Normally at this time in the morning I would be posting a video here. I won't be today, or for at least the rest of the week.
Mark Cooney, with whom I make the videos, and I were meant to be filming yesterday but instead I urged him to go to A&E as he seemed pretty unwell to me and his GP would not see him until he'd had a Covid test as he had a raised temperature. I am pleased that I did, and he should be fine now he has treatment, but we're not going to be making videos for a few days.
But in the meantime, just a thought. No wonder home deaths are rising if people with temperatures are having to get a Covid test and their results before seeing a GP.
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It does seem harsh that people with Covid-19 symptoms are being told to get Covid-19 tested at this important time.
If having a temperature is a barrier to getting pretty fundamental and urgently needed health care we are in pretty deep trouble
I blame neoliberalism
This has been the most chilling aspect from day one of the pandemic. The gist of the medical advice has been and still is, ‘keep away’, ‘stay at home’, ‘don’t bother your doctor’. Yet it is now known that waiting until you feel breathless before getting treatment, can be fatal, as oxygen level can get dangerously low well before that. Is this the only serious illness where official advice has been to put people off treatment at an early stage? (With exceptions – Johnson, Trump). No wonder there has been a record number of deaths outside hospital. Culling in action.
Agreed
Get a pulse oximeter
I had chest pains, no not heart attack but something to do with acid in the stomach going into the food canal. I phoned the doctor and could not get through. So I phoned the next day and manage to get through, the woman said to go to the hospital which I was not prepared to do as – I was able to run around the house ok. The doctor did phone and as I thought it was the above.
The point is though if I had a heart attack what then? Would the ambulance come and if it did would it come two hours later? In other words, they would only come to pick up the body, etc. I have read that is what happen to one guy. I did get treatment though and picked up the prescription at the doctor’s surgery, I just wore a mask. There is an issue of the health service dumping people when there is no need too, this was confirmed by another doctor to me.
The fact hospitals are dumping people on a whim is very euthanasic and worrying. It is this dumping of people with left the nightingale hospitals not being uses to full potential. We have all read about certain people being asked to sign DNR forms, most people who are disabled et al. Even though I have got treatment, there is something sinister within our society and it has been there for a long time, it just only a minority of people who have come across it till now.
I am glad your friend is ok.
This kind of thing seems quite common. It’s getting no media treatment but GPs are not having a good pandemic, and there seems to be no little frustration in the wider NHS.