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son rang up yesterday, he has been unwell with what seems like a chest infection
granted i rang up and got him an antibiotic
but wanted him to get checked out properly..........earliest appointment (with any doctor in the surgery)
two weeks away
and this is normal............ you could be dead and buried before that
On the whole I agree with chips and brown gravy. I'm appalled at the number of people who turn up at A&E with things I wouldn't even think to see any medic for whatsoever.! The only time I've ever been in A&E was an emergency! There are documentaries on TV made in A&E departments and some of the things they turn up with are so stupid!! When stroppy went, it could be classed as an emergency because she knows if she saw the doctor he'd send her to hospital anyway, so there are exceptions, but I bet half of them that go to A&E are time wasters, whether they intend to be or not.
when oh fell down the stairs last week we knew he was not badly hurt as he could move all his limbs and joints but had hurt his back so we dialed 111 which is our local nhs line and after answering dozens of questions she said an ambulance was on its way and they would aassess the situation when they got here.after an hour they came and after looking after him they told us of for not calling 999. we are always being told only use 999 unless it is the case of emergancies but ours was not an emergancy so who do we listen to
he is still sore and bruised and moaning. so he is back to normal then
Just slightly off topic but the same vein, My daughter does voluntary police work, regularly at the abuse centre, sometimes at the training sessions where she role plays as either a victim or an agressor and today for the second time, listening in to 999 calls for data collection or something. Last time she said in the two hours that she listened in, the majority of calls went something like,
'ello, it's Ada again. oi'm just ringin' yer agin ta tell yer there's a strange car in the street. Never seen it afore, not down 'ere. Very quiet down'ere it is. Thought I'd mention it.'
'Hello, I just want to report, as I was coming along Brook Street last night, ten o'clock time, there was a blue car came towards me, only had one headlight. Shouldn't be allowed! What you gonna do?'
I said I'd just want to give up.. but daughter said the person answering the phone said they don't mind, one of the odd bits of information like that might one day prove invaluable!
Thats good then glad to hear it, Hope he has been doing the hoovering 
I once needed to see the doctor, rang to ask for an emergency appointment, our surgery has a couple of those at each sitting. She got real snotty with me and said "what's wrong with you?" I said I preferred to tell the doctor. She then said I couldn't have an emergency appointment as " you didn't know you were going to be ill"....eh?????? isn't that an emergency then???????
I have been quite a regular at A&E over the past three years with my sons breaking bones skateboarding and BMXing.
On more than one occassion sitting in reception you heard people booking in......
"I hurt my shoulder 3 days ago and, well, its friday and if you don't look at it tonight it will be monday before I can get it seen.
Doh, if it's that bad why didn't you see someone before this!!!"
And don't even start me on the drunks!
And the woman being brought in by ambulace, asking the ambulanceman to "Hold on a minute, can you wait here till I get a **bleep** cos I could be hours in there!!"
The bleep was a cigarette, but I used the word F*g cos that's what she said lol!
