No, you're wrong again
You might be having a problem that still allows you to go to work. Upset stomach maybe. Maybe a cold that feels like a flu. Maybe a lot of pain in your ovaries, as I have now. I can go to work. It's not an emergency because I'm not bleeding. Therefore, that means 4 weeks of paracetamol until I see a doctor. OK, normally it would have been only 1 week, maybe 2, still it's a lot of time to be like this, not only for the pain, but for the stress that comes with not knowing what you have (I already went to A&E, they touched me here and there and told me to go to my GP)

If I could go to the doctor near work, I could work tomorrow and just take some hours for the appointment. As I have to go in Worthing, I need to take the whole day off.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Apr 2011, 16:53, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

You're bringing the problem on yourself
because you are the one refusing to take time off work. Seriously, it's you're own fault and yet you're blaming a system which could help you, but you've got to give a little too.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 16:57, Reply)

What?
I'm taking the time off work. Of course I am. After 4 weeks trying to see someone!! I haven't spent this 4 weeks not wanting to go, they couldn't visit me before. In fact, they gave me an appointment for next Tuesday and I asked it to be changed to Friday, so that I only lose 1 day, rather than 2.

What I don't think it's ok is that you have to take the day off for what probably is only a cystitis. And that you can't choose where you want to be treated.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:00, Reply)

No, no, no
You said you had to wait 4 weeks to see a doctor at a set time. Badger has pointed out that if you need an appointment that day that you can get one but you said that you would have to take the day off. Which is not unreasonable.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:02, Reply)

No
I said I had to wait 4 weeks this time, as I said several times that I tried to get the appointment after the hols but had to go through the whole registering thing and stuff. Normally it'd take 1 week, 2 at most. I know that.

It's that stupid registering process that I don't understand. And why I can't see the doctor where I want.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Apr 2011, 17:11, Reply)