More Self-Evident Epiphanies - Human Beings.

[emanix]

Ever put up a blog post and then realise only days later you've left out the most important part?

So I posted yesterday about the concept of Self-Evident Epiphanies, but forgot what the burning reason I wanted to talk about it actually was

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[joreth]

:-) this particular SEE is why my teachers either love me or hate me - I can't see them as "better than" or "above" me, they're just people who happen to know more than me (sometimes) in a particular subject.

It's also how I can go out drinking with my shop teacher or my boss, still follow instruction the next day on the set, and tell them to "fuck off" when they're being assholes :-)

[emanix]

Heh, the thing I laugh at myself for is that I've alway felt that way too, about teachers, authorities, so called 'superiors' - they're just people, some of them are good people, some of them are not so good people, but they're all human beings (and so are my parents, for that matter - I don't think they're too keen on relating to me on that level though, hey ho). Yet somehow where it comes to that stuff about changing the world, and my ability to influence other people and/or my environment, I hadn't quite made that logical step. Daft, no?

(Did you get in trouble at school for calling teachers out on shit they were wrong about, too? I know I did. Smart enough to know I was right and they were wrong, but not smart enough to handle it tactfully!)

[joreth]

Oh absolutely! My last time through college, I was going back to get a technical theatre degree (after I had been working as a lighting tech for about 17 years), and in the first week, I got into an argument with the lighting teacher over terminology. He was giving out names of instruments, including their common nicknames. He left one out. I mentioned it. He said "No, it's not a Leko, that's the name of a company that went out of business in the '70s

[theozzardofwiz]

Doctors are human too :-).

[emanix]

Ooh, I wish my GPs would remember that!

[theozzardofwiz]

I guess I have the advantage of past experience in medical informatics, so I can talk to my GP as an equal. But... to be honest, if your GP(s) aren't willing to treat you as an equal and themselves as human, you might be wise to find a different GP. One who's willing to go through their reasoning and allow you to examine it!

[emanix]

I've a background in medical science myself (pharmacology), so I know what I'm on about, but I've still rarely found a GP who's willing to be anything other than utterly patronising, even about conditions I've had for years and am clearly an expert on. It's also especially difficult to build up any sort a rapport in London where the turnover of both patients and doctors is huge, and the practice I go to is large enough that I rarely see the same practitioner twice