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Doc's
Loving staff, healing foods. | |
When we are sick, we wish we could just lay in bed all day,
and do nothing. I've had gastritis for about a year and a half,
and today was one of those days for me. Eventually I'll have
to eat something (or the acids in my stomach will just make
me want to die) which means, I'll have to deal
with carrots,
raw chicken and dirty mushrooms to cook something, and
clean the kitchen afterwards, while feeling terrible. I wish
someone could just tell me what the perfect meal is to
make me feel less terrible... and then cook it for me.
Regardless of your illness/condition, even if you're not sick
but have special food needs, Doc's diner is the place to go
because the Chefs... are also doctors! No etiquette: all
guests are encouraged to arrive in their more comfortable
outfits, even your pijamas. From a shelf near the reception
area you take a menu according to the ocasion.
The "Flu Menu" shows a list of extra-spiced, high flavoured
dishes so that the client, whose taste buds are num, can
actually taste something. The "Gastritis Menu" lists foods
that are mildly flavored and easy to digest, like vegetable
creams and grilled chicken.
The different "food allergy" menus (wheat/lactose/seafood,
etc), will show healthy, delicious alternatives where the
latest discoveries of food properties are put to use, and the
guest will be relaxed, not fearing an accidental intoxication.
There is a menu to suit everyone's needs (constipation,
high-cholesterol, diabetic, bad breath, high-risk pregnancy,
etc).
Once you've picked your menu, a hostess/nurse takes you to
your "lounge". It's a small, semi-circled, puffy, couch with
reposet seats. In between the cushions, individual (and
retractable) boards are pulled towards to work as a table
that allows the guest/patient to move freely, even to lay
down and put his/her feet up. After taking the order, the
waitress/nurse offers extra blankets to the patient.
Home delivery for agoraphobics.
Eating at Doc's is like being pampered by your mom/best
friend without having them skip work; like
being looked after just as in a hospital, but without the
shots and without having to eat hospital food... instead, you
get a dish that is deliciously tailored to make you feel
better.
Good Hurt
http://www.goodhurt.net/v2/411.php
A different sort of healing process, but good for what ails you. [jurist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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I like this. After all, food is a medicine that we all take every day ("eat some food, every day, for the rest of your life" - that's the prescription we're all born with) - why shouldn't it be tailored to our individual bodily needs rather than dictated by either expensive chefs or big corporations? |
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(warning - this annotation may contain traces of nuts) |
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I hate to comment on my own annotation, but I have to say I've never understood the phrase - "traces of nuts". I've heard of "brass rubbings", but come on... And these things get into my food..? |
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Would people patronize a restaurant filled with the ill? I'm not sure but I don't think that I would. |
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Yes, this would work better as a delivery service. Who wants to go out when you're sick anyway? |
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It would probably sound pretty awful in there
*Cougggh! blurggggggggh ehhecch! Kerpccccch! *'scuse me.* Hrrrrrmm! Hrrrrmch!*
Is this really conducive to eating? |
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Right: agoraphobics ---> verminophobics. |
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A skimpy nurse delivering boiled , pickled, scrambled eggs... mmmmm...Maybe remove the red cross emblazoned across the chest of said nurse and replace with a patched set of knives and forks. |
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My lawyers are scrutinising this venture as we speak. Apparently the only potential stumbling blocks on my way to [Pericles]' millions are:
1. Surprisingly common occurrence of 'Doc' as a first name.
2. Use of 'Doc' in my case confined to screen alias and not legally-recognised name. |
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Still...see you in court! [+] |
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[+] for the home delivery service. |
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This is the first time I hear that expression [lostdog], but sounds to me like something you find AFTER the food exits your system, he he. |
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//Who wants to go out when you're sick anyway?// |
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I thought of this idea because I have been at home, laying sick in my bed and lonely like a dog for two days. I just wished someone was here to give me exactly what I need to feel better without me needing to get up and get it. Plus, I wouldn't know what to eat really... Doctors and nurses know better than me, that's for sure. Even If I knew, I usually don't buy the groceries thinking that I will get sick, so I don't have the right ingredients to cook the right food. It's always easier (and nicer) to go to a place where they take care of all that while you just focus on feeling better. |
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//Would people patronize a restaurant filled with the ill? // |
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Well, people don't have a reason to go there unless they're ill too. I don't think people discriminate others in the same conditions as themselves. Plus, the other guests/patients are laying on their own lounge, far away enough from yours. |
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//traces of nuts// is an allergy warning but then you knew that! |
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funnily enough, this time last summer, thumbwax was talking me through a heat exhaustion time with his own diet of: toast in the morning followed by fruit during the day and a light meat meal at night. |
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pericles, get well soon my dear! |
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If chicken soup, grilled cheese sandwiches and ginger ale aren't the pickmeups that you wanted from "Doc's", you might try someplace like Club Good Hurt.<link> Good Hurt is a newish nightclub in Los Angeles where the female staff wear nurses uniforms. The neon sign behind the bar reads "Prescriptions". And they do a brisk business in medical-themed mixes and over-the-counter first aid. Aside from the "transfusions", the patrons, seem to think that live music and the mid-sized dance floor are the best recuperative therapy for what ails you. |
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