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.

54517 - true, but it also presupposes that there are local walk-in clinics or similar, some of which i think have been shut down ..... and before certain people start hopping about, those decisions may well be made at local level

Haze.

Which ones.

A parent who just notices and is worried by their child who has a slight temperature and a spotty rash, but seems a little different to normal.


Something, or nothing.

Tell me the difference between nothing and early treatable meningitis.

Next question is how you can help "carers" to tell the difference between trivia and consequential states.

Education, maybe a start.

But could a Haze really be educated more than he already is?

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Perhaps, He could go to school with Manuel and watch the magic roundabout.

I wondered what the defect was in Napoleon's education.

sorry fred, but over and above the usual drunk oafs, there certainly are a great many "nonsense" patients who, if they had to put up say £20 at the door, might well think twice before going to A&E with a slight sprain or similar

fred's allusion to the magic roundabout refers back to my recent post 54518 which may entertain some

Maybe a lot of the problem out there today is that through all this Political correctness religious guff , you can't take the piss anymore can you.

Why don't you go out for another few hours cynic.

Manuel.

Some haven't got £20 in their pockets.

Ask a doctor how one tells the difference between some sprains, a fractures, torn ligaments or a contusion, etc.,

Also, self evaluation is sometimes difficult.

Like wondering if there is a knife in one's back without a mirror.


8-)

easily! ......

suggest you talk to your multitude of medical acquaintances - i guess they're not friends - and ask them about the number of total time-wasters presenting themselves at A&E, or even their doctor's surgery

however, and as i mentioned initially, if there is no walk-in clinic or similar, then inevitably A&E will get swamped

as for paying up front, it's certainly how the french system works and very well too, or did you choose not to read that excellent post a day or two back

Victim,

Have a certain amount of sympathy with post 54524.

But there again if I said your belief P54524 was bullshit, you would be offended.

Hopefully, not sufficient to pay for a gun man to satisfy your desires.


8-)

You certainly can't take the piss out of terrorists VICTIM, they don't have a sense of humour.

Manuel,

Have you ever wondered why the "time wasters" keep on turning up at casualty, or GP surgeries?

DB4.

Perhaps, not yours.

But, I wonder what brings a smile to their faces?

They obviously don't have our sense of humour or maybe not any , but is it religion or BRAIN washing.

People suffering from depression can take a single ambulance crew out of action for hours if not a whole shift threatening suicide. Quite often its just for attention, however as the police won't deal with them ambulance staff are left as minders. Also we need to be very tough on non-emergency callers, I don't see why the police or those community officers can't be called to issue on the spot fines like they do for motorists in these cases.

54530 - in part because they can without even having to think about it - ie no financial disincentive

and unless you haven't registered, under the french system, children up to a certain age (i'm sure), those on benefits and (probably) pensioners are exempt

Do you mean like "'The only good German is a dead German,".

War time propaganda, indoctrination.

But seemingly a view held by many even now.

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The danger of UKIP and some tory neo-cons.

Beliefs are strange and powerful.

54532 - i'm afraid a sense of humour and acceptance of alternative views are unknown commodities to these so-called islamic fundamentalists ..... rather the same with the spanish inquisition that fred will remember from his youth

Fred post 54531 - what brings a smile to their faces - shooting some innocent person in cold blood, or chopping off heads for the hell of it.

they don't smile - end of!