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National Health Service : One Caring Team
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28 Feb 2009 Sat 12:58 pm |
Well it is about time something positive was written about the NHS. There are many failings of course, but it is still a wonderful system and we are very lucky to have it. In the main, NHS staff are wonderful...
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 09:43 pm |
Well it is about time something positive was written about the NHS. There are many failings of course, but it is still a wonderful system and we are very lucky to have it. In the main, NHS staff are wonderful...
I wish we had it....!!!!
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 10:32 pm |
Well it is about time something positive was written about the NHS. There are many failings of course, but it is still a wonderful system and we are very lucky to have it. In the main, NHS staff are wonderful...
i dont know what you mean by saying wonderful, but im not happy with nhs doctors. they dont treat but get rid of us. the only solution to all of our problems is often applied is PARACETAMOL.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 01:06 am |
i dont know what you mean by saying wonderful, but im not happy with nhs doctors. they dont treat but get rid of us. the only solution to all of our problems is often applied is PARACETAMOL.
I haven´t experienced the benefit of nhs but I think I know now where the Irish doctors learnt their job. It is paracetamol and if you need antibiotics in 99% of cases it´ll be Augumentin I remember after the c-section I need an antibiotic and asked the doc if it crosses to the milk. He looked at me and said "That´s a very good question, I´ll ask somebody" and off he went to ask a midwife about it
I wish we had free medical care like you do in the UK
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 02:53 am |
I haven´t experienced the benefit of nhs but I think I know now where the Irish doctors learnt their job. It is paracetamol and if you need antibiotics in 99% of cases it´ll be Augumentin I remember after the c-section I need an antibiotic and asked the doc if it crosses to the milk. He looked at me and said "That´s a very good question, I´ll ask somebody" and off he went to ask a midwife about it
I wish we had free medical care like you do in the UK
We pay an amazing amount here for private healthcare....it´s obscene...........they if you really need something, often times they claim it was a previously existing condition and don´t cover it.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 05:43 am |
NHS staff are wonderful...
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 08:03 am |
I haven´t experienced the benefit of nhs but I think I know now where the Irish doctors learnt their job. It is paracetamol
I wish we had free medical care like you do in the UK
Same here: paracetamol rules!! (And you have to go to a drugstore to buy it, it´s not covered by the expensive health care insurance!)
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 11:37 am |
I haven´t experienced the benefit of nhs but I think I know now where the Irish doctors learnt their job. It is paracetamol and if you need antibiotics in 99% of cases it´ll be Augumentin I remember after the c-section I need an antibiotic and asked the doc if it crosses to the milk. He looked at me and said "That´s a very good question, I´ll ask somebody" and off he went to ask a midwife about it
I wish we had free medical care like you do in the UK
no, you wont get antibiotics! in order to get it you have to
here i started appreciating polish doctors who despite being arrogant or rude (some of them) at least will listen to what you say, examine you for at least 20 mins, prescribe you decent treatment etc etc.
here: "open your mouth" and he is 1,5m far away from me. "take paracetamol".
i had a problem with my knee. i got my MRI scanning after about 7 months of waiting. and physiotherapy after a month.
my husband was coughing really bad, he never had such before. his face got swallon and its color changed into blue. he went to our GP. came back completely angry. it was again PARACETAMOL. so he kept coughing for another 6 months.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 11:39 am |
off he went to ask a midwife about it
at least here they do it professionally they download it from the internet
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:05 pm |
no, you wont get antibiotics! in order to get it you have to
here i started appreciating polish doctors who despite being arrogant or rude (some of them) at least will listen to what you say, examine you for at least 20 mins, prescribe you decent treatment etc etc.
here: "open your mouth" and he is 1,5m far away from me. "take paracetamol".
i had a problem with my knee. i got my MRI scanning after about 7 months of waiting. and physiotherapy after a month.
my husband was coughing really bad, he never had such before. his face got swallon and its color changed into blue. he went to our GP. came back completely angry. it was again PARACETAMOL. so he kept coughing for another 6 months.
This is not my experience of the NHS. It seems you have been unlucky...
With regard to antibiotics, people take so many that we are becoming immune to them. Mothers rush their children to their doctor every time they have a slight cough and demand antibiotics instead of letting nature take it´s course. Then... in the even of something serious and life threatening like meningitis, antibiotics do not work so fast. Adults with serious conditions like pneumonia should respond quickly to antibiotics, but increasingly it can take weeks for them to work, and many "tries" of different antibiotics, because that patient has taken so many courses of them in the past. For this reason, GPs are more reluctant to prescribe them now.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:17 pm |
That´s all true what F said about us, continental patients not being used to Paracetamol being the wonder cure for all diseases. When my son was 3 weeks old he developed a nasty rash, our GP said it´ll heal itself but me being an overprotective mum took him to see a paediatrician in a Polish Clinic in Dublin. She immediately recognised cow´s milk allergy and prescribed him a special needs formula. Within 3 weeks the rash was gone.
I still prefer the Irish system of medical care. In Poland quite a contribution to the National Health Fund but instead of getting free medical service you go to private doctors rather than use the public service. I don´t know any woman who´d rely on public obstetricians. It is terrible also that if you don´t brible midwives you´re likely to be ignored by them or treated as a piece of meat. It´s totally different here, all the midwives I met were wonderful and helpful. Also Ireland has a great drugs payment scheme - a family can pay only €100 a month, the rest is covered by DPS. In Poland pensioners often spend 70-80% of their income on drugs.
I haven´t heard about bribery in Eire but in Poland it´s terrible. I remember a student´s father who told me that when his wife got ill, the docs told him he either pays them his 6 moth earnings or they won´t do a thing. Needles to say the woman dies and left him alone with 6 children. That´s only one of many problems of Polish healthcare.
I wonder what it looks like in Turey. Do you pay for healthcare directly or do you buy private health insurance?
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:28 pm |
This is not my experience of the NHS. It seems you have been unlucky...
With regard to antibiotics, people take so many that we are becoming immune to them. Mothers rush their children to their doctor every time they have a slight cough and demand antibiotics instead of letting nature take it´s course. Then... in the even of something serious and life threatening like meningitis, antibiotics do not work so fast. Adults with serious conditions like pneumonia should respond quickly to antibiotics, but increasingly it can take weeks for them to work, and many "tries" of different antibiotics, because that patient has taken so many courses of them in the past. For this reason, GPs are more reluctant to prescribe them now.
the same story you would hear from poles. what happent now is that poles have withdrawn polish doctors to uk. i have friends who only visit polish doctors. i listened to their stories and they are almost identical to mine. and we laugh at stories together. the thing is my daughter now has a chest infection after being on paracetamol. she finally was prescribed antibiotics, but of course they forgot about probiotics, so now her stomach is out of work, she vomits and cant eat. i then went to a pharmacist. asked her. she doesnt know, no, she is puzzled and goes off to her boss, he comes, he is puzzled, and calls his another assistant to find probiotics.
we found something at the price of £22 nope, at the end there was something at £3
my son probably is allergic to something, he just got some weird looking bubbles under his left eye, he was prescribed antihystamine, its getting better. however, the GP should have advised me to take some allergy tests and have handed me a paper to the lab.
anyway, we are good at complaining, im sure.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 04:46 pm |
my husband was coughing really bad, he never had such before. his face got swallon and its color changed into blue. he went to our GP. came back completely angry. it was again PARACETAMOL. so he kept coughing for another 6 months.
Was it your foot soup?
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