Middle Age health check from GP

[summerdays]

We changed doctor's recently and had to fill in an alcohol consumption leaflet. I was fine about doing it myself - though struggled with how to answer the question ... would anyone close rather you drank less ... well Mr Summerdays is practically teetotal so it would be cheaper. However it was having to fill in an alcohol form for the children that irritated me. I could be in blind ignorance of their alcohol consumption, but I just left the form blank so they could reuse it for someone else. Back at the surgery the nurse asked me to answer the questions so I just wrote none across the entire form instead.

Whilst I realise that there are children with alcohol problems, I would have thought a question on my form instead would have been a better place to start the process of "are you concerned about your child's alcohol consumption".

 

[Arch]

I'm slightly offended that a doctor would assume I was lying about how much I drink. Why should I be disbelieved because some other idiots feel the need to lie?

I'd have to work out some complicated averages. I can go for weeks without a drink, and then have a weekend where we share a bottle of wine over two days, and then a weekend where I end up at the pub after work and have two pints. But in the summer, it's often two pints of shandy.

And do they assume I'm lying if I say I don't smoke, too?

 

[Brent]

I'm think about having it done