On 28/09/2023 20:22, BrritSki wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 19:48, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>>
>> Probably not.  She's just taken a job as a locum at the local GP
>> surgery, allowing Ambridge residents to get non-emergency appointments
>> within a couple of day, rather than the several weeks enjoyed in other
>> parts of the country.
>>
> We can get same day appts with a GP here. Had one only last week for
> eardrum perforated in Majorca.
>

It's good to hear that it isn't only Ambridge with a functioning GP service.

--
Best wishes, Serena
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else (Emily
Dickinson)

On 28.9.23 19:48, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 18:41, Clive Arthur wrote:
>> On 28/09/2023 17:26, carolet wrote:
>>> On 28/09/2023 09:18, Vicky wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:05:39 -0000 (UTC), Chris
>>>> <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Azra Malik
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean this one as student?
>>>> Thename looks Arabic or Indian? Maybe a relative of Adil or his boss?
>>>
>>> I'm assuming that this is Adil's sister. The first day that we heard
>>> from her she was leaving a message for her younger brother, telling
>>> him off for now responding to her.
>>
>> And also the owner for whom Adil works, perhaps?
>>
>
> Probably not.  She's just taken a job as a locum at the local GP
> surgery, allowing Ambridge residents to get non-emergency appointments
> within a couple of day, rather than the several weeks enjoyed in other
> parts of the country.
>

You can get an appointment? We are lucky if they phone us. I was in
the surgery recently for a blood test (they have not yet worked out how
to do those online) and it obvious that no-one was seeing a doctor.

--
Kosmo Richard W
www.travelswmw.whitnet.uk
https://tinyurl.com/KRWpics

On 28/09/2023 21:27, krw wrote:

> You can get an appointment?  We are lucky if they phone us.  I was in
> the surgery recently for a blood test (they have not yet worked out how
> to do those online) and it obvious that no-one was seeing a doctor.
>

I got a letter from my practice a couple of weeks ago, asking me to make
an appt for a blood test, giving me a number to ring. Letter arrived
11.15 am.

11.45 I called the number. "We have appointments from 2.50 this
afternoon."

"Fine, I'll come then."

Blood sample taken. The practice phoned two days later with the result.
All well.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:33:25 +0100, John Armstrong
<jja@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>On 28/09/2023 21:27, krw wrote:
>
>> You can get an appointment?  We are lucky if they phone us.  I was in
>> the surgery recently for a blood test (they have not yet worked out how
>> to do those online) and it obvious that no-one was seeing a doctor.
>>
>
>I got a letter from my practice a couple of weeks ago, asking me to make
>an appt for a blood test, giving me a number to ring. Letter arrived
>11.15 am.
>
>11.45 I called the number. "We have appointments from 2.50 this
>afternoon."
>
>"Fine, I'll come then."
>
>Blood sample taken. The practice phoned two days later with the result.
> All well.

I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
which can be another week.

On 29.9.23 09:46, Vicky wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:33:25 +0100, John Armstrong
> <jja@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 28/09/2023 21:27, krw wrote:
>>
>>> You can get an appointment?  We are lucky if they phone us.  I was in
>>> the surgery recently for a blood test (they have not yet worked out how
>>> to do those online) and it obvious that no-one was seeing a doctor.
>>>
>>
>> I got a letter from my practice a couple of weeks ago, asking me to make
>> an appt for a blood test, giving me a number to ring. Letter arrived
>> 11.15 am.
>>
>> 11.45 I called the number. "We have appointments from 2.50 this
>> afternoon."
>>
>> "Fine, I'll come then."
>>
>> Blood sample taken. The practice phoned two days later with the result.
>> All well.
>
> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
> which can be another week.

I forgot to mention that I should not have been in the surgery at all.
I had a blood test earlier in the month and they were supposed to test
everything and when I was giving blood I asked if they were (the test is
mainly for my sugars for the diabetes but I always ask for the rest to
be done so that they are available). She assured me that she was doing
everything.

When the results came back there was no report for sugars as that test
had been missed.

So the only one I needed was NOT done - hence another visit.

--
Kosmo Richard W
www.travelswmw.whitnet.uk
https://tinyurl.com/KRWpics

On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
> which can be another week.

I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.

--
Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
<NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>> which can be another week.
>
>I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.

Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.

Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 11:24, Vicky wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:18:35 +0100, Clive Arthur
>> <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/09/2023 09:05, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Where on earth does the student come from?
>>>
>>> Zimbabwe, it seems, though it seems it should be 'Ntombizodwa Ndlovu',
>>> ending in a 'u', not an 'o'.
>> Ah. Does it change from m to f? Czech does. My dad's surname was
>> Roth but his mum's was Rothova.
>
> I know not, I just Googled it.
>

Thought S African, s friend of Krait’s mute offsprung

Mrs McT

Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 11:40, Mike McMillan wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> I worked with a chap from Polish origins by the surname of Falinski; his
>> wife would be Falinska.
>
> AKA 'The Gentle Giant'. He was in my year at school.
>

Berloimy!! Yer couldn’t make it up.

Mrs McT

In message <labdhi9c40q5sm6roqtfu20rljmkl3j5m2@4ax.com> at Fri, 29 Sep
2023 11:58:11, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
><NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>> which can be another week.
>>
>>I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>
>Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
>see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
>his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
>went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
>new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.

Locums etc. can spot things. My Grandma had been going down and down -
not so much health (though I guess that too), more outlook: she was
getting more and more miserable, to the point where visiting her was
getting more a duty than a pleasure. Then she went to see the doctor
when her usual (from all accounts, a sort of Dr. Finlay) was away, and
the locum spotted she had a thyroid problem (over or under active, I
forget and it doesn't matter), and put her on something suitable - and I
got my old Grandma back, cheerful to the end.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"You _are_ Zaphod Beeblebrox? _The_ Zaphod Beeblebrox?"
"No, just _a_ Zaphod Beeblebrox. I come in six-packs." (from the link episode)

On 29/09/2023 12:19, Chris wrote:
> Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 28/09/2023 11:40, Mike McMillan wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I worked with a chap from Polish origins by the surname of Falinski; his
>>> wife would be Falinska.
>>
>> AKA 'The Gentle Giant'. He was in my year at school.
>>
>
> Berloimy!! Yer couldn’t make it up.
>
Similarly, I joined Colony Holidays on FB on behalf of Sid to look
something up for him (and then encouraged him to join himself) and had
never unsubscribed and blow me down if the other day someone posted a
pic of a letter sent in the early 70s from the house next door to where
we used to live in Bedford !
I contacted the lady and it turned out they had moved elsewhere in the
town in 1978 and we moved in there in 1986. It's a very small world.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
<NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>> which can be another week.
>
>I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.

Me too. (Not good on phone) Since the surgery is only fifteen minutes
walk away, I never phone them but walk there instead. I'm not sure how
practical that might be in future since it's fairly certain that if I
became not very good on my legs, my phone skills wouldn't suddenly be
enhanced in compensation

Nick

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:10:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
<G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

>In message <labdhi9c40q5sm6roqtfu20rljmkl3j5m2@4ax.com> at Fri, 29 Sep
>2023 11:58:11, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>>On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
>><NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>>> which can be another week.
>>>
>>>I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>>discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>>telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>>could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>>see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>>
>>Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
>>see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
>>his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
>>went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
>>new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.
>
>Locums etc. can spot things. My Grandma had been going down and down -
>not so much health (though I guess that too), more outlook: she was
>getting more and more miserable, to the point where visiting her was
>getting more a duty than a pleasure. Then she went to see the doctor
>when her usual (from all accounts, a sort of Dr. Finlay) was away, and
>the locum spotted she had a thyroid problem (over or under active, I
>forget and it doesn't matter), and put her on something suitable - and I
>got my old Grandma back, cheerful to the end.

I have just realised that none of the people at my GP pracice are the
same as the ones working there when I signed on in 2013. None of them.
I wonder if seeing a new member of the team each time carries any of
the benefits of locumhood?

Nick

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:10:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
<G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

>In message <labdhi9c40q5sm6roqtfu20rljmkl3j5m2@4ax.com> at Fri, 29 Sep
>2023 11:58:11, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>>On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
>><NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>>> which can be another week.
>>>
>>>I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>>discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>>telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>>could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>>see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>>
>>Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
>>see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
>>his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
>>went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
>>new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.
>
>Locums etc. can spot things. My Grandma had been going down and down -
>not so much health (though I guess that too), more outlook: she was
>getting more and more miserable, to the point where visiting her was
>getting more a duty than a pleasure. Then she went to see the doctor
>when her usual (from all accounts, a sort of Dr. Finlay) was away, and
>the locum spotted she had a thyroid problem (over or under active, I
>forget and it doesn't matter), and put her on something suitable - and I
>got my old Grandma back, cheerful to the end.

Yes I have an underactive thyroid which means need bloods done
regularly as dosage changes. The effect of no medication can be very
bad. They only give me 4 weeks at a time. And I'm not convinced the
dose has been right for years, but don't like to ask for a specialist
referral.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:43:06 +0100, BrritSki
<rtilburyTAKEOUT@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 29/09/2023 12:19, Chris wrote:
>> Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 28/09/2023 11:40, Mike McMillan wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> I worked with a chap from Polish origins by the surname of Falinski; his
>>>> wife would be Falinska.
>>>
>>> AKA 'The Gentle Giant'. He was in my year at school.
>>>
>>
>> Berloimy!! Yer couldn’t make it up.
>>
>Similarly, I joined Colony Holidays on FB on behalf of Sid to look
>something up for him (and then encouraged him to join himself) and had
>never unsubscribed and blow me down if the other day someone posted a
>pic of a letter sent in the early 70s from the house next door to where
>we used to live in Bedford !
>I contacted the lady and it turned out they had moved elsewhere in the
>town in 1978 and we moved in there in 1986. It's a very small world.
>
I've just made contact with an old primary school friend whom I
haven't seen since, well, primary school. I read a letter in The
Guardian from a familiar-sounding name and did a little clickety-click
and we have since exchanged a few reminiscences. Not just about
primary school - our paths since have been surprisingly parallel.

Nick

Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>> which can be another week.
>>
>> I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>> discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>> telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>> could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>> see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>
> Me too. (Not good on phone) Since the surgery is only fifteen minutes
> walk away, I never phone them but walk there instead. I'm not sure how
> practical that might be in future since it's fairly certain that if I
> became not very good on my legs, my phone skills wouldn't suddenly be
> enhanced in compensation
>
> Nick
>

Come on Nick, play the game with the rest of us; you are supposed to wait
on the telephone to be told ‘you are 25th in line’ and then watch the
minutes clock by and by and by….. You will hear the same sets of
announcements every 30 seconds or so and in between will be subjected to
some awful muzak. But don’t worry, your call is important to them….

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

In message <uf72t0$ctb5$1@dont-email.me> at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:52:33,
Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
[]
>Come on Nick, play the game with the rest of us; you are supposed to wait
>on the telephone to be told ‘you are 25th in line’ and then watch the
>minutes clock by and by and by….. You will hear the same sets of
>announcements every 30 seconds or so and in between will be subjected to
>some awful muzak. But don’t worry, your call is important to them….
>
Being told your position in the queue is so late last century - I seem
to remember it _was_ quite common around the turn of the century, so
it's not rocket science; however, it seems to be a lot rarer now.

On the whole I don't mind awful muzak _that_ much (though if it's
distorted, that grates, as I'm a ex-electronic-engineer); what grates
far more is spoken exhortations to use the website. Which, obviously, I
am not going to do if I'm waiting on the 'phone. OK, tell me once - but
don't keep repeating it.

Being "on hold" in that way is perhaps the one thing that'd tempt me to
get other than a PAYG mobile contract: I have anytime 'phone calls on my
landline, but (like most such) they're only free (or rather uncharged)
for the first hour (then they go to tens of pence a minute). If calling
a friend I can hang up after 5x minutes and redial, but obviously not
when on hold; I don't _think_ I've had a hold that took that long, but
I've certainly had one where I was anxiously watching the clock (I think
I finally got through to a human after 5x minutes).

But it'll all probably go different anyway when POTS ends and we have to
go VoIP - anyone here already on that and can tell us what sort of
calling plans are on offer?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

* SLMR 2.1a #113 * Tits like watermelons, sparrows like bacon rind.
- 03-22-97 Dave Beecham <dave.beecham@pandbox.demon.co.uk> (quoted by
Gene Wirchenko, in alt.windows7.general, 2012-10-16.)

On 29-Sep-23 16:00, Nick Odell wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:10:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message <labdhi9c40q5sm6roqtfu20rljmkl3j5m2@4ax.com> at Fri, 29 Sep
>> 2023 11:58:11, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
>>> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>>>> which can be another week.
>>>>
>>>> I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>>> discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>>> telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>>> could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>>> see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>>>
>>> Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
>>> see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
>>> his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
>>> went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
>>> new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.
>>
>> Locums etc. can spot things. My Grandma had been going down and down -
>> not so much health (though I guess that too), more outlook: she was
>> getting more and more miserable, to the point where visiting her was
>> getting more a duty than a pleasure. Then she went to see the doctor
>> when her usual (from all accounts, a sort of Dr. Finlay) was away, and
>> the locum spotted she had a thyroid problem (over or under active, I
>> forget and it doesn't matter), and put her on something suitable - and I
>> got my old Grandma back, cheerful to the end.
>
> I have just realised that none of the people at my GP pracice are the
> same as the ones working there when I signed on in 2013. None of them.
> I wonder if seeing a new member of the team each time carries any of
> the benefits of locumhood?

Our surgery has had a complete turn over in personnel in the time we've
been here.
I suppose it's understandable, since that was 1980.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 29-Sep-23 18:52, Mike McMillan wrote:
> Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
>> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>>> which can be another week.
>>>
>>> I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>> discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>> telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>> could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>> see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>>
>> Me too. (Not good on phone) Since the surgery is only fifteen minutes
>> walk away, I never phone them but walk there instead. I'm not sure how
>> practical that might be in future since it's fairly certain that if I
>> became not very good on my legs, my phone skills wouldn't suddenly be
>> enhanced in compensation
>>
>> Nick
>>
>
> Come on Nick, play the game with the rest of us; you are supposed to wait
> on the telephone to be told ‘you are 25th in line’ and then watch the
> minutes clock by and by and by….. You will hear the same sets of
> announcements every 30 seconds or so and in between will be subjected to
> some awful muzak. But don’t worry, your call is important to them….
>
For some extra excitement, remind yourself that your call is costing 20
pence for each wasted minute[1].

[1] Not me, you understand, since I use my phobile moan, but Wofe
insists on using the landline.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 29/09/2023 23:14, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 29-Sep-23 16:00, Nick Odell wrote:
>>
>> I have just realised that none of the people at my GP pracice are the
>> same as the ones working there when I signed on in 2013. None of them.
>> I wonder if seeing a new member of the team each time carries any of
>> the benefits of locumhood?
>
> Our surgery has had a complete turn over in personnel in the time we've
> been here.
> I suppose it's understandable, since that was 1980.
>
Same for ours and it is much larger now than it was. There is still a
Dr. Tatman, but she is the daughter of the original one and I remember
her as a little girl when we used to see her Dad up at the park playing
tennis.

On 29/09/2023 23:20, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>
> For some extra excitement, remind yourself that your call is costing 20
> pence for each wasted minute[1].
>
> [1] Not me, you understand, since I use my phobile moan, but Wofe
> insists on using the landline.
>
How quaint, still having a landline. ;)

I don't waste any time while I am in the queue on my mobile - I am also
on the laptop doing what I would have been doing anyway.

Serena Blanchflower <nospam@blanchflower.me.uk> wrote:
> On 28/09/2023 18:41, Clive Arthur wrote:
>> On 28/09/2023 17:26, carolet wrote:
>>> On 28/09/2023 09:18, Vicky wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:05:39 -0000 (UTC), Chris
>>>> <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Azra Malik
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean this one as student?
>>>> Thename looks Arabic or Indian? Maybe a relative of Adil or his boss?
>>>
>>> I'm assuming that this is Adil's sister. The first day that we heard
>>> from her she was leaving a message for her younger brother, telling
>>> him off for now responding to her.
>>
>> And also the owner for whom Adil works, perhaps?
>>
>
> Probably not. She's just taken a job as a locum at the local GP
> surgery, allowing Ambridge residents to get non-emergency appointments
> within a couple of day, rather than the several weeks enjoyed in other
> parts of the country.
>

A friend of her own race for Usha?

Mrs McT

Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:10:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message <labdhi9c40q5sm6roqtfu20rljmkl3j5m2@4ax.com> at Fri, 29 Sep
>> 2023 11:58:11, Vicky <vicky.ayech@gmail.com> writes
>>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:13:07 +0100, Jenny M Benson
>>> <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 29/09/2023 09:46, Vicky wrote:
>>>>> I got a blood test date 2 weeks ahead, wait a week to ring and check
>>>>> results, get reception and have to book a GP phone call to discuss,
>>>>> which can be another week.
>>>>
>>>> I was texted with a request to make a face-to-face appt. with a GP to
>>>> discuss my blood test results. I was glad because I am NOT GOOD on the
>>>> telephone. Turned out to be with a locum GP who was everything one
>>>> could wish for in a doctor. Unfortunately he says it might not be him I
>>>> see when I go back again in 2 weeks after next blood test.
>>>
>>> Yes about 2 orr 3 years ago I had some falls and they yanked me in to
>>> see a GP who turned out to be from A&E and was presumably adding to
>>> his pay or training on GP stuff. He was very good. Ordered bloods and
>>> went tocheck with other GPs. I notice when I speak on the phone it's a
>>> new person each time whogoes to check with another GP.
>>
>> Locums etc. can spot things. My Grandma had been going down and down -
>> not so much health (though I guess that too), more outlook: she was
>> getting more and more miserable, to the point where visiting her was
>> getting more a duty than a pleasure. Then she went to see the doctor
>> when her usual (from all accounts, a sort of Dr. Finlay) was away, and
>> the locum spotted she had a thyroid problem (over or under active, I
>> forget and it doesn't matter), and put her on something suitable - and I
>> got my old Grandma back, cheerful to the end.
>
> I have just realised that none of the people at my GP pracice are the
> same as the ones working there when I signed on in 2013. None of them.
> I wonder if seeing a new member of the team each time carries any of
> the benefits of locumhood?
>
> Nick
>

We’ve had the same GP since late 1984! She must have come as a newly
registered GP. Fortunately, although I have far goo many long term chronic
irritants, they’re well controlled so I don’t bother the surgery except for
annual checks often

Mrs McT

Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:43:06 +0100, BrritSki
> <rtilburyTAKEOUT@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29/09/2023 12:19, Chris wrote:
>>> Clive Arthur <clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 28/09/2023 11:40, Mike McMillan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> I worked with a chap from Polish origins by the surname of Falinski; his
>>>>> wife would be Falinska.
>>>>
>>>> AKA 'The Gentle Giant'. He was in my year at school.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Berloimy!! Yer couldn’t make it up.
>>>
>> Similarly, I joined Colony Holidays on FB on behalf of Sid to look
>> something up for him (and then encouraged him to join himself) and had
>> never unsubscribed and blow me down if the other day someone posted a
>> pic of a letter sent in the early 70s from the house next door to where
>> we used to live in Bedford !
>> I contacted the lady and it turned out they had moved elsewhere in the
>> town in 1978 and we moved in there in 1986. It's a very small world.
>>
> I've just made contact with an old primary school friend whom I
> haven't seen since, well, primary school. I read a letter in The
> Guardian from a familiar-sounding name and did a little clickety-click
> and we have since exchanged a few reminiscences. Not just about
> primary school - our paths since have been surprisingly parallel.
>
> Nick
>

The world is really surprisingly small - for some of us anyway

Mrs McT

J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> In message <uf72t0$ctb5$1@dont-email.me> at Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:52:33,
> Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
> []
>> Come on Nick, play the game with the rest of us; you are supposed to wait
>> on the telephone to be told ‘you are 25th in line’ and then watch the
>> minutes clock by and by and by….. You will hear the same sets of
>> announcements every 30 seconds or so and in between will be subjected to
>> some awful muzak. But don’t worry, your call is important to them….
>>
> Being told your position in the queue is so late last century - I seem
> to remember it _was_ quite common around the turn of the century, so
> it's not rocket science; however, it seems to be a lot rarer now.
>
> On the whole I don't mind awful muzak _that_ much (though if it's
> distorted, that grates, as I'm a ex-electronic-engineer); what grates
> far more is spoken exhortations to use the website. Which, obviously, I
> am not going to do if I'm waiting on the 'phone. OK, tell me once - but
> don't keep repeating it.
>
> Being "on hold" in that way is perhaps the one thing that'd tempt me to
> get other than a PAYG mobile contract: I have anytime 'phone calls on my
> landline, but (like most such) they're only free (or rather uncharged)
> for the first hour (then they go to tens of pence a minute). If calling
> a friend I can hang up after 5x minutes and redial, but obviously not
> when on hold; I don't _think_ I've had a hold that took that long, but
> I've certainly had one where I was anxiously watching the clock (I think
> I finally got through to a human after 5x minutes).
>
> But it'll all probably go different anyway when POTS ends and we have to
> go VoIP - anyone here already on that and can tell us what sort of
> calling plans are on offer?

Our surgery has just begun this in the past few months but others have been
doing it for many years.

Mrs McT