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[tigers_gonads]

And they wonder why people turn up to A&E

The clue is there Accident and Emergency. It's not a bloody walk-in centre for people with a cough or a cold, and scraped knee's, Follow your doctors surgery procedure for booking an appointment, might mean getting up at 8.25 and start ringing up for an appointment,
I may not be medically trained, but take couple off paracetamol, good sniff of olbas oil, go to bed, ( stop smoking) if you do.
 rant over for a little while.

Kin ell Griff 

Are you after my OOF foot in mouth title or what   

[biggriffin]

Read the OP, he can't get one!

I have, the op wants it now, I know when we are unwell seeing a doctor,is a thing you require, and trying to book an appointment before you get ill, can't be done, most surgery's offer a same day service, this means ringing up as soon as they open, or being on the door,when they open.

As a thought, what did we do before we all had cars, in the oldern days.!

[TD]

Read the OP, he can't get one!

I have, the op wants it now, I know when we are unwell seeing a doctor,is a thing you require, and trying to book an appointment before you get ill, can't be done, most surgery's offer a same day service, this means ringing up as soon as they open, or being on the door,when they open.

As a thought, what did we do before we all had cars, in the oldern days.!

I don't know where you read that, I wouldn't have minded waiting a week for appointment with my doc. I was told no appointment available and to goto walk in centre. So, I went and was told there was a four hour wait, would you really sit there in a room that is full of other unwell patients for 4 hours 

[Kevin Wood]

The problem is, Doctors' surgeries have targets to meet and I suspect one of them is that nobody should wait more than x days for an appointment. This has the side effect that it's impossible to book an appointment more than x days ahead even if it's what you, the customer, find most convenient. 

If nothing's available you get "phone back tomorrow". You're then waiting for an appointment, of course, but not visible in their statistics.

It's an absolute pain when having to book up for a routine non-urgent visit, that they always say "oh, well, we've got one in 20 minutes" but won't let you book you something the following week when you can arrange work around it. 

[biggriffin]

Read the OP, he can't get one!

I have, the op wants it now, I know when we are unwell seeing a doctor,is a thing you require, and trying to book an appointment before you get ill, can't be done, most surgery's offer a same day service, this means ringing up as soon as they open, or being on the door,when they open.

As a thought, what did we do before we all had cars, in the oldern days.!

I don't know where you read that, I wouldn't have minded waiting a week for appointment with my doc. I was told no appointment available and to goto walk in centre. So, I went and was told there was a four hour wait, would you really sit there in a room that is full of other  patients for 4 hours 

 that's why they are there, can't be that bad if you don't wish to sit with unwell people. Unwell people normally congregate at doctors.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Kin ell Griff 

Are you after my OOF foot in mouth title or what   

Nah, he's just filling in as Chief Forum Troll whilst Gixers in exile!  .                              

[Shackeng]

Kin ell Griff 

Are you after my OOF foot in mouth title or what   

Nah, he's just filling in as Chief Forum Troll whilst Gixers in exile!  .                              

 

[Nick W]

Kin ell Griff 

Are you after my OOF foot in mouth title or what   

Nah, he's just filling in as Chief Forum Troll whilst Gixers in exile!  .                             

Trolls don't have a valid point!

[TD]

Well that was an interesting time this afternoon....got an emergency appointment at the docs.....after explaining to the receptionist who was at first refusing to give me an appointment again, that my blood sugar had gone through the roof (normally a max of 8 was now 25)

So went to docs....after some tests....decided I had an abnormally high temp....suspected chest infection and fairly serious unwell....and got sent to A&E with a letter from doc.

Medical team at A&E.....did blood tests.....chest xray, had me on oxygen (not full face mask, just tube up nose) as my oxygen was low.....and declared I had a chest infection with possible pneumonia.

The doc at A&E wanted to admit me, so they could give me a drip of antibiotics for 24hrs.....me being me....decided I didn't want to stay...and fair play the doc tried really hard to get me admitted....it wasnt going to happen. So in the end....it was agreed I had one bag of drip antibiotics.....and discharged with two lots of antibiotic tabs....the doc pointed out the instructions for the tabs say take one tab 2x a day and the other says take  1 tab 3x a day.....he said ive crossed  those instructions out ....and take double the amount .....got home about 10.15 ......

TBH I feel a bit better tonight.....presumably the drugs they were giving me this afternoon/evening 

[TD]

Read the OP, he can't get one!

I have, the op wants it now, I know when we are unwell seeing a doctor,is a thing you require, and trying to book an appointment before you get ill, can't be done, most surgery's offer a same day service, this means ringing up as soon as they open, or being on the door,when they open.

As a thought, what did we do before we all had cars, in the oldern days.!

I don't know where you read that, I wouldn't have minded waiting a week for appointment with my doc. I was told no appointment available and to goto walk in centre. So, I went and was told there was a four hour wait, would you really sit there in a room that is full of other  patients for 4 hours 

 that's why they are there, can't be that bad if you don't wish to sit with unwell people. Unwell people normally congregate at doctors.

And hence why you aint a doctor.....Doc at A&E is going to give me a call in the morning to check I'm ok....as she was very concerned about my health 

[Shackeng]

Best wishes TD for a swift recovery.

[Shackeng]

Read the OP, he can't get one!

I have, the op wants it now, I know when we are unwell seeing a doctor,is a thing you require, and trying to book an appointment before you get ill, can't be done, most surgery's offer a same day service, this means ringing up as soon as they open, or being on the door,when they open.

As a thought, what did we do before we all had cars, in the oldern days.!

Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember that when you rang the Doctor when feeling ill, he drove to your house, in the middle of the night, and even in the sticks, to assess, and if necessary, treat you.

[baggedestate]

My old man has really bad cough. He is 80. I rang our doctors up yesterday to book appointment at 8am. Said they was fully booked for 2 weeks. Then I said what am I ment to do now. He is 80 suffers from dementia and his carers are highlighting the problem alot. Managed to get booked in at 4pm same day lol. So much for the 2 weeks wait

[TD]

Best wishes TD for a swift recovery.

Thankyou Shackeng.....I hope it clears up by Monday.....as I want/need to get back to work.....that's the problem being self employed....no worky....no pay.

[hotel21]

Chin up Dave. Follow the instructions as directed and you'll be back in the cab before you knew you should have had another few days.....