22 April
Game of
Thrones; I have got totally bored with
reading these books. I’m just over half way through the 5th one in
the series and have #6 and 7 in my TBR pile, where they will remain for the
foreseeable future. When I first started read them, I was well pleased with
them. Now I have given up on them, although I may give them another go later.
Right now
we are watching another recorded programme, this one is Medical Mysteries. It’s about conditions that baffle the medics for
years and looks at three issue in each episode. The three in this one are a
young woman who keeps vomiting day after day; an elderly lady who has suffered
with giddy spells and light headedness for the last 60 years; and a young man
who is suffering from a condition similar to fibromyalgia. All of these conditions
have failed to find a diagnosis within the NHS and patients have had to go
abroad to get it sorted, or are lucky enough to find someone who has come
across it before, or has enough knowledge to be able to think across disciples.
It makes me wonder just how many people suffer from these and other unknown conditions.
Overall,
the NHS does a great job considering all the problems that beset it these days.
We hear a lot of complaints about what happens all over the country, mainly
these days concerning lack of resources, and the issues that brings. Of course
it’s not just that is it? Yesterday I had two texts come in from the Walsgrave
hospital in Coventry for my appointment there on the 27th. The last
one also reminded me that if it wasn’t convenient I could call and remake it
for another date. OK, fine, as it is I’m planning it as made now. They then made
a comment that I wonder about how they come to the amount of £185 for every
missed appointment.
The same things
happen in dentist’s, and GPs as well. I understand why they might get uppity
when the system has that amount of money. Another issue here is that of wasted
prescriptions. When we came to sort out mam’s house after Dave died, we found a
heck of a lot of full pharmacy bags which had not been opened, let alone used.
They were mam’s prescriptions too, we found none for Dave, not even his current
ones he was supposed to be taking. Now multiply that by an unknown number other
prescriptions that are repeated month on month without have them looked out for
each patient’s use. And remember, some of the medications are very expensive
and most of us don’t pay for them, even the fairly low level due right now.
All of
this loss of funds will of course affect the whole service, and that doesn’t
take into effect of inflation or the growing number of people using the service.
Right now A&E isn’t hitting its target for treating people, and that has a
knock on affect right through the hospital part of the system. At the other end
the largest drain is that of bed-blocking, simply because of a lack of places
for elderly care within the community, again down to a lack of resources. And
so the merry-go-round continues on it’s up and down circle. A blames B who
points C who points back to A and so … … …
And so Mr
Yankiedoodledandyland wades on to back Daft Dave and his rush to keep us in the
EU. One wonders just how much some of these muppets will benefit personally by
us to be allowing ourselves to be ruled by faceless unelected morons in
Brussels. The Yanks objected strongly to part of that idea in the 18th
century and yet they say we should submit to it. Bolshi Boris reacted well to
the intervention; good for him. I can’t believe I’m agreeing with a tory, such
a strange feeling.
Today’s
photo …
Market colours.
Today’s
funny …
What is round and nasty?
A vicious circle.
A vicious circle.
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