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I live in a town that has NO doctors available. So people use the hospital emergency department. After one visit when my BP was extremely high and I waited six (ISYN) hours I lost my rag with the ombudsman about wait times and the forced abuse of the emergency room. Anyway, finally, I got a doctor. He is a gem: good sense of humour, darned good diagnostician and easy to get along with. He was writing a requisition for blood work and I asked if he'd mind adding a PSA test to the list because the alternative method of checking the prostate is literally a pain in the--and he ticked the box. I then thanked him both for making my life a bit easier and helping the environment because it's one pair of plastic gloves that won't end up in a landfill somewhere. The two nurses who work for the program are sweethearts. They keep appointments booked and paper work sorted and one of them likes my music. (The other says she does, but I think she just says that to humour an old guy.)

I told the three of them today, separately, how grateful I am for them and the work they do on behalf of me and patients who used to go to the ER but now have what is generally called a family doctor.

Saying thank you to people who do jobs in the town is I think important. I still over 16 months later get waves from guys who work for the town. Last year they were doing a road repair job involving asphalt just out back of where I lived. The temperature was into the 90s and I counted them then took out four bottles of cold water. I kept one bottle in my back pocket out of sight, went to the crew, asked who the foreman was and gave the water to the other three along with the remark that since all the lazy effer did was let them do the work, piss on him. They chuckled and I then gave the boss the remaining bottle of water before he instructed the crew to make me part of the road.

If you can't find it in yourself to give thanks when they're deserved, even if it IS the person's job, well, it tends to make the world a gloomier place. Maybe just a smile and a nod, or a 'hot day to be doing that' can result in someone you don't know maybe having a great day. Don't take much effort to make others feel human and important, regardless the work they're doing.