Attention Squad....You seem extremely helpful with peoples health issues on here...

[icemaiden]

Hope you don\'t mind me asking for your opinion (or anyone else). Trying to get an appointment at my Doctors is just about impossible and cost me a fortune in mobile phone bills due to 0844 numbers.

Generally I am a healthy active person however in the last few months I have often felt nauseous, no pattern to this. Could be in the morning, evening, after a meal or between meals. I come over hot and very sick although never actually vomiting. Also occasionally I have felt dizzy, lasting 5-10 seconds, followed by a headache/ pressure feeling in head. Today had a really bad dizzy spell this morning and again about hour later. Nothing since. I am definately not pregnant and my eating habits have not changed. I am on lanzoprazole daily (have been for 20 years or so) and I am on Cerezette contraceptive pill for a few years. Had major back surgery 18 months ago (two level spinal fusion). Had sinuses cleared three years ago. No problem with them at all.

Sorry to sound like your patient! Hope you don\'t mind but if you do, I will understand.

Many thanks

[Bbbananas]

Most docs I know, particuarly GPs, are certainly laughing...
They still make out they're hard-up and hard-done-to -

I should have done what I really wanted to at the age of 18 and gone into medicine - it was my wish and want, but never thought I would be clever enough or the "right sort of person". Ha! Most of the new docs these days have plenty of intelligence but no common sense whatsoever. There's not many of the 'old-school' types left (retired) - and the ones in between are mostly obsessed with moneymaking... right into their own pockets. Of course they care about their patients - surely no-one would go into medicine or GP Practice without caring?!!!! - but money is a prime objective these days which is a shame.

[Sqad]

salla....money was my motivation and that is why i kicked the NHS into touch and went totally private. Look at it this way salla (as the Americans do and as I do), if you are good at your that means more patients and more money.....if you are crap that means less patients and less money....seems reasonable to me.

Now in the NHS if the Drs are crap, average, good, excellent ....it makes no difference, the pay is the same...RIDICULOUS.

[Bbbananas]

But what about the patients who cannot afford to go private - do they not deserve the best just cos their pockets are not so deep?

I wholly understand why doctors do private medicine - but not if it is at the expense of those who cannot afford it.

[Sqad]

Look salla....on Monday, distribute all the wealth equally to everybody, rich and poor and by Friday i guarantee that there will be rich and poor again.......sqad or anybody else can do nothing about it.

The NHS provides for the rich and poor and the people of the UK can rest assured.....no Political party will ever drop the NHS.

[Bbbananas]

I know what you're saying.... and most of us, when it comes down to money, are inherently selfish.
Although the NHS is not perfect, and never will be - it's still the Good Old NHS and I still think we've, as a Nation, much to be proud of.

Rant over. Sorry Icemaiden. Get thee to your GeePee....

[Sqad]

salla......so why are you going PRIVATE?

[Bbbananas]

I'm not. I can't afford it :-)

Do you mean Papworth? That's on the Good Old NHS... Choose and Book and all that - may as well make the use of my knowledge of the workings of things!!

[Sqad]

I thought that you said Plaid was going to pay....in a previous thread?

[Bbbananas]

Plaid paid for the local private cardiology opinion I had before I went sailing in France for a month (in July). I couldn't get in to see him before the holiday, and Plaid wanted reassurance I would be okay to be away from land & to do such physical stuff cos I had been having a lot of symptoms - he didn't want to be landed with a Stiff on board..! I saw that Czech chap (who, incidentally, appears to have fled the country only a fortnight after he saw me... hence his private bill remains unpaid, hee hee.....)

[Sqad]

LOL LOL....cheeky.

[dave80]

GP contracts were eventually amended in April 2010 to ban 0844 and other such revenue share numbers.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-geographic_telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom#Healthcare for extra details.