Anal ysis of the problem may need a surgeon's skills if you are likely to split your sides laughing, at least then he or she would have you in stitches......
what do GPs do.
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Anal ysis of the problem may need a surgeon's skills if you are likely to split your sides laughing, at least then he or she would have you in stitches......
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before you do , can you describe an enema procedure to me .......my eMail`s in my profileSorry to butt in
I'll crawl away out now.
If you don't live too far away, I could give you a practical demonstration!!
Much easier to show than to tell.they tell you your location on the earth's surface by reference to geostationary satellites.
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OK if you want a sensible reply to that...............
Fair enough, the request blood to be sent to the lab - but the lab can only give the readings of the blood along with the expected reference ranges. The analyst in the lab doesn't know naff all about what could be causing the abnormalities in the blood (OK, maybe a bit generalised - they probably have some sort of a clue), so it's down to the GP or hospital consultant to decipher the blood results and decide what course of action should be taken. He then has to decide on the medication, if any, that will treat the condition.
I do agree that doctors APPEAR to be doing less and less. I know in my surgery, the nurses are taking on far more duties that used to be only done by doctors and because the nurses are doing that, the bloomin receptionist has been trained to draw blood!!!!!
BUT it still comes down to it that the doc has studied to be able to actually DIAGNOSE (or try to) a patient, whereas a lab is only able to analyse the sample for what's normal and not.
Fair enough, the request blood to be sent to the lab - but the lab can only give the readings of the blood along with the expected reference ranges. The analyst in the lab doesn't know naff all about what could be causing the abnormalities in the blood (OK, maybe a bit generalised - they probably have some sort of a clue), so it's down to the GP or hospital consultant to decipher the blood results and decide what course of action should be taken. He then has to decide on the medication, if any, that will treat the condition.
I do agree that doctors APPEAR to be doing less and less. I know in my surgery, the nurses are taking on far more duties that used to be only done by doctors and because the nurses are doing that, the bloomin receptionist has been trained to draw blood!!!!!
BUT it still comes down to it that the doc has studied to be able to actually DIAGNOSE (or try to) a patient, whereas a lab is only able to analyse the sample for what's normal and not.
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GPs are just about hopeless.
If you are sick they send you to hospital and if it's a minor problem they take a wild guess and usually get it wrong.
Oh and the male doctors seem to like having fun with their female patients.
Every girlfriend I've ever had has had a problem with male GPs.
If you are sick they send you to hospital and if it's a minor problem they take a wild guess and usually get it wrong.
Oh and the male doctors seem to like having fun with their female patients.
Every girlfriend I've ever had has had a problem with male GPs.
Yes, but are they trained to be able to diagnose without doing an exam? Going back to Billyo's original post, his doctor seems to have decided what to do based on a number of questions to which Billyo gave the answer. A computer can do that far more effectively than a GP. A computer will ask everything that's necessary, plus it can link answers in with a patient's history. It doesn't drink coffee, need comfort breaks and it doesn't get grumpy when it's overtired. What it can't do (yet) is perform an exam but since docs don't really have time for that on a first visit anymore, does that really matter?
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Mr Google is the best GP - then go to the surgery and tell them what's wrong with you and what you want to cure it. They don't like it - but when you are right and you know you are right and they know you are right and they know you know you are right and they know they know that you know you are right - what can they say?
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They'd probably say "you are right Mr 90"
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so how come your still posting then joe?
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