Had a doctor appointment today and the paper-paperwork was mostly a repeat of the fill-this-out-every-time-you-have-an-appointment-digital history except it asked about work history AND
“Do you have any hobbies?”
Now, this was looking for potentially health-threatening exposures, I get it, but I am rather put off by lumping my painting/printing/etc into something called “hobbies”, so I put it down under work stuff – Artist (painting/printing/fiber). Then the doc and I had a chat about that – what kind, no solvents, etc, etc.
It does have me wondering though, “do you have any hobbies?”
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
