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[pcfan123]

 

[Lee1981]

On the other hand, it's free, which is the biggest plus any healthcare system can have.

Saving your own life or your kids has no price, i'd rather skint myself out knowing ive given myself every chance of complete recovery, ive had a couple of things go wrong with me nothing to serious, and ive had to go down the normal nhs route and to me its absolute gash.

Going on waiting lists, told to see how it goes, i spent 5 days in hospital in agony with severe pain in my left hand side of my body, kept getting told a doctor would be seeing me didnt see one for 3 days, i left hospital with strong pain killers and no answers and still in lots of pain.

Went back to see my doctor she daid i had pulled a muscle

Now ive played football for 25 years and i sure as hell know what a pulled muscle feels like and this was no pulled muscle.

So i decided to go see a private doctor my dad used in harley street in london. Within 48 hours i was booked in

Within a few hours i'd had an ultra sound scan with found i had an enlarged spleen! and an explanation of how it may have happened and what would happen next..

Not once did i recieve a scan in my nhs hospital, why would they feel an xray is a better option, x ray shows broken bones as far as im aware

I know the nhs is free, but normally in life if its free it really aint worth a w@nk

 

[rosewt02]

Totally agree, this is peoples lives on the line, you do all you can to save it. Not to save time, swear doctors are w*nk now days.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

stupid doc
all meds finished
and i'm still coughing my lungs out
and my eyes are filled with so much dirt when I wake up, today morning i could barely open my eyes!
rushed out of bed, went to the sink, started washing my face like mad
got 2 doses left of the cough syrup
all pills don
thinking i'll have to see him again
and what's worse is that i missed 4 days of classes
and my first hw assignments are due after this weekend
somehow i have to catch up on them all
efff this doctor and his antibiotics

 

[Papa_Smurf]

At the risk of forming an opinion on a subject I know little about, the anti-cholinestrase inhibitors work by helping the neurotransmitters last longer, don't they? Dementia is, unfortunately (at the moment, anyway) something that isn't reversible, you can of course improve quality of life for a period of time. This is the moral dilemma NICE have, do you allow a drug which costs ?20k per patient, to improve quality of life for, say a year, or ?20k to a patient who could actually save their life and rid them of that disease.

Yeah, that's basically correct. They inhibit the enzyme which breaks down the neurotransmitter, which significantly decreases the degeneration of the patient's mind. The main out-cry was because they weren't totally taken off, just restricted to late stage dementia, where they were of no-use. The main argument was that if you're going to have them, might as well have them where they'll make a difference.

Otherwise, I agree completely with your points, and I highly respect the UK government for having the NHS and what it stands for - free healthcare for all.

I know the nhs is free, but normally in life if its free it really aint worth a w@nk

Yeah, but not everyone can afford private doctors. Private medicine is such a lucrative business, exactly for the points you mentioned - there's no price for your health.

But the majority of any population will need to rely on the public health system, and having it free ensures that every citizen has access to basic healthcare. Compare this to the US, where a patient would be refused treatment if his insurance won't cover it. To me, that is a disgusting and very de-humanizing way to look at it. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is how I gather the current US system is ran).

Although, it is very worrying that you were mis-diagnosed. Don't know what to make of that. May have something to with targets the hospital might be trying to achieve, and because they rushed it, it was mis-diagnosed. I hear the Conservatives are trying to remove this however in their new health bill.

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And Zorax, do you wear contacts? That might have something to do with the eyes. Otherwise, it just seems one of those pesky viral infections that happpen around the winter season. My advice - strepsils, bed-rest, paracetemol and chicken soup are the best remedy.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

no contacts.

Antibiotics done, still coughing my lungs out with plenty of flem, cousin coming over in an hour to take me to his doctor and see what's up. Probs gonna crash at his place for a while till I'm better.

 

[Haarithan]

Attendance reading 40% midway through my 4th semester . Not a single professor but for one has given a thought about this ! Yes , this guy is my Digital Logic Circuits teacher named Saravanan who is playing foolish tricks with me by threatening to not allow me to write his subject's main exam . Also trying to scare me by saying a phone call to my parents could be a reality anytime from now . TBH , i just did what he asked me to ... 3 weeks before , i was sent out of the class for not taking notes of his useless lecture . I was warned by him to be never seen again in his class , something i just followed over the next 10 classes of his . And now he makes an absolute meal out of it

 

[Varun]

Why did you miss the lectures, anyways? Slacking off?

 

[Dipak]

i was sent out of the class

I'm used to that.

 

[Haarithan]

Why did you miss the lectures, anyways? Slacking off?

Main reason is to spare time for record writing . I have tried my level best to finish off all the pending works right at home but this time , its just not possible with me having to write records for 3 different labs . The labs are the only place where i have a pretty good attendance . Failure to write that week's experiment results me in losing 3 lab classes's attendance which is not what i want .

 

[Lee1981]

Although, it is very worrying that you were mis-diagnosed. Don't know what to make of that. May have something to with targets the hospital might be trying to achieve, and because they rushed it, it was mis-diagnosed.

Thing is when i was in hospital for those 5 days i was never diagnosed with anything, i left there pretty much in the condition i went in at, and trust me ive never felt pain like it in my life i thought my time was up, seriously.

Also when i got rushed in they obviously drugged me up with pain relief big time straight away, so within an hour i feel like i could go run a marathon, felt as good as new, so now in comes a doctor, a pretty fit doctor i must add.(female) and she wants to know where im hurting

Hurting ive just had sh*t loads of morphine, cant believe what im hearing,i never felt so good.
Why would you not ask me when im actually in agony?

I just dont see how doctors can play with peoples lives, are targets and costs more important than our lives?

Its a bloody disgrace, when the sh*t hits the fan you cant rely on those who are meant to help us!

 

[Papa_Smurf]

I just dont see how doctors can play with peoples lives, are targets and costs more important than our lives?

From what I've read, it's the managers that make these decisions, not the doctors themselves. Which is, from what I gather, Cameron meant by giving the 'NHS back to frontline staff' when he was campaigning.

Again, this is only my conclusion from what I've read/seen in the news. Not having had any personal experience with the NHS myself, you do know more than me.

so now in comes a doctor, a pretty fit doctor i must add.(female) and she wants to know where im hurting

Can't be as fit as the one we have

 

[Magz]

GFs Christian mother + GF + Unlocked door = Oh no

 

[pcfan123]

do I smell a shotgun wedding?

 

[Magz]

I certainly hope not....atleast her dad is cool with me.