Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

vivatifosi

tomterm8 wrote: »

And no, it's not a real product

B*gger, I wanted one.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I will never understand how an uneducated person clicking buttons on a keyboard can possibly be a better judge of whether someone is disabled or ill than their own doctor.

It is crazy.

And yet, my doctor couldn't tell I was ill at the beginning, when I went to see them...they said the weather was hot (headaches and fainting) and I was greedy (rapid weight gain). This delay very nearly cost me my life.

I also think back to the terrible time I had during puberty and periods and being told over and over ''this is normal, not an illness'' to later find out about the cysts on my ovaries.

My fear of GPs is simply that you have to convince them of invisible symptoms when you don't know what you are talking about. I rally shudder to think how it is for mental health patients and don't understand how so many people supposedly get anti depressants for other invisible symptoms (actually they offered me them...) this being the case.

tomterm8

LiR... I didn't say that the GP would be perfect either, but do you think a computer really has a chance in... wherever... of getting a difficult case like yours right?

Pasturesnew, I used to draw for years. I have discovered, from a practical perspective, I am rubbish at drawing, crafts and art. I am not very practical. I basically can't make things. I will never be good enough at crafty things to able to be happy making them and selling them. Other people are different, of course.

wageslave

A freind of mine is pregnant and, it turns out, is severely anemic.

I was amazed, I couldn't work out how it had happened, the only thing I could think of was she was too lazy to take her iron supplements.

I was mid-lecture when she informed me she wasn't given any. When I had the brat (and it wasn't that bliddy long ago) they literally confirmed your pregnancy whilst writing you a prescription for iron.

Now it seems they wait until you are anemic before they even mention the fact pregnant women need to up their iron intake.

It is all about money. There are so many idle sods milking the NHS there is not a ha'penny spare for anyone else.

The tories haven't made any kind of inroads into the benefit culture that is stripping this country bare despite their promises. They whacked up VAT and continue to bleed taxpayers dry whilst the really needy suffer.

I sound so right wing and I am anything but.

The whole thing really depresses me

purch

A freind of mine is pregnant

Not an easy condition to misdiagnose.

tomterm8

purch wrote: »

Not an easy condition to misdiagnose.

Some doctors probably do misdiagnose it, though

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

LiR... I didn't say that the GP would be perfect either, but do you think a computer really has a chance in... wherever... of getting a difficult case like yours right?.

No I don't, of course I don't, and I wasn't having a pop. Its just GPs should be the gateway to health and I can only see them as a barrier to it. Its a phobia, its not rational....I don't kid myself its rational!:D

wageslave

One of the bratettes was ill a few weeks ago, it was my first brush with the NHS is a very long time.

You don't phone a doctor anymore, you phone NHS 24 and when you manage to convince some harassed woman that your child is actually ill, you have to take her to your local hospital and then wait four hours in a drafty waiting room, surrounded by drunks and junkies, before you see a very nice young gentlemen with extremely limited English.

I can remember when your own doctor (the same doctor who had delivered your child) came out in his jammies at two in the morning and nipped in the next day to check everything was ok.

Why am I paying more into a system that is delivering less and less?

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

No I don't, of course I don't, and I wasn't having a pop. Its just GPs should be the gateway to health and I can only see them as a barrier to it. Its a phobia, its not rational....I don't kid myself its rational!:D

I didn't think you were having a pop, but I don't think this type of system would help someone with your phobia either... because you still have to get diagnosed by your doctor as I understand it. Then, when you are signed off, you get checked by someone clicking buttons on a keyboard.

If the computer doesn't think you are ill enough, you have to go on some kind of scheme.

wageslave

Oh it is the tinker thing tonight. I thought it was Mary Portas.

Bt GOK is back:j