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Any NHS Fans Out There???
on: December 11, 2007, 09:25:28 PM
I have had few dealings with the NHS but most have been very good.  ;D
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Re: Any NHS Fans Out There???
Reply #1 on: December 11, 2007, 09:56:56 PM
I was once given a bed bath by 2 nurses.

Long live the NHS.

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Re: Any NHS Fans Out There???
Reply #2 on: December 11, 2007, 10:03:21 PM
I was once given a bed bath by 2 nurses.

Singing Detective style??
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Re: Any NHS Fans Out There???
Reply #3 on: December 11, 2007, 10:11:46 PM
My NHS dentist (!) is great. And the local hospital (Kings College Hospital, Camberwell) looked after my missus very well when she had a spot of bother a year or two back. Accident and Emergency is a place to avoid, though.
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Re: Any NHS Fans Out There???
Reply #4 on: December 11, 2007, 10:16:50 PM
And the local hospital (Kings College Hospital, Camberwell)

I used to know a couple of nurses from there. A long time ago.  :-X

Accident and Emergency is a place to avoid, though.

Probably come out worse. Get attacked by some junkie or wino.  :'( :o
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Re: Any NHS Fans Out There???
Reply #5 on: December 11, 2007, 11:19:01 PM
You almost certainly wouldn't want to go into an NHS hospital where I live - emergency or otherwise; one of the local not-so-funny jokes about it is that if one happens to get oneself admitted to the local NHS hospital for anything routine one soon ends up in A&E as a direct consequence, thereby contributing heavily to the massive queues for real emergencies there; I cannot vouch or otherwise for the truth of that from experience of any side of that, but...

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