There was one main reason why I went down to Crawley Hospital’s ‘Urgent Treatment Centre’ last night ((apart from the obvious one)) – I find normal GP surgeries inconvenient. That’s why I like the concept of the polyclinics.
Entries Tagged as 'Medicine/Health'
King Of Pain
September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
3:30am. I should think about going to bed now, after having only recently got back from hospital after possibly the most painful and least dignified night of my life. Nobody in their right minds needs to know details: for a clue just re-arrange the words “drain”, “groin” and “abcess”.
Further On Up The Road
August 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Further On Up The Road · Life
On Thursday Jayne went into hospital for a few hours as an out-patient to have some work done on her hip. It was supposed to be urgent, but she had it postponed until the school holidays so she would not have to take any time off work – not something I would have done I […]
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
August 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore · Life
Do you sometimes wonder what you would do if you had a choice between being blind or deaf? Would you get more out of life being unable to hear or being unable to see? Well how about being unable to laugh?  I reckon that would be bad. Imagine being afraid to laugh because it makes […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·TV
I know what they mean, but…
July 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on I know what they mean, but… · Life
…they could have worded it a bit better. Or maybe its just the state my min was in when I read it. Anyway, on my news feed reader I just got the headline of this story and wondered if there was now a campaign to install maternity units on all the roundabouts in the county. […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
Alternative medicine success story?
February 20th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Technology
According to this story: (which refers to this earlier story) There is growing evidence that acupuncture can greatly increase a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant I am more than a bit sceptical about claims for medical treatment based on theories like “the body’s major organs use energy pathways to communicate and that malaise occurs whenever […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·Statistics·WTF
Visits
October 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
We have the grandson staying with us for a few days, and today I took a day off work so we could go round introducing him to my family. Though he is only small, it requires enormous resources and some logistical feats to move him from one place to another. By the time we put […]
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
Visiting
August 13th, 2007 · Comments Off on Visiting · Life, Music
The last couple of weeks have seen a whole pile of relative-visiting. After I went up to see Dad in hospital, Jayne found out that her uncle was also in hospital and her Dad wasn’t well either. Last week she went over to East Sussex to visit her family and now she is back we […]
Tags: Family·Medicine/Health
Don’t mention the Hospital!
May 31st, 2007 · Comments Off on Don’t mention the Hospital! · Politics
There seems to be a conspiracy to never let anything positive about Crawley Hospital be published. It is only ever mentioned in connection with horror stories, or general doom and gloom. In fact there is a sizeable minority in the town who think that the hospital closed down completely. We have used the place quite […]
Surrey Hospital Petition
April 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Surrey Hospital Petition · Politics
Last night we went out in Tilgate delivering UAF leaflets. There were 10 people who turned up and in little more than an hour we covered about half the ward. We could have done more, but I wanted to save some leaflets for Furnace Green.
Tags: Crawley Hospital·Elections·Food·Medicine/Health·Tilgate
