SBZ not sure I’d trust you if you had that attitude. A GP should examine you properly, document what is happening, and if there is not a simple and obvious solution, refer you on to someone who can work it out.

What they won’t do is what many therapists might do, attach their pet diagnosis to it, charge you for treating it, and then assume they have been successful because you don’t come back after a while, having gone to get it diagnosed properly.

As I said – anyone who thinks there is one simple and definite cause for this ain’t been around for very long…

And it’s not radial nerve… wrong side of the hand. Ulnar nerve can do it – but so can pathology in the brachial plexus, in your 8th cervical nerve root etc etc…

Beware of people with little experience of seeing this suggesting only the thing they know about or have suffered…

Get it checked

Not possible to diagnose over the internet – you need proper neurological examination by your GP.

This could be anything from Ulnar Neuritis/nerve compression, Brachial Neuralgia, a cervical disc prolapse, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with something else, etc etc etc… before you get on to more serious things. The list is very long.

If any one here gives you a definite single answer – don’t believe them. This pattern of symptoms sometimes takes nerve conduction studies to settle the issue…

Mark Thanks

Edukator and we saw just how rant-free and reasonable you were in the deleted steve jobs thread…

I hope, just really hope, you are not a teacher.

I read his previous threads as demonstrating some conflict – yes- but to an extent where he felt he was being subject to domestic abuse…

Sure – there are always two sides – but I’m not really sure what you are trying to achieve here…

32 Gb, without 3G – for the reasons above.

Getting via Apple does mean you can get name engraved on the rear for free – which might be a useful security thing…

3% cashback on quidco at the moment btw

Man asks simple question admitting it is “numpty”

Smug git calls him a. Tosssr…

Takes one to know one etc…

You want guesses?

£60 for the first if the brackets were already fitted, and no new pipes run. But I’d do it myself in that case…

£100 – 150 the other – actually does require some skill and might need two blokes

I have one pump that does this. Others don’t bend it.

It happens – but I’d still want a paternity test…

SDG
I think Salsa Clamps look and work better than the Hope ones

Romanzo Criminale – an everyday story of drug dealing, violence and whores in 1970s Rome

It does seem – superficially – a load of tosh… and I sometimes help lead club rides…

Until you are faced with:

A mother who wishes to leave her child with you leading on a club ride on a day when it is wet and cold and blowing a gale, and she might not be contactable… (happened to me a year ago)
Someone who turns up without a helmet to ride in the trees (Happens every few months)
Someone (me) who jumps without his bike and lies on the ground unconscious
Someone who sues the club for something that happens whilst a club member is leading ( has happened in the SCGB a few times)

At that point you realise that the minute you become an organised body, rather than a loose alliance of mates, you have to do due diligence at some point…

This may mean assessing risks in advance, stating how you would mitigate them (First Aid training, leadership rules, helmet wearing, TCL or BC qualifications, consent forms for parents, ICE cards, Participation statements).

Now you can decide whether this is H&S gone mad and do the minimum possible, or whether you make it a useful and interesting learning exercise which improves your leadership skills. The latter seems to me a better way. But your choice.

😀 😆

Handheld battery electric stirrer

Becky , I’m a GP. Not in it for the money but because I like the job. Minimum of 9-10 years from starting training to a non-training job. But I spent 14yrs doing various things.

FD. Sorry, but I have enough Consultant friends who do very very well, and whose working hours I do actually know. Money can be and is made. Nothing wrong with that. And I know radiologists and anaesthetists who add 50% to their NHS income with a half or full days work.

Anyone done really well out of money purchase schemes in recent years?

High long term management costs and all that?

The two financial barriers they might be likely to face at an early stage are Uni fees and House deposit. I’d be looking to find ways of lessening those. A decent education might make them more likely to be in a job with a decent pension… if those still exist by the time they get to 21 or so…

FD

Hourly rate for GPs and Hospital Drs at junior consultant level is about the same… Believe me, I have enough friends in both camps…

Choose your speciality wisely as a hospital doc (orthopods, ophthalmologists, Anaesthetists etc etc) and there is still oodles of money in private practice, and may be more with some of the abolition of waiting list targets by the current government… 👿

But – I’d agree with all your other points… the first 5 years of anyone training in a Surgical Speciality can be particularly hard. But most of us moved around a lot, and lived in a lot of places in our first 5 or 6 years qualified. And one thing which has really changed is that whilst many many Consultants had no idea what a hospital looked like at night and weekends, whilst we GPs were up all the time… the boot is very much on the other foot.

A fair amount in the US and Canada. Big ones quite noisy, small ones fun when landing on gravel strips.

I do remember flying to Ireland in one a bit like Druidh shows, in 1964…

Best and most fun flights by far however in helicopters (turbine) and floatplanes (radial)

Quack here – and qualified 26 years ago. Don’t listen to any whingers. If you like people it can still be a cracking and rewarding job. Most of my friends in the trade like it. I don’t do a huge amount of paperwork, decent IT has taken care of that, and the paperwork I do do is necessary.
But then I don’t work in a hospital…

I think it would be a brave person who went into the pharmaceutical industry in the UK at the moment unless they were willing to move to the US or Europe.

Wrecker – I’d disagree. I went in to it because of family background, and it being an interesting challenging and well-rewarded profession. Talking to medical students I think the same is true for most today.

I’d actively worry about anyone who really felt a “vocation” to medicine at the usual Med school entrance age of 18-19, because they are probably either naively optimistic and about to be disappointed by reality, or they have a religious or psychological issue which means they may push their own agenda on patients. The best you can hope for is that as medical students mature and grow-up they develop into people who like, respect and enjoy other people.

You insert them in a convenient orifice of the person who has punctured without a spare tube…

Work – Crockett and Jones Brogues
Play – timberland Deck shoes when warm, their Suede boots when not.

I’m an old git me – and I don’t think trainers and jeans are on at my age

Tube and tyre levers and an emergency tyre patch…

… which is more than some of the people using tubes who I ride with sometimes seem to have… and so few carry a powerlink 👿

I created a page about another forum some years ago – it got deleted after a month or so…

Bel air

Rhubarb – you bucky lucking fastard….

hexhamstu – pack an umbrella… 😉

CFH and DD – Early March. I suspect most of the time we’ll be heading over the pass if the lift at LG is open. Or bootpacking off the top of the lift system at Serre Che. And I’ll have my skins with me… Nice getting away from the hordes…

Jackson Hole – December
St Anton – January
Serre Che and a bit at La Grave – March

CFH – I had a pair of nomad crimsons – not bad at all

The planks I really want to use more this year are
these

Andy – my first time not making it on the snowHeads Birthday Bash… 😥

Re picolax . It was a truly great piece of writing by someone who had obviously genuinely had the procedure done. I can’t see why anyone would be sniffy about it.

Yes and no. Our 3 car policy from admiral was cranked from about 800 to 1100 or similar. But shopping around we actually ended up paying less this year. Keep looking.

Interesting Elfin…. I’d say the theists and atheists can be equally dogmatic and tedious. Nice primary school debating trick btw… 😉 Someone who doesn’t believe in father Xmas does not therefore prove the existence of father Xmas…

Yes – lots of great works of art have been commissioned organised and paid for by Religion. Lots of great works of art have been commissioned and paid for by less than nice kings, dictators and politicians. And much of the art produced is not necessarily an expression of belief on the part of the musician, architect or artist in either the religion or the dictator… After all lots of landscapes, portraits, buildings and pieces of music have been produced for non-religious commissions without needing to evoke an inspiration by a higher power as an essential element. I’ve done my time trailing round masses of “painted by the yard” religious paintings in Italy. The Giottos and Fra Angelicos amongst these are the exception not the rule. Artists were doing a job. They needed dosh. Churches had the dosh. The money, not the belief, was the motivation mostly I suspect.

Read Vasari?

I have had some problems with typing into a webmail program on my iPad since I “upgraded”.

The default assumption should surely be something does not exist , until it is proven/sincerely believed that it does.

I thought it was us atheists who were meant to be militant and failing to understand the logic/beliefs of theists. Judged from this thread you’d think it was the other way round…

For the record – I love tons of religious inspired art and music, but am an atheist. I’ve sung in the Bach St Matthew Passion, the Mozart requiem, the Brahms requiem etc etc… you don’t need the belief to appreciate this stuff.

The context then was that a lot of great art was produced under religious patronage or direction, partly because religious organisations held a lot of the power and the money and the keys to education. They were the prevailing elite with the money (taken from tithed peasants etc etc) – that’s all…

So CBC – the equivalent of the BBC – is also complicit here – and the stuff about the cyclist’s other attacks on motorists is made-up?

Ok…

I don’t know what happened here – but this lynch mob petition raises questions for me

So the cyclist was drunk and there is video of him attacking Mr Bryant… ? And had mental health issues and had attacked other motorists recently?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/05/25/bryant-sheppard-charges943.html

Perhaps we could let the Canadian legal system deal with this?

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A big right atrium is not a brilliant sign in keeping people out of AF. 60mm is big . Know anything about the left ventricle?

It aynt?

Surely way too soon to make this sort of decision? A second procedure may be successful and if you have weight you can lose that may increase your exercise capacity even if you remain in AF. Do you know what your left ventricular function was on the echo?

I deal a lot with people with cancer, diagnose it, tell people they have it and care for them if they are dying.

I think it is absolutely fine for someone with cancer to use it as a metaphor if they wish to whilst they are receiving active treatment, and I would never ever criticise them for describing their journey in those terms…

BUT, for relatives, friends and media I feel very differently. It implies a struggle in which the skill or motivation or decisions of the person with cancer can make a difference, and also the reverse, that there might be some element of wrong choices, lack of courage or determination or just acquiescence when they “lose” the fight. This is insulting. Basically it has become lazy cliched media shorthand.