But wait.
“…if a woman needing help was wearing a burqa came into your surgery asking for help…”
But women don’t wear burqas because women, women wear burqas because men. Ultimately it’s because babies and paternity and all that. Men police women between the legs because men don’t want to waste their resources on some other man’s sprog. The burqa is to hide the slut from men.
What would the point of examining a patient under a burka? My knee hurts. Can I see the knee? No. Well then.
What is wrong with the BBC? Why this absolute glee in throwing their own culture in the bin?
To do a bit of UK/US translating here – she is asking Kemi Badenoch, who is an MP not a doctor, what Kemi would do if a woman in a burqa came into her surgery. This is not a doctor’s office, this is an MP’s (or anyone’s) ‘open office hours’, where any constituent can come see her without an appointment.
They call office hours “surgery?” What do they call the procedure where doctors use little knives and tubes and such to remodel bodies?
Also called surgery. Difference is generally understood from context.
I don’t think I’d call, say, a professor’s office hours ‘surgery’ – the expression is generally used more like ‘time when an expert is available to help you with your specific problems, no appointment necessary’. So for example in my office someone who’s an expert in a piece of software might hold a ‘surgery’ for people who are struggling to solve specific problems with that software.
From etymonline:
‘According to OED, the British sense of “session at which a Member of Parliament (or other public servant) is available locally to be consulted by constituents” is by 1951, from an extended sense in medical practice of “regular session at which a doctor receives patients for consultation” in a room or den set aside for that purpose called a surgery (by 1846). The word has been extended in Britain to other free consultations for advice.’
Thanks for clarifying, I had thought the woman a doctor. The white coat especially reinforced that misunderstanding.
Haha yes the white coat didn’t help.
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