| lesley153
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Nobody else likes the sound of him either!
I've had all sorts of people doing the echo. One recent one was a young man doing the rounds of the departments to further his training. I asked him how it was looking, which was the politest way I could think of to ask him why I had been here for ten minutes and hadn't heard a thing. He was puzzled. The machine didn't seem to be responding, he said. Eventually he called the technician, who switched the machine on and walked out again.
Last year it was a young woman doing the same post-graduate rotation. She, by contrast, knew what she was doing. She was scanning away, and chatting, when Mr Technician strutted in, placed a reassuring hand on my thigh (ugh) and said something along the lines of "Any problems, girls?"
I didn't think he was right to address her (or me) like that, but she said it's OK, I can handle him. Good, but she shouldn't have to. The woman I spoke to afterwards said he had to come in in mid-scan, because I was with a trainee, who needed monitoring.
As I write this, it's just occurred to me that he didn't come back to monitor the male trainee who didn't even know how to switch the machine on. If he did, I didn't hear him. He didn't strut in and say "OK, sonny?" Funny, that.
I was a bit surprised that he was doing it this year. They must be really stuck for staff. I have to assume he knows what he's doing! |
Reply #5201. Oct 31 12, 6:55 PM
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satguru 
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Looks like Merv's got family in the area?
Reply #5202. Oct 31 12, 10:46 PM
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Professer
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Hope all is going well LEsley and if the tech does it again compalin as i feel he has no right to walk in a treatment room when a patient is present let alone place his hand on her thigh.
To me it could be in the recent incidents concerning a certain former DJ be dangerous for him, as i beleive that was the sort of thing Jimmy Saville s being accused of by patients at the hospital he helped out at.
Still got probs with my bottom plate going to try sea bond before i go back to dentist.
Reply #5203. Nov 01 12, 1:27 AM
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| C30
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Time I contributed............here is a little ditty to gladden the cockles of the heart:-
After my discharge from hospital back in August, the promised 24hr wearing of heart monitor came to pass.......albeit 2 months later!
I handed this in after 24hr and was told they would contact me, but if I hadn't heard in 3 weeks to phone my GP as "we always send the results to GP".
Three weeks passed, the silence from medical authorities being deafening, so phoned GP surgery.
"No we havn't had anything", says receptionist. Phones Cardiac Unit......."tests, what tests"? Explained. We will check and get back to you.
48hrs later................"The specialist doesn't want to see you again and we have sent results to your GP" (It was news that he saw me to start with, it was "one of his team", but that is nit picking isn't it?).
Phones GP..........."I will have to check", says receptionist.
24hr later..........phones GP. "Oh we have found them, but I can't tell you what they say, they haven't been scanned".
24hrs later........phones GP. "I can't tell you what they say, you will need to make an appointment".
"Ok make me an appointment"
"I can't do that, we only make appointments early morning, you will have to phone tomorrow".
Today is to "tomorrow" so to speak, I shall start by trying to get through to surgery from 0800 onwards..........
WHEN I get an appointment, I then have a 2-3 hr disruption of my day, wasting my time and the Doctors time, merely to get a "Yes or No" answer.
Oh the joys of NHS..............you really COULDN'T make it up!
Reply #5204. Nov 01 12, 1:31 AM
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Professer
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Seems we all have prblems wth either hospitals or Doctors, in my case is former as Doctor is how a doctor should be. C30 keep us updated
Reply #5205. Nov 01 12, 6:42 AM
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| C30
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Update.................
"May I make an appointment to see any doctor tomorrow" (Wife has day off so car available for transport).
"Full up tomorrow"
"But I thought you didnt make appointments until early mornings"? (It was 0805)
"Full up Tomorrow"
"Well any doctor, any time, would do, I want to find out about Test Results"
"Full up tomorrow"
That was the point I when I lost my temper...............
Result...........no appointment, no test results and n intention of it...............I bloody give up!
Reply #5206. Nov 01 12, 8:20 AM
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Professer
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C30 you need to phone the health authority and complain, number will be in book, gaurantee you get a appointment
Reply #5207. Nov 01 12, 9:28 AM
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| lesley153
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David, you'd think so! Certainly kindred spirits.
Gary, it was a year ago and I did complain. I phoned the patient liaison office, and said that his intrusion, with his presumption that there would be problems, undermined a professional colleague in the presence of a patient: calling us "girls" was irritatingly disrespectful: placing a hand on me was an entirely inappropriate gesture of dominance. We swapped a few phone calls. On the final one, she said that he had been "asked" to apologise to the trainee.
Ray, that's pretty impressive. I haven't been so cross since I kept an appointment for a cardiology check-up, didn't take the appointment letter with me, there's no need, they sent it to me so they must have a record of it - famous last words: and found that they had no record of my appointment... but they would try to squeeze me in... carefully, because they didn't want to annoy people who did have appointments. Aaaargh! I reckoned most of the people sitting around looked like they'd have apoplexy if I started shouting the odds, so I sat about quietly and waited. That was a good few years ago. They're a lot better now.
Although there was one a couple of years ago, my first time in an unfamiliar department. The receptionist was trying to tell the woman in charge that I had an appointment, and she just muttered Ha! She'll be lucky! They found it in the end. The thin-lipped hag who made the appointment hadn't actually written it in the book. I think she scribbled it on the back of a fag packet. That was done at short notice, so I didn't have a letter. When I do have a letter, I always take it with me. |
Reply #5208. Nov 01 12, 8:33 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Live and learn, yes?;) I always gather any paperwork I have received, (whether or not I need it)and it comes along with me.
When I went to have my driver license renewed, I took birth cert. marriage license, and anything else I could find...Only to be told that the new 'restrictions' hadn't been taken into law, as yet. So, all I needed, was my old license;) Yay! I'm good to 2016, then we'll see...
Reply #5209. Nov 01 12, 9:04 PM
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Professer
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well i always try to take letters with me to hospital appointments, have never been tld theres no record of me having one as yet.
Lesley good that he was made to apologise to trainee, but i ffeel you deserved one for his unwarranted toughing of you,I remember once when i was in hospital the asthma doctor asked if i would allow a few students to examine me this occured at lunch time, he asked what they could see of the 6 there only one seemed to allude to what he was asking, thats when i found out i am covered in nuerofibromas fatty cysts like lumps.
We all have to put up with things and i do wonder how some people qualify, not loooking forward to seeing the osteopath on tuesday but see what happens
Hope you have a good weekend lesley
Reply #5210. Nov 02 12, 5:50 AM
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| lesley153
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Yes to living and learning. It's taken me a while, but I'm getting there.
Gary, it wasn't a big deal. If it had been, I would have thumped him or shouted at him and generally disrupted and lowered the tone of the cardiology department. I mentioned it to the woman in the liaison office, only to add to the general picture of a sexist pain. I was more bothered about his attitude to his colleagues, and was pleased that he had been asked to apologise to her.
On Sunday I shall be in the wilds of SE London, watching sprog playing in the London Mahler Orchestra. The following Sunday, I hope to be in NW London, meeting my nephew's fiancée. |
Reply #5211. Nov 02 12, 5:33 PM
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redwaldo
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Looking forward to details of the London Mahler Orchestra and their performance!
Reply #5212. Nov 02 12, 7:48 PM
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| lesley153
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They shall be yours!
I asked a local music-lover if she'd like to come with me, and she's busy - but she said Mahler always makes her cry. She also told me about a Celine Dion song that made her cry. (Celine Dion makes me cry too, but it's nothing to do with what she's singing.) |
Reply #5213. Nov 02 12, 8:02 PM
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| lesley153
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Mahler 3's a huge undertaking, and they put together a huge orchestra, with two harps, an offstage drummer, and an offstage flugelhorn, which Mahler instructed was to be played in the manner of a posthorn. I hope he knew what he meant, because I don't think anyone else has worked it out.
Elizabeth Sikora was the soloist, who appeared in the fourth movement, and was a joy to listen to.
There's a women's chorus, which filed in for the fifth movement, and a children's chorus, which didn't. We don't know why the children's chorus didn't turn up, or how the orchestra members managed to sing the children's part.
We know the conductor because he conducts one of the two symphony orchestras at Jonathan's old college. He took over the London Mahler Orchestra about three years ago. He has also worked with the Royal Opera House, the Royal Ballet, and the National Ballet of Canada, and has just been appointed as conductor of the New York City Ballet. That's at least two orchestras and probably a few ballet companies that'll be a bit lost when he goes.
This is the piece they played, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Phil, and soloist Christa Ludwig.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwFutIcnrU
Worth a listen if you've got an hour and three quarters to spare.
Travel report: I had twenty minutes to get my ticket. There were enough staff so I got my ticket in three minutes and got on an earlier train.The journey I'd allowed three hours for took two.
The journey home took three. Moral: don't ask people if the train goes where you want to go - find out for yourself. I went to Surrey Quays, whatever that is, and went back to the beginning to get a train to London Bridge. I missed the connection by a minute and waited half an hour for the next one, in which I was entertained by a cretin whose earphones didn't work or they were on top volume because he'd made himself deaf, and by a young couple chattering all the way from London Bridge to Luton. There was nothing wrong with her voice: it was a perfectly good voice... but not for three-quarters of the conversation for more than an hour!
Oh and a man asked me if I was married, but he got off at St Albans, so that was all right. |
Reply #5214. Nov 05 12, 5:44 PM
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satguru
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Surrey Quays was Surrey Docks, part of the New Cross branch which was closed for years maybe so they had time to rewrite the maps. I don't know why they changed the name as although they haven't been docks in my memory doesn't quays mean the same thing? I don't make the rules.
Reply #5215. Nov 05 12, 7:26 PM
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| lesley153
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| Pass! I'm not at all familiar with any of the stations south of the river! I needed to go to New Cross/New Cross Gate because they'd decided to hold the concert in Goldsmiths College. They usually play in a church in Gloucester Road. Perhaps the church wasn't big enough for the 3rd. I shall be happy if they go back to Gloucester Road for the next concert. It's a much easier journey. |
Reply #5216. Nov 05 12, 8:13 PM
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| lesley153
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Today I went back to the hospital for the second half of my cardiology MOT. Started with a few basic tests. Blood oxygen (spO2) was a bit low, BP was a bit high, pulse was 58, weight is down because I want it to be.
Then I saw a registrar who said the echo I had last week looked good, and he wasn't bothered about a one-off high blood pressure reading - if I'm concerned I can see my GP - and there was nothing untoward, like unexplained thickening or stenosis. The best thing he said was come back in twelve months. Yippee. :) I can relax now and hope nothing else drops off. |
Reply #5217. Nov 06 12, 3:11 PM
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Professer
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thats excellent news Lesley
Reply #5218. Nov 14 12, 9:53 AM
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| lesley153
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| Thanks, Gary, I thought so. :) |
Reply #5219. Nov 14 12, 7:28 PM
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Jakeroo
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are you ok Lesley? It's not like you not to post within so many days..
Reply #5220. Nov 22 12, 9:31 PM
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