A medical doctor (who shall remain nameless, of course) asked me to connect on
LinkedIn. I am a member of various lists that encourage linking, so I accepted his invitation. His business was around healthcare with an emphasis on healthy living, so I enquired about it, thinking that it was some sort of motivational method. I got back an email which made it plain that you had to buy some food from him to do this method, and that since he couldn't ship it to the UK (for some unspecified reason) I would be able to get some by having it shipped to an address in the US and then reshipped here.
I thought to myself, "That's more complexity than I want to handle," and emailed him to that effect, and said that when and if he shipped to the UK I would revisit the subject.
In return, I got this email:
I got that. Just let me know when you decide that a fortune robbing, premature, painful, prolonged death is, indeed, more complex than the simple details of shipping to you the solution to your health problems.Gobsmacked, I replied:
Goodness, your bedside manner leaves much to be desired. Please don't communicate with me any more, thanks.and proceeded to delete him from my LinkedIn contacts list.
I suppose that he was sick the day they taught bedside manner in medical school.
