What would your thoughts be on this new doctor?

So, my Doc for the last 20 years, moved to KC. There’s a new guy in town to take his place.

Today I had a minor reason to go in, and specifically asked to see him so I could find out what he’s like. I’m guessing he’s in his late 30’s, early 40’s

My first impression was “Dayum! He’s tall!!!” He’s like, 6’7”, maybe 6’8”. Tall.

My second impression is that he was really well dressed, like business casual, nice grey slacks, nice shirt, which is a change. They’re all pretty relaxed around there and my old Doc used to wear KU crap and I’d give him grief about it.

My third was that he needed a hair trim. He’s black, and his hair was starting to stick up unevenly a little in some places on his head, like little poofies. It was kind of like Will Smith’s character’s hair in The Pursuit of Happyness.

Then he opened his mouth to speak….and I was taken aback by the fact that he had several teeth missing. One of the missing teeth was a top front one. They’d been missing for some time because the one front tooth that was left was shifting, and starting to move forward and to stick out.
He had bottom front teeth missing, too. In all he probably had 4 or 5 missing teeth just in front, which is all I could see. It just blew my mind. Immediately a “hillbilly” came to mind.

I tried to disregard it…it’s just a superficial thing after all, and listened to him talk. He sounded knowledgeable enough.

Then we discussed my episode with pneumonia in 2012. In a roundabout way he asked me if I’d been around people when I contracted it, or at home.
I kept saying, “Well, apparently it came on slowly, over a period of several weeks, so I have no idea when I got the original bacteria.”
Then I mentioned that I was teaching at the jail at the time, and he asked if others there had been sick. He said, “Surely they would have told you if they were!”
I was kind of scratching my head because how would I know if any individuals in the rest of the jail population came down sick during that time? It certainly wasn’t something they’d necessarily tell me. I mean, they gonna give me a roster stating the health status of everyone in the jail?
PLUS pneumonia isn’t something that you catch, like a cold. You can pass the bacteria on, but the person who gets it may or may not actually get sick, and may or may not get pneumonia.

So, I just don’t know. I liked him, I liked his demeanor, he seemed knowledgeable, but his appearance threw me, especially the teeth, and the questions about the how I “got” the pneumonia threw me some… I just don’t know.

Your thoughts?