Bloomin doctors

johnwallace

My wife lost her voice and had a sore throat and ached all over. She also had a temperature and was feeling dizzy so I phoned up the doctor for an appointment for her.

He examined her and said she had a virus and to go home and keep warm, drink plenty of fluids and take painkillers and go to the chemist and BUY a spray to spray on her throat. He even wrote down what she should buy. It should only cost about £10 he said

Now my wife has thyroid problems and she is eligible for free prescriptions and she wasn't in the best of moods when he said this so she lost it and croaked at him, with all the money you doctors make and with all the tax I'm paying on my pension you want me to go to the chemist and buy medicine rant rant rant.

She got her prescription.

sookipeaspud

Im too hoarsed to respond properly to this!

Anthillmob

be thankful you got an appointment whilst she was ill.

to get an appointment @ mine you have to first be dead that morning you call otherwise be prepared to wait 2 weeks for the next available appointment.

[ps. hope she is feeling better now x]

dizziblonde

Congratulations? You saved £3 and gave someone an (admittedly low-volume) earful based on a Daily Mail article.

My doctor is regularly still seeing patients over an hour after surgery closes, I've had him return calls for advice at 9.30 at night, when late surgery is due to finish at 8. He does this because he will happily take half an hour over a patient who needs that amount of time - rather than just shoving a presciption in their face.

He's worth every penny he earns for the time and attention he puts into his patients - as are all the staff at that practice who'll go the extra mile to slot people in who need it.

Haven't met a doctor yet who won't shove stuff on prescription if they know you get it free either. My uni ones quite happily stocked me up on asthma inhalers before my free entitlement ran out, and would prescribe stuff that's cheaper bought over the counter if they knew I wasn't paying for prescriptions etc.

dizziblonde

Anthillmob wrote: »

be thankful you got an appointment whilst she was ill.

to get an appointment @ mine you have to first be dead that morning you call otherwise be prepared to wait 2 weeks for the next available appointment.

[ps. hope she is feeling better now x]

My old surgery used to have the phonelines open at a random time we'll keep changing and only put up on a note in the actual surgery so if you're not a regular you'll never know it. All appointments (unless the receptionsts liked you) had to be made on the day - so you had to guess the time lines were opening that month, mash the redial button and pray you got lucky before it was sold out that day.

Was an utter nightmare if you worked.

Current surgery will squish you in if you're genuinely desperate on the end of surgery sessions - no problem at all with it. They also run evening surgeries, and let you book appointments in advance. Makes all the difference.

Anthillmob

you can sometimes gtet an appointment if you phone at 8am. usually when you phone at 8am their phone lines are still closed and then from 8.10 onwards are constantly engaged.

if i cant get an appt ive taken to asking fior a doctor to call me, they usually offer you a time to come in later in the day.

years ago at my surgery they used to do a walk in first come first served surgery every morning.

Abbafan1972

Anthillmob wrote: »

be thankful you got an appointment whilst she was ill.

to get an appointment @ mine you have to first be dead that morning you call otherwise be prepared to wait 2 weeks for the next available appointment.

[ps. hope she is feeling better now x]

Sounds a bit like my doctors! We can book our appts online. I have got the info to register, but just haven't got round to it yet.

Noctu

dizziblonde wrote: »

Congratulations? You saved £3 and gave someone an (admittedly low-volume) earful based on a Daily Mail article.

No, she saved £10 as she gets free prescriptions.

GemJar_2

Oh no! I love my doctor he bends over backwards to make sure he can do everything he can for you. They're open every day for open appointments from half 8 until half 10 and he usually stays behind and waits for you if you can't get from work quick enough. Plus, he's gorgeous! haha

Velcro_Hotdog

johnwallace wrote: »

My wife lost her voice .

And you took her to the doctors!

Think of all the things you could have done and not had to listen to the moaning afterwards :rotfl:

I think you made a school boy error

flyer64

johnwallace wrote: »

My wife lost her voice and had a sore throat and ached all over. She also had a temperature and was feeling dizzy so I phoned up the doctor for an appointment for her.

He examined her and said she had a virus and to go home and keep warm, drink plenty of fluids and take painkillers and go to the chemist and BUY a spray to spray on her throat. He even wrote down what she should buy. It should only cost about £10 he said

Now my wife has thyroid problems and she is eligible for free prescriptions and she wasn't in the best of moods when he said this so she lost it and croaked at him, with all the money you doctors make and with all the tax I'm paying on my pension you want me to go to the chemist and buy medicine rant rant rant.

She got her prescription.

And this is why there is no money in the health service.;)