Comments on: A visit to the doctor

By: Stewart Cowan

Stewart Cowan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:48:09 +0000

“…even Cabinet ministers.”

LOL, aye you’re right. Strange times indeed.

By: Sophia Pangloss

Sophia Pangloss — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:42:49 +0000

It’s Miss actually, but ye can ca me onythin sae lang as ye dinnae ca me ower!

Ye’re right we dinnae hae tae be beholden tae the doctors an’ we likely should consider aw the alternative remedies available. Still, ah dae like ma tablets…

It seems they’ll let LibDems be onythin these days, even Cabinet ministers. It’s no like the auld days…

By: Stewart Cowan

Stewart Cowan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:07:37 +0000

Thank you Mrs (or Miss) Pangloss.

It would be like cutting our own noses off to stop going to the doc’s, although I sometimes seek alternative remedies, many of which have proven to be rubbish, but I know some folk for whom they have done great things.

Do they allow Lib Dems to become doctors?

By: Sophia Pangloss

Sophia Pangloss — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:07:11 +0000

Ah’m right wi ye there Mr Cowan. Ah hae tae go tae ma doctor quite regular an’ aw, ah’m a martyr tae sciatica (amangst ither things), an’ recently he’s been gettin ma dander up by gaun oan aboot ma blood pressure (it’s him that pits it up!) an’ ma smokular habits. If it widnae be cuttin ma ain nose aff ah’d be loathe tae gang back again. Whit’s wrang wi leavin a wee biddy tae enjoy the few pleasures life can bring?

An’ intae the bargain he’s a self-confessed LiberalDemocrat! Maks ye mad so it dis…

By: Scottish Roundup

Scottish Roundup — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:05:11 +0000

[...] to have a go at putting it on my iPad. He’ll be hearing from me. Stewart Cowan has been most courageous this week. How many of us would back-chat our doctor? I think it’s time we all queried unnecessary [...]

By: James Justice

James Justice — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:07:33 +0000

“The doctor’s expression was difficult to read”.

Good job she wasn’t wearing a burka then!

By: Stewart Cowan

Stewart Cowan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:45:26 +0000

Mummy,

That’s the NHS for you: they make you want to laugh or cry. Sometimes both, hysterically!

By: Stewart Cowan

Stewart Cowan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:39:25 +0000

faulksd,

Indeed. If folk would just switch off the telly and stop allowing themselves to be infantilised by the puerile drivel made for the purpose.

By: Mummy x

Mummy x — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:47:19 +0000

A reader left a comment to my post

http://andtherewasmethinking.blogspot.com/2010/07/friend-says.html

I had a camera shoved where the sun don’t shine a couple of weeks ago. During the form-filling phase of being booked in they asked me if I smoked… “Not with my bottom, no.” I don’t think that was the answer they wanted.

I was still laughing a couple of hours later.

Mummy x

By: faulksd

faulksd — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:20:31 +0000

When you think about it, the NHS is purpose-built to promote the intrusive interests of the Nanny State as well as keeping the money-makers in reasonable shape; in keeping with recent trends it’s certainly working hard to justify its purpose. I don’t smoke (although I have done); however I bitterly resent the treatment that smokers have received in recent times. The very idea that has been mooted that persistent smokers should be denied NHS treatment for respiratory or circulatory complaints is high-minded and evil. Would that the people of this country actually engaged their brains in thought for once, perhaps we would see a backlash against this kind of officiousness.