A bit TMI there.'Apart from when you lover rips your heart out'. And stands on it ...![]()
A bit TMI there.'Apart from when you lover rips your heart out'. And stands on it ...![]()
Not a thread for the under fifteensA bit TMI there.
Yes, this whole thing of getting pharmacists to cover doctors roles has the ring of desperation by the gβment to lower waiting times. I agree that many see GPs unnecessarily for many ailments you can get meds for over the counter, but without patient knowledge, and the rapid shutting up shop of chemists, will only exacerbate late diagnosis of potentially life limiting or ending conditions.Spent a few minutes winding up a pharmacist at the doctors' surgery.
Over a week ago, there was a message on our machine, a pharmacist, wishing to discuss medication with my partner. She'd call back sometime. Call back never came. Late last week, another message.
My partner is very deaf. It is usually very difficult to talk to her about anything, and even when she appears to have heard, she may not have understood, as later some gibberish will result. She is worse on the phone. I also wonder what sort of discussion any patient can have with a doctor or pharmacist regarding medication. You have a condition, or ailment. They prescribe. With an ailment, we hopefully feel better. With a condition, a proper drug regime controls it. As a patient, we have no idea if different medication will do better, or worse. We can only report if we still have symptoms, or side effects.
Got the call this morning. They need to talk to me, not my partner, as noted on her file. They wish to change her statiin from 40mg to 80mg, would she be happy to do that?. So how can a patient answer that? Surely, this needs a blood test, or similar, not a patient's opinion.
Pharmacist is of foreign descent, probably the Indian sub-continent. Obviously qualified, but does speak quickly, with a difficult accent. Bit of a struggle keeping up. Then she speaks over me when I'm speaking, so not listening. Makes the conversation twice as long.
Apparently, new guidelines suggest the higher dose, for people with certain conditions/criteria, so her job is to call people, and switch them, apparently without justification, apart form a government paper.
She agreed, perhaps a blood test should be done. Would I like to call the surgery and book an appointment. That'd need me loading my partner into the van, driving half a mile, unloading into the surgery, then the reverse after the blood is extracted. Meanwhile, we have a visit form a district nurse every morning, to administer the daily insulin. They've taken blood several times, when requested. Shame I need to suggest that, instead of the pharmacist reading the notes.
A shame but sadly not a suprise. Its a shame they dont put the important readits at the front of the file and flag themmto appear every time the notes are opened. But of course thats not what computers are for, doing the routine admin functions.....Spent a few minutes winding up a pharmacist at the doctors' surgery.
Over a week ago, there was a message on our machine, a pharmacist, wishing to discuss medication with my partner. She'd call back sometime. Call back never came. Late last week, another message.
My partner is very deaf. It is usually very difficult to talk to her about anything, and even when she appears to have heard, she may not have understood, as later some gibberish will result. She is worse on the phone. I also wonder what sort of discussion any patient can have with a doctor or pharmacist regarding medication. You have a condition, or ailment. They prescribe. With an ailment, we hopefully feel better. With a condition, a proper drug regime controls it. As a patient, we have no idea if different medication will do better, or worse. We can only report if we still have symptoms, or side effects.
Got the call this morning. They need to talk to me, not my partner, as noted on her file. They wish to change her statiin from 40mg to 80mg, would she be happy to do that?. So how can a patient answer that? Surely, this needs a blood test, or similar, not a patient's opinion.
Pharmacist is of foreign descent, probably the Indian sub-continent. Obviously qualified, but does speak quickly, with a difficult accent. Bit of a struggle keeping up. Then she speaks over me when I'm speaking, so not listening. Makes the conversation twice as long.
Apparently, new guidelines suggest the higher dose, for people with certain conditions/criteria, so her job is to call people, and switch them, apparently without justification, apart form a government paper.
She agreed, perhaps a blood test should be done. Would I like to call the surgery and book an appointment. That'd need me loading my partner into the van, driving half a mile, unloading into the surgery, then the reverse after the blood is extracted. Meanwhile, we have a visit form a district nurse every morning, to administer the daily insulin. They've taken blood several times, when requested. Shame I need to suggest that, instead of the pharmacist reading the notes.
Same here but it was a surgeon that told me (when I smashed both my lower legs and L/h femur) that 'will my screws and Tat pin that hold my femur, ever be removed??'That was many years ago, and the same doctor told me when I went in with a pain in my hand, "well, you're getting old", I was 30 at the time!!
Nope they go in the bin.My mechano brackets were removed as they're adjustable and really fuc&ing expensive.
as what?My niece works in G. r. i. And they're reused.
Where in this post did you say anything about external fixators.Same here but it was a surgeon that told me (when I smashed both my lower legs and L/h femur) that 'will my screws and Tat pin that hold my femur, ever be removed??'
Their reply was ...
'At thirty two your a bit old to remove the stuff, unless they become infected/rejected'.
My mechano brackets were removed as they're adjustable and really fuc&ing expensive.
And would be reused on some other person who thought stupidly that the election field of steel wasn't as strong as human leg bone.
Yea your only as young as the pain you felt.
Ha. Now I know what happened to my brain.Nope they go in the bin.
I have stood in an operating theater when the Surgeon opened the wrong hip replacement, (they come in different sizes) this was highly specialist ceramic joint, and bout Β£6k to buy from the manufactures..... It went in the bin with the rest of the clinical waste. As will your metal work. while expensive, they are not allowed to reuse it, they are not allowed to repackage it. anything taken out of a person goes to clinical waste.
No, that's in a jam jar in a lab somewhere.Ha. Now I know what happened to my brain.
Timing chain? they seem to be getting a bit of a reputation for it.In the car park at Tesco in Swindon, there's a sad Dacia Duster, bearing French plates. Gently getting dirtier, and been there about a fortnight, or more. Plates suggest 2013, if the 13 means that.
I guess it broke, and the owner has returned to France without it. Presumably no breakdown cover. Among the shinier newer stuff, this represents a higher proportion of the owner's available capital, as most of us tend to buy the best we can. I guess it will sit until Tesco have it removed.
Too old to be a company vehicle, so who is travelling from France, to visit Swindon? In winter. Holiday of a lifetime? Better than a cruise?