villa4europe Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Cheers for that, didn't know you could do that but it looks like you don't even claim it now, it's automatic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 A couple of my friends are part time doctors (by part time I mean they've elected to do reduced hours as a life style choice, not that they're happy amateurs or anything). As sad as it is to report this, they both say that a day in a GP surgery can be a long line of the lonely, the literally unwashed, and people hoping their cold is actually a new strain of flu with the two killer symptoms: a sniff and a bit of an ache. But, it can also save a life when somebody comes in with an early symptom and it's spotted diagnosed and dealt with. So it would be spectacularly difficult to weed out the timewasters. It would be particularly difficult to use a £5 charge as the filter. People in work will happily pay £5 to queue jump the diagnosis of their cold. People that don't have £5 would end up exempt anyway. But there is a problem there. What's the problem? The problem isn't a problem if we accept that we are paying doctors £70,000 / £80,000 per annum and the majority of every day is spent telling people they have a cold, listening to the elderly and filling in key performance indicator charts. There aren't enough doctors willing to become GP's because the work is not exactly the sexy end of the profession and they are getting more and more 'targets', longer and longer hours and being expected to be office managers and social workers. A surgery of 4 or 5 doctors, each one earning around £35 / £40 per hour to listen to the elderly. Down the road, in the local care home, the library or the sheltered accommodation, that same task is valued at £6.50 per hour. Meanwhile mid twenties office man can't get in to the doctors for 3 or 4 days about his twisted knee, so he troops off to A&E and the government are considering chucking another £20k at doctors to persuade them to open early and Saturdays. I'm not offering any easy solution here, or peddling a political point of view. Just repeating what I'm hearing. Personally, I haven't been in to the doctors surgery as a punter for about 3 years. Well turns out my doctor is a bit of a hotty , got my referral letter and then she asked if there was anything else she could help with I was torn between doing my Roger Moore voice and saying " well I'm tempted to say yes already " or telling her I was worried about the size of my testicles and could she check them But opted for a polite no im good thank you and made my exit Saying that .... I sneezed this morning and it's probably best to get the doc to check it out ... You know just to be on the safe side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 ha ha! I took my man bits to the doctor's a few years ago (the end kept getting caught between my knees when I walked fast). On arrival it turned out the doctor was female and 40 ish. She asked if I was ok with a female doctor looking at my junk and I said 'yeah, you're a doctor, it's not like you're a normal woman'. She wasn't overly impressed with my logic and said somebody else might have found it mildly offensive. I decided to leave the conversation there rather than explain it was my attempt at an erection avoidance strategy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I have had issues with both front and back a few times over the past 5 year and had a female doctor inspect both areas intimately. I commented on the chilliness of her office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Considering the strength of the pound,shouldn't items on amazon uk be getting cheaper? I can't really get my head around this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 does this mean the zombies will be able to get off? now we'll see some trouble that'll make ISIS look like office paintballing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 How is Kim Jong Uns new hair style "news" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Frozen Apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 How is Kim Jong Uns new hair style "news" It's not like he narrowly avoided a puddle or anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 How is Kim Jong Uns new hair style "news" Has his dandruff cleared up? They were like cornflakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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8pints Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) Makes me sad. Edited February 21, 2015 by 8pints 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 That's why we shouldn't go to Mars, already wrecked one planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 ...already wrecked one planet.Only wrecked if there's not going to be anything around after we've gone (I'd be utterly amazed if that were to be the case). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 That's why we shouldn't go to Mars, already wrecked one planet. Yeah, if we went to Mars we'd just end up killing all the big cats up there. Either that or the marsupials... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It sure would have been better of without us, after we're gone I'm sure it'll slowly recuperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It sure would have been better of without us, after we're gone I'm sure it'll slowly recuperate. Until the sun explodes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It sure would have been better of without us, after we're gone I'm sure it'll slowly recuperate. No way man, if humanity is going down I'm taking all those bastard cats with me. Cats suck. Let's leave the planet to the apes, that worked out pretty well in that one movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It sure would have been better of without us, after we're gone I'm sure it'll slowly recuperate. No way man, if humanity is going down I'm taking all those bastard cats with me. Cats suck. Let's leave the planet to the apes, that worked out pretty well in that one movie. Dunston Checks In? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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