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Something I missed in skool!

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Adrian Caspersz
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Some of that is te NHS fault. I got badly bitten by a dog, and I went to A&E cos it hurt like sin. After three hours waiting I went to the triage nurse and said 'look, all I want to know is if its broken a bone in my hand 'Oh no' she said 'dogs almost never do that: its just badly bruised and lacerated'

'Well in that case I am going home' 'Don't you want to wait for antibiotics' 'If it swells up I'll see my GP'

Triage is, apparently, not allowed to make the judgement 'take two aspirin and if its worse, see your GP in the morning'

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Should have been washed out as much as possible, given antibiotics, and tetanus given if none in the last 5 (?10) years. One of those situations where antibiotics are worthwhile *before* the dog's mouth flora starts to enjoy its new home. Most people would get away without, but still a good idea for the few who don't. Tetanus is especially unpleasant and expensive to treat. However, it's a free country, you don't have to take advice.

Reply to
Roger Hayter

took a chance to save us all money...good man....

Reply to
Jimbo in the near of Hawick ..

But far more to the point - did the dog survive being poisoned?

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

Compare and contrast someone personally known to me who takes son to A & E 'he's vomiting and fitting, can someone please look at him'

'We will be with you in a minute'

A minute later he choked on his vomit and was pronounced dead, but was subsequently revived with all the brain power of a malignant parrot.

He lived to the ripe old age of 12, as a family and marriage wrecking life destroying creature - human isn't really the word - before succumbing - to the huge relief of everyone except his mother, who took the matter all the way to the supreme court, who judged that *since no doctors had seen him, there was no case for negligence to answer*.

The NHS is very much better than nearly all the alternatives, but it aint perfect.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

I need the money to put petrol in my Rolls Royce.

Reply to
harry

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

Last time I needed stitching up they decided I had had enough anti-tetanus. Might have been 5 doses total.

Reply to
Tim Lamb

especially for all those folks who come here with the specific intention of freeloading, and the 75% of the general population who over their lifetime cost more in public services than they ever pay in tax.

It's all in the HMRC website if you look. The top 5% of taxpayers pay more in tax then the entire bottom 50%.

Pregnant african ladies have realised that if they come here at say 6 months and then turn up at the maternity clinic at 8 months, they know that they cannot be deported because no airline will take them, nor can the hospital refuse to book them in. Then they bugger off home and are never seen again.

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Andrew

Yes. That's what happened to me. (Then when I was a few weeks off my 65th birthday and had received no notification of state pension, I rang the office in Newcastle. Before looking up my details, 'That might be because we haven't got a current address for you,' I was told. I hadn't moved in the previous five years and they'd had no difficulty contacting me over the winter fuel payment. Actually they did have the address. Lack of notice must have been a c*ck-up.)

Reply to
Peter Johnson

Surely your chauffeur does that?

Bentleys in California can communicate their need for fuel and an attendant will come and fill it for you wherever you may be.

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Reply to
MrCheerful

You are sent a letter at female state pension age and invited to phone the number and claim it, but if you don't, they don't try and force you.

Reply to
Andrew

Not surprised you needed to twist things around to make some point or whatever.

If the top 5% of *earners* paid the correct about of tax, everyone else would pay a great deal less.

But surely they'd stay on? As a single mother to get that free house and the thousand quid a week that you splutter over in The Express every morning?

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

In article , Jimbo in the near of Hawick ... writes

Retirement age for women - which was 60 but is now a moving feast.

Reply to
bert

In article , charles writes

And if more than one qualifying person in the house it is shared between them.

Reply to
bert
[101 lines snipped] 1 > "you a doctor then?...never really bothered...any aches or pains?" ....what 2 > is that from? ....

FFS.

Reply to
Huge

I don't know where it is from either.

Reply to
Roger Hayter

Tony Hancock the blood donor....tee hee........................................bloody philistines

Reply to
Jim GM4DHJ ...

What would be the point of owning an RR and not driving it yourself?

Reply to
harry

In message , Jimbo in the near of Hawick ... writes

Looking at the web site, the qualifying date is those born on or before

5 May 1953, although that date changes yearly.

I received a letter offering me the payment last year, for the first time. I phoned and gave my bank details, and two hundred pounds appeared in my bank account the following November (2015). Payment for this year appeared a week ago. I was born August 1952.

My wife does not yet receive payment, although when she qualifies, I think she will receive one hundred pounds i.e. 200 for single people or

300 for a couple.
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Graeme

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