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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sudunone" data-source="post: 5752886" data-attributes="member: 205934">Yes, it's difficult for both parties. People are so used to the scenario with a male doctor and a female nurse. So some people address male nurses as Doctors and female doctors as Miss. I've faced the opposite situation: Hospital staff usually address elderly ladies as "amma" and some ladies get really annoyed at this, specially when a minor staff member call them 'amma' and the patient is from a respectable family/professional background. After all, the word 'amma' is used in respect but this is not always interpreted as such by everybody. Same goes for "seeya/uncle". Usually poor, uneducated people are very pleased with this type of addressing (amma, seeya etc.). So you see, this is related to our ego. Educated people like to be addressed as Mr./Ms while village people find this distancing.I guess we have to find the form of address each person prefers. Now, if we addressed an inspector as ralahami, we won't be able to get our work done. So, I think, like someone had already mentioned, we have to be a bit cunning and address their ego, if we need things done.I also have seen doctors who behave as if the patients don't know a word of English. It's really stupid when you consider that most of these people have learnt English at the university, and many of them know only medical terms. I guess this is a remnant from our past. Sudda and his English still govern our mentality.<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/no.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":no:" title="No    :no:" data-shortname=":no:" />About free education, well, apart from all those who studied at international colleges and foreign countries, all of us have a responsibility to serve this country and its people with due respect.</blockquote>

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