Hold your horses
it's a bit late for you to suddenly try and play the "Get over yourselves" card. You're the one who came in with the hysterical reaction to the OP.

I don't want to write too much since you clearly don't have that good an attention span. I was the poster who mocked your catch all use of the continent of Africa, I thought you might have remembered this since you were replying to my post. But you are right, you don't have to tell me where you've worked, indeed I would go so far as to say I don't have the slightest interest of where you have or haven't worked since it has no bearing on this discussion.

Your premise that we should not criticise anything since elsewhere there are people worse off is so obviously ridiculous that I'm not even sure where to start.

Let's look at this: "pretending they have it tough. You don't." If the old guy in the post had died as a result of a lazy locum, I think he would have been justified in describing his situation as more than a little "tough".

The healthcare system in this country has billions and billions of pounds pumped into it. It works very well in some ways, I have nothing but good things to say about the NHS as a concept, I think universal healthcare paid for at a national level and free at the point of access is just the most wonderful thing.

But, the system has some serious problems. Personally I have an excellent doctor less than 100m from my house, if I need to see him I phone up and can get an appointment in a day or two, if it's really urgent, I have seen them the same day. But I know lots of people who need to wait weeks for an appointment to see their GP.

This isn't a good thing at all, the services available across the country ought to be equal. I don't like the term "postcode lottery", but it is a bit ridiculous where people who pay the same amount of tax but live in different places get differing levels of service.

I'm kind of drifting on the point I'm trying to make, which is that you ought to drink yourself a nice tall glass of chill the fuck out and stop whining, and if you're going to post retorts, try and make them well thought out.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 31 Oct 2009, 16:07, Reply)