Embarrassing Ailments
Have you got anything wrong with you that's really, really embarrassing? Something that makes your toes positively curl and if anyone you knew found out you'd die of shame?
Well, I'll have done a roleplay about it then, for the training and/or assessment of doctors or student doctors. Even if you're a bloke, and it's something in a place you're too embarrassed to even think about, I'll have been married to someone who doesn't want to talk about it either, in a roleplay.
Because it's good to present doctors with a lot of challenge in their training, especially the ones who are already qualified.
Because of this, I'm used to talking quite openly about things that make most people wince and hide under the table: I'm just not embarrassed at all.
Today and tomorrow I'm involved in a course quite a long way away (which is why I should be asleep in bed - I have to get up at six to go and do more of it) and my roleplay topics are all topics which might be considered rather harrowing or thoroughly embarrassing.
I pride myself on keeping totally in character, on making it as real as possible. But honestly, when you're doing twelve half-hour roleplays in a day it's quite a lot, and it's hard to keep concentration.
But I did. Just. Even though, when I did a roleplay which involved me asking for a cure for my constipation, one candidate said "We need to delve more deeply into your constipation." NO, Daphne, I said to myself, not one flicker on your face, thank you very much.
And I still didn't crack when every single candidate said, completely without thinking, "We've got to get to the bottom of this."
I've got to do it all again tomorrow. And if they all say it again, and I still manage not to smile, I think I should get some kind of Oscar.
Well, I'll have done a roleplay about it then, for the training and/or assessment of doctors or student doctors. Even if you're a bloke, and it's something in a place you're too embarrassed to even think about, I'll have been married to someone who doesn't want to talk about it either, in a roleplay.
Because it's good to present doctors with a lot of challenge in their training, especially the ones who are already qualified.
Because of this, I'm used to talking quite openly about things that make most people wince and hide under the table: I'm just not embarrassed at all.
Today and tomorrow I'm involved in a course quite a long way away (which is why I should be asleep in bed - I have to get up at six to go and do more of it) and my roleplay topics are all topics which might be considered rather harrowing or thoroughly embarrassing.
I pride myself on keeping totally in character, on making it as real as possible. But honestly, when you're doing twelve half-hour roleplays in a day it's quite a lot, and it's hard to keep concentration.
But I did. Just. Even though, when I did a roleplay which involved me asking for a cure for my constipation, one candidate said "We need to delve more deeply into your constipation." NO, Daphne, I said to myself, not one flicker on your face, thank you very much.
And I still didn't crack when every single candidate said, completely without thinking, "We've got to get to the bottom of this."
I've got to do it all again tomorrow. And if they all say it again, and I still manage not to smile, I think I should get some kind of Oscar.
posted by Daphne at 12:19 am
3 Comments:
You deserve a medal, not just an oscar! I'd have been in pleats and thoroughly disgraced myself. ;)
what a brilliant job!
i'd be sacked, i'd be laughing before i even opened my mouth
I'd have laughed so hard there would have been no doubt I needed no cure for constipation!
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