Ban on industrial action

[joe-90]

Put it this way Joe-90 ... I'd sooner believe the Dullards from Med School if I'm facing a life threatening illness than trying to diagnose myself from Google or listen to you.

You'll have a better chance of survival if you know something about medicine and go down to the hospital.

After all, they are nothing but a triage service. What do they do with very sick people? Send em to 'ospickle'

 

[Tim 77]

I drove past Retford prison last week when they were all on strike. All the prison officers were stood outside by the main gate, just milling around. Do you think they've had stopped an inmate if he'd popped over the wall and made a run for it?

 

[megawatt]

And what do you think the hospital A&E dept will do when you present with screaming head pains and tell them you think you have a brain tumour cos you matched the symptoms on Google.

a) An MRI?
b) A CT Scan?
c) Send you home with some paracetemol and tell you to see your GP?

Answers on a postcard please.

 

[Tim 77]

And what do you think the hospital A&E dept will do when you present with screaming head pains and tell them you think you have a brain tumour cos you matched the symptoms on Google.

D-Tell you to wait whist the chavy girl has her stomache pumped due to too much WKD and the ****ed up bloke has his wounds from his latest pub brawl stiched up.

Answers on a postcard please.

 

[Softus]

joe-90, if you don't mind me writing about you for a moment, the thing about you is that most of your ideas are thoroughly sound, but you paint them in such black and white terms that most people don't realise that you're just stirring things up to provoke thought.

I happen to agree that many GPs are expected to deal with so many ailments that they can't possibly know enough to act as anything other than a triage service. I think this is a fault with the system, and the fact that there are some extremely competent GPs gets lost in the noise.

I also agree with the implication that each patient should take the trouble to be better equipped with knowledge about themselves generally and their condition specifically. The total NHS bill could easily be reduced with better education, but everyone in the NHS seems to have their finger in the dyke (no smutty jokes here please).

So don't let joe-90's over-contrasty image of what he's saying delude into thinking that it doesn't make sense. It actually does.

IMHO.

 

[joe-90]

And what do you think the hospital A&E dept will do when you present with screaming head pains and tell them you think you have a brain tumour cos you matched the symptoms on Google.

a) An MRI?
b) A CT Scan?
c) Send you home with some paracetemol and tell you to see your GP?

Answers on a postcard please.

Well if it happened on Saturday morning I'd wait until Monday to spend an hour on the phone for an appointment with my wonderful GP. Who would then send me to hospital.

 

[megawatt]

Softus wading in as the voice of reason wearing his underpants outside his trousers ... I'm impressed

 

[megawatt]

Glad you'd rely on your GP ... The balance of good and evil has been restored

 

[masona]

I used to pay monthly fee for the private Hospital via my company, when I've seen my consultant last year, I saw the appointment card on his table, and he was seeing 17 patients between 5pm to 9pm and charging £125 each! That's £2125 bearing in mind he would have to hired the room etc, so it seem it's possible to earn £1000 per day as mentioned by Joe.

 

[megawatt]

That's a consultant appointment not a GP masona?

 

[masona]

Aren't most of them doing GP during the day? I know one of my GP does consultant as well

 

[megawatt]

No.

Some GP's are also specialists in a given specialty and are consultants within that speciality at local hospitals but contracted hospital specialist consultants cannot work in general practice.

GP's are general practitioners and (generally) do not sub-specialise.

This is what I referred to in the earlier posts as it is the minority of specialist GP's who can earn the really big bucks.

Hospital consultants who have private practices can earn FAR more.

 

[joe-90]

Are you or your partner a GP?

Why are you considered self employed when you work for just one employer?

Is it true that you push most of your exorbitant salary off-shore to avoid tax?

 

[megawatt]

Are you or your partner a GP?

None of your business.

Why are you considered self employed when you work for just one employer?

Why do you think I'm self-employed and work for one employer?

If you're talking about GP's they are not self-employed in the truest sense ... The practice is a partnership in legal terms and all practice GP's work for the partnership.

Is it true that you push most of your exorbitant salary off-shore to avoid tax?

Now you're getting personal

If I earned an exorbitant salary I would ask my accountant to use whatever legal means he had at his disposal to minimise my tax liability ... Just like everyone else presumably?

MW

 

[joe-90]

So you are a GP then. Now we know who not to ask about medical problems.