Paralympics Medal Table

PaulF81

despite training for longer, my salary is half that of a consultant doctor. go figure. I could be on treble my salary in the middle east. once my pension is getting paid, you wont see me for dust.

misskool

why can't we have a system where we can bank "health credits" and choose to use them how we wish? therefore, we have access to everything in the NHS and we can then choose what we want, having the best of both worlds.

And consultants/GPs only get renumerated based on patient numbers and patient systems. You'd soon pick out the GPs who were useless that no one would register with.

olly300

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

I didn't [or didn't mean to] imply that the UK problems were "just" care. So we probably agree. To be frank, I believe the UK system is completely broken. I have recently been through a spate of very major 'treatment' and can find very little to applaud. Your own experiences seem pretty similar. In my case, things that stand out are:

1. Diagnosis of my problem was an extremely lucky 'accident'. I visited the GP for a most routine and mundane matter. The crap GP happened to have a med student with him that day, and therefore did things 'by the book'. He said I was over 60 and therefore needed an MOT. He had bypassed plenty of other opportunities to send me for an MOT.

The only similarity with my own health, which isn't as serious as some of my relations, friends and yours in the short term, is that if it wasn't for a GP trainee I would still be suffering greatly.

In regards to my friends and relations particularly the ones with cancers, the actual GPs refused to refer them on as they didn't believe they were that ill. Only when an articulate relation went with them to an appointment and demanded that they got treated where they referred on. If they hadn't they would be dead today.

Once they were referred on to the hospital they were treated excellently like I was.

One of my friends' still has issues from his cancer and the GPs at his practice are useless. They have his full medical records but it doesn't seem to click with them that due to the cancer he is more frail that other patients if he gets certain illnesses. Unfortunately unless all the GPs at his practice do something corrupt and get struck off, like my sister's GP did, then he can't change practices.

chewmylegoff

The NHS is completely screwed. Because it is a "national treasure" and "the envy of the world" no one will ever sort it out and it will just get worse and worse and more and more expensive and inefficient. The red tops will ensure that it is political suicide to address the issues.

Regarding the opening post, I enjoyed the idea that the USA always "gives china a run for its money" in the Olympics. China has only topped the medal table once!!

Gracchus_Babeuf

StevieJ wrote: »

An interesting blog/article comparing the Para Olympic medal table with the other one.


http://blogs.metro.co.uk/olympics/the-paralympics-medal-table-a-k-a-how-caring-you-are-as-a-nation-index/

The USA finished a very respectable 6th with 31 gold medals. What's the big deal?

More noteworthy are the unimpressive totals for Italy, France and Japan.