Filling in a medical form I was asked approximately my marital status. Sadly,divulging this information had nothing to conclude with a monthly care packageI had to fill in a form for a medical thing the other day and it asked for my marital status. Now I know, that maintenance of my liberal bona fides requires that I call someone over and demand they disinter the form’s template from whatever NHS administrative database it resides in, or demand the question’s instant removal and the names of all in the chain of command responsible for its appearance. But in all honesty I was a bit tired and the chances of this being accomplished in time for me to get home and watch final week’s The Good Wife before I had to travel and fetch the child from school seemed discouragingly minimal,so I didn’t.
But I did wonder what possible utilize anyone – even whether the form was first written by Patriarchy McPatriarchface – could ever have thought it would serve. There was another space for emergency numbers and the name of whoever was coming with you for the procedure (“No one. Am looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet. Lay me out in waiting room and I will call taxi when conscious”), so it can’t have been connected to that.
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Source: theguardian.com