Doctors/GP's

battleborn

pimento wrote: »

No. Mine is much prettier.

lol I like your style of come back

happy_to_be_here

battleborn wrote: »

Every other profession works weekends how do these lazy doctors get away with it in 2013. Disgrace!

I don't and I don't know of any other nurseries that open weekends either.

The hair dresser up the road from me is closed on a Sunday. By your logic should I complain to them that they are not opening when it's convenient for me?

And if you work an hour an a half away from your go then you could consider doing what I did and moving to one closer to your work??

battleborn

happy_to_be_here wrote: »

I don't and I don't know of any other nurseries that open weekends either.

The hair dresser up the road from me is closed on a Sunday. By your logic should I complain to them that they are not opening when it's convenient for me?

And if you work an hour an a half away from your go then you could consider doing what I did and moving to one closer to your work??

You are going ott and to be frank your comments are stupid.

Faith177

happy_to_be_here wrote: »

I don't and I don't know of any other nurseries that open weekends either.

The hair dresser up the road from me is closed on a Sunday. By your logic should I complain to them that they are not opening when it's convenient for me?

And if you work an hour an a half away from your go then you could consider doing what I did and moving to one closer to your work??[/QUOTE]

I tried but they will only take patients from the local area.

Also as it is under a different health trust if I had to be refered to a hosptial then I could end up going to one miles away from where I live with no way of getting home

happy_to_be_here

Faith177 wrote: »

happy_to_be_here wrote: »

I don't and I don't know of any other nurseries that open weekends either.

The hair dresser up the road from me is closed on a Sunday. By your logic should I complain to them that they are not opening when it's convenient for me?

And if you work an hour an a half away from your go then you could consider doing what I did and moving to one closer to your work??[/QUOTE]

I tried but they will only take patients from the local area.

Also as it is under a different health trust if I had to be refered to a hosptial then I could end up going to one miles away from where I live with no way of getting home

Ah I never considered that I'm lucky that my doctor is in the same city and as such all the NHS services are under the same bit

Faith177

happy_to_be_here wrote: »

Faith177 wrote: »

Ah I never considered that I'm lucky that my doctor is in the same city and as such all the NHS services are under the same bit

Nope the NHS trust changes 6 miles down the road from my office

The procedure I often have to have the Trust that runs where my work is use a hospital about 30 miles from my home as I don't drive and have to be sedated for the procedure it would be a bit of a pain

lovefullshelves

happy_to_be_here wrote: »

I don't and I don't know of any other nurseries that open weekends either.

The hair dresser up the road from me is closed on a Sunday. By your logic should I complain to them that they are not opening when it's convenient for me?

And if you work an hour an a half away from your go then you could consider doing what I did and moving to one closer to your work??

Ah but the hairdresser and all the other lovely folk who choose not to work on a saturday or a sunday are not paid using OUR taxes are they?
WE pay the doctors wages in a roundabout way.
They are PUBLIC servants(they are paid by the public purse) not private businesses.
I'm self employed, if I don't work I don't eat! So I work whenever I have to, be that in the dark frosty sunday mornings of Dec or the hot (haha) saturday July evenings.
I had to wait nearly three weeks for a routine appointment at our local doctors surgery. They don't work w/e's or tuesday afternoons!
Yes their work is stressful, but I wouldn't say 'hard'.
What is a GP's average wage?

hc25036

Your GP is not working only when the surgery is open. For every hour the surgery is open there will be at least 30 minutes of paperwork, plus ongoing training for the doctors, plus training for other staff, all the paperwork to do with the practice and a whole load of other stuff we don't know about.

Yes, there's a good salary, but that comes after 7+ years of education and further training. When GPs were expected to provide a 24/7 service it was a disaster waiting to happen as older GPs retired with stress and no new doctors wanted to become GPs.

I'm sure individual surgeries could be better run, but there isn't any way a 24/7 is feasible nowadays

lovefullshelves

There's also home visits, I agree they do alot of work, no question. Although alot of their 'paperwork' seems to be done by the 3 receptionist/office staff (and there's only 3 doctors) and most of it is pc related. AND the doctors don't actually make appointments for some things at the hospital now. My son had to make his own for breast screening and he was stressed enough! (then to be told at the hospital when diagnosed that 'we don't do that on the NHS anymore' JOY!)

mattyprice4004

battleborn wrote: »

Thats not the point.
Why do they not work weekends.

No, that IS the point. It's not needed!