I turned the TV on and the afore mentioned is on, and it seems the people who have been suffering have already been to their GP but don’t seem to be getting anywhere, but when they speak with the TV Dr’s, it seems all is sorted quite quickly and correctly.

So I wondered whether our NHS GP/Dentists etc are not doing the job they are supposed to (fixing us correctly) or is it a knowledge problem? (running across the board) or could it be anything else?

Discuss!

Jonathan 😉

I suspect a TV programme called ‘I went to the Doctor and got treated’ wouldn’t sell that well.
Why not try to find out how many people actually do get treated by the NHS each day, and compare that number to the 2 or 3 who appeared in the programme?
Or why not get a job working in the NHS, and maybe appreciate the work that actually gets done?

Discuss that…

But I don’t understand. Surely everything on telly is real, presented fairly and without bias?

I’ve thought about becoming a television doctor. All you need are perfect teeth, garish suit and an ability to offer woolly ideas without committing to any real diagnosis. Double the pay, half the work. Sweet!

haha, not only that but britishnessitude means that we should go to the gp and tell them it’s not that bad and it doesn’t really hurt much and we could probably just get on with it. And as GP’s have a metric sh*tload of work to do anyway they just nod and say, “give it a couple of weeks/doses of this and it’ll be reet” and we all walk away happy within the prescribed 12 minute appointment time.

[cynic mode off]

…the NHS deals with 1 million patients every 36 hours.

Just for a bit of balance, like.

Kind of what I was saying. the NHS works but people need to be more honest and just get to the point in order to get proper treatment. In my experience we are a country divided into hypochondriacs and musn’t grumbles. the problem being the people that need help the most tend underplay their problems and GP’s don’t have it easy dealing with the workshy minority.
IMO

Electric Worry – that’s what I was getting at.

I’m fully aware of the way the NHS works, the quality of service received (I have received more than the average share). But one of the people there had some severe skin rot, I know this is an extreme case, but I would have thought it would have been straight to the hospital and pushing to see a much more experienced/qualified/knowledgable/skilled person – so the diagnosis could have been carried out correctly.

A minority case I’m sure.

What about dental care? I wondered why we (as a nation) had a fear of dentists/dental care?

It doesn’t seem this way in other parts of the world (which are of course, funded differently) in Holland for example, a friend of mine who lived in the UK for apprxox 30years says the treatment he has received recently has been to a much higher standard…

We must really be in the shart if someone would rather get their nob or piles out on Channel 4 than see a GP

Was the skin rot person a bloke? We’re terrible for it. I do it myself. I’m not scared of going to the doctor or woried about what it might be, I just don’t want to bother him. All doctors are really, really busy we’re told, I’d just be a hindrance.

There’s no need for him to look at this broken leg or testicular lump, it’ll go away by itself. The doctors surgery is full of much iller people than me surely. I can get to work with broken ribs, I’ve done a number of times, so whatever people who fill up hospitals and surgeries have, it has to be way more serious than that. I’d be embarrassed sat next to someone with head cancer when all I had was a bit of skin rot.

Samuri – I think you have a valid point…

Yep, my thought’s on the programme too, but, is it because they are not receiving the service they ought to? Or because of what Samuri has said?
jt

I think dentistry is a very different case to the gp situation. It is pretty difficult to find a good nhs dentist, the trappings of private practise seem to appeal to dentists much earlier than doctors (generalising I know but that’s how it seems) perhaps nhs funding for dentists isn’t competitive or perhaps there isn’t the obligation to work for the nhs that there clearly is for doctors, I don’t know. As for the lack of diagnoses I guess that’s largely down to the things I mentioned above but also gp’s seem largely unwilling to pass on to a specialist if they think it could be potentially temporary/a mild inconvenience. I’m willing to stand corrected if this isn’t the case, I wouldn’t want to do the job.

Again, this is completely based on heresay and I’m willing to be proved wrong on this point but don’t doctors being trained up by the NHS have to work for the NHS for a set period before they can go private whereas dentists can get trained up and then immediately become private? That would explain the difference……

I spent 30 years in Oz where we pay for our health care, and the cost will cripple you if you get something like cancer.

Then I came back here and one day I had to be wheeled into emergency. All I can say is the NHS is brilliant when you absolutely need it. I’m sure it’s not perfect, it’s there to cater for needs, not wants.

In Oz we reckons Poms would whinge about the extra weight if you filled their pockets with gold. I reckon a lot of the anti NHS stuff falls into that category.

You can study for a degree in medicine and then get a job as a gardener if you want. No obligation to do anything. There’s just not much opportunity to do anything else but work for the NHS. As for going straight into private practice, you wouldn’t get any work. Who’d want a house officer changing their heart?

maybe it’s just me. Dentists are very quickly to diagnose something from the A La Carte menu.
Well that’s what is seems like to me…. how much?