- Working title
- Doctors Use Smaller Chairs Than Necessary
- Format
- Unsaid
- Category
- The Body
- Subject tags
- Doctors, Body, Embarrassment
- Core thought
- Medical rooms can make a person feel physically in the way before anything has even been discussed.
- Real-world trigger
- Sitting in a consulting room and noticing the patient chair is wedged between a trolley and the examination couch.
- Specific detail to use
- The chair arms press against your coat while the doctor types without looking up.
- Discomfort or tension
- Body awkwardness, mild embarrassment and the sense of taking up too much space.
- Why it fits I Said
- It belongs in the private, bodily, slightly unsaid territory of I Said rather than a finished reflective piece.
- Output direction
- Unsaid thought left short and unpolished.