and while it didn't horribly upset me in the moment, it did afterwards when it had a chance to sink in, because this is the hospital where I was stalked by a brain-damaged, alcoholic janitor for a year.
And yes, I think it is because I am a woman, and a transplant, in a rural area where the locals all know each other.
At the moment I'm upset because I was making a gram stain last week and a doctor came in with a spec he wanted to check for crystals and then leave for a gram stain. So he was babbling on about inanities (much like your patients) while I'm trying to do my work.
And then he switched to babbling about the spec and suddenly starts poking me in the back, saying, "This is the spot I got the specimen from. Right about here" while digging his finger into my back!!!! 
While I'm standing over the sink trying to decolorize a gram stain!!!!!!
I guarantee he would NEVER have done that to a man.
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