I could spit i'm so mad!!! - Page 5

fireman · 18-02-2005, 15:10

like A>B> sats PROUD TO BE POLITICALLY INCORRECT

Lampman · 18-02-2005, 17:28

I saw a parental consent form the other day,giving permission for a child to attend a trip out.Amongst the questions asked was ,Do you have TB?
I have a question if the person says yes what then,a seat next to the driver!

chav1 · 18-02-2005, 17:39

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Originally Posted by Lampman

I saw a parental consent form the other day,giving permission for a child to attend a trip out.Amongst the questions asked was ,Do you have TB?
I have a question if the person says yes what then,a seat next to the driver!

so they ask a child if it has TB before going on a school trip but fail to ask people coming into the country to scrounge of us

typical

Acrylic-bob · 18-02-2005, 17:55

I'm not sure I understand who the question was asked of, if it was the parent or guardian then the school really have no business asking a question like that and if it was the child then how would they expect a child to know whether it has TB or not. And if the child does have TB how come the teachers haven't noticed that something was wrong, or doesn't the phrase In Loco Parentis have any currency any more?

Margaret Pilkington · 18-02-2005, 20:17

I am so gald to be out of the NHS rat race. Like you lettie, I was always the gobbie one at meetings......but someone had to tell some of the managers what was happening in the real world......the one where we get abused by relatives, sworn at by consultants and undervalued by patients(who thought we were there to wait on them.....like, pour me a glass of water nurse......why, are your arms painted on?......caring yes but waiting on NO NO NO).

chav1 · 18-02-2005, 20:47

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pour me a glass of water nurse......why, are your arms painted on?

i bet this went down like a ton of bricks on the amputee ward

sorry sometimes i cant help but crack a joke good or bad taste

Margaret Pilkington · 18-02-2005, 20:49

That's Ok Chav......except I worked on the Gynae Ward......you know, womens bits?

Margaret Pilkington · 18-02-2005, 20:50

I never could see how having your womb removed could take all the use from your arms.....!

chav1 · 18-02-2005, 20:56

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

That's Ok Chav......except I worked on the Gynae Ward......you know, womens bits?

yeah but todays nurses work everywhere lol

one week a nurse was tending to me in bri and a few weeks later she was helping deliver our baby at a queens park

Margaret Pilkington · 18-02-2005, 20:58

Because I was Sister they didn't let me do those kind of things......I might never have come back!

KiTChener · 19-02-2005, 12:56

Further to the 'TB' question.... I went to BRI earlier this week, for a regular check up. Reporting to reception, my file is duly found, & to ascertain that it is indeed me that's stood there, the usual 'ID' type questions are asked & answered to the satisfaction of the receptionist. However, the final one had me thinking for the rest of the day...

'Have you been resident in this country for the last twelve months?'

Quite apart from the fact that a cursory glance at the file would show that I have been seeing this particular consultant for the last four years, I wondered why this question is, presumably, being asked of everyone on booking in, whether Caucasian (as I am) or otherwise.

If I was of a darker complexion, could I, perhaps, be offended by this question?
If I answered 'No', what would the next question be??
If 'yes', would I be asked to prove it? Therefore giving me even further grounds for a complaint?

I appreciate that the majority of our NHS staff are constantly working under extreme pressure... whichever 'higher authority' is insisting that they now ask such a loaded question, is not only adding to that pressure, but also possibly leaving them open to the kind of complaint that is so common these days.

Surely, as in my case, there are simpler ways of obtaining the information, for whatever reason it may be required??

fireman · 19-02-2005, 13:25

Thats a good point what if you had said no what wiuld the reception staff do about it and how many thousand have passed through saying they have wwhen in point of fact half of them probably havn't.

Margaret Pilkington · 19-02-2005, 17:09

Kitchener, that question is asked so that it may be ascertained whether you are liable for charges........after saying that, even some people who are liable for charges get their treatment and then skip the country, and you can't do a thing about it

Mik Dickinson · 19-02-2005, 17:42

Î agree with teh comment that the old virtues are osrry to say leaving us, then again i think it all boils down to upbringing.If you are brought up differrent then you do not do it, and get brassed off at other people when you see them doing it.