Bloody irritating

Posted on September 16, 2014 by KG

I went to see a doc today about a very painful blocked Eustachian tube.
First a nurse, then a med student and finally the doc all presumed to give me advice on smoking, diet and various other lifestyle choices. What the fuck do they think is the advice worth when I must be one of the very few patients of my age who isn’t on any regular medication, isn’t overweight and visits a doc very rarely? The clown even questioned why I choose to get up around 0300 every day! She also told me in one breath that the self-prescribed antibiotics I was using were “useless” and in the next  prescribed more of the same.
The purpose of the visit (which I hate anyway) was to get a very specific problem fixed. When I want bloody lifestyle advice I’ll ask for it. Anyway, after my responses I very much doubt I’d be welcome back at that particular female-dominated clinic.

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30 Responses to Bloody irritating

  1. KG says:
    September 16, 2014 at 19:49

    To cap it all off, the bloody receptionist tried to give me the third-degree when she asked if I wished to register with the clinic and I said no thanks. She was most put out when she asked which clinic I would go to and I told her I had no idea, since one is as good as another to me.

  2. Oswald Bastable says:
    September 16, 2014 at 20:01

    “How many drinks of alcohol do you have a week?”

    My answer is “as many as I feel like”.

  3. Darin says:
    September 16, 2014 at 23:03

    I’m lucky,my Doc smokes and rides a motorcycle,he also doesn’t ask to many irrelevant questions.
    The one time I needed him and he was out of town I had to deal with his female fill in.I really don’t have anything against female docs,so long as they are competent.I had a little accident at work that needed a few stitches so I did what I always do and popped in at the docs office.She argued with me up and down that I needed to go to the local ER ward at the local hospital.Sure I said,I got $1500 to piss down the drain for $40 worth of stitches :roll:
    She flat footed refused to sew me up,so I asked her to give me some sutures and I would do it myself.No such luck,so I told her thanks for nothing and walked out,bitch threatened to call the cops on me because “I needed professional medical treatment”,I told her,yes,I sure do and that’s why I was going elsewhere,no professionals to be seen there and all. :evil:

    I went back to the shop,cleaned the cut up good and had one of the guys pinch it shut while I streamed some super glue over it followed by a piece of plastic gauze.(use plastic,cause cotton gauze burns like a MF when soaked in super glue)http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_mail.gif
    Cut healed up fine and in record time so no more trips to the doc for stitches,I’ll do my own from now on.

    • KG says:
      September 17, 2014 at 04:11

      You only did what they’d have done in any case, Darin.
      Most of this stuff is simply nobody else’s damn business. A simple mechanical repair doesn’t (or shouldn’t) require that someone submit to being hectored and lectured and patronised.

    • Cadwallader says:
      September 17, 2014 at 05:20

      Where I live there is a veterinarian who is famed for attending to wounds which you’d not want the cops to know about. I am told he does a very good and cleansed job. As for KG he ought be grateful a counsellor wasn’t wheeled in to ensure he is still in touch with his inner-most feelings and is coping with childhood post-traumatic incidents in a paradigm-based manner. He got out lightly! :razz:

    • Mathew says:
      September 17, 2014 at 07:41

      Really, just regular super glue directly onto the cut? Wow.

      • KG says:
        September 17, 2014 at 10:18

        Doesn’t hurt much, Mathew. :lol:

      • D.T. says:
        September 17, 2014 at 16:54

        Cyanoacrylate ( super glue ) was invented to be used instead of stitches .
        D.T.

        • Darin says:
          September 17, 2014 at 22:33

          “Doesn’t hurt much”

          Got stitched up at the local ER once,doctor doing it asked if I was feeling anything?

          I said yes I am feeling ripped off and could he hurry it up a bit since he was working on my Dime and not the insurance company’s. :mrgreen:

  4. Mathew says:
    September 17, 2014 at 07:40

    Try finding a clinic with a male doc and ask to see him and if the women would like to mother/lecture you, tell them is an erectile related problem that’s possibly contagious, would you like to examine it. I’m reasonably sure they’d be quite happy to let you straight through to the doc.

    :grin:

  5. mawm says:
    September 17, 2014 at 08:42

    The “Ministry” mandates that all patients have “smoking cessation” advice with every hospital visit and all women get questioned about “domestic violence”. Personally I give my GP as little info about me as is possible – the few times I go I just talk about what I’m there for. Insurance companies can get hold of info and deny claims if they can prove you have a “pre existing” condition.

  6. nominto says:
    September 17, 2014 at 19:09

    1. I have been looking for a new Doctor for some time ,because the one I had was :
    a/. an arsehole
    b/. diagnosis was way off
    c/. didn’t listen at all
    d/. wouldn’t prescribe what I actually needed [I do have medical knowledge]
    I am still resenting the last visit and I wish that I had walked out [but I was quite full of the flu’ at the time and was late in the day]
    2. I am also looking for a new Dental practice due to the crap lecture I got from one of their “non-dental staff” — actually the Dentist is quite good,but I am not going to tolerate that again.Actually now I think about it ;I’ll complain just for the hell of it.
    3. My wife is also looking for a new Doctor [it’s a different practice than mine] because of almost all the same reasons as mine.
    So KG ; you are not alone in this and it’s getting worse.

  7. Yokel says:
    September 18, 2014 at 00:15

    Too true you shouldn’t tell any medic any more than is absolutely essential. [Bear in mind that Britain is leading many races to the bottom at the moment, this is but one of them!]

    Have a look at the British NHS’s (National Health Service) determination to give/sell everyone’s medical records to any “researcher” or shyster who has had contact with the Blarney Stone. Search for care.data for what the HSCIC (Health & Social Care Information Centre) wants to do with my records (amongst 65 million others). Campaign groups include medConfidential.org (specific to this problem) and BigBrotherWatch.org.uk (more general). The medics’ trade journal (pulsetoday.co.uk) also reflects a growing unease with the project. One GP (General Practitioner – the doctor who works in local surgeries/offices and also acts as gatekeeper to all other NHS medical services) put up a couple of web sites: care-data.info and summarycarerecord.info . They are heavy reading but reliable sources of information.

    As the NHS has an almost complete monopoly on medical treatment, and private medics largely cherry-pick the interesting/profitable jobs, avoiding the Big NHS Data Giveaway means avoiding all medical treatment, or lying through one’s teeth at every appointment. I have so decided, so I know that I will die earlier and more painfully than my parents generation.

    Beware: If they do manage to get away with it in Britain, then everyone else will want a bit of the action.

    • KG says:
      September 18, 2014 at 01:09

      “Beware: If they do manage to get away with it in Britain, then everyone else will want a bit of the action.”
      I wrote something similar years ago Yokel, when Helen the Hun was PM here in New Zealand, and was derided for it.
      But the truth is that Britain is a world leader in creeping totalitarianism and what the political scum manage to get away with there becomes a blueprint for every two-bit fascist in the West. :evil:

      • Yokel says:
        September 18, 2014 at 03:45

        “Britain is a world leader in creeping totalitarianism”

        My jest on this topic is that when Germany was being re-unified, the British government went round to the East German’s garage sale to see what they could pick up for a song. They like the idea of the Stasi so much that they bought the whole job lot. OK, not very funny, but I do wish it were a jest.

        In truth the seeds for this were sown many years before in the form of wartime “emergency measures” to which the ruling class formed a great attachment. The only snag is that I believe the war in question was the 1914 – 18 war. It was about then that the disarming of the British started. And now only criminals have guns.

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        September 18, 2014 at 04:43

        It would be interesting if you still have that essay, KG. I’ve found that most of my writings from years-gone-by for which I was abused and derided, have proved quite prescient with the passage of a very few years!

  8. Contempt says:
    September 18, 2014 at 01:59

    :shock: “Anyway, after my responses I very much doubt I’d be welcome back at that particular female-dominated clinic” Does this mean that you couldn’t satisfy them?http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

  9. Robertv says:
    September 21, 2014 at 07:35

    So much for that consensus .

    A few studies recently have shown that milk, yogurt and cheese consumption were associated with a lower incidence of Diabetes Type 2. Dairy didn’t seem to make the heart attacks more likely either. Hmm. So this new study of 26,000 women looked at high fat versus low fat dairy products. Over 14 years the highest consumption (which is 8, crikey, portions of full fat dairy a day) is associated with … a 23% reduction in risk compared to the low fat dairy consumers. Time to eat more Brie? Maybe, maybe not.

    http://joannenova.com.au/2014/09/the-fat-police-wont-be-happy-about-this/

    If you’re lucky you die at 110 having sex if luck is not on your side you die earlier.

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