It’s February 14, 2022. Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “practitioner.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
This, That, and the Other 
ODE TO PRACTITIONER
Practitioner’s not an easy
Thing to rhyme/ode to
Took me many hours, yep
Many hours to do
Can you put your word (Fan)
Generator mode
Into easy yes, no, buts
Ease my worried load?
yawn………
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I don’t want to make it too easy for you, Don. Where’s the fun in that?
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You taunter you. Just don’t give me
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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Antidisestablishmentarianism.
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I’ll enter my rant, here. I went to a nurse practitioner, a little over two years ago, because my regular doctor’s schedule was full. It was the end of the year, and my health insurance wanted me (everybody) to have a regular checkup. As it turned out, this practitioner also did (and does) lady-related things. How convenient, I thought, I’ll get my pap smear out of the way. It was additionally recommended to me, just because, to do a test involving those Cologuard commercials you may have seen on television a time or two. Over the course of the rest of the next year, I got a letter for each topic saying that I should contact the office for the results. I called repeatedly; they didn’t have the results. Not only that, the nurse (not, in other words, the nurse practitioner herself), the assistant I spoke with told me they had no record of me getting those tests. Well, I took pictures to document the test that I sent in. Plus, what kind of crazy would remember putting her feet up in stirrups if it hadn’t happened? I eventually became angry. I had to tell them I took the pictures of the colon-related test before the practitioner’s nurse would be serious. Actually, I think I got someone else on the phone on the day that I was taken seriously; perhaps the nurse was out of the office for the day or no longer working there. I was called back in a few days. I was told that the colon test was negative. (I don’t know if they just took a fifty-percent [or better] chance and chose to say it was negative.) I hadn’t had the test because of symptoms, it was simply routine.
As for the Pap smear… also routine. The nurse practitioner relayed to the person I was now speaking with on the phone that she remembered taking the sample for the test. The end.
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Sheesh!
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Yeah. My doctor (family doctor or general practitioner) retired a couple months ago. I wish things had gone well with the office management of this nurse practitioner (who I do feel is quite competent herself). As it is, I won’t be making her my regular health professional. I considered giving them another try (and perhaps that nurse was incompetent and is gone), but I just think that was too extreme. 😰
Dang. And it’s such a good location.
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Happy Valentines day: https://wordpress.com/post/poetisatinta.wordpress.com/2249
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sorry could not get ping back to work. so here is my effort.
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For some reason, the pingback got caught up in my spam folder. I don’t know why.
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