Who misses the old day's when you could just go into the Surgery, ask to see someone and wait? They would lock the door at closing time and the Drs and Nurses would just see everyone until there was no one left to see, so much easier. We have to telephone at 7.30am and hope we can get in? We can no longer make an appointment to see a Doctor.
At the beginning of summer we were sent a message with our repeat prescriptions saying that we both needed asthma checks. At the time I was caring for my very elderly Uncle who, I might add has since passed away, September 16th. He was in and out of hospital and needed a lot of care. Neither one of us was particularly worried about our breathing problems so we decided to delay the check ups for a few weeks as it was the last thing we needed at that time. I telephoned the surgery and told them we were very busy but yes we knew that we were due for an asthma check up and yes I would make an appointment when it was convenient for us and no I wouldn't forget. Do you know, they sent a letter nearly every week reminding us and harrassing us until I caved and made the appointments just to get them off our backs.
It's funny how they want you to drop everything when it's convenient for them but they don't for you.
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