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From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 12:58 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >I'm wondering if BAH thinks we have our treatment 'rationed'. > > Would you know if that happened? Since you can't "shop around" > and compare, you cannot find out if your treatment is rationed, > especially its efficacy. In one case I wasn't happy with the treatment I got from a concultant so my doctor referred me to another one. Graahm
From: Ken Smith on 12 Nov 2006 13:00 In article <_fadnZyBlKEt2svYRVnytA(a)pipex.net>, T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >news:dgrbl2tp8gllrf3vcia0uembocqs0v9aei(a)4ax.com... >> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:33:35 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> >> Gave us: >> >>> But not understanding >>>what he's talking about never stopped him anyway. >> >> >> Severe understatement. > >Wow. Yet another irony meter goes. I suggest a PTC, a MOV, a SIDAC, a Gas-tube Surge Protector, a fuse and a spark gap, if you are going to keep bringing your irony meters near this thread. You may want to add a spike snubbing inductor as well just to be safe. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ben Newsam on 12 Nov 2006 12:02 On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:27:48 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Please go read the reasons for the British Mandate near >the beginning of the 20th century. The facts and reasoning >haven't changed. That was nearly a century ago. Things have most definitely changed since then. >The reason we need to "raise a country" is because they >never grew up. That's not to say they cannot, just that >they have not. Given the opportunity I think the US can >do a much better job of it than the UK did. You fail to realise just how offensive it is to people in the region to be occipied by a foreign power.
From: Ben Newsam on 12 Nov 2006 12:02 On Sun, 12 Nov 06 13:49:46 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <e96cl2tviek822ftetj8rtphkkoold1oqe(a)4ax.com>, > Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>You register with a GP, although you could get treatment anywhere as a >>"temporary patient". In towns and cities, most GPs work in bunches in >>"Health centres" rather than being singletons. For instance, my local >>surgery has about 6 doctors, a practice nurse, and a few other health >>workers and receptionists and so on. I make an appointment (or if >>immobile, I ask to be visited at home), and then if further treatment >>is required, an appointment is made at an outpatients' clinic at the >>hospital. Drugs are not paid for individually, but a standard charge >>is made for each prescription issued, although the young, the old and >>the unemployed do not pay that charge. > >How do you get a new GP if you are unhappy with yours? Will that >new GP take new patients? If s/he doesn't, where do you go? OK, a little more detail... there are these things called Family Practitioner Committees... no, hang it, look at this web site, it answers most of your questions fairly explicitly: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/n6w/index/family_parent/health/frequently_asked_questions_about_health.htm Notice that people from other countries can get free emergency treatment, a facility that we have had to make use of a few times when entertaining foreigners in our home.
From: Eeyore on 12 Nov 2006 13:04
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Here > in the northeast no doctor is local. You have to drive or be > driven or go the emergency room. That's it. No ambulance service ? Graham |