{"id":118,"date":"2006-03-22T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/hi-tech-surgery\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T10:19:19","slug":"hi-tech-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/hi-tech-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Tech surgery??"},"content":{"rendered":"

My doctors has caught the technology bug and has installed a touch screen system for booking yourself in fro appoitments.<\/p>\n

The reasoning…to make the whole process quicker, The result…to completly confuse the old people who couldn’t work out how to use the damn thing with a whole queue of frustrated patrons behind them (including ME)!<\/p>\n

Now while I’m a BIG fan of technology and am all for its use in making life simpler, easier, quicker etc, maybe just maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to install something so tech savvy with no instructions of use and NO ONE around to help the poor saps who have been deprived the age of computers because of ther age!!! <\/p>\n

We waited in vain for the now non-existant receptionist to offer some assistance while the queue just kept on getting longer. I was 4th in line behind these poor confused people and they were getting more and more flustered, so, obviously I stepped up to offer my help and show them how to do it.<\/p>\n

I’d like to say I was just being helpful. That my kind heartedness was an act of sheer unselfish generosity but I’d be lying!! The fact is I was becoming more and more convinced that I would miss my appointment if they didn’t hurry up and figure it out and decided if nobody else was willing to help then I would so I got to book myself in as an example to the ever so grateful people and hence jumped the queue!! HA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My doctors has caught the technology bug and has installed a touch screen system for booking yourself in fro appoitments. The reasoning…to make the whole process quicker, The result…to completly confuse the old people who couldn’t work out how to use the damn thing with a whole queue of frustrated patrons behind them (including ME)! … Continue reading Hi-Tech surgery??<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wbiagw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-1U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":165,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/29\/sings-were-all-going-on-a\/","url_meta":{"origin":118,"position":0},"title":"*sings* We’re all going on a….","date":"June 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"So Rob is packing the cars, James and Luke are dispersed around the house in showers, Penny is hiding in the office buying tickets for, well for I dread to think how many Rufus Wainwright gigs. 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