Dr Rant is grateful our correspondent who alerted us to the above screen shot.
It shows the results of a websearch conducted by a doctor in training who was trying to locate information on 'regional nerve blocks' for surgical anaesthesia and the control of severe, intractable, pain.
As you can see, the National Health Service Trust's 'IT' division has decided that the term 'Health' should be 'filtered' in a teaching hospital, and that this website is probably pornographic or subversive.
Ironically, I think I am correct in stating that employees of the trust in question have unfettered access to Dr Rant.
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Just briliant.
now if the word had been money or profit there would have been no problem.
Urbain Le Grandier
Actually the page looks like it was blocked because it was linking directly to a Windows Media Video file (you can tell by the file extension '.wmv' in the link, and the not-so-friendly error message).
Its not really that uncommon for organisations to block videos downloaded (and sometimes streamed) from obscure websites on the basis that its much more likely to be porn or the usual email-forwarded junk that eats up bandwidth.
The fact that the search term contained the word 'health' was probably just a coincidence.
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