(September 19, 2013 at 11:57 am)Stimbo Wrote: ???Okay some of my details may have been wrong, however every GP is paid the same salary, and you do not get a choice in circumstances where we do. For instance, it's my right to demand a different doctor if I'm admitted to hospital, I do not have to see the one that admitted me, etc.
Yes you do. Where I live there are something like half a dozen GP practises within easy travel distance. I could have selected any of them to sign up to, I just happened to choose the one an easy walk from my home. I could be, and I have been, seen at any other practise for any number of reasons. There is also an NHS "walk-in" centre, which takes everyone.
There are about five or six doctors, plus several nurses, at my local practise (it being quite small) but the one a little further out to which my Sam used to go - she joined before we moved in together and, having got friendly with the staff, didn't want to change practises - has probably five times that many. Out of all these medical staff, I could choose to be seen by any one of them I wish.
Please don't give our colonial cousins any more wrong ideas about our country - they already think we drink warm beer, have bad teeth and talk like Dick Van Dyke (the Cockney Strangler in Mary Poppins) or else extras from Pride And Prejudice.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
