Ski resort doctors
To my mind this doctor was like doctor dog out of rex the runt. Anything for a tenner or in this case $50

I managed to wipe out whilst skiing in Canada, knobling my knee in the process. Que fun in the blood wagon and much royal waving as i trundled down the slope.

Anyway at the doctors itself i was quickly whisked in and given a good poking around. By this point my knee is starting to swell fast (it eventually turned into a small football of a thing). After some prodding and umming and roughly 5 minutes of seeing the doc i was told it was just a sprain and should be find by tomorrow, that'll be $50 please.

Numpty.

Later that day i gingerly put a tiny bit of weight on it and promptly found myself sprawled on the floor screaming in agony. However i gritted my teeth since i had a plane to catch the next day and thought bugger it, i was silly for trying that, its sprained.

when the swelling hasn't gone down for 2 weeks after (and the swelling was huge and "squishy) a trip to the doc revealed that i had sever my ancruchia ligament (a later op revealed it wasn't just severed but gone, nothing left).

So thank you special Canadian doctor for massive misdiagnosis and brownie points for Air Canada who, whilst giving me an isle seat for the flight back after i pointed out my wheelchair state and leg, stuck me on the wrong side of the plane, meaning my knackered knee was pressed up against some reclined arse for 8 hours.

joy, but big thank you to NHS for fixing things.
(moronic50, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 13:48, 1 reply)

at least
you didn't have Random Pavarotti Disease
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 22:14, closed)