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Maybe I’m the only one. But I feel personally that a physician has more responsibility to a patient than a customer. A customer can be forgotten after 5 pm. I’d prefer a physician/healthcare worker who was more invested in me. Gman

There’s been a push-I don’t know what bright people started it-to change the name of the ‘class of people’ who seek medical/psychological help (ie patients) to clients. I think the supposed rationale for this change is because the Latin root for the word patient is verb meaning ‘to suffer.’ This terminology has particularly taken hold in the nursing, psychological, and allied health fields. Most physicians I think still use the word patient. I’m not sure whose mindset is supposed to be affected by this change. I mean at first I thought it was supposed to make the patient feel more empowered. But in reality how many patients actually know that patient equates to suffering? So maybe the change is supposed to affect the mindset of the actual caregiver as they are the ones most likely to be taught the Latin meaning of the word? I also realize Shakespeare said, “What’s in a name?” And if clients and patients have the same type problems, then maybe there’s no difference between them. But I don’t like the change. While I realize it’s most likely a holdover from a different time in this shift oriented/managed care world we currently find ourselves in, I feel like I’m a client at my bank, cleaners, lawyers, etc. I hope the medical/psychological professionals I see are more concerned for my welfare than the average ‘professions’ that have ‘clients’. It seems to me the term client is a subtle way to try to downgrade the relationship between patients and medical professionals. If that relationship isn’t special, then going to the Doctor will always be like going thru a drive-thru quack shack where you meet a faceless/nameless caregiver and you are a faceless patient. Sure for an occasional problem that’s ok. But what if you need a professional to really take an interest in you? And once we downgrade the status of the medical professional/patient relationship to client, how long before we become merely customers? Gman

Maybe since it’s now Tuesday, you’ll be feeling better. I hope so. Gman

I’m not saying it’s abnormal for you to have had those desires. I had crushes on certain guys and teenagers at a much younger age. I can remember having occasional dreams about some of my PE teachers (and others) when I was around 13. Nothing much happened in the dreams. When it got to a certain point, I’d have a ‘wet dream’ and that usually woke me up. I just think 24 is too old for 17. If you said 20 and 27, I don’t know if I’d be totally sanguine. But I would prefer it. Please stay away from my man Armie!!! Gman

I’d be uncomfortable with a 17 year old girl and a 24 year old guy, or a 17 year old boy with a 24 year old woman too. There are developmental stages we go thru. I’m going to that not all 17 year olds have gone thru then yet. Gman

PS: One addendum. If you notice that in picture 1/6 his hair looks a lot shorter than in the other pictures where he shows his hair, that’s probably a newer picture as his hairline looks a bit more receded then in the others. Gman

But a little what, @Dchotasianguy? I don’t know about the private pictures. But the main ones are probably the same ones he had up when I hired him 3 or 4 years ago. Gman

If escorts only want to see, Ben Franklin, they are going to need to go to the Christ Church Burial Ground, in Philadelphia, PA. Gman

I was thinking maybe @ITakeItDeep meant he didn’t save it except to here, and now it’s gone. Gman

Would an app like Whatsapp, or something similar if that isn’t the app, let you have a subsidiary number? Or this article purports to have a workaround for Google voice if you are outside the USA https://lifehacker.com/5726407/use-a-google-voice-number-from-outside-the-us Gman

Well as I said it was only slight!! Actually I had gone away from the Forum, pulled it back and seen that there was a new alert to my comment. Right before I pulled up your post, @BabyBoomer, I was fairly sure I knew what you were going to say. And I was RIGHT!! Gman

I had a slight boyhood crush on George MacArthur (Danno). Gman

It came on first in 1968. I was only 7. And @latbear4blk is two years younger than I am. Gman

Oh I wasn’t calling it pedophilia. I’m just not comfortable with the age difference. And if only Armie and I were on the same side of the dimensional warp, ahh what a happy man I’d be. Gman

I don’t know. I’m not saying it’s smutty. But while 7 years might not be quite so bad from 20 to 27, 7 years from 17 to 24 doesn’t seem quite right to me. I don’t even care if legally it’s ok in Italy. I mean I’d say 14 is too young no matter whether it’s legal or not. Gman

I wasn’t even sure what you meant at first. I think I had a box by my bedside from time to time for my nose. Initially I was wondering if you meant it was part drug paraphernalia. I always knelt to the porcelain g-d while jerking off. So I never had a cum rag. Gman

I hope think my favorite poem is The Bells by Poe. You and several other members always have such fascinating stories. Can you relate how you happened to meet him? As for being fastidious, I think even if I would have accepted being gay when I was young, if a guy my age now had tried to pick me up, unless he was in incredible shape, I would have freaked. Gman

There is someone from Chicago who no longer posts. I can’t remember how we started ‘Conversating’ on here. I ended up in Chicago a few times-once for that initial Chicago Forum Dinner in 2010 or 2011. We decided we liked each other, but I don’t think anything happened. Then around a year later in 2012 or 2013 I was back in Chicago-my last time there-we met for dinner. After dinner we played around a bit in a car. Gman

It took me a second. But it means ‘Bring Your Own Escort’. Gman

But you know even when I was the age of your kids, I wouldn’t have thought it appropriate to give a f-ck you undertone to a public picture. I mean I don’t find the tongue as offensive as flipping the bird. But I wouldn’t have done that in a public picture either when I was their age. Gman

This is probably the only place I know Auden from. I’m not much into poetry. Gman

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I miss seeing Mike Gaite. I hope he is doing well. Gman

He’s traveling to LA in a couple of weeks. Gman

First off, you were incredibly kind to offer your home. It sounds like it wasn’t all peaches and cream-but that it wasn’t horrible. I think sometimes you don’t know how you feel until after events occur. Gman