I’m quite good at this game for a plumber aren’t I?

(does anyone know if OP is still alive?)

You can buy unlocked 3 MiFis from amazon or fleabay… This allows you to just put in the sim card of whichever company is doing cheapest 3G data at the time. Also means you can buy a cheap data sim for any country you wish to visit, thus avoiding getting hammered for ‘roaming’.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Huawei-Version-Broadband-Wireless-Preloaded/dp/B004123WL2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326829306&sr=8-2

Preloaded with a 3GB/3month 3 mobile sim card… £72

JINX

v666ern – If I come up with something cool like Drac will you design me a house?

Missed beats (as well as extra beats) are very common – almost everyone gets one or two now and again. Some people just get more than others, some people just notice them more than others. May well turn out to be nowt of any great interest on your Holter.

As above, conjecture about what to do without a diagnosis is a fools game….. Await your results, discuss with the cardiologist, try not to worry. Low dose BB and aspirin are protective whilst awaiting an answer.

p.s. sounds most likely a pleuritic type of chest infection; which like most others will get better on it’s own with a bit of R&R.

Pop and see your GP though if its worrying you as internet diagnoses are mostly guesswork (some of it vaguely educated guesswork granted, but still just guesswork).

The out of hours GP would most likely have sent them to see either me (in A&E) or the chest pain assessment sister who lives very close to A&E…. Usually via an ambulance.

Thus I think going straight to A&E with chest pain was probably a sensible call.

(A lot of out of hours GPs don’t have ECG machines and they certainly can’t request blood tests were they get the results that evening. An out of hours GP may have been happy it was nowt without any sort of investigations but I suspect not many are going to risk it.)

TBH without knowing what the ‘odd heart rhythm’ is, the advice you will get on here is at best guess work and at worst downright dangerous. These questions are best discussed with the man looking after you…

As far as the side effects go, all medications have side effects its weighing up whether those side effects outweigh the risks of not taking the meds. Only you (with guidance/advice from your cardiologitst) can make that decision, when you are in full possession of the facts.

have a look on http://www.etsy.com for anything from the sublime to the ridiculous..

I was thinking that sounded quite impressive so I thought I’d see how close I came to it….

19,780 songs, 62 Days….

Ooooops, think I need to back away from Amazon.

He’s young (mid teens at a guess) so a little plate across that, splinted nice and straight by all the other bones so it’ll heal fast and not too long in plaster. Cool scar on the back of his hand (chicks dig scars).

I got one of the dodocase cases as it makes it more book-like. I’m fairly certain it’s only for the pose value though….. Not convinced it would ‘need’ anything more than a screen protector as they seem pretty robust. If you want something to make it look pretty then there are loads of options with http://www.etsy.com being a good place to start… (search for kindle cover)

McDonalds breakfasts…..

Hash brown = grease; held together with a few bits of potato like substance.

Oxygen (15l, non-rebreath mask)
Metaclopramide
Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
Full fat coke
Water
(I.V. normal saline at a push – shouldn’t be required after just 8 pints)

Knee pits are called your popliteal fossa…

Right, it’s Saturday night; the wife’s gone out on her xmas do; the boy has finally succumbed to sleep and I’m bored.

Who’s in? (and wants a bullet magnet on their team)

Speak to any Obstetricians and Anaesthetists that you know….. Ask how many of them had a home birth.

Go to hospital.

Hi,

An A&E doc here. Gasman Jim is probably right, however as he says he has not examined her, and neither have I. There are a few other things it could be which are more serious and all decent hospitals will have a limping kid protocol to help rule ot the serious from the not serious. Pop up to your local A&E. They will probably do some x-rays, which will probably show nothing, and they may well do some bloods or bring you back in 24/48 hours depending on the local protocol.

Steve

(just out of interest, where is your local hospital (just so i know if you’re coming to see me or not!)

Anyone coming to play on the PS3??

“stevenland” if you want to add me….

And A&E docs are often the least experienced in the hospital…

Huh-hmmmmm.
😕

Source:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6000186

I wouldn’t put that shoulder back…. it’s in joint

Pay for doctors

This page describes the pay for doctors from 1st April 2011.

Doctors in training

Doctors in training earn a basic salary and will be paid a supplement if they work more than 40 hours and/or work outside the hours of 7am-7pm Monday to Friday.

In the most junior hospital trainee post (Foundation Year 1) the basic starting salary is £22,412. This increases in Foundation Year 2 to £27,798. For a doctor in specialist training the basic starting salary is £29,705. If the doctor is contracted to work more than 40 hours and/or to work outside 7am-7pm Monday to Friday, they will receive an additional supplement which will normally be between 20% and 50% of basic salary. This supplement is based on the extra hours worked above a 40 hour standard working week and the intensity of the work.

Specialty doctor and associate specialist (2008) (SAS doctors)

Doctors in the new specialty doctor grade earn between £36,807 and £70,126. See http://www.nhsemployers.org/sas for more details.

Consultants

Consultants can earn a basic salary of between £74,504 and £100,446 per year, dependent on length of service. Local and national clinical excellence awards may be awarded subject to meeting the necessary criteria.

General practitioners

Many general practitioners (GPs) are self employed and hold contracts, either on their own or as part of a partnership, with their local primary care trust (PCT). The profit of GPs varies according to the services they provide for their patients and the way they choose to provide these services.

Salaried GPs employed directly by PCTs earn between £53,781 to £81,158, dependent on, among other factors, length of service and experience.

Teachers pay Scale (Outside London and SE England):

Scale point

1 £21,588
2 £23,295
3 £25,168
4 £27,104
5 £29,240
6 £31,552

Giving them a pension of 15,750 ish when they retire after 40 years of contributions…… Seems fair to me, you’d need a pot of about 250000 for that or £6,250 a year

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN03281.pdf

Page 6 if you’re interested binners….

Just bought the boy one of these for xmas… 18months up apparently and have flames down the side!

http://www.earlyrider.com/product/early-rider-original-lite/

Woody – “obviously you’re not in NE England stoatsbrother.”

I was thinking exactly the same thing…..

Loads of GPs ’round here send their punters up to us for an ECG, loads of them have been sitting in the waiting room with a ‘suspected MI’ and no treatment, loads of really good GPs too I’m sure but they look after their patients so we never get to hear about them up at the big house…

Call it ‘Police Surveillance 1’ – That’ll confuse/worry people

What muppewrangler said.

Even if the surgeon won’t touch it (have you actually seen the surgeon or is this just what the GP had told you? Not sure how they would know what the hand surgeons will/won’t touch) they will be able to bounce you in the direction of the hand physios to get it going again.

Presuming there is no surgery required then getting it going is most likely what it needs and the physioterrorists are the people most likely to get this done.

E-mail cotic….. You usually get a a very speedy reply, if he doesn’t see it on here first.

Depends what stitch they used….

Max-fax usually use Vicryl Rapide (or similar) inside the mouth so should take approx imately 7 days to dissolve (5 according to the manufacturers but that’s a lie)

Also, if the only cut is inside your mouth you probably don’t need tetanus (also if you were born after 1961 and had all your jabs as a kid; also the fact that it’s 6 days later and you’re still alive….)

HTH

Bugger, I was down to 30 odd minutes and now i’m back up to an hour…..

Because only girls with fingernails use plasters…. Real men use electrical tape.

What funky dunc said…..

Although I’d like a nosy at the xrays as well, but then I’m just a bit like that……

The traditional treatment was to hit it with the family bible. This wasonly because it was the biggest book that most people owned, anything big and heavy will do; we now recommend the oxford textbook of medicine as its bigger (and not so filled with lies).

However, this only hurts (at worst) and bursts it at best. Doesn’t actually get rid of the problem, which is usually a little outpouching of the tendon sheath full of fluid. Disappears when burst but usually comes back, ditto if the fluid is sucked out. Surgical removal gets rid of them permanently but only really considered if it is causing issues.

If it is big enough to restrict your range of movement then the answer for a permanent cure is to chop it out… Hitting it with the OTM may cure it, but will probably just hurt.

Riding withdrawal….. YOu should go for a bike ride this weekend.

Documents to go?

Seems pretty good.

I liked that, nice.

Se has a website

Norman **** Rockwell phase 3

I’d second the bean to cup idea. They’re not that cheap, but mine makes excellent coffee….

Oh you are paul, you are…..