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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them they are being fooled.
It hit the papers yesterday that more people are dying from Flu and pneumonia right now than from the virus.....but this has been true for weeks if you look at the ONS statistics.
There will be many more people die from other things because they have not been able to see a GP...they might have had a telephone appointment, but you cannot see pallor or jaundice, or see clubbed fingernails by a telephone call....you cannot see if someone's walk is affected or if they sit down gingerly...you cannot palpate an abdomen or listen to breath sounds, check a BP or an ecg by phone.
So many life shortening conditions will have been missed as a result of us being duped.
Very sad. Very damaging and really unnecessary.
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I have to put a rider to this Marge, (if thats the right word).
Last weekend Hazel was suffering with terrible back pain and finding it hard to breathe,after ringing our G.P. surgery on Monday morning she received a telephone appointment in the afternoon with our G.P who told her to make an appointment with the practice nurse for the following day, Tuesday. The receptionist said that there were no appointments available until Hazel told her what the G.P. had said.
After having blood tests on the Tuesday morning, The telephone rang at 18-30 hours and our G.P. told her that she must attend A and E. immedeatly.
Hazel was given X rays, more blood tests etc and I brought her home around midnight; She has had to go back this morning for scans, she could not have had faster, better care anywhere, the only downside being that I was not allowed and am still not allowed to be with her because of the covid 19 rules.
so I am on tenterhooks at the moment not knowing what is going on.
Taddy.