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Went to the drs today - first time in a while! I was seen by a paramedic in shorts 🤔. Weird painful shin but only when I weight bear on the bone

Anyway he had no idea & said no point booking an xray as it’ll take 12 weeks, they might not give you one anyway & I’m sure it will be better by then 😂
 
Char said:
Went to the drs today - first time in a while! I was seen by a paramedic in shorts 🤔. Weird painful shin but only when I weight bear on the bone

Anyway he had no idea & said no point booking an xray as it’ll take 12 weeks, they might not give you one anyway & I’m sure it will be better by then 😂
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So if it’s not better in 12 weeks…it’ll be another 12 weeks wait
 
Char said:
Went to the drs today - first time in a while! I was seen by a paramedic in shorts 🤔. Weird painful shin but only when I weight bear on the bone

Anyway he had no idea & said no point booking an xray as it’ll take 12 weeks, they might not give you one anyway & I’m sure it will be better by then 😂
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Often gp's now employ ex paramedics and call them "Medical Practioners". It's a con.

Dad needed a gp visit day before yesterday and that day he referred dad for a number of xrays. His trust has one main 24 hour hospital and two satellite hospitals which seem to be daytime only. That one referal means he can go to any of those three from the time the referral was written, I took him the very next day.

In your case Char, I'd contact the surgery, tell them why you are unhappy and insist on a x ray referal and possibly a blood test. Make noise and they suddenly listen.
 
Noobie said:
Often gp's now employ ex paramedics and call them "Medical Practioners". It's a con.

Dad needed a gp visit day before yesterday and that day he referred dad for a number of xrays. His trust has one main 24 hour hospital and two satellite hospitals which seem to be daytime only. That one referal means he can go to any of those three from the time the referral was written, I took him the very next day.

In your case Char, I'd contact the surgery, tell them why you are unhappy and insist on a x ray referal and possibly a blood test. Make noise and they suddenly listen.
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Or we might be calling her CHARRRRRRRRR!!!!!
 
The other day my son went to Southampton A&E with bad stomach pains and there was a 8/9 hour wait

They couldn’t get him a bed so sent him home. His appendix burst in the night at home so ended up 3 hours in surgery
& 3 days on IV antibiotics. If they’re sorted him the first time it would have been a 1/2 hour op and home the next day

Awful

Sorry if I mentioned this before lol
 
Char said:
The other day my son went to Southampton A&E with bad stomach pains and there was a 8/9 hour wait

They couldn’t get him a bed so sent him home. His appendix burst in the night at home so ended up 3 hours in surgery
& 3 days on IV antibiotics. If they’re sorted him the first time it would have been a 1/2 hour op and home the next da
Awful

Sorry if I mentioned this before lol
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That is fucken terrible. Poor lad and I thought our medical system is shit.
I had stomach pains a few years back, got an emergency doc appointment and he sent me to hospital where the were going to operate the next morning for appendicitis. They did a scan to confirm ( which got sent to Australia as no one was available in nz at that time to analysis it)
And it came back with diverticulitis as the problem. The surgeon was real upset as she was 99% percent sure i wasnt leaving without her getting a souvenir.
 
Chizel - Founding Father said:
That is fucken terrible. Poor lad and I thought our medical system is shit.
I had stomach pains a few years back, got an emergency doc appointment and he sent me to hospital where the were going to operate the next morning for appendicitis. They did a scan to confirm ( which got sent to Australia as no one was available in nz at that time to analysis it)
And it came back with diverticulitis as the problem. The surgeon was real upset as she was 99% percent sure i wasnt leaving without her getting a souvenir.
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Yeah I had mine out a few years ago. Straight to A&E no hanging around and quick keyhole surgery

Things have changed since Covid ☹️
 
Chizel - Founding Father said:
Yep, its get used to not getting medical attention. Yet somehow the national health keeps costing more...
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Chizel - Founding Father said:
Yep, its get used to not getting medical attention. Yet somehow the national health keeps costing more...
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The best ever con to persuade people that the treatment for a flu or virus will no longer work so stay at home cross your fingers and pray to jebus meanwhile we will practice our tik tok dances and fake concern faces 👀 for the love of jebus do not expect your doc to see you as you are at deaths door with the vid ... unless you need a jab then roll up roll up 👍
 
Char said:
The other day my son went to Southampton A&E with bad stomach pains and there was a 8/9 hour wait

They couldn’t get him a bed so sent him home. His appendix burst in the night at home so ended up 3 hours in surgery
& 3 days on IV antibiotics. If they’re sorted him the first time it would have been a 1/2 hour op and home the next day

Awful

Sorry if I mentioned this before lol
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In 2001 I had to have emergency surgery following similar symptoms. I'd been experiencing sporadic but intense abdominal pains for a few days. It came and went and I put it down to eating the wrong thing. I'd been working very hard and often didn't eat anything all day except some shitty pasty from a corner shop.
A few times at work I'd had to give up and retire to the tea hut and stuff myself with paracetamol and sit there with my head on the table. My work mates thought I was hungover/pissed off with the job or otherwise swinging the lead and had little sympathy. Then one day on a site in Yeovil I collapsed in a trench where I was laying foundations and couldn't continue. No one believed I was really ill.
Luckily one of our labourers was also a crewman on the Weymouth lifeboat and had first aid training. He phoned Yeovil hospital suspecting acute appendicitis and insisted I was taken to A&E immediately. Reluctantly the site agent drive me to the hospital in his car. Every tiny bump we drove over was agony and when we got there I couldn't get out of the car and was taken to a ward in a wheelchair.
After 24 hours of morphine and observation I was booked in for emergency surgery at 7:00 am the next day. They didn't really know what was wrong with me until they opened me up and had a look as my symptoms weren't quite right for appendicitis. In the middle of the night when I'd pressed the bell because of the pain I was in, the formidable ward sister who looked like Hattie Jaques asked me if I wanted to see a priest... I said what the fuck does he know about guts ache?

Anyway, next morning I was operated on and recalled nothing afterwards until I came out of intensive care two days later with tubes in my arm. It turned out I had acute adenitis. Very similar to appendicitis where nodes on the side of the large intestine twist and become infected with broadly similar results in extreme case (which mine was) if left untreated. They removed 1 1/2 pounds of gangrenous tissue from my lower intestine. If they hadn't done so I'd have been dead within 48 hours. 34 years old forever.

I'm very glad to hear that your son was treated successfully and in a timely fashion. But I've always wondered since my experience whether if it happened today I would have survived. I think after waiting on the phone to 111 for ages I'd have taken to my bed with a hot drink and paracetamol and no one would have noticed until flies gathered in the window and passers-by noticed a smell. Such is the state this country has sunk to.
 
My recent experience with the NHS was baffling, anomalous perhaps.

Ambulance came within an hour of calling 999. CT scan same day. Operation the next morning.

Three keyholes put in me (I could tell which one they had the most fun with from the bruising).

I was sorted before any life-changing damage occurred. I called 999 on the second day of illness and excruciating pain.
 
Loz said:
My recent experience with the NHS was baffling, anomalous perhaps.

Ambulance came within an hour of calling 999. CT scan same day. Operation the next morning.

Three keyholes put in me (I could tell which one they had the most fun with from the bruising).

I was sorted before any life-changing damage occurred. I called 999 on the second day of illness and excruciating pain.
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I think my views are coloured by the difficulty of getting to see a GP. It's also something of a postcode lottery. I was referred to A&E a few weeks ago with a timed appointment and was seen within 15 minutes. In other places you could end up on a trolley in a corridor for hours.
 
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Gimlet said:
I think my views are coloured by the difficulty of getting to see a GP. It's also something of a postcode lottery. I was referred to A&E a few weeks ago with a timed appointment and was seen within 15 minutes. In other places you could end up on a trolley in a corridor for hours.
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I was in A&E, in a corridor, for hours.
I told a nurse that I was likely dehydrated as I hadn't been able to hold anything down for over 36 hours, perhaps a saline drip was in order? They eventually agreed.
I expect incompetence and I watch for signs of active malice... it's all part of the NHS experience.

I haven't seen a GP since, umm, 2020? I used to have to get a twice-yearly MOT from my GP & my dentist as part of my contract of employment.
I don't believe in GPs any more, not since the scamdemic. They showed their metal there.

I changed my lifestyle and then my diet over the past ten years. Around the same timescale, I stopped needing pharmaceuticals. Coincidence I'm sure.
 
Loz said:
I haven't seen a GP since, umm, 2020? I used to have to get a twice-yearly MOT from my GP & my dentist as part of my contract of employment.
I don't believe in GPs any more, not since the scamdemic. They showed their metal there.

I changed my lifestyle and then my diet over the past ten years. Around the same timescale, I stopped needing pharmaceuticals. Coincidence I'm sure.
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I signed on to a private dental practice about 18 months ago and I have a £30 a month care plan. I have periodontal disease which I've had for decades (probably genetic) and if I relied on NHS dentistry I doubt I'd have any teeth left by now.
For years my NHS dentist watched my gums and bone receding and blamed me for being lazy with the toothbrush, when in fact I spent a small fortune on electric brush heads, interdental brushes and all sorts of expensive medicated mouth washes to no effect. Only when I joined the private practice did I receive proper monitoring and deep cleaning every three months which has made a big difference.

If I could afford it and there were enough clinics I would take out a similar private care plan for GP services. I can see more of these appearing in the future, along with private hospitals. The state is simply incapable of providing adequate healthcare with top-down micro-(mis)management controlled by politicians.

A cynic would say that state-controlled healthcare doesn't want patients to get better in order to justify their massive centrally-funded budgets. Private providers are in competition with each other. If they don't perform their patients cancel their direct debits and go elsewhere.

It's a classic example of the fundamental flaw and contradiction of socialism and why it can never work: when you're funded according to need from compulsory taxation rather than paid on performance though customer choice, it is in your interest to ensure that the problems you are supposedly paid to address are perpetuated and made continually worse.
If the justification for your political existence is to be the champion of the poor and the sick, it is essential that you never run out of poor and sick people to coerce into voting for you. If it looks like the supply of poor and sick voters might run out, you deliberately create or import more of them. That is why the NHS and every other socialised arm of the state doesn't and never will work. The individual doctors, nurses and surgeons might want to make their patients better; the system must ensure that they stay ill.
 
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Gimlet said:
I signed on to a private dental practice about 18 months ago and I have a £30 a month care plan. I have periodontal disease which I've had for decades (probably genetic) and if I relied on NHS dentistry I doubt I'd have any teeth left by now.
For years my NHS dentist watched my gums and bone receding and blamed me for being lazy with the toothbrush, when in fact I spent a small fortune on electric brush heads, interdental brushes and all sorts of expensive medicated mouth washes to no effect. Only when I joined the private practice did I receive proper monitoring and deep cleaning every three months which has made a big difference.

If I could afford it and there were enough clinics I would take out a similar private care plan for GP services. I can see more of these appearing in the future, along with private hospitals. The state is simply incapable of providing adequate healthcare with top-down micro-(mis)management controlled by politicians.

A cynic would say that state-controlled healthcare doesn't want patients to get better in order to justify their massive centrally-funded budgets. Private providers are in competition with each other. If they don't perform their patients cancel their direct debits and go elsewhere.

It's a classic example of the fundamental flaw and contradiction of socialism and why it can never work: when you're funded according to need from compulsory taxation rather than paid on performance though customer choice, it is in your interest to ensure that the problems you are supposedly paid to address are perpetuated and made continually worse.
If the justification for your political existence is to be the champion of the poor and the sick, it is essential that you never run out of poor and sick people to coerce into voting for you. If it looks like the supply of poor and sick voters might run out, you deliberately create or import more of them. That is why the NHS and every other socialised arm of the state doesn't and never will work. The individual doctors, nurses and surgeons might want to make their patients better; the system must ensure that they stay ill.
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My teeth are shit too ,I still have mine but not particularly straight in the front, the government clinics deemed them too straight when I was a kid to do fuck all about them and at 50 now I couldn't be bothered.. fun fact is my 3 kids have perfect beautiful straight teeth ... guess why 🙈
 
The skitz said:
My teeth are shit too ,I still have mine but not particularly straight in the front, the government clinics deemed them too straight when I was a kid to do fuck all about them and at 50 now I couldn't be bothered.. fun fact is my 3 kids have perfect beautiful straight teeth ... guess why 🙈
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Three of mine have lovely straight teeth…they had braces.

My other lad has very crooked teeth…it wasn’t fair to impose braces on him…putting him through that when he didn’t have any understanding of why.
 
The skitz said:
My teeth are shit too ,I still have mine but not particularly straight in the front, the government clinics deemed them too straight when I was a kid to do fuck all about them and at 50 now I couldn't be bothered.. fun fact is my 3 kids have perfect beautiful straight teeth ... guess why 🙈
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Dox said:
Prob means Kensington 😁
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Obscure Memory:

There's a part in the book 101 Dalmatians where confusion between Kensington & Kennington was an important plot point, for some reason I cannot recall.

Jeez, the shit that has stuck in my mind filter. I read 101 Dalmatians as a teenager.
 
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