Just be glad they didn't remove anything they weren't suppose to.


Sir Spectre


Like Master Yoda's speak, Olde English is, yes? Hehmmmmhaha!
-- From the play "Zlothello"

yeah, things could be alot worse:


-arcon
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"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown

hehe arc

"What? Another girl! Tell me my boy. *whispers* what have you been doing?" - Tobias

Very subtile Arcon

lol. yes

<grumble>Warlord Bob, you should try going to A&E in Britain!! I've been quite lucky so far with waits of a maximum of about 6 hours, but some folks can be left waiting on trolleys for days.
And recliners!? How can you complain you lucky sod!! So far I 've always been a walking wounded so I'm perpetually givin up my seat to people worse off or far older than me due to lack of seats, of which there are only plain old rigid chairs!!
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I guess i should learn to be less accident prone huh?

@recusant - I'm with you there....sat on a moulded plastic chair with a wonky leg, surrounded by the stench of disinfectant waiting for hours to be told by a half asleep nurse that "you need to see a consultant"...which then involves standing (because by now you've lost your wonky seat) back in said waiting room/cattle market, surrounded by what appears to be an outbreak of tuberculosis, being ignored by half asleep nurses, for hours on end to finally be greeted by a half asleep consultant who then ushers you off for an x-ray...which involves yet-again playing musical wonky chairs with aforementioned tuberculosis sufferers for a few hours to be finally greeted by the nurse that saw you originally...who then ushers you off to an x-ray room, points something radioactive at you and promptly hides behind what appears to be part of the wall of a nuclear testing facility. After another 3 or 4 hours of waiting for the x-rays to come out and pondering your fate after watching the nurse quiver behind the 20 inch wall in the x-ray room, you finally get a 5 minute patch up job and are packed off with a prescription for soluble paracetamol and a note to your GP.

and if you think I'm joking, I once spent 15 hours like this because of a broken toe! ....why? you may ask....because after a couple of hours you either a) begin to think that you too could have tuberculosis or b) it crosses your mind that if you leave now, you can bet your arse you were next in the queue!

however, my girlfriend is polish, and i recently discovered the polish health authority, which has to be one of the most corrupt in the world. Poland is not a third world country in any way. It shouldn't have the problems that it does. But this is what happened to us recently...Her grandfather had a stroke, which in the UK you can survive in the right circumstances...in Poland he was made to wait 4 days for a bed in the hospital....it would have been longer if I hadn't tipped the doctor 50 quid. Then you just lie there and die. Its simple and humiliating. You don't get to use a bathroom, you do it on yourself and hope someone will come along soon and help you out. You don't get fed unless you bribe the nurses. In the end I had to bribe several doctors and nurses to do the standard things that we take for granted....bathroom duty, bed bath, bringing food, bringing painkillers and even just checking to see his still alive. Think yourself lucky guys....THAT is humility.

Saying that, the NHS isn't far from it

Hmmm. Good point both of you. But subways (I asume thats what A&E is) are in a legue of thier own when it comes to making people un-comfortable. I nearly had a nervous breakdown in the Boston subway, since I've always lived in little hick city (otherwise known as San Antonio, Texas) where we have no subway

"Here I am, brain the size of the universe, trying to serve you a simple web page, and then it doesn't even exist! Where does that leave me?! I mean, I don't even know you." - TLR Web Server

subways? now i'm confused! I thought we were talking about doctor's waiting rooms/A&E (thats Accident and Emergency, aka Casualty or the Emergency Room for those who don't know)....?! Isn't a subway like the london underground or the metro? that is, a train that runs under a city?

someone help me out here, I'm lost B-)

Accident and Emergency??? do you guys mean the First Aid Department?

Casualty

a subway is a train that goes under the ground, not part of a hospital

"What? Another girl! Tell me my boy. *whispers* what have you been doing?" - Tobias

Life isn't fair. In fact, life is a *****, a huge ***** especially if you are a nice person. Live with it. Or don't.


Careful what you wish... You might just get it.

*sigh* This is the end of day two of annoying things. To re-cap day one...
-The hospital thing
-The parking lot at the hospital (you ever felt like all the other drivers were out to make your life miserable?)
-The bag my sandwich came in also contained a container of beef juice for dipping the sandwich. The container was not closed. The pag was paper.
-My sisters friend drank all our coke
-My sister didn't give back my "Dune" book because she was "to tired"
-Missed my other engagement
-The other stuff I can't remember at the moment

Today...
-My dad has brought every usless item he can find into our garage making it impossible to use the table saw.
-Couldn't wash my car because I had to drop some of the useless stuff off at the good will in the van
-Tutor who I forgot was coming came
-Tutor who I remembered was coming came
-The combined intelegence of my mother and I have failed twice within 2 hours to buy a can of neon red spray paint on two trips to the hardware store.
-The traffic was backed up about a mile on loop 410 for no reason
-My favorite radio stations are stupid now
-After I dropped off the usless stuff my sister parked behind my car *fumes* and I couldn't wash it... again
-My sister has now lost my "dune" book
-My kitty is hungry and is interupting my rant
-People would have me believe that bad things (and days) come in 3's, so this aint over
-The other little things I can't remember

I have lots of patience, being an optimist, but somtimes all the little things make a combined asualt on your sanity. In short I am still mad

oh, and sory to cause the A&E confusion. I guessed after all *shrug*. A subway is a underground train like the metro (?) and has nothing to do with hospitals. When you were describing A&E...

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I've been quite lucky so far with waits of a maximum of about 6 hours, but some folks can be left waiting on trolleys for days

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I figured you meant subway because of their crowdedness and "trollys" wich I now asume is like strechers but here that would mean somthing like bus or train car

Edited by - Warlord Bob on 17-10-2003 04:32:21