{"id":28138,"date":"2026-01-16T20:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28138"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:06:15","slug":"doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28138","title":{"rendered":"Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a colleague was telling me about his sometimes frustrating experiences trying to explain his technology product to various customers. It turns out that certain kinds of customers are less &#8220;tech-friendly&#8221; than others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But do you want to know which ones are the worst?&#8221; he said, &#8220;Doctors!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He suddenly looked very intense. &#8220;Doctors,&#8221; he said, &#8220;have no patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t let that one go. &#8220;You realize how that sounds, don&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a moment&#8217;s pause. Then he realized what he had just said, and we both started laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a colleague was telling me about his sometimes frustrating experiences trying to explain his technology product to various customers. It turns out that certain kinds of customers are less &#8220;tech-friendly&#8221; than others. &#8220;But do you want to know which ones are the worst?&#8221; he said, &#8220;Doctors!&#8221; He suddenly looked very intense. &#8220;Doctors,&#8221; he said, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28139,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28138\/revisions\/28139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}