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... And they are running 45 minds late.
Herself is not happy, but it's quite fun listening to one side of receptionist telephone conversation.
A long call, someone wanting an appointment ASAP...
"The earliest I've got in 7th March"
"I know, but that's the earliest we have"
"I'm sorry to hear you're in pain, but..."
"What kind of pain have you got?"
"TOOTHACHE YOU STUPID ****" -- we all heard that bit.
Receptionist disconnects.
Oops.
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modified 10-Jan-23 11:55am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "What kind on pain have you got?"
My arse hurts, but I thought the dentist may be giving it a try.
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I thought it was a pretty stupid question when she asked it ... 
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On a serious note, it looks like getting appointments in UK is almost as bad as getting one in France.
My wife asked for an appointment for my son who had had stomach ache for a few days, and they proposed an appointment 3 weeks later. Needless to say, it was gone by then. Only alternative are emergency care, but there they complain that they have too many people coming for things that are no emergency AND you loose at least 6 hours of your life in the waiting room.
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Covid: few people had checkups in '20 and '21 and the workload now they are fully reopen has probably gone through the roof.
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I blame this 100% on the heathcare industry. They shutdown during COVID and many of their highly skilled folks simply left for other, lower stress work.
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In the UK, it's a bit more complicated than that.
Combine 13 years of chronic underfunding by a government who wants to turn the NHS into an American-style private healthcare system, with tabloid newspapers encouraging old people to tell all "foreign" healthcare workers to "go back where they came from", and an education system that would leave any potential medical students with a lifetime of crippling debt, and you can start to see why we have a shortage of staff, equipment, buildings, and other resources.
And that's before you get into the corruption of government ministers bunging billions to their mates for PPE contracts during the pandemic, despite knowing that said mates were incapable of fulfilling them.
But it's fine; we'll just keep voting the same party into power, and blaming all of the problems on the same people we stood on our doorsteps and clapped for once a week during the lockdowns. 
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- Homer
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It is the same in the U.S.
Also, the nurses in Manhattan (NY, not Kansas) are on strike. So, if you actually get admitted to one of those hospitals, you most probably die, since it is the nurses that keep you alive while you are being treated.
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Start from the bottom and work your way up?
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OriginalGriff wrote: The earliest I've got in 7th March
The NHS works in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform...
(For non-UKians, NHS == National Health Service)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Is there anything called Emergency Toothache? Or is every toothache considered sub-emergency?
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Depends if you are the one suffering or listening to the phone, I guess.
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That's not typical if you're a regular patient. Then there's all the scheduling that already went into the day. Sort of like this whole "I must travel by plane and make all my connections on time" mind set.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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told my grandson to become a dentist. Makes a lot of money and at regular hours.
Interesting and complex engineering problems to solve at times.
Fix problems to improve people's health.
only problem is you see a lot of people who don't want to be in your chair
and can't wait to leave.
Just saying.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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But they're always down in the mouth.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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 good one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Sure it can be a bit of a grind but you know the drill going into it.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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OriginalGriff wrote: "The earliest I've got in 7th March"
They should consider themselves lucky to be registered with an NHS dentist. I moved 2½ years ago, and I'm still on the waiting list.
I ended up having to go to a private dentist when I needed a root canal, which is decidedly not cheap.
(It was either that, or face a 520-mile round-trip to my old dentist for each appointment - assuming they had kept me on their books.)
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- Homer
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Without me, debt and US fuel make it all greasy. (10)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Without me, ALONE (without the "A" but I don't know why)
debt IOU
and US fuel GAS
make it (anag)
all greasy
OLEAGINOUS
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Correct result, but a different path to get there
IOU Without me, debt [edit: strikeout is almost invisible on the "I" /edit]
GASOLINE US fuel
make it all (anag)
OLEAGINOUS greasy - def.
YAUT!
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That's what I had but couldn't justify it
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I have been reading lots of web novel of late on Royal Road.. and 2 things struck me as odd about characters psychology in those books. Okay admittedly they are fictional, but I imagine the psychology is somewhat authentic in the eye of the author perhaps?
All of that to say, many characters are:
1. prompt to anger and lash out first then, perhaps, think. Also generally having an angry mood.
2. alternatively sometimes somewhat absent minded going so far as staring blankly at an impending doom aiming right at them
The first one, about needless anger leave me particularly confused. Am I unnaturally calm? or are American always angry (I suspect they are, I have something against American to be honest)? Or maybe is it how people view teenagers? But perhaps that's just me, I couldn't even get angry during my one single fight I had when I was a teenager meself...
The second is a bit less strange, although why not being angry enough to move hey? instead of just staring stupidly? What kind of author comes up with that for their characters?
modified 10-Jan-23 2:16am.
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I guess it depends - I'm reasonably calm (in my opinion) and prefer to think before I act; but I have friends whose first, second, and third impulse is to start lashing out. Don;t get me wrong, they are good guys - but they react rather than plan. And I've met (but generally stayed at arms length from) people who are permanently angry.
In my case I think it's a legacy of riding motorcycles instead of driving for thirty years: if you don't plan for what might happen and have an alternative ready then you are going to become a smear on the roadway pretty quickly!
It's probably down to "everyone is different" rather than "cod psychology".
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