Don't give me dancing bloody nurses
Much is said by our useless political leaders that we should be more productive. They tell us that the NHS is the ‘envy of the world’; either they are deluded or they are trying to manipulate us. *** Around the beginning of March Viv started to experience pain and discomfort when swallowing. Initially she thought it might be a sore throat type virus; swallowing issues being a complication with one of the conditions that Viv has, I mentioned it to a support nurse at one of the hospitals supporting Viv, who suggested we should contact the GP. That would have involved the ritual of the 8am humiliation by telephone; we decided to put this off for a week or two to see if the problem went away. Viv saw a dentist in mid-March, to whom we mentioned the problem. She couldn’t see any problem, and also suggested contacting the GP. To engage with a GP these days involves careful management of one’s diary: you have put aside an hour or so to call starting at 8, then be available for the...