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From: Ben Newsam on 14 Nov 2006 18:53 On Tue, 14 Nov 06 13:36:27 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >What are you going to do when your GPs find better work >in other countries and move? Isn't your country already >importing people to do the work? <Shrug> It's a free market. Hint: Not Socialist.
From: Ben Newsam on 14 Nov 2006 18:59 On Tue, 14 Nov 06 13:39:12 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >You are still assuming that there exists a GP who takes new patients. Yes. Why not? There always should be, as long as the population doesn't expand unexpectedly. >I ask my question again but I'll try to rephrase so that you get it. > >If no GPs are taking new patients, what do you do if you are >legitimately unhappy with the doctor you are assigned to. An extremely unlikely scenario. Extremely unlikely. If that were to happen, then you would obviously have to wait. It's never happened to me.
From: Ben Newsam on 14 Nov 2006 19:01 On Tue, 14 Nov 06 13:51:32 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >In article <455760C3.C0979C51(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>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. > >How many referrals are you allowed? LOL! I think the GP might get a bit ratty if you continually dissed the highly qualified consultants, but I don't think there's a statutory limit on how awkward you can be.
From: T Wake on 14 Nov 2006 19:55 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:455A5340.42719F8E(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote >> > lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: >> >> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote >> >> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >And you like to imply things that just aren't true. You weren't >> >> >> >living on "$2/day". >> >> >> >> >> >> Right. It was $2/month. >> >> > >> >> > And you can also clean a whole house in 15 mins ? >> >> >> >> The thing that she conveniently glosses over is that 1) it was in >> >> 1960s >> >> dollars, about a factor of 10 - 100 higher when adjusted for >> >> inflation, >> >> and >> >> 2) she was also paying tuition, room and board, which probably added >> >> at >> >> least $50/month in 1960 dollars, or $1000/month in 2006 dollars. >> >> That's >> >> a >> >> far cry from talking about $2/month as if it were 2006 dollars, which >> >> is >> >> what the discussion was about...living on <$100/month total salary in >> >> 2006. >> > >> > In 1973 ? my first full-time job paid ?2000 p.a. ( ? 38.46 weekly ). It >> > seemed >> > like a good rate of pay for a youngster at the time. Heck, my rent was >> > only ?28.16 p.c.m too ! >> >> The Thatcher years were not pleasant :-) Fortunately I was in the Army >> and >> we had massive pay rises :-) > > Which bit of it were you in ? > Royal Engineers mainly.
From: Ben Newsam on 14 Nov 2006 19:10
On Tue, 14 Nov 06 13:50:00 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >When JMF was dying, I had to learn nursing procedures and doctor >procedures without the benefit of schooling. I became an expert >in minimizing side effects of drugs he was taking and made >all kinds of mechanical assists to keep him as comfortable as >possible. The ultimate question was who would die first? Him or >me? > >My Dad is now going through the same bullshit only he has no >advocate who will speak up and say no. On top of it all, >their assigned "GP" is stupid. That's a shame. I wish you luck. |