Sitting in the dentist, waiting for Herself's checkup...
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... And they are running 45 minds late. Herself is not happy, but it's quite fun listening to one side of receptionist telephone conversation. A long call, someone wanting an appointment ASAP... "The earliest I've got in 7th March" "I know, but that's the earliest we have" "I'm sorry to hear you're in pain, but..." :sigh: "What kind of pain have you got?" "TOOTHACHE YOU STUPID ****" -- we all heard that bit. Receptionist disconnects. Oops.
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I thought it was a pretty stupid question when she asked it ... :-D
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On a serious note, it looks like getting appointments in UK is almost as bad as getting one in France. My wife asked for an appointment for my son who had had stomach ache for a few days, and they proposed an appointment 3 weeks later. Needless to say, it was gone by then. Only alternative are emergency care, but there they complain that they have too many people coming for things that are no emergency AND you loose at least 6 hours of your life in the waiting room.
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On a serious note, it looks like getting appointments in UK is almost as bad as getting one in France. My wife asked for an appointment for my son who had had stomach ache for a few days, and they proposed an appointment 3 weeks later. Needless to say, it was gone by then. Only alternative are emergency care, but there they complain that they have too many people coming for things that are no emergency AND you loose at least 6 hours of your life in the waiting room.
Covid: few people had checkups in '20 and '21 and the workload now they are fully reopen has probably gone through the roof.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is there anything called Emergency Toothache? Or is every toothache considered sub-emergency?
Depends if you are the one suffering or listening to the phone, I guess.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... And they are running 45 minds late. Herself is not happy, but it's quite fun listening to one side of receptionist telephone conversation. A long call, someone wanting an appointment ASAP... "The earliest I've got in 7th March" "I know, but that's the earliest we have" "I'm sorry to hear you're in pain, but..." :sigh: "What kind of pain have you got?" "TOOTHACHE YOU STUPID ****" -- we all heard that bit. Receptionist disconnects. Oops.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
That's not typical if you're a regular patient. Then there's all the scheduling that already went into the day. Sort of like this whole "I must travel by plane and make all my connections on time" mind set.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Covid: few people had checkups in '20 and '21 and the workload now they are fully reopen has probably gone through the roof.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's not typical if you're a regular patient. Then there's all the scheduling that already went into the day. Sort of like this whole "I must travel by plane and make all my connections on time" mind set.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
told my grandson to become a dentist. Makes a lot of money and at regular hours. Interesting and complex engineering problems to solve at times. Fix problems to improve people's health. only problem is you see a lot of people who don't want to be in your chair and can't wait to leave. Just saying.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
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told my grandson to become a dentist. Makes a lot of money and at regular hours. Interesting and complex engineering problems to solve at times. Fix problems to improve people's health. only problem is you see a lot of people who don't want to be in your chair and can't wait to leave. Just saying.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger
But they're always down in the mouth.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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But they're always down in the mouth.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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But they're always down in the mouth.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Sure it can be a bit of a grind but you know the drill going into it.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
"What kind on pain have you got?"
My arse hurts, but I thought the dentist may be giving it a try.
Start from the bottom and work your way up?
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I blame this 100% on the heathcare industry. They shutdown during COVID and many of their highly skilled folks simply left for other, lower stress work.
In the UK, it's a bit more complicated than that. Combine 13 years of chronic underfunding by a government who wants to turn the NHS into an American-style private healthcare system, with tabloid newspapers encouraging old people to tell all "foreign" healthcare workers to "go back where they came from", and an education system that would leave any potential medical students with a lifetime of crippling debt, and you can start to see why we have a shortage of staff, equipment, buildings, and other resources. And that's before you get into the corruption of government ministers bunging billions to their mates for PPE contracts during the pandemic, despite knowing that said mates were incapable of fulfilling them. But it's fine; we'll just keep voting the same party into power, and blaming all of the problems on the same people we stood on our doorsteps and clapped for once a week during the lockdowns. :doh:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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... And they are running 45 minds late. Herself is not happy, but it's quite fun listening to one side of receptionist telephone conversation. A long call, someone wanting an appointment ASAP... "The earliest I've got in 7th March" "I know, but that's the earliest we have" "I'm sorry to hear you're in pain, but..." :sigh: "What kind of pain have you got?" "TOOTHACHE YOU STUPID ****" -- we all heard that bit. Receptionist disconnects. Oops.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
"The earliest I've got in 7th March"
They should consider themselves lucky to be registered with an NHS dentist. I moved 2½ years ago, and I'm still on the waiting list. :sigh: I ended up having to go to a private dentist when I needed a root canal, which is decidedly not cheap. (It was either that, or face a 520-mile round-trip to my old dentist for each appointment - assuming they had kept me on their books.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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On a serious note, it looks like getting appointments in UK is almost as bad as getting one in France. My wife asked for an appointment for my son who had had stomach ache for a few days, and they proposed an appointment 3 weeks later. Needless to say, it was gone by then. Only alternative are emergency care, but there they complain that they have too many people coming for things that are no emergency AND you loose at least 6 hours of your life in the waiting room.
It is the same in the U.S. Also, the nurses in Manhattan (NY, not Kansas) are on strike. So, if you actually get admitted to one of those hospitals, you most probably die, since it is the nurses that keep you alive while you are being treated.
