Would You?

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434752/It-Gods-plan-lives-Muslim-father-lost-wife-children-suspected-arson-attacks-says-angry-believes-paradise.html

If your GP referred you to a Neurosurgeon, would you be uncomfortable about the appearance of this consultant?

[coccinelle]

No, he looks a kind man.

[pixie373]

The beard doesn't look too hygienic!

[ummmm]

No.

[Tilly2]

Would you, Sqad?

[Graham-W]

Being shot through the forehead and surviving doesn't automatically make you a brain surgeon.

[anotheoldgit]

All sentiments apart, surely there should be a certain manner of 'dress' code, when one holds such a position.

[anotheoldgit]

coccinelle

/// No, he looks a kind man. ///

Are you basing that assumption on what this poor man has had to endure and the attitude he has taken, because surely you cannot say he looks a kind man from his general appearance?

Would you say that if the picture of him was one of him being led into a police van after being found guilty of a terrorist attack?

[jackthehat]

No.
My main concerns would be his competence and his communication skills.

[rowanwitch]

No because I've worked with some brilliant people who elevated scruffy to whole new levels.

[sara3]

what's your problem with his appearance then, Sqad?

most people would be happy to see someone qualified to deal with their issues.

[Sqad]

JTH

\\\\My main concerns would be his competence \\\\

Indeed, but how would you assess them?

Tilly

\\\Would you, Sqad?\\\

I would have to be in the "medical know" and regard his skills highly before allowing him to open my skull, compared to a Western dressed neurosurgeon.

[Svejk]

I'd be a bit worried about being part of 'gods plan'.

[jackthehat]

Well, I certainly wouldn't base my opinion on how he was dressed.

Wearing a collar and tie doesn't go hand in hand with an elevated degree of competency.

[leahbee]

At the risk of being slated again , yes I would be very concerned. He appears to consider
life very lightly.
I would add that my sister has just come out of intensive care after having a double heart bypass. She had to have this done 100 miles away from home because surgeons nearer home refused to operate.
Squad, does this happen often and why is this when it is national health.

[Sqad]

rowan
\\\\No because I've worked with some brilliant people who elevated scruffy to whole new levels.\\\

Not in surgical specialties I hope

Svejk

\\\\\I'd be a bit worried about being part of 'gods plan'.\\\

Yes, that might be a concern for me too ;-)

Just a thought of mine.........how would people react......if one is going to be operated on then confidence is an important factor and appearance is a part of gaining one's confidence and reassurance.......for some people that is.

In my experience, one, given the choice, would rather have a medic of one's own race or indeed country of origin.

Clearly from the answers, I am in the minority.

[Svejk]

You wouldn't expect to have specialists in every field, in every hospital. Leah.

[boxtops]

No, not at all. If I am referred to any consultant, I look them up on the internet to see their track record. What they look like is of no concern to me, only that they know what they are doing. Many doctors from the Asian subcontinent are talented and skilled. What they wear out of work is not my business.

Leahbee, it's not uncommon for patients to have to travel to centres of excellence these days - it's more cost effective for the NHS to centralise speciality areas, than keep open small expensive units where consultants have to dash from one to the other. Where possible, the patient has choice about where they go.

My OH had to go for a scan some years back - there was a many-week wait at our local unit, the GP arranged for him to go to Belgium for it. It was brilliant.

[Sqad]

leahbee

\\\She had to have this done 100 miles away from home because surgeons nearer home refused to operate. \\

LOL...sorry, I cannot answer that as i do not know why the local "boys" wouldn't touch her.

[pixie373]

His race is irrelevant, although his clear belief that death might be God's plan would unnerve me. I only know that from the article though and wouldn't think that if i met him as part of treatment. As i said, it's not the clothes, but the beard that bothers me (for an operating theatre). I'm not sure how he sterilises that!