Money money money

In his comment to my previous posting Neil80 pointed out “doing away with PCTs will surely mean more opportunities for Doctors to do nicely out of the system” This thought has obviously occurred to others, though, whereas Neil seems to regard the possibility with resigned distaste others appear to regard the prospect as a golden opportunity.

This article indicates to me that some are already  viewing commissioning as a potential gravy train and that even some hospital consultants want a piece of the action.  

I think it will be easy to spot those with ambitions to cash in on this. They will be the ones  unreservedly speaking out in favour of the whole concept.

Some of my colleagues only differ from prostitutes in one respect. There are some things prostitutes will not do for money.

Patients - Vascular Surgery

A picture worth a thousand words

Burn the heretic

A few thoughts on “Infection Control”

Do you remember the days when someone who “decontaminated” their hands in disinfectant twenty times a day or more was considered to have the psychiatric condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? 

Do you ever wonder what are the consequences of repeatedly removing your normal skin flaura? Does it perhaps predispose to colonisation by pathogens. Might it increase the risk of infection to your patients, and you?

What do you suppose, bacteriologically, goes on in the warm, moist, unventilated, anaerobic environment inside those rubber gloves on your hands?

What confidence can you have in an infection control nurse who can not answer these questions, and appears not to understand the difference between a commensal and a pathogen?

Just wondering.

Patients - Urology

Why is this always funny when it happens to someone else?
I think that if there were a god she must be female.
Only a woman would put bollocks on the outside.

            

Top secret

You know how government officials are always leaving documents, laptops, disks etc lying around on trains, in toilets etc. Well one of the silly sods from the MOD appears to have lost a memory stick and it has come into my possession.

From what I found on this it appears that there is some good news, and some bad news. The good news is that our soldiers are definitely getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq very soon. The bad news is the exit strategy.

Cheaper sex

The price of a shag has been slashed by half. This price war was inevitable once they started selling Viagra over the counter though it is a shame to see diabetics, hypertensives and those with high cholesterol being discriminated against.

It also seems unfair to me that so much investment has been made in the treatment of impotence while those with the opposite problem, priapism, are totally ignored.

Fortunately I have discovered a 100% effective cure for this unwanted and distressing condition. If a patient presents to you complaining of excessive and inappropriate erections then take an aspirin tablet and put it in his shoe. That will make him limp.

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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike