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Sep 12, 2018
When I entered the room with my toddler, the TV was blasting violent images into the room at top volume. Some sort of preview for a horror movie. I immediately had to leave the room. This is not an appropriate place for children. We don't even own a TV, much less watch that kind of garbage. When I go back in I walk up to the desk, and I can see a young girl hunched over her phone. Typical freshman, I think. Must be first year med school work experience. She doesn't look at me. I just stand there for a few minutes, waiting for her to say something. Finally I speak. "Hello, I have an appointment." She doesn't look at me, just tells me to check in using a touchscreen pad mounted on the desk. I'm a little confused who is the patient here, but I decide to go with it to save time. I have to enter a long string of information. Basically I'm doing a clerk's work for them. Normally you couldn't pay me to use a touch screen. It's tedious and rather beneath me. I'm actually paying money to do someone's work for them. Sarcastically, I say "Boy, they sure make you do a lot of work," (she's still playing on her smartphone) and she says "Yeah! You guys I mean, not me!" Well, typical teenager, I think. Isn't there something in Freud about sociopaths not understanding sarcasm? Anyway, I have to wait outside because of the TV. I can see her through the window. After messing around for several minutes, she suddenly stands up, calls our name, and snaps on some gloves. "This way, please." "Wait a minute," I said, "where's the phlebotomist?" "Me." I just got up and left the room. There is no way I'm letting my kid get siphoned by a troglodytic teenager.