It seems off-putting for everyone to don a costume when I’m about to have a procedure.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I got a colonoscopy on Halloween. Most of the staff were in full costume, including the doctors. Think skintight red dresses with Superman capes, Spider-Man bodysuits, etc.
I’m totally okay seeing adults dressed in costume at their kids’ Halloween parties, but at a surgery center? I’m not a Debbie Downer, and yes, it’s Halloween, but is this the place for it? There were also nurses with Halloween-themed scrubs, pumpkin earrings, and devil-horn or cat-ear headbands. Those options seem more appropriate.Miss Manners is referring to the possible outcome of a colonoscopy, which she would think scary enough. Perhaps the hijinks were intended to distract patients from worry.
Personally, she would prefer the medical worry. Surely if ever detached professionalism is needed, it is when one is in the position required for a colonoscopy. It is not the way you want to present yourself to jokesters.DEAR MISS MANNERS: So many people get Veterans Day and Memorial Day mixed up.
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