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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: pscocoa on 31 January 2012, 17:06:31
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I have developed a cataract and it needs surgery - do I go private or NHS?
Anybody had cataracts sorted and what was experience on having it dealt with?
As far as I can see (ha ha) if you go private you get a consultant to do the job - if you go NHS you might get a trainee doing the job with same consultant stood next to trainee.
I will probably go for NHS and kick up a fuss about having consultant only.
Lesson - wear sun glasses more regularly
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My mother had her's done when she was 98, NHS job, doesn't need glasses now and coming upto 104.
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My mother had her's done when she was 98, NHS job, doesn't need glasses now and coming upto 104.
Just in from a miserable day ,sat down and read that and it cheered me up no end.
She must be a remarkable lady . :y
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I have developed a cataract and it needs surgery - do I go private or NHS?
Anybody had cataracts sorted and what was experience on having it dealt with?
As far as I can see (ha ha) if you go private you get a consultant to do the job - if you go NHS you might get a trainee doing the job with same consultant stood next to trainee.
I will probably go for NHS and kick up a fuss about having consultant only.
Lesson - wear sun glasses more regularly
If you go private you could get a rubbish consultant doing it or you could go NHS and have a superb trainee doing it. Dont always assume that a consultant is better when it comes to surgery. Plus a catract surgery is probably the simplest of the lot. The trainees are also quite experienced by the time they get to that stage.
When my wife needed an epidural I made sure a registrar did it rather than a consultant. Reason being its such a simple procedure that trainees do hundreds of them, consultants do the odd one when someone kicks up a fuss and usually struggle.
Now if it was a cardiac bypass then its different!
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I know my local private hospital does cataracts in bulk, ie books in between 30-50 patients for the day and the same consultant does the lot in production line style :o
Dont think id like to be no 50 on the list :o
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or the first, on the day after his birthday. :o