Now if you want to see the opposite problem, you should see someone when they have fractured the shaft whilst erect (not just the old banjo string). The screams!

Memories of an ER in oz…

Thanks – that’s really helpful 🙂

I am also interested in Nest users experience. thanks for any info

My grandparents used to cook fried mash in dripping as a supper snack for me when I was about 11. Can taste it still.

I can understand your worries but sounds like you are in really good hands. I’ve no idea about how soon you’d stop after a Maze, only seen one patient with one. I guess they have to find if it has worked. I suspect dronedarone wouldn’t be high on their list.

Interesting to hear you’ve had your appendage done. Getting some innovative stuff done… Should make your CHADS2VaSC irrelevant. Cool.

Amiodarone is difficult. Some of the side effects are trivial, some very common but manageable and at least one potentially fatal.

In the last few years we have moved away a bit from it because in survival terms a rate control (roughly normal heart rate) is as good or better than a rhythm control strategy ( regular heartbeat, which we use amiod for). But if you are athletically active or find being in AF uncomfortable there isn’t much better than amiod. And I’ve seen how disappointed people get if they go back into AF after ablations etc…

I’d guess that 75% of people have no problems on it. But it is probably one of the more toxic drugs I prescribe.

Does your chap have a view on dronedarone? less toxic but less effective.

I think you’re young enough for your AF stroke prediction scores to be low if you went back into AF? Do you know your CHADS2VASC score?

It was 1% out.. Not bad really.

18 year old always used to say he wasn’t a teenager – just someone who happened to be fourteen, or whatever, and was brilliant.

The 12 year old however is lovely but really getting ready for being 13 in a month’s time. But the signs have been there for years. And the 10 year old son of a mate…

Most of them come good in the end

God I really hope this is a joke, or you aren’t a Doctor 😯 That is such a 1920s Harley Street rip-off business.

So… JALPWAN

“Just a little prick with a needle” 😉

I lived next door for 6 months to one of the foremost actors of our generation. Never met him since.

Tony Blair wrote the foreword to to a close relative’s book. I never got a free copy.

One bloke I was at Uni with lives in LA and has his own official fanclub, but you’d never have heard of him…

Married one Catholic,
Now in a relationship with a different one.
Close catholic friends
Been to more masses in the last 30 years than any other religous celebrations.

So am not anti “Catholics”, but I am anti-Catholicism if you are talking about the Religion rather than the Faith. And I think that any one who actually thinks about it, would be. Pope Francis however is a breath of fresh air. But, in the recent past:

Attitudes to Condoms in Africa
Attitudes to Homosexuality
Moral pronouncements of senior Clerics in the UK
Longstanding links with the Mafia in Italy (Francis seems to be breaking these – anyone want to buy him life insurance?!)
Suppression of liberation theology and links with fascist regimes.
The mass canonisation of dubious characters to get poorer bums-on-pews.
And, of course, systematic cover-ups of child abuse.

Not a great record , is it?

It is ok for the educated UK or Italian Catholic – who cheerfully adopts a selective “buffet” approach to doctrine and dogma – as evidenced by the Birth rate in Italy of 1.3 children per couple – but that isn’t the Global picture.

So until the Vatican and the Clerics all move into the 21st century, and stop playing control games, I will be anti the Church, but not the individual believers,

Bikes not niche enough

come back when you have some more artisanal kit 😉

Jamie – thanks for the camelcamelcamel thingy – hadn’t seen that.

yes, porridge yesterday.

jam bo Battle was great this year… 🙂

Vickeypea – leave us stoats alone! 😉

There can be serious problems[/url] with Chinise herbal remedies. Sometimes they work because they ain’t herbal.

It is interesting how suddenly a few years ago there were so many Chnese herbal medicine shops which suddenly sprang up in even small towns. The programme that must have been organised to make sure that each of the owners was properly trained and supplying bona fide stuff, with proper governance, must have been huge.

Or maybe they didn’t bother… God made sheep to be shorn.

I would definitely have “modern” accupuncture for some things though.

That’s a result. Be good to get the scrotes too. Does his insurance get loaded if they are recovered? Hope not.

Surely it would be pretty easy to have some kind of bait-car remote turnoff mechanism these days? Wonder why it’s not common.?

😆

How to address a lady?

Stamp on the left breast, address on the belly, but you’ll never get her into the postbox.

IGMC

Nope. Not envious in the slightest. Not exactly poor myself. Even owned BMWs. Not judging anyone – I mean it’s not like it was an audi…

I just don’t see why this is a thread here. It isn’t the OP’s cars which got nicked, the owner isn’t on the forum, as far as we know, and there doesn’t appear to be any lesson to learn. So the OP and others getting upset that people aren’t queuing up commiserate seems a bit odd.

And it is getting rarer When I was young we’d all had our cars nicked.

Because the thief threatening you and your family would be better? This doesn’t sound like a simple case of “hooking”.

Tracker or remote disabler ftw here. People saying their stuff won’t get nicked are being smug. Anything can be taken away. Cars get repo’d.

This was a shitty thing to happen. Feeling good because it didn’t happen to us would be smug. Feeling terribly hurt for someone we don’t know when they and their family were ok, and it was two cars nicked, not their entire home trashed and covered in crap, would seem a bit odd too.

There is a middle line here. I’m just saying why this thread hasn’t turned into a formal book of commiseration.

Problem might be that it wasn’t the OP, but his mate.

So however shitty this is, no one to give sympathy to directly, and probably not much to learn. The keys were out of view. Could have happened to any of us. But loads of cars get nicked every day and not each one deserves its own thread. Just saying

Guessing the OP doesn’t live in East Sussex.

We really do fireworks down here. 🙂

Brilliant.

There has to be room for something more than boring boxes.

Art should be some sort of statement, not a Barrett home in a culture-de-sac

Toddler Taming – a great book and a great bloke – used to get lectures from him in Oz when I did a chunk of a paediatric rotation there.

Kids that age do often respond to training. They learn quickly and then forget the trauma. So you have to find a way you are both happy with which doesn’t screw up your life and relationship and intimacy together.

OP, say to your partner “if every time I woke up in the night, you gave me a cuddle and pint of beer, do you think it would stop waking me at night?”

GP IT has been pretty successful for most users, way better than hospitals, and most of us have been paperless for years.

This is because we are “user-choosers” and are given some latititude to configure and adapt our systems. The problems all tend to be around the way bizarre government initiaives and imperatives are implemented in a top-down manner. Or where some muppet in community services decides to get Commnutiy nurses using the one system which won’t talk to any one else.. 😥

This is absolutely standard. And the kit used these days makes it really easy for a family member or friend to do it. Seen lots of people in 80s and 90s do it with no issues.

Happens more often as we are trying harder to prevent post-op clotting problems.

If he has certain kinds of artifical heart valves, some of the tablets we increasingly use to do this job are not an option.

GP here

OP That system sucks and isn’t necessary organisationally, or needed to hit targets. It also generates unnecessary work for both patients and the surgery and is insulting and inefficient.

And yes, most kids infections are viral, antibiotics are not helpful for most throat infections, ear infections, conjunctivitis and lots of chest infections. And the GMC would take a dim view of me referring a patient I hadn’t seen for physio and missing an extensor mechanism problem or a locked knee or something requiring other interventions.

Snap!

woody 2000 – looks polished not rusty…

moving on…

Is posing as a private seller something that would interest Trading Standards?

My 12 yr old says experia z3 compact. Has a nexus at the moment and used to parents and older brother’s iPads. Will be buying his own after Xmas.

ninfan – no ,everyone still dies once…

and to be honest the forms and need to contact and speak to relatives to discuss, and other Drs to do the 1st/2nd part, liaising with coroner’s officers if there is one of a whole long list of circumstances, travelling to a mortuary to see the body etc etc, mean that it isn’t financially worth it… I’d be very happy if we didn’t have to do it.

some nice accurate responses above from primary care. I’d agree with Dr P and others above

HSBC…. grrrr

applied for a mortgage with them 2 months ago, ok for a week but then the madness started…

Asked for proof of id – fine – took to Branch – they did nothing for 10 days after that, then phoned to check something – two weeks later nothing had happened and then spent about 2 hours one day to call centres in ? 3 different countries. All polite and helpful except the UK one…

But they still managed to change my id and address details 3 x in 24 hours and then sent out a request for my financial details to an address I left 2 years ago where my STB-ex-wife lives…

And every time I rang them, or they rang me they insisted on asking my security questions, which as they had changed my address without asking, I got wrong… Even when they rang me to apologise, they insisted until I told them I wasn’t going to apply any further and to go a long long away.

Nationwide sorted the whole thing in 7 days

HSBC – Avoid

+1

and real ladies would never call them self a “lady”…

allthegear

me!

not going to happen though… back to work… 🙁

If, like Steak Tartare, is is high quality from a single piece of meat, cut up and prepared immediately before serving/cooking then it’s not a problem.

If a restaurant or pub won’t serve you a rare burger it tells you that they cannot do that, and you definitely shouldn’t have it even if they had said they would try to do it rare.

Interesting how more posters here now rightly challenge the “Back-off-Brussels” mob. Although why do we really need human rights… 😉

The wheel size thing has put me off the idea of buying bikes or looking at reviews.

The industry gets what it deserves. Sorry.

Family and partner, 6 bikes between us, plus 3 sets of mud wheels. Can’t get the tyres I want. Everything new and sexy has wheels just 6% or 12% bigger.

Bad enough frigging around with BBS and headsets, but three wheel diameter standards?

If you are 5ft 10 or over – I think the Mark 3 is a better fit. Top of the windscreen a bit low.

Reputedly they engineered it so it had no more grip than the mark 2.5 to keep the fun factor.

But the driver assistance electronics were great. I remember doing a free training day with it at prodrive. Doing an emergency stop from 80mph with no hands on the wheel, and seeing how much better it was on a skid pan

Damn, now I want one again…

Loved my Mark 3 – went for about 7k after 6 years with only about 8k on the clock.

Miss it still 😥