Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

sticky - T-bonehead was perfectly happy to leapfrog the queue by using his doctor's contacts etc - somewhat hypocritical don't you think?

in honesty, i think T's whole story is flawed ..... as so often, if you can be bothered to wade through his abusive posts, you'll spot all sorts of anomalies

in fact and i think pretty much without exception, if you have some life-threatening illness, you'll get exactly the same speed, consultant and type of treatment on NHS as privately

however, i do accept that if you want/need say a hip replacement, you'll be able to get it done as/when you want privately, whereas on NHS you'll have to join the queue - always assuming you don't have the right connections! .... the cost either way is about £12,000

i have no objection to anyone holding an anti-private-medicine stance, but very few would actually be prepared to pay base-rate tax of say 30% instead of the current 20%

i guess you can always wallop the middle-classes/management by hitting them even harder - they always get the worst deal anyway

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more crap from bonehead ....
his doctor works in a practice, so if she was on holiday, he would/could have been seen by another, especially if it was serious .... in such a case, it is a racing certainty that the appt would have been that day or the next - surgeries always have slots for emergencies

cynic . you are a sad spineless person .
ever one likes to see their own doctor
that is fact .

get a life you sad old man from a spineless family
and were your colours well bright yellow

"surgeries always have slots for emergencies" thats correct usualy 30 minutes before opening which is usualy 8.30 am to 9.00am.

My cousin is a GP here in West Yorkshire, she works Mon to Fri 8.30 am to 8.30pm and works on a rota basis for emergency home night visits 3 days on 3 days off.

Sometimes she has had 3 or 4 visits during the night but still has to report for duty at 8.30 am the same day. (rarely she has nil)

I know from what she tells me that she is very uncomfortable at seeing patients when shes been up all night especially when the day moves on.

Sometimes lunchbreaks are just a quick 5 minutes.

Dont get me wrong she thinks she is rewarded well but would accept a lower salary for less hours and believes not only is A@E at breaking point but the whole NHS.

Bonehead - if you were half as ill as you claimed and thus felt compelled to go to A+E - which you then cluttered up - then you would have been told your own doc was away and been offered an alternative .... that you're a particularly nasty specimen, full of bile and hate is irrelevant, but you are also incapable of telling the truth and hypocritical into the bargain

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sticky - does your e-mail now work?

Yep its now working.

one about to wing your way

spineless just for you

my wife phoned the doctor and was told 3 weeks
then I phoned and was told my doctor was on hols
and the person my wife spoke to was new and only
started that morning and then gave me an appointment with
a another doctor .
hope that helps .

suddenly your story changes significantly ..... and i bet you got your appt within 48 hours

and were you happy enough to be treated at your hospital by all those black, asian and eastern european staff who you reckon should all be sent back whence they came? ..... there's also a very good chance that the scanner operator and the specialist/consultant who you eventually see will also be of one of the ethnic groups whom you so despise and on whom you vent your hatred .... or perhaps he'll be jewish into the bargain

spineless I like jews and my friends are jews .

Tanker seems to be our regular "Mr Angry" expect he the caught the complaint from aldwickk who has been spotted polluting this thread again.

sure as hell i'm not and you have done nothing but abuse me since the opening bell for being an ashkenazi - so yet again, it looks as though truth and yourself are not remotely connected

anyway, what about the rest of the "foreigners" that i asked about in my previous post? ...... will you be a version of tony hancock - though you're nor even remotely amusing - who will refuse to accept blood in case in comes from some "undesirable"?

all,

we have had some complaints about the content on here - please keep any personal insults off these boards.

Ian

NHS knew 111 was all going wrong, leaked report reveals: How untrained staff answered calls, patients were put on hold and doctors' warnings ignored
Some 70% of patients in one region hung up because no-one answered
Managers so short-staffed that people answered phone without training
Concerns patients get given bad advice or sent to clinics 30 mil

Ian - i have kept quiet for far too long ..... why should i and the rest of the board be obliged to tolerate the stream of sulphurous abuse and hate that perpetually spews from Tanker? ..... perhaps excising the cause would bring this thread (and board) back to its customary civilised state

I only post from the papers and do not abuse posters it is you that abuse me
now signing off for good on this thread .

Now come on cynic be fair, you goad him a lot of the time.

The people complaining and Ian are right.

Were all guilty of late. Thatchers funeral kicked it all off.

Lets keep personal insults off this thread.

sticky - you and i have had our spats, but they pass quickly enough and then we kiss (yuk!) .....

generally, i ignore Tanker's posts, and his personal insults rarely worry me much ..... however, his continuous sulphurous stream of hatred against blacks, asians, eastern european workers et al should not be tolerated and (imo) for that reason, it is time he was excised from this board ..... i believe he has had at least several warnings

Ive seen him praising asians!!

You dont have the right to say who can or cant post here.

If you have a problem you contact Ian. Its all up above on the contact button.

Manuel,

I don't like the majority of Tanker's post, but as he writes he is not usually personally abusive.

However, your postings and your fellow traveller's frequently contain personal abuse.

I do think his postings are inflammatory, but would prefer him to have the same rights to spout them, as you wish for yourself.

(But I do wish you would shorten your posts or increase their content.)

Also, that you could check your facts a little more carefully and attempt to be a less proscriptive on the actions and opinions of others.

Tanker is easily the most abusive poster on here. Not just personally, but whole swathes of society such as Muslims, eastern Europeans.