Comments on Dr Rant: What is the fucking point? (part one)

Would it help if I said how incredibly grateful I ...

2008-01-08T20:58:00.000Z

Would it help if I said how incredibly grateful I am to my family GP. They mange my chronic rhuematoid arthritis - mostly keep me away from the rheumatologist at the local hospital whom I detest (& I fear it is mutual)and cannot cope well with anyone under 50. They appreciate I am intelligent and capable of understanding the illness and making choices as to hwo I manage it so actually giev me choices and fought the PCT so I could continue to have the drug that worked and I can tolerate even if it is more expensive (I offered to pay the difference a whole £3.40pcm in the beginning but our useless Government won't allow that) and this week they vey promptly and effciently dealt with the chest infection that left me barely able to breathe and terrified. I am very grateful it is their management and skill that gives me my quality of life and keeps me in paid employment and incidentally still paying tax to fund teh Government circus.

cry cry fucking cry.....what fucking planet are yo...

2008-01-07T16:11:00.000Z

cry cry fucking cry.....what fucking planet are you guys living on, everyone knows the goverment are fucked, you are educated people no need to state the fucking obvious do something about it, some people they cant be heard people like me no one will listen, they will listen to you!
But do me a favour whilst your worrying about your fat cat pockets just think, prehaps the goverment should ignore your pleas and hand it out to some people who work just as fucking hard as you and yet live on the fucking poverty line, maybe just maybe they need a little appreciation.
we dont need fucking doctors anyway your all shit, before you get ill you think "oh yeah medince today, oh its fantastic, and doctors they will look after me"
then your really ill and no one will listen, no one gives a rat arse, your not that doctors wife mother or child so what do you fucking matter. Thats the truth of it Doctors do not give a fuck and even when they do care ( very rare though) theres fuck all they can do any way so i emplore you go on strike no one cares the world will carry on rotating on its axis and people will still be born and die it doesnt make a difference if your there or not!

Well said..........why do the fuckwit M.P's, all a...

2007-12-24T01:52:00.000Z

Well said..........why do the fuckwit M.P's, all are guilty here, have to keep meddling with the NHS, all the changes are wasteful and are destroying it from within, my main gripe is with private sector managers joining the service, with no public service experience,for the salary and pandering to government targets rather than saying NO.........

It's all very well GPs considering "doing a dentis...

2007-12-24T00:44:00.000Z

It's all very well GPs considering "doing a dentist", but I don't think most of the public does realise that this could happen. We take our GP services for granted the way we used to take our dental services for granted. I think doctors should be out there on YouTube etc. telling people what's really going to happen if we don't tell the government where to get off.

I'm not related to any doctors, my only interest in this is that I am dependent on doctors. That doesn't mean I'm always entirely happy with my GP. (For the Qof points he gets, and from them bonuses, my annual review was pathetic.) But I need medical care and I'd be uninsurable.

This blog is great, but you need other channels as well. I want to be reading what's happening to general practice all over the web.

Worth thinking about why they have done this. It i...

2007-12-23T23:41:00.000Z

Worth thinking about why they have done this. It is a high risk strategy and has nothing to do with opening hours. personally I think they are desperate and don't know what to do, so pick a fight with the Doctors (cf miners in 1984). This kind of desperation usually occurs before total collapse.

Furthermore, I have been speaking to various members of the public who seem to be able to see through the spin. We are getting a stream of compliments at the moment and I suspect that the ordinary members of the public are terrified of us 'doing a dentist'. We may have a lot more support than you realise.

Remember people trust doctors. Trust is rarely used in the same sentence as politicians and Journalists

pity this masterly analysis will not be read by th...

2007-12-23T23:20:00.000Z

pity this masterly analysis will not be read by the majority of the patients. look forward to part two.
the only good thing to come out of the gms2 contract was the sudden increase in pay that automatically increased the pension, enabling a more comfortable retirement.

Thanks all.Francis rediscovered his tongue, and th...

2007-12-23T21:38:00.000Z

Thanks all.
Francis rediscovered his tongue, and there's a part two treat to follow, as well as an excellent guest contribution.

I wonder when private GP will emerge.

We are getting to hate New Labour and its minions ever more deeply. We hope rest of country is catching up on this.

In terms of GP hours and service to patients GPC offered HMG a workable solution that met most of what they wanted. Needless ot say Clunking Fist chose to have a battle instead.

Meanwhile MPs will pay themselves more, and police and GPs get less.

I've missed my daily dose of Rant too much I see. ...

2007-12-23T21:06:00.000Z

I've missed my daily dose of Rant too much I see. Wonderful post to bring back the good memories (and me, of course, for more).

I know this isn't exactly the tone of the post, but Merry Christmas and a Happy Noo Yer, Dr Rant!

It's good to see you back in action, Ranting!What ...

2007-12-23T20:35:00.000Z

It's good to see you back in action, Ranting!

What a great, concise history of how the Nu-Laba tosspots have royally screwed up General Practice. Pity they never thought about the poor patients during their orgy of control-freakery in soundbite heaven.

Time to man the barricades and bring the bastards down.

I couldn't have summed it better up. What is the p...

2007-12-23T19:49:00.000Z

I couldn't have summed it better up. What is the point of carrying on? What keeps me going is a sense of responsibility. Clearly, neither the one-eyed Cunt, or any of it's acolytes give a shit.

no one, before you get your oar in, what keeps NHS Primary Care going is the goodwill of those working in it.

If you wish me to work 9 -5 and not care a shit then I am ready. Roll it on - as long as my pension is safe.

New Labour - may you roast in Hell, you hypoticral shits.

Guys and girls, you've got to follow the dentists....

2007-12-23T19:45:00.000Z

Guys and girls, you've got to follow the dentists. Resign en-mass and tell the government what you can do. The public no longer view us in the same way, i.e. as people dedicated to serving with a vocation, we're just another service to be abused and misused by many (clearly not all). Well, in this era when people will pay a sparky or a plumber a three-figure per hour sum, let them pay their doctor the same and then we'll see where people's priorities lie. Can you imagine the crap the govt would be in if they were the ones that finally drove general practice private?

You owe the govt. nothing. If I recall my lessons correctly, doctors wanted no part of the NHS in the first place but were persuaded to by Bevin. Seems like the doctors then were justified in their initial reservation.

Merry Christmas however.... spare a thought for the trainees in hospital or general practice who are not yet able to exploit the private option.

Fuck me, I thought I was pretty pissed off - but ...

2007-12-23T17:57:00.000Z

Fuck me, I thought I was pretty pissed off - but you are clearly teetering on the edge...

This is the most concise telling of the "how things ended up this badly bollocks-ed" story I've seen, and laid out like that I feel like applying to emigrate tomorrow. I didn't vote for the contract (as I never tire of telling my partners), but I shan't be gloating about it now - it would be in very bad taste indeed.

I really do despair. What, indeed, is the fucking point of carrying on? Part of me says that the public has such a low opinion of us at present that we should say "fuck it" and go on strike, while the part of me that says this would harm the patients is the part that is shamelessly being exploited by the shits in power. I have rarely felt so impotent - how can we get the point across that Gordon Brown really does plan to destroy NHS General Practice and let in private companies to leech off its corpse? Why on earth can't people see this is a VERY BAD PLAN. You only have to read the lay press and watch the news to see why - no mention on ITV or Ch4, and BBC made Buckman look like a whinger as well as explicitly saying "with GP's earning salaries of £110k there is little sympathy for them". No wonder oily shite Bradshaw, invisible Johnson and the Clunking Fist think they can "win".