Arghhhhhhh.....doctors!!!!!!

I love it how I have to call up in the morning for an appointment because they are fully booked, even though my vision is slowly detiriorating and I'm finding it hard to deep breathe now I cant swallow, my glands are up, and I feel like a piece of lead waiting to snap i'm so weak. Hot head, waiting to explode yet my fingers are so cold they wanna drop off! Still gotta get home. So I ring the docs and tell them.

"Sorry sir, its not a true medical emergency, can you ring up at 8o'clock in the morning where we may be able to find a slot for you..."

"can i book one"

"Sorry we don't take bookings"

Thanks a fricking lot you bunch of toss3rs!!!!!!! Maybe I'm being a bit too hard but what validates this new policy of all doctors now I am hearing.

NHS Direct - BUSY!

I love the world [/rant]

go to casualty mate, they have to see you!!

Originally Posted by neio79

go to casualty mate, they have to see you!!

Well be seen by the nurse first to be told not an emergency and go see your family GP! or call out of hours as this is billed directly to the practice

Originally Posted by plowsie

NHS Direct - BUSY!

You give your surgery a call at 08:00:01 in the morning, I bet you a lemsip it's engaged.

Originally Posted by neio79

go to casualty mate, they have to see you!!

by the time you're actually seen by a doctor at casualty you might as well have made an appointment with the GP

[timwilky]

I fully support the moves by the government to force GPs to open evenings and weekends.

Then again. what is the point as having got into to see one, or even call out an emergency out of hours. There is nowhere open to then get your scripts filled.

[Red Herring]

If only you knew the truth.

1. Reason you can't get an appointment is because the government (not the doctors) made a rule that the surgery couldn't offer an appointment more than 48 hours away. So if you ring and all the appointments are taken, they can't offer one. Make more appointments you say? Doctors already see patients every 6 minutes, just how long would sir like?

2. Ring in the morning (8am). Reason for this is that is then classed as an emergency and not an appointment. They will then try and fit you in a cancellation spot, or an afternoon surgery slot reserved for emergencies.

3. Government are not giving surgeries any more money to stay open longer. They just took away some of the current money and told the doctors they will only get it back if they extend their hours. How would you like it if your boss told you to work overtime for free? Problem is it's not just the doctor who has to stay on for an evening surgery. They need a receptionist and a nurse for starters. So do these staff expect to stay at work for 12 or 14 hours for nothing, I guess not.

4. Most GP's are self employed and therefore outside European working time directives. My wife is half time, earns half pay, and still works 32 hours a week. Work it out for yourself.

Nothing ****es me off more than un-informed public jumping to conclusions based on the blatent spin this government are putting in the press. Personally I hope my wife survives me, because by the time I get old and really need the medical profession there won't be any other doctors around to look out for me. Good luck mate.

[Biker Biggles]

Id forget the GP.Go to the chemist and buy some Paracetamol,go home and go to bed until you feel better.If you are really at deaths door go to casualty,but generally try to keep away from doctors and hossies.And as for NHS Direct,dont bother,they are quite useless and a complete waste of money.

[dizzyblonde]

It'll be man flu then plowsie










runs for cover!
The only time i can get in to my GP in an emergency is when my little lads ill. I must take my hat off to one of them there, as once I was sat in the waiting room for the nurse( they told me that was all they could offer me) the doctor had his coat on to go home, took one look at my son, and said ' come back in my room I'll take a look at him myself'. My lad was soooooo ill, and obviously needed the doctor.

[Red Herring]

Most doctors are actually quite pleased to see someone who is actually ill. Most of the time it is the "I didn't quite feel right so I thought I come and see you", or the "I was thinking of going on a diet, getting this tattoo removed, or packing up smoking" brigade, not to mention the long line of "Can you just sign this doctor so I can have another week off work" collection. No wonder nobody can get an appointment! My wife keeps various little bottles of pills under her desk for anyone who comes to see her who has nothing wrong with them. They can include Smarties (work well on children and senile old men) Viagra (gives them to husbands dragged in by worried wives, they never bring him back) or laxatives (working on the principal they won't be able to get out of the house to see her again).

PS. Some of the above is a joke......