Comments on: Oh my, we’re paying for this..

By: Coding Mamma (Tasha)

Coding Mamma (Tasha) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:03:51 +0000

I love the touch screens at the doctors. Saves loads of time. Does everyone not open the doors with their hands and pick up the magazines and so on? What’s the difference? Don’t understand it, though doctor’s surgeries are certainly pretty unhealthy places to hang out!

I am shocked at how incapable some GPs are at using the computer systems, though. You sit there and they ask you things like ‘How like have you had asthma?’ or ‘How many pregnancies have you had?’ The information is there! It bothered me enough when they asked me these questions in the past, when they had my notes in front of them, as I thought surely they would flick through the notes beforehand. It’s particularly annoying when you’ve come back for a return visit at their request and they still ask ‘So what seems to be the problem today?’

By: Potty Mummy

Potty Mummy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:26:05 +0000

So right on the touch-screen system. I refuse to use it, which I know drives the incredibly unhelpful receptionists at our doctors mad (unlike you the boys and I seem to be in and out of our surgery more than a fiddler’s elbow…).

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:19:51 +0000

Jo, you have hand wash at the Doctors?!?! What kind of 21st Century magic is this?? we don’t have a hand wash anywhere in our surgery, which is just nuts.

I’m so pleased you have such a clued up surgery x

By: Jo Beaufoix

Jo Beaufoix — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:10:10 +0000

Blimey. Maybe he missed that Training Day?? Scary stuff. We have the Touch Screen System, but when you’ve used it a sigh beside it prompts you to use the handwash beside it. I always do. Just in case. Shiver.

By: apieceofwood

apieceofwood — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:30:26 +0000

Urgh, why had I not thought of the touch screen thingy.. Will have to do it with my sleeve over my hand now!

By: laura @ the shorehouse

laura @ the shorehouse — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:57:27 +0000

Oh LORDY. “Oh look it’s here on the front screen”

!!!!!!!!

My mom has been through some health struggles lately (here in the U.S.) and I can empathize with very similar stories.

Well, I hope *you* are feeling better, and that you’ve steeped yourself some hot tea in that amazing Union Jack mug you’ve recently procured.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:15:58 +0000

SPD – Give your friend a poke from me And yes you are evil, but you’re right it is quite amusing, which probably makes me evil too!

Becky – I’ve e-mailed you x

By: Sweet Cottage Dreams

Sweet Cottage Dreams — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:12:51 +0000

Oh the frustrations of dealing with someone who should know what they are doing! Sometimes the smartest of people have the least amount of common sense.

I hope your stomach pains go away quickly and that it is nothing serious. Do rest and take care of yourself. Lots of soothing tea should do the trick.

I also wanted to thank you for lighting a candle at the Ely
Cathedral in behalf of our Jordan. He has many lovely stories of his times spent over in Cambridge and other places in England. I always told him he got to do things I wanted to do way before me!

Love to you, sweetheart,
Becky (California)

By: SingleParentDad

SingleParentDad — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:22:54 +0000

I know someone working on the IT project, and they regularly get my venom.

Plus having been a visitor in hospital of a part integrated system, I was amazed how difficult it was, and how we were in a ‘computer says no’ situation as the last medicine administered was not logged at the correct time. Madness.

I like those booking in systems, it amuses me to watch the great unwashed and the elderly struggle with them. I am evil. Yes.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:38:14 +0000

Yeah the pregnancy notes thing is hilarious! The NHS is one of those great in theory things, and I’d rather have it than not. But I worked in the NHS for 7 years and ended up as a Senior Medical Buyer before it gave me an ulcer and I had to re-train in IT.

The waste of money is just phenomenal and this IT Project is just such a good example of the fact no one in the NHS seems to be able to put a contract together with penalty clauses and god forbid train staff on new equipment.