please empty your brain below
'junior consultant?' or in post since August 1st?

Blue Witch | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 9:20 a.m. | #

It's never fun but you do sort of get used to it. That and getting regular blood tests, as well. I hope things aren't too bad.

Dave | 21.08.07 - 9:31 a.m. | #

Things aren't bad, thanks.
So, let's nip that one in the bud

diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 9:58 a.m. | #

Bud nipping? That's on the third floor but you'll have to book. Take a ticket and wait at main reception.

Ham | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 10:03 a.m. | #

did it rain ?

zed | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 10:19 a.m. | #

Private consultations aren't terribly expensive.
You will find the waiting room reasonably pleasant, the receptionists on duty, the notes to hand, and you will see the same person every time and on time.

ChrisC | 21.08.07 - 11:20 a.m. | #

It's extraordinary how they are able to provide a different junior consultant for every visit, reliably for years on end. The one who talks on the phone all the time, the one who merrily asks you to participate in some risky experiment, the one who looks sadly at you as a future dissection subject, the one who has lost ten stone and cycles to work, and wants you to do the same, tired ones, fascinated Sherlock Holmes types who think you have a rarely seen syndrome, only to lose interest and go back to their violins, big-bosomed comforting ones who hold you close when they take your blood pressure, ones whose nubile nurses can open the door on you any time they jolly-well like for a chat about scheduling. And they all read the notes as if they were a new installment of a soap they want to know what happened in, but don't care much for most of it, which can be fast-forwarded through. What do they all do after they've seen us, do they all die young or what? We certainly seem to be there more reliably than them. Who'd have thought it would be that way round?

Feargal Mooney | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 11:32 a.m. | #

It's terrible that they just keep loading on the tablets, you'd think they'd have an alternative.

Nonny | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 12:29 p.m. | #

They're trying to provoke you into going private. They're completely cynical about it, and will tell you so if you ask.

z | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 2:43 p.m. | #

I was once told by a doctor who worked for many years in a hospital to be wary of being told "come back in six months" in outpatients by the junior consultant. This used to mean "in six months time I won't be here so if I can put you off for six months your boring medical complaint will be someone else's problem and I won't have to do anything".

Of course in six months time the new junior consultant takes the same approach and you go endlessly to pointless appointments.

Pedantic of Purley | 21.08.07 - 3:21 p.m. | #

DG in a nightclub! I find that part more alarming.

Amused | 21.08.07 - 6:20 p.m. | #

I've just been to pick up my new prescription.
Damn, this time it's a big shiny capsule

Three months ago I'd never swallowed a tablet before. Now I appear to be on the gulp-swallow-repeat treadmill for life. Sigh.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 7:17 p.m. | #

Your in 'the system' now and they won't relinquish you easily - the NHS is like the Hotel California - I went to the Doctors for only about the 3rd time in 15 years 3 years ago and on discovering my excitingly high blood pressure they have had me back every three months ever since - not to mention the 'battery of tests' they like to send me to the hospital for every year or so. I'm not grumbling, but I do feel slightly assimilated.

garax | 21.08.07 - 7:17 p.m. | #

Sorry to hear about more pills. Do you wash yours down with water, tea or coffee as rule. Or is it whatever is to hand?
Or is coffee one of the cut-backs?

flashgordonnz | 21.08.07 - 8:00 p.m. | #

he doesn't do coffee. pay attention

sandra | 21.08.07 - 8:39 p.m. | #

"Three months ago I'd never swallowed a tablet before."

"DG in a nightclub! I find that part more alarming."

Obviously, being a classy chap, dg doesn't frequent that sort of nightclub.

The Girl | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 8:48 p.m. | #

First time comment here. Love the blog. In the hospital where I work, all the notes are on computer now, so the days of big piles of files and lost notes are beginning to become a faded memory. When the computer is working, of course.

soulcompost | Homepage | 21.08.07 - 9:37 p.m. | #

If its big and shiny are you sure you are supposed to swallow it?

Debster | 22.08.07 - 11:22 a.m. | #

...also, there's no such grade as 'junior consultant' in the NHS, at least not at the moment. Not that the government wouldn't love to introduce the idea, I might add.

soulcompost | Homepage | 22.08.07 - 10:16 p.m. | #

I hate the way Doctors call you by your first name these days, like they are your best mate or something. I try to avoid Hospitals and Doctors, they can make you ill.

Tina from Surrey | 22.08.07 - 11:43 p.m. | #











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