Do Doctors ever stop winging...

**threaded** · 20 April 2007, 19:05

Winging?

Winging? I winged a peasant once, but got it with the second barrel.

**Sysman** · 20 April 2007, 19:44

Originally posted by threaded

Winging? I winged a peasant once, but got it with the second barrel.

Threaded inherits a lot of peasants when he buys a farmhouse.

**chubba** · 20 April 2007, 20:39

Doctors never stop winging it, that's how the feckers ended up killing two of my grandparents and my Dad before their time... Just like us I guess, fudge a few exams, scrape through an interview or two and bob's your Uncle.

**OwlHoot** · 20 April 2007, 21:21

Originally posted by chubba

Doctors never stop winging it, that's how the feckers ended up killing two of my grandparents and my Dad before their time... Just like us I guess, fudge a few exams, scrape through an interview or two and bob's your Uncle.

Chubba, I saw your avatar in a student rag mag I bought from a nurse in a tube train today.

It was quite funny actually, a two-picture strip titled "Chat Rooms". In the first there's a innocent young girl typing "Hi. You sound real cute. How old are you and what do you like doing after school?", to which the fat guy replies in the second "I'm 14 and a bit of a fitness fanatic. I often go power lifting after school".

Do you have a larger version of the pic? I'm not a chubby-chaser, honest.

**chubba** · 20 April 2007, 21:38

Was a while ago that I downloaded this but my train of thought remains the same - just search for fat naked man in Google Images:
Google Search

Shows a pic here:
Big image

Three off the wrist this evening then?

**Board Game Geek** · 21 April 2007, 01:11

I work with doctors day in day out, and to be honest, I feel sorry for them as a whole.

I mean, they are smarter than most folks, spend 7 years or more training, accumulate a fair few debts, and there is no job for them at the end of the line, nor on a decent salary either.

How disheartening is that ?

To make matters worse, there are moves to install Tesco / Asda in-store medical centres, staffed with cheap Indian doctors on 20-30K / year, paid by the PCT's, which means they can close the traditional doctors practices who cost 100K/year per doctor at the moment.

Look at it this way...there are approx 20 surgeries in the area where I work.
Assuming an average of 3 docs per surgery, that is (20 x 3) x £100,000 pa = £6 Million bill for the docs.

Tesco will offer services for £30,000 a doc...which is (20 x 3) x £30,000 = £1.8 Million for the docs.

Of course, the Tesco docs are not "old school docs" with years of experience, but rather fresh-faced medical graduates..but...they are "plenty cheapness" and tick all the PCT boxes.

Welcome to the Brave New World gentlemen and gentleladies.

**Lucy** · 21 April 2007, 07:16

Until Britain rids itself of socialist medicine nothing will be better.

It's called a free market boys and there is nothing stopping those poor suffering doctors from setting up in private practice. Or is there ?

The sooner someone kills the NHS the better.

In other countries you are free to go and see the doctor of your choosing, not just the ones allocated to you in your postcode. In other countries doctors have to perform, they don't just get paid according to the number of patients on their list. In other countries doctors survive like any other small business, by offering genuine service and having more people come and see them because they are better than others. (what a concept !!!) In other countries medicine has not been remystified as it seems to have been here.

The NHS should have been killed by Maggie.

**DodgyAgent** · 21 April 2007, 08:32

Originally posted by Lucy

Until Britain rids itself of socialist medicine nothing will be better.

It's called a free market boys and there is nothing stopping those poor suffering doctors from setting up in private practice. Or is there ?

The sooner someone kills the NHS the better.

In other countries you are free to go and see the doctor of your choosing, not just the ones allocated to you in your postcode. In other countries doctors have to perform, they don't just get paid according to the number of patients on their list. In other countries doctors survive like any other small business, by offering genuine service and having more people come and see them because they are better than others. (what a concept !!!) In other countries medicine has not been remystified as it seems to have been here.

The NHS should have been killed by Maggie.

Hear Hear

**Sysman** · 21 April 2007, 08:36

Originally posted by Lucy

Until Britain rids itself of socialist medicine nothing will be better.

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The NHS should have been killed by Maggie.

I was convinced at one point that Maggie was going to offer tax relief on private health insurance. There was a precedent for this in the area of private pensions (was it called "contracting out" from the state pension? I forget.).

It never happened, and with hindsight it might have altered the balance enough to avoid the mess we have now,

Now over to Dr. Rant:

http://www.drrant.net/2007/04/nhs-wh...o-be-done.html

Do Doctors ever stop winging...