Maimuna’s Memoir: Ignoring Strangers

When finally the other doctor had his fill of discussing politics, he called out “Next patient please.” The man and patient who he had been chatting with strode out of the cubicle, giving me a nasty look that I pretended not to notice. I won’t waste my time on this stranger. The other patients looked at me as it was my turn to go in and be attended to. I shrugged,

“I don’t want to be attended to by that doctor, please someone else can go,” I said out loud. A man that was supposed to be after me got up and went into the cubicle. I glanced at my phone to see so many missed calls. I didn’t care, I would wait to see a responsible doctor even if it took me the entire day. When another doctor called out for the next patient, I got up and went to that cubicle to be attended to.