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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
"the world would be a better place with less idiots & few sick people in it....... I know its a bit extreme" not extreme at all disgusting would be a better word and i gaurantee your attitude will change the day you have a serious illness. Out of hours doctors are a joke and tbh i have only called them once when i was doubling up in pain everytime i coughed (had flu so coughing was regular) after two and a half hours of me on the floor i got my cousin to take me into A&E where i was diagnosed with chronic pnuemonia thankfully the hospital were very good and i made a full recovery but after that i wouldn't even entertain calling an out of hours doctor. Worst thing was the doctor i had called for turned up five hours after i called him and when my wife said i had gone to A&E and what they had diagnosed me with he still made a comment about people wasting the time of doctors out of hours.
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Funny you should say that about call out docs.
When I broke two ribs in a car accident while I was at uni, the hospital kicked me out as soon as my temperature came down below 100 (They said I had a chest infection, not the pnuemonia I actually had!).
The first morning home, I woke to be violently sick, not nice when I'd slipped down the bed and found it difficult/extremely painful to sit up.
I couldn't even keep a sip of water down, so mum called the doctor out.
This giggling woman arrived and said she could give me an injection to stop the vomitting, but it had a side effect in young men that it could cause chest spasms.
Great, 2 broken ribs and the chance of painful chest spasms so I declined her offer.
Spent all day being unable to take any pain killers, and wasn't going to use the huge suppository she'd left, so got mum to phone the doctor again.
This time a bloke came out and gave me an injection.
I asked about the chest spasm side effects and he gave me a look as if to say "what on earth are you talking about?"
He explained it was travel sickness medication which prevents the stomach muscles from contracting.
So I was put through a day of agony and dehydration because of the first doctor who came out!