I know that bashing medics is a bit of the thing here. Trying to get hold of a GP is an issue in itself as the buggers are hiding away where no one can get to them. I did manage to get a phone call after a rather terse email complaining about waiting to no avail to talk to someone, so that worked. But, you may recall my recent procedure for an enlarged prostate. After twenty years of misery, I coughed up £6.5k and had the procedure carried out privately. Last Thursday, I had my post op assessment. Things went rather better than expected apparently – not that this was a surprise to me, because during the recovery period, I’d noticed a massive improvement. The flow tests and residual retention levels are well improved to the point where I am no longer thinking about it, which makes something of a change.
The lesson here is the one we have mentioned several times on this blog – the NHS is pretty shit. Paying for the service gets you what you want – efficiently and reliably. Now, can I have the money back that I’ve been paying in all these years?
Hmmm. Didn’t think so.
I’m glad that you have a bit of positive news. I was thinking that you might need cheering up after reading your recent posts. For that reason I thought of you when I saw this.
https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2022/02/sunday-video-3_050838473.html?m=1
Back to the depressing stuff. If you want to know why the NHS is shit, Fahrenheit211 has the answer.
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2022/02/20/the-nhs-has-found-another-non-clinical-area-to-waste-money-on/
Jesus!
Another idea occurred to me earlier. Now we’re no longer at war with France – in military terms, anyway, can we have the income tax back?
The NHS is awful.
Luckily the Drakon family have private medical insurance. Mrs Drakon asked for an online GP appointment (available 24Hrs a day), and got one within 20min, with a GP doctor who has an interest in that field.
So how long until private gets outlawed and absorbed into the NHS because it shows up that godawful shit show for being as terrible as it is?
I had an op in the past.
NHS hadn’t even managed to send me a letter before the private medical care had done the op and sent me on my way.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Go private, or go abroad and go private if it’s too expensive here.
NHS needs destroying
How can anyone knock the NHS (PBUH), It’s FREEEEE for fucks sake…..
But, as Thomas Sowell said “some people prefer to pay in money, others in waiting time”. Now, when you have a painful disease and the government tells you there’s a six month waiting list, you’re paying in a different way”.
I’m not sure if you’re serious but the NHS isn’t free. Even before the extra money they got for the COVID nonsense it cost about £2,000 for each person in the country: man, woman, child (and other, mustn’t forget the other). Free at the point of use comes with a cost.
That was definitely sarcasm on Addolff’s part.
I had a blood test that showed elevated PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) levels in December. My GP stuck his finger up my bum then sent me to the hospital for another man to stick his finger up my bum. The second man sent me for a MRI scan and I had a prostate biopsy this past Wednesday.
The NHS is a huge bureaucratic mess that badly needs reform but in my area at leat it does move quickly when it’s potentially life threatening.
A positive PSA doesn’t mean you have cancer. But a negative one doesn’t mean that you don’t. Balance of probabilities favours benign prostate hyperplasia.
@LR is correct
Don’t worry about it