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When you start to need it the prices will no doubt rise quickly
True, but the excess is adjustable and should account for it somewhat. I’ll also have more money by then.
When you start to need it the prices will no doubt rise quickly
Which would require almost as much time from the medical professional as doing the test themself, and it can vary quite quickly so unless you're going to have a 5 minute appointment with the doctor or nurse to check you're ready for dracubot every time you need a test it's going to be very hit an miss for a lot of people as to if the robot can do the test (and by the time you've allowed a 5 minute slot, you might as well do it in person as it only takes another couple of minutes).yea true but GP could take a quick check before he refers you anyway..
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You must be having a laugh.I had 2 blood tests in the last week, a robot could easily have stuck a needle in my arm and collected the blood without the need to book a slot with a nurse.
yea true but GP could take a quick check before he refers you anyway..
I'd happily let a robot take some vials from me.
Doesn't need a tourniquet to even make mine visible, I'd imagine thats a large majority of the population.
After losing my dad recently I have both positive and negative feelings with regards to the treatment he received over a two weekish period...
And if you push them both far enough they can meet in the middlenot wanting to give medical advice but an endoscopy from ENT is likely a nasendoscopy (camera goes down nose) and looking at back of throat and larynx, the other is probably a gastroscopy looking at stomach and small bowel. They are different tests even though both are endoscopies
There is a good chance that the two hosptials have no idea what the other one is doing, and the person ringing you to book the appointment only knows about the one they're dealing with.I have literally no idea what the NHS is doing with me anymore.
2 blood tests in a week.
Urine sample
Stool sample.
Booked in for Ultrasound scan tomorrow
Booked in for an Endoscopy on the 19th with an ENT department.
NHS just phoned me and offered me a gastro something or other appointment.
I asked what it was and she said going inside you with a camera...
I tried to explain They are already doing that on the 19th..
she says it won't be the same, you won't be having the procedure on that day you will just be talking about it... but no because I said to my doctor I'd rather just do it on the day and not bother having a meeting to discuss the procedure beforehand.
So the original Endoscopy with ENT was the 19th at 11:35 at offered as an emergency appointment and they told me I likely wouldn't receive the letter in time, even though I have a full weeks notice.
Shes trying to give me an appointment the day for for 3:30 at some other hospital.
I don't even know if I'd be able to get between the hospital in time, what if I'm, sat waiting in the first hospital for 1-2 hours before I get seen etc...
Now I'm just confused about everything I literally have no idea what is going on anymore.
So now I have an Endoscopy on the 19th with ENT, and the following day yet another endoscopy with the Endoscopy department at another hospital....
Literally no Idea what they are for anymore, No one told me if I need to stop taking PPI meds or not..
I'm guessing they think it's cancer, now I'm already starting to doubt my own symptoms and just confused about exactly what's even meant to be happening.
the NHS is literally crap with organisation it seems..
This post might be a mess, I have fatigue/confusion and just don't care..
Not looking for Medical Advice. just stating how confusing the NHS seems to be when your considered URGENT.
surely its not right to expect someone to have 2 different endoscopy on the same day, within hours at 2 different hospitals?
She looked up my first appointment when I mentioned it.There is a good chance that the two hosptials have no idea what the other one is doing, and the person ringing you to book the appointment only knows about the one they're dealing with.
They aren't on the same day, but that's what she was trying to give me, even when I mentioned I was already having an endoscopy that day.I would probably ring the appointment number for the specific department at the second hospital and explain you've already got an appointment for something at the first hospital on the same day and what it is, when i've had to do something similar for my dad the hospital has been able to sort it out as they don't want to have a lost appointment because you're unable to duplicate yourself and appear in two places at once.
Visited hospital today:If anyone gets asked can they act absolutely disgusted and outraged and say "How dare you! how dare you" in a greta thunberg voice before saying "fat shaming in the NHS absolutely disgusting" and lodge a complaint
how come they can likely upset a large part of the population to not hurt a few peoples feelings?
As the Wise Eminem once said "I don't gotta play pretend, it's you I make believe "
Why not just have a sign or a form asking 'are you pregnant'?Visited hospital today:
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Saw that yesterday in the Freeman main X-ray department.Visited hospital today:
That’s exactly where it was.Saw that yesterday in the Freeman main X-ray department.
I wasn't getting an X-ray though
I'd say that crying at them calling me fat is more soft than aggressiveBeing agressive to staff who have been told to ask the question. You might find being asked the question is the least of your problems.
Are you pregnant?That’s exactly where it was.I also didn’t get an x-ray but a different type on scan.
Yes!Are you pregnant?
This post pretty much encapsulates why the digitisation of NHS records is still an ongoing process after all this time xDYou could try and OCR pages but it would be like trying to work out what an octopus has scrawled on a page.