LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

Supermarket shelf stackers who don't understand the difference between 'bakes' and 'bacon', nor leeks and onions, etc., etc.

 

Flooding................again

Dig/clean your ditches please and make sure pipes are clean and not silted up

 

Yesterday rang the GP for an appointment.
Receptionist"Can I help you"
Me "I'd like to make an appointment to see Dr.... sometime in the next week or so"
Receptionist "We'll have to see"
Me "Pardon"
Receptionist "I'll have to take some details, get a message to Dr.... and then he will decide whether you can have an appointment or a phone consultation or not"
I am now waiting on my GP to decide, if I qualify for an appointment he will then ring me and tell me. I will then ring the receptionist to arrange. This is supposed to save time.
I am still trying to work out how you can listen to the heart and lungs over the phone.

 

I visit my GP as seldom as possible due to the appointments system and each time they have "improved" it. I like my GP and when I can get to see him he is helpful; it's just the getting to see him.

 

I have never yet been to a doctor when they have found something wrong. My wife has the same experience. We must just make the symptoms up.

G.

 

Doctor's surgery receptionists are unlikely to have any medical qualifications.
Their job is to make appointments, not to relay symptoms to a doctor.
I would never tell a receptionist my symptoms. It's none of their business.
They cannot deny you an appointment if you're registered with that practice. However, you might have to wait a while.

These "jobsworths" are probably under instructions to try to reduce the number of appointments.

Many surgeries have far more patients than they can manage. I believe they get paid by the head. There's plenty of doctors out there looking for a job. They need to employ more, but that will mean a cut in pay for the other members of the practice.

 

I've seriously cheesed off with our ruddy receptionists ! This is what happened to me.....
Me 'please may I have an appointment to see the asthma nurse?'
Her 'we don't have any appointments for 4 weeks, what's wrong?
Me 'I'm having problems with my peak flow, its been low for a few days & I don't seem to be able to get it to stabilise'
Her 'You need to increase your medication, we don't have an appointment for 4 weeks!'
Me 'are you trained as either an asthma nurse or GP? I wasn't aware you needed those qualifications to answer a phone'
Her 'you don't need to be rude'
Me 'I'm not being rude I'm asking for an appointment to see the asthma nurse, I don't want a GP's appointment as I feel the nurse will be able to help me with this'
Her 'you can have an appointment with the GP in 3 weeks'
Me 'I want to see the asthma nurse please'
Her 'if it's that bad go to A&E
Me 'NO! I want to see the asthma nurse please, I don't need to see the GP, nor do I want to go to A&E, it's a waste of their time'
Her 'thenyou cant be seriously ill'
Me I'm not saying I'm seriously ill I'm telling you my peak flow is low, I can't get it up & I want an appointment to see the nurse please, I've followed the normal procedure as given by the nurse & I can't get it to stabilise'
Her 'tomorrow at 8.40'
Me 'why didn't you give me that appointment at the beginning of our conversation?'
Her 'you didn't say you couldn't stabilise it'
Me 'yes I did, I told you that & you said you didn't have an appointment for 4 weeks now you've suddenly got one for the morning!'
Her 'do you want it or not!'
Me 'yes I'd like the appointment & I'd like your name please?'
Her 'I can't give out that information!' We shall see you in the morning!' phone goes dead
The next day I arrived at the doctors, saw a new nurse, she was about as much use as a chocolate fire guard! She said 'we need to change your meds, I will ring you....that was in October I'm still waiting! Since then I've had the same prescription each month, my peak flow is fine now! I had to make an appointment for a girlie test on the way out, I managed to get the same receptionist who was as ruddy rude & obstructive as can be! Asking me in a loud voice what the appointment was for! I think to be a receptionist at a gp surgery you have to certain bad qualities!

 

Some these people are really annoying.

I always collect my wife's prescriptions from the surgery.

A few years ago I went in to collect it and the receptionist couldn't find it.

She asked the more officious receptionist , who said, she distinctly remembered me collecting it.
I said I hadn't and after a furious row, I was told rather grudgingly that I could have another one, but I had to go back the following day. When I arrived to collect it, a different receptionist went through the box and found both prescriptions. She then said,"I remember, I found the first one pinned up to someone else's, so I just separated them and refiled it.

Armed with this information I then phoned the practice manager explained the situation and complained about the behaviour of the first receptionist, he apologised. Conveniently he was unaware of it all. I told him that wasn't any good, I wanted a face to face apology from the jobsworth and when should I come in for it? Which happened, apparently she became less obnoxious to everyone...for a while.

 

German car drivers (Not German Drivers)...... held up for over an hour getting home, this time it was a BMW imbecile, usually they drive an AUDI! What the heck have these German Car Manufacturers got written in their "Drivers Manual?".

 

I don't mind helping people, but 6 knocks on the door this morning, where's xxxx or zzzzz couriers looking for address's. come on people put the name and numbers on the outside of your property then these couriers with your parcels can find you more easly

 

My mate lives in a hamlet of 26 houses all with the same postcode.

Couriers have been known to explode

 

We live in the middle of nowhere and post code pionts at our door even the couriers will drive past the property they want and still knock on our door

 

My door has my number on it; the house has a table with the name of it above.
Couriers *still* get lost!

 

I live in the country and find it hard to find my way home in the dark after a few sherries so god help the courriers.