One for fellow dentist/medics - Not patients!
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Ironic that this is started that this thread is started by a dentist. At least most of your patients pay directly for what they consume. As a g.p. working in urban ares in the south-east I'd say about 10% of the people abuse the entitlement culture alluded to in posts above. A wider number overate the value of what they do in their working lives, which is maybe unskilled/pointless or both, and under-rate the time of a highly skilled keyworker. I would love to see the nhs downscaled , with hospital care for the properly ill and elderly being high quality (which it isn't at the moment) and free, whilst primary care and a and e are on a pay-as-you go basis.
Oh god yes. I hate the fact that the majority of people I work with are lefty mentalists who dont get remotely annoyed by the dole scroungers who think that they are entitled to abuse every system and keep coming back to have more and more babies that we'll all pay for.
Yesterdays BIG annoyance was having 2 women who refused serum screening as a routine part of antenatal screening (HIV, Hep B, syphilis and rubella immunity). It costs them nothing, we're testing for it from blood they've already had taken so it's no hardship for them even if they're sure they haven't got them. This can then mean that if they do have anything we can't treat them, we can't protect their baby and we can be at a greater risk as health professionals. I just don't see the point of refusing.
Anyway, I'm done with the NHS for at least 12 months. Got myself a nice research job!
Yesterdays BIG annoyance was having 2 women who refused serum screening as a routine part of antenatal screening (HIV, Hep B, syphilis and rubella immunity). It costs them nothing, we're testing for it from blood they've already had taken so it's no hardship for them even if they're sure they haven't got them. This can then mean that if they do have anything we can't treat them, we can't protect their baby and we can be at a greater risk as health professionals. I just don't see the point of refusing.
Anyway, I'm done with the NHS for at least 12 months. Got myself a nice research job!
That's my argument. It's all well and good saying universal precautions but it's not always practical in an emergency and i've had blood in my eye even wearing the glasses.
They dont seem to understand it though.
I've also been shouted at, threatened, had my arse grabbed and been hit, and i'm still expected to be kind and caring to all there people. In my world, you'd either cooperate with staff trying to help you or you forfeit your right to NHS treatment.
They dont seem to understand it though.
I've also been shouted at, threatened, had my arse grabbed and been hit, and i'm still expected to be kind and caring to all there people. In my world, you'd either cooperate with staff trying to help you or you forfeit your right to NHS treatment.
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