MEDICAL MATTERS

[Tripps]

Before making any more comment I would recommend watching this video.

I watched it last night, and immediately reached for the batch numbers which I have handily in my wallet. Then quickly realised that he didn't give any numbers, and anyway what could you do even if you got a match?

Ther's a follow up tonight with the Danish lady who did the research. Im not sure it adds anything important.

No one was likey to stand in the way of this "vaccine" as the amount of money involved was colossal.

[plaques]

Ther's a follow up tonight with the Danish lady who did the research. Im not sure it adds anything important.

No one was likey to stand in the way of this "vaccine" as the amount of money involved was colossal.

The batch that she highlighted was in the early series starting with B,,,,,, Fortunately ours were in the range E, F, G. As the lady said unless the side affect appeared immediately after vaccination people were unlikely to associate their condition it with the vaccine.

The data would suggest that after the first batches Pfizer made some changes. Were the regulators told and did the buyers know.£££££££££££££
obviously the public didn't know.

When the report was offered to the big medical journals it was turned down without any peer review, Why,£££££££££££££

Total lack of transparency in the journals, media and government, ££££££££££££

[Tripps]

I wonder why there is (as far as I see only Dr Campbell who speaks out in this way. There must be others who have similar thoughts.
I think that anyone who did so, would put their career and perhaps livelihood at risk, but maybe he has got his 'get lost' money and a secure future? I think a similar situation exists in the Climate Crisis affair.
I was concerend when he was absent for about two weeks recently. I hope it was just a holiday.

[Stanley]

I think my new vitamin pills are making a difference.....

[PanBiker]

Dentist for me this morning, 6 month check up.

[Big Kev]

I had a message from my dentist yesterday, they've cancelled my checkup as they need to catch up on other patients.

[PanBiker]

I was in and out in 10 minutes.

[Stanley]

I took my teeth out and cleaned them..... They looked fine...

[Tizer]

I was in and out in 10 minutes.

I wish I'd been `in and out in 10 minutes' yesterday when I visited our local surgery to make some appointments (on the direction of my GP) for two different ongoing medical problems. I also mentioned my missing records were causing problems for the GP and nurses because one of my problems relates back to 2010 when I had a number of medical investigations. In the end the receptionist brought out their `digital services' man (`eyes blinking as he entered the light' ) and I tackled him. He finally admitted that there's a mass of older non-digital records that still need to be `digitised'. I asked if the GP and nurses had access to these non-digital records but couldn't get a straight answer out him. My experience suggests they can't and I suspect they're stacked away in cardboard boxes and nobody has time to dig them out. I feel so sorry for the NHS workers on the coal face who have to put up with this all the time.

Later I had a requested phone call from my GP because the earliest appointment I would have been able to get with her was in a fortnight's time but I needed her advice now on whether or not to continue with a treatment. I told her I could send my own scans of doctors' letters if she gave me her email address. She said go ahead, it's on the web site. Later I searched the site and there weren't any email addresses not even a general one for the surgery. I really worry for the future of the NHS. Our governments have allowed it to become sclerotic and it's prognosis looks like being cardiac arrest.

[Sue]

My experience is that most problems relate to admin. I had an issue yesterday which left me rather angry. It was too complicated to write on here but I have reported it to my local Health Watch. There were some similarities with your own experience Tiz. To summarise it took me an hour to collect a prescription that was sent at 8.45 am on Tuesday morning by the GP to the useless pharmacy, that involved going backwards and forwards to the Doctors at 5.00 pm on a Friday with several queuing experiences of up to 25+ minutes

[Stanley]

It would appear that despite my misgivings about our health care in Barlick we are actually quite well off!
My commiserations to you all. It would drive me potty.

[Big Kev]

Barnoldswick Medical Centre post on Facebook

Thursday 13th July 2023

Please read



All GP Practices in East Lancashire will be closed on Thursday from 1pm - 6.30pm for Protected Learning Time.

This enables practices to provide decidcated training to their staff and to discuss and plan ways that will allow them to improve services, meet demand and support the wellbeing of staff.

For all life threatening emergencies please call 999.

During this time if you feel your request is urgent and cannot wait until the following day, provisions have been made for urgent triage, please call 111.

For all routine requests for results, appointments, prescriptions and general queries please contact us when we are next open.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Tizer]

To summarise it took me an hour to collect a prescription that was sent at 8.45 am on Tuesday morning by the GP to the useless pharmacy, that involved going backwards and forwards to the Doctors at 5.00 pm on a Friday with several queuing experiences of up to 25+ minutes.

My impression is that pharmacies (or at least Well pharmacies) think they are using a Just -in-Time approach to their stock to save money but that only works when the pharmacy immediately orders the item and the warehouse immediately delivers from stock. And it won't work if the warehouse doesn't keep enough stock.

[Big Kev]

Negative poo stick result

[PanBiker]

[Stanley]

That dedicated training time at the surgery sounds to me like the half day training closure you see in shops (but come to think, not so often these days) I always suspected they were just an excuse for a half day rest with pay.

[plaques]

Back on harness, well almost. A three day journey courtesy of the NHS. Part 1.

Monday 10 July. Early rise to get to Blackburn Hospital. Smooth ride in 34 minutes. Plenty of parking spaces but rapidly filled up. Found the urology department and Mr Nielson the consultant. My PSA (prostrate specific antigen) reading had been very high. Mr Nielson was very focussed with the usual lie on your side examination and a brief explanation of the next moves. Because the the PSA number was so high this was a general indicator of prostrate cancer. The next checks would be biopsies and a bone scan. Both these checks would probably be at Blackburn. I may add that I had never had any of the classic symptoms of prostrate trouble.
I would recommend that men in the more elderly age group have this PSA check as part of their blood checks.

Out and home by 11-00 .
Part 2. to follow is the next episode in the Blackburn saga.

[Stanley]

Ken, Best of luck with the results! The last time I was on me side with a digit up my fundament I commented to Hassan, my GP, that this doctoring was a funny game. One minute you are lord of the Universe taking earth shaking decisions, next you are doing this. He told me to shut up as he couldn't concentrate when he was laughing....
I mentioned starting on the vitamin pills instead of Cod Liver Oil. Whilst nothing is certain I have to report a general improvement and some of it in areas I would not have expected. The main one of these is my eyesight improving quite significantly in that I am nit having the distortions and pain in one eye that were becoming more and more common and had started to worry me. As I say, nothing is certain, I can't prove anything but so far things are improving all round. I shall report after more time has elapsed but it's looking as though my long held belief that a varied diet of unprocessed foods was sufficient for vitamin intake may not be true as you get older.

[plaques]

Back on harness, well almost. A three day journey courtesy of the NHS. Part 2.

Back home from part 1 picking up some seals at the plumbers for the closet sink. Then it all went belly up. Developed a head ache, ear ache, neck and shoulders plus chest. By 6.00pm I'm in bed with a fever. Down hill from there, bronchial breathing getting more laboured. At 2.30 Am Mrs P called 111, they recommended an ambulance which arrived in about 20 minutes. Full check up by the ambulance staff. Recommended Blackburn Hospital just to make sure it wasn't a prelude to a heart attack. First class people and service.
3.10 am saw me sat in the Triage bay. The whole place was heaving with beds in corridors there must have been hundreds. Blood pressure, temperature and pulse count. This was repeated roughly every two hours. 6.00 am offered something to eat and drink. 8.00am blood test to be sent to the lab. 10.am (7 hours in Triage) moved to the ambulatory waiting room which was already full of patients who looked like they had been there for ever. Same two hourly blood pressure checks etc probably to see if there was any deterioration during the wait. 2.00 pm (4 hours in that room) Beginning to think that that waiting rooms should have been called. Long stay. (make sure your mobile phone is fully charged, Purgatory. (500 years minimum) Dante,(abandon hope all ye who enter here). Finally saw a Doctor who was obviously rushed off her feet. Recommended an X-ray which was done immediately. Asked where the toilets were. Taken through a labyrinth a corridors and emergency beds. The only way back was to try to remember who I recognised in the various beds.
Finally moved to the discharge room where the mediation was arranged plus a meal and a free taxi home. The staff were excellent but obviously under pressure and the emergency care section is far too small and not really fit for purpose.

Back home at 4.00 pm still walking like wobbly bob. but hopefully fit enough to attend Blackburn tomorrow Friday for a bone scan.

[PanBiker]

By gum Ken, you don't do things by halves! Best of luck with the rest of your tests.

[Tizer]

I know your type, Plaques, you'll do anything to get a free meal and free taxi home!
But seriously, I wish you the best of luck too.

[Sue]

That's a story and a half. I hope everything is OK

[plaques]

I know your type, Plaques, you'll do anything to get a free meal and free taxi home!

I've been rumbled. In mitigation it was over 26 hours since I last ate. Temperature 39.6 , blood pressure near flat lining, pulse 88.

The lack of money side was part of Mrs P's master plan. On my way out of the house she handed me a small bag, "you'll need these" It turned out to be toothbrush and paste, razer and brush, no money. The nursing staff were very kind and helpful and quite pretty too. Didn't notice the men.
When I was leaving the Discharge room the young lady came out from behind the counter shook my hand and wished me a safe journey home. Quite touching.

Reminded me or Roger Whittaker The last farewell

Big thanks to all who have given their best wishes

[Big Kev]

Scary stuff, hope all goes well.

[Stanley]

Bloody Hell Ken! I take my eyes off you for five minutes and wake up to a story like that.
That was scary! Just the sort of thing that wouldn't surprise me if it happened to me. Is it all part of the same problem do you think? If it was me I'd be imagining the worst which is of course the wrong thing to do. I wish you the very best and hope this all has a speedy and satisfactory resolution. Love, Stanley.....