GPs still do house visits. Every day.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Tones on April 24, 2024, 07:44:46 AMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2024, 07:24:39 AMQuote from: Tones on April 24, 2024, 06:13:39 AMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 24, 2024, 12:14:11 AMQuote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 11:50:08 PMSo plebs paying their taxes no mates on GP reception pay for a taxi abandon their family for 6 hour wait in a&e for minor ailments because they can't afford 100 pound a pop.
Just keep phoning, the empty surgery.
Pretty sad response, an individual pitting his experience via knowing the local receptionist and having a few pounds over the masses, poor pensioners ringing will just give up if they can't get through but what do you care.
Again you're using your own experience (as am I) different surgeries than have different methods.
Your beef is with your own surgery, claiming that the GP's are sitting about doing nowt. Well that's just bollox.
You sound like another public server basher. You pay taxes, it doesn't mean you get automatic service.
If you want a better service we've got to pay more taxes to get it.
But you keep telling me how lucky I am for knowing a receptionist and how lucky my wife had £100 quid available to see a private doctor.
I have never once said that, I said I go once a week and at differing times and the surgery is empty, I have no clue what they are doing, telephone triage, video call, house calls, private work, I don't know, my beef as you put it is not with my surgery but how unfair it is in general, you don't care as you can text your receptionist and jump the queue or pay 100 quid when your mate is on holidays or whatever. A 75 year old with COPD struggling and needing a course of steriods and an antibiotic has to ring up and if the poor crater can't get through they will give up, if they do get through and told there is no appointment and ring back, they'll give up, appointments should be able to be booked like pre-covid, oh yes Mrs Smith I could book you in tomorrow at 10am, it don't happen anymore, with that I bid you adieu.
Quote from: Tones on April 24, 2024, 07:37:05 AMQuote from: RedHand88 on April 24, 2024, 07:21:47 AMQuote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 03:59:33 PMI had similar issue about a year later and made up symptoms to see a GP as if I had of mentioned chest pain they wouldn't have seen me, how ridiculous is that.
Not really. They are following national guidelines. Sudden onset chest pain needs urgent assessment to rule out cardiac cause. Only thing a GP surgery can do is an ECG which will result in you going to hospital anyway for bloods to confirm a MI or whatever it may be. Can't do those in a GP surgery, so going there is a waste of everyone's time including yours (which you may not have.)
My issue included chest pain which was present for over 6 weeks, this I explained to the receptionist who rang me back and said go to A&E, I didn't get to speak to a doctor and spent the whole day in A&E apologising to various medical professionals for taking up their time as they were all flat to the mat - if only I had her mobile number!
Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 03:59:33 PMI had similar issue about a year later and made up symptoms to see a GP as if I had of mentioned chest pain they wouldn't have seen me, how ridiculous is that.
Quote from: Tones on April 23, 2024, 02:05:13 PMMy surgery will NOT see you unless you have an appointment (ring 79 times from 8.30 to be told all slots filled or get a call back from a Doctor who will do everything they can NOT to physically see you ) they will also NOT see you if you mention chest pain - they tell you to go to A&E - it's a complete joke.
Quote from: Hereiam on April 23, 2024, 12:51:49 PMThe school rang my wife yesterday about our 12 yr old son who was saying he didnt feel well and said his chest was sore. Teacher said his heart rate was pretty fast. He hadn't been running about or anything. Long story short he was lifted from school and the wife thought she would call into the GP Surgery in our small town. She said the car park to the surgery was empty (this was around 2pm) and when she went to the reception she could see they waiting room was empty and they told her that there were no free appointments available and to ring this number.
She rang the number and explained what was going on and was told to be at Craigavon for 6pm.
Went up and got a ECG done which showed nothing out of the ordinary and said that it might be best to get a chest xray and sent her over to the A&E department.
My wife said it was crazy, the place was packed with only standing room and she just came home as she would probably be still waiting.
Before COVID you could ring the GP surgery and get an appointment the same day, Why are GP's not back to seeing patients, is everything just been sent to the A&E departments. What are they actually doing?
We are not ones who run every time to the doctors if one of us has have a sniffle and the last time I was we were at a hospital was when our last was born which was 8 years ago.
Surly this can go on like this as staff at the hospitals couldnt work under them conditions.
Sorry for the long post.
Quote from: ONeill on April 11, 2024, 08:54:26 PMCan someone explain 'ratio' to me - you see it in social media now.
Quote from: Truthsayer on April 21, 2024, 01:29:18 AMQuote from: Captain Obvious on April 21, 2024, 01:00:17 AMQuote from: Truthsayer on April 21, 2024, 12:22:39 AMQuote from: RedHand88 on April 20, 2024, 11:59:45 PMDerry were not serious All Ireland contenders ffs. They are at a level below Kerry/Dublin, same as Armagh/Mayo/Galway/Tyrone/Donegal.
A few facts:
They beat Clare and Cork to get to AISFs the last 2 years.
Kerry played sh1te against them last year and still bate them.
They won the league final against Dublin reserves and believed the hype.
I also really think the new structure hurts teams in Derrys position. 4(?) weeks of no championship football before potentially playing Dublin or Kerry.
My prediction: they'll get through the group by beating the guff but will go out at the quarter final stage to a bigger team. Questions will remain over Harte but he will get to stay and we will see the same next year, only a bit worse.
True though they were being mooted with Dublin and Kerry as top 3. That league 'win' (penalty shootout) was very overstated and hyped. Harte got left behind in managing a long time ago. Hadn't beat Dublin, Kerry or Mayo in the championship 2009-2020. I don't think that would
have happened to Rory Gallagher today.
Yeah something like that wouldn't happen with a Rory Gallagher managed team
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/0722/892196-galway-v-donegal-report/#:~:text=Galway%20routed%20Donegal%20with%20a,once%2Dfeared%20defence%20to%20shreds.
https://derrygaa.ie/allianz-football-league-roinn-2-derry-0-12-galway-4-11-20-03-22/
That championship match was 2017 he'd brought them on a long way since that.. as for a league game irrelevant sure Tyrone got hammered in the league by Kerry in 2021 and took Sam up the road a few months later.
Mickey can't handle the big championship games... not in years...
Quote from: Last Man on April 20, 2024, 11:30:49 PMQuote from: RedHand88 on April 20, 2024, 04:56:52 PMYeah we are all going to die at some stage no dodging that but I do not agree that we have to accept the largely self inflicted chronic diseases so many are inflicted with. None ofQuote from: Last Man on April 19, 2024, 04:17:29 PMThe NHS was never envisaged to deal with the levels of chronic disease we currently see. T2D, Cardiovascular disease, various cancers all on the up. All the polititions can offer is we need more money for doctors and nurses. How about asking why are we all so sick?
We are all old. With advanced age comes more illness. The population is aging. By 2037 1 in 12 people will be over 65.
this helped by the scientifically baseless health messaging we have been duped with for the last 50 years.
Quote from: screenexile on April 20, 2024, 08:10:12 PMQuote from: From the Bunker on April 20, 2024, 08:08:14 PMQuote from: marty34 on April 20, 2024, 08:00:18 PMDonegal's day for sure. Were the better team on the evening.
But this day will soon be forgotten. Things move on. Derry will re-group and Donegal will move on. One game doesn't make a summer.
Derry will move on and are still a top team.
That also counts for the League Final. People on here were losing the run of themselves about a game Derry could not see out twice.
Who are these people? I didn't see anybody from Derry do that!