you out as racist for commenting that the doc had a foreign name.

We are all walking on egg shells in our own country……..

Not in my dr's waiting room....everyone chats..

I think people tend to talk/whisper quietly in waiting rooms. If you are like my OH (he is also hard of hearing) you possibly talk louder than you realise. Perhaps he was embarrassed by the comment about one of their doctors.
I can hear OH having conversations on his phone from some distance, and sometimes have to tell him to stop shouting!

I thought it may be a racist thing. But on a previous occasion in a hospital waiting room he declined to discuss the flooring material there . I am always interested in flooring material. wherever I go. I thought that since nobody else was talking he did not want to behave unconventionally.

I mean, I'm not addicted to flooring material, it's just that at home he would have liked to discuss it out of mild interest.

Are there public places where it is bad manners to chat?

My GP has a foreign surname.
She's from Cheshire.

My DD has a foreign surname.
She's from SE England.

Just saying.

No-one says very much at all in our GP's waiting room.

I had a great aunt who was deaf and so would shout when she thought she was just talking. My old dad was deaf in one ear so also spoke loudly without realising it.
Is your speaking voice a bit louder due to deafness. Could be that when you said the doc had a foreign name the whole waiting room could hear you rather than just your son. But of course could be totally wrong on this, sometimes our ACs are just too self conscious and may think we are misbehaving when we’re not.

Haven’t a clue about the floor material in the hospital.

Since Covid it’s difficult to get an appointment, but when you do the waiting room is always empty.

I could chat to myself I suppose 🤷‍♀️

Allira

No-one says very much at all in our GP's waiting room.

Nor ours.

Partly because there are so few people in there

Yes, that's a point.

Desperately trying to remember what the floor is like ....
Grey composite tiles?

'*Can anyone suggest what that was all about* I'm sure you know what that was all about! keep your voice down is what he meant!

Today the waiting room was full many mothers with children who I suppose were waiting for jabs.

I would have thought an ancient lady making a harmless remark in an unduly loud voice would be funny haha , if anything.

Yes Lemsip, but why? That is what interests me. Sociologically.

I think it's often that very expensive stick -down stuff called Dale something.

Didn’t you ask him to explain his rather rude comment ?

Allira, I think all that Caleo meant by 'foreign name' was that she was worried about the possibility of an accent. Being deaf is a nightmare when confronted with an accent one isn't used to. I know from experience. I have an idea Caleo is over 90.

Allira

No-one says very much at all in our GP's waiting room.

You have a point there Babs. I do dress with care and try to be clean and decent . I remembered to put in my false teeth and was wearing a modest Bretton stripe dress well below my knees.

Bon Marche if anyone interested.

Caleo

Yes Lemsip, but why? That is what interests me. Sociologically.

I think there are places for chat and places where it's not really appropriate.

My mother was very embarrassing, I dreaded going out in public with her.

She of course had no idea.

My dad was very embarrassing too…….and as his dementia advanced he became a little lewd at times. I spent many an appointment with him apologising to medical staff, receptionists and other patients, some of who were quite intolerant 🙄 ………..hope they never have to experience such a situation

caleo
Did you actually say im glad you’re here because the doctor has a foreign name if that’s a yes? there are lots of people around now who would interpret that as a racist remark as in ooh, is a foreigner, I don’t want to be on my own with him
I know this sounds ludicrous, which it is but this is the world we are living in.
It’s the equivalent of Reds under the beds in the USA in the 50s.
I take some neighbours to a gentle keep fit class.
One of them is the kindest person you could meet but she used the word darky to describe an African gentleman in the class.
Fortunately this was after we had left.
If the thought police had heard her I dread to think what they would have made of it.