I'm in an NHS walk-in and there's the usual ingrates grumbling about having to wait. For free specialist care. From doctors who studied for years to work out how to fix them. The NHS is amazing. Don't be ungrateful.
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Replying to @wonky_donky
To people without universal healtcare sure, but this argument’s too glibly commandeered for harm otherwise
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
In what way (genuinely, I'm intrigued)? For political gain?
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Replying to @wonky_donky
This way: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/national-health-service-labour-party-hospitals … The Tories made sure “free at the point of use” was a soundbite they drummed into media appearances constantly, because it says nothing, but papers over underfunding, nurse and doctor strikes, cuts, and poor care due to all of the above.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster @wonky_donky
If you’re speaking to someone in the US, it makes sense, but to say “The NHS is amazing, don’t be ungrateful” is to say “The NHS is brilliant, stop whining you bad patient/worker” otherwise. I’ve got multiple very serious disabilities, and spend a lot of time in hospital....
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Replying to @DawnHFoster @wonky_donky
...so I’m able to say when I’m waiting longer, when my doctors are more stressed, when I’m not receiving the proper care. Last time I went to a walk-in centre I waited 4hrs, was sighed at by an overworked locum who accused me of stabbing myself in the ear with a cotton bud....
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Replying to @DawnHFoster @wonky_donky
....to burst the eardrum on purpose. I hadn’t. I’d dragged myself to the walk-in centre due to waiting a week for an emergency GP appt to no avail. Waited three more days for a GP appt, by which time I’d had a vicious infection for 10 days.
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I now can’t hear in my left ear & have to watch TV with subtitles. I was put forward for the closest appointment with an ENT specialist in November, and my appointment’s in late May. Glibness about how fab the NHS is always feel like Keep Calm & Carry On posters. Same people too.
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