Why is it you never see doctors in pubs?
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It is ingrained in the culture to behave respectably in public if you are a medical provider.  It is also important to maintain control in public.  You never know when you might run into a patient or a patient's family.  How much trust would you have in your physician if you saw him/her drunk at the pub last Saturday?  I imagine its the same for ministers (who also have a high rate of alcoholism)
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They're just like any other ward round. On any medical or surgical ward there will be a ward round first thing in the morning, and usually another one later in the afternoon. It's the same with psychiatric wards, the patients need constant reviewing from day to day so that the doctors can see whether they are improving or not, and consider whether any changes in medication or treatment are required. I'd imagine they pretty much started with the first psychiatric hospital.
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Have you talked to your doctor and made blood tests? The reason is internal so you have to treat from inside, but tests are needed and a professional to see you.
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u cannot get them over the counter.u need physician's prescription
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don't know call your DOCTOR
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A lot of doctors don't have a site. All you can do is try a search engine.
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Why didn't you ask your doctor about this--that is what he/she is there for?  (Sorry to answer your question with one, but come on).
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I hate questions like that because there are different types of doctors.  If you've got only one patient and 100 doctors, that doesn't do the patient any good if he needs heart surgery and the doctors are just proctologists.
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more to the point\n\nWhy don't the cast in the pub (who are there nearly all the time) get drunk
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If you phone NHS Direct 0845 46 47 they should have an up to date list of anyone accepting NHS patients.\n\nHope this Helps
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phone a local GP surgery & they will give you the no. to call if they can't take you onto their list!
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It doesn't seem like your notes are fully up to date, ask your GP if you can see them (they have to let you now.) You'll know better than anyone what's missing. When I changed doctors my notes failed to mention I'd just been referred to a specialist and I had to wait another six months to see one.\n\nIf you don't push them they'll things will get worse.
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It is my understanding that no hospital can deny emergency care if you need it. However, if it is non-emergency, then the doctor may refuse to take you as his/her patient.\n\nUsually doctors are very sensitive about taking litigious patients becasuse if they get sued, then their insurance goes up and it becomes more expensive for them to practice.\n\nThat said, if you have a genuine problem you should address it.
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Sorry they aren't.\nYou will have to go the pub, I am.\nGood luck.
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the reason is any little dirt can be seen.they are always in hospital they have to look for many many patients of diffrent varity/types of diseases .there are 1000 of germs in hospitals if they wont wear white coat that would directly be on their clothes & missed coz of colored clothese in such situation dr wud not only infect himself also his friends and family.this is a protective measure for medical staff.it also  diffrentiate doctor and make easy 4 every one to recognise him and get help 4m him
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Is it a problem that doctors don’t pursue questions regarding diseases and treatments?\n\nYes, it is a big problem and it can lead to a misdiagnoses.  Doctors used to have the time to talk with and examine their patients.  With the institution of the HMO system doctors are budgeted to only 15-20 minutes.  The don’t even have time to check your vitals, a nurse does that before you see the doctor.  Now days the doctors have to work fast to make their quotas.\n\nHMOs have made health care cheaper, but nowhere cheap enough, and at a great cost.  Patients just don’t get enough time with their doctors to insure that they get adequate treatment, and by seeing so many patients in a day they start to blur together.\n\nI belong to the world’s largest HMO organization; the Veterans Administration, handling patients in all 50 states and world wide (care can be provided at any base with the proper facilities).  The US Military has to run its health care like an HMO as well.  It is the only way that they can provide care to all active duty members and their families for free (most of the time—some family members can be charged some fees).  Currently I am seeing 5 clinics in a major facility so I know about HMOs  I have also seen the rushed practices of HMOs percolate down into the private practice.  Doctors in private practice have to keep costs low and see a lot of patients so they can compete.\n\nAmericans are burdened with the “Puritan Ethic” a product of our ancestors who came over on the Mayflower.  Very few Americans are descended from those early colonists, but they have all been influenced by it.  This ethic says that adults must work hard all their lives, be proper religious folk, take only the minimum of time off, and yet somehow raise a family.  Getting sick is just not an option.\n\nMy parents were first generation immigrants; my grandparents all immigrated to America.  They lived in the North East where this ethic thrived and was expected of all immigrants.  My Grandfather died in his 40s, probably from a heart attack.  He never went to see a doctor so I will never know.  My father was a long time smoker and he probably died of lung complications induced by smoking.  Despite feeling weak, despite having to wheeze he didn’t want to go to the doctor.  So he died in his 70s.\n\nIllness was never an excuse in our family.  According to my mother, “If it isn’t broke and bleeding then there is nothing wrong.”  I came down with an ear infection so bad that I couldn’t sleep.  It turned out to be a double ear infection, but it took my mother several days before she was willing to take me to the doctor.  My dad had a good job with full health coverage so money wasn’t a problem.  She didn’t want to admit that I was sick and trying to “pull one over on her” by ditching school.  So it was no surprise that my father didn’t go to the doctor.\n\nWhen she gave birth to her last two children she was at work in the morning and in the hospital that afternoon.  A little thing like being pregnant didn’t keep her down, or put her into bed for long.\n\nCombine the Puritan Ethic with a short doctor visit and few patients get a proper visit.  They don’t want to admit they are sick and the doctor doesn’t have time to pry it out of them.  Often they will have waited until a major problem has grown to the point where it can’t be ignored.  They only go to the doctor when it is absolutely necessary.\n\nI have a disabling illness that prevents me from working.  But, in the early days I was accused of faking it.  Once even a doctor called my boss to tell him I was faking it.  A few years later my illness became a recognized illness and after a long struggle I have won disability from the Veterans Administration and from Social Security.  I need it because I simply cannot work.  I tried for years, I won’t go into the boring (and depressing details), but before I won my disability awards I was investigated thoroughly, I
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Because the NHS is rubbish!!!\n\nSeriously though, I think the NHS is slowly going down the drain. Having said that, the manager of our TSSU was sacked with no notice last week because they couldn't afford to keep her on. It was between her and our theatre manager, but because our theatre manager has worked for longer, she got kept on. Its really scary being at work at the moment, because you never know if you're gonna have a job when you arrive in the morning.