Have spent rather more of my time than I would wish, running to and fro, fulfilling doctor and hospital appointments, with nothing good to show for it all.<\/p>\n
It has been educational, so I will now share the good things that come from frequent contact with the medical fraternity (and no! I don’t mean MRSA or Winter Vomiting Virus!)<\/p>\n
Though you will not find this on any organisational chart, there is a medical hierarchy in Medicalonia.<\/p>\n
At the top, there are the Receptionists (and assorted admin types)
\nGod-like beings who know everything about everything.<\/p>\n
Then there are TV Doctors
\nThese marvels of medicine know a lot about a helluva lot of things.<\/p>\n
Then there are GPs (or, occasionally General Practitioners)
\nThey know a little about a lot of things.<\/p>\n
Next come the consultants
\nThey know a lot about very little indeed!<\/p>\n
At the bottom, come the Patients.
\nNobody tells them anything.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that if we could just get rid of all those Patients, then life would be so much better for all those in the Upper Ranks of the Hierarchy.<\/p>\n
We would just keep a few (like Pandas in the Zoo).
\nAfter all, those TV Doctors need the occasional patient with a totally-obscure, life-threatening condition that can be brilliantly fixed in under an hour (including adverts).<\/p>\n
I’ve outlived better doctors than the ones I see around this part of the world. I intend to outlive a few more.<\/p>\n
No wonder people take their dogs to a Vet. People love their pets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have spent rather more of my time than I would wish, running to and fro, fulfilling doctor and hospital appointments, with nothing good to show for it all.<\/p>\n
It has been educational, so I will now share the good things that come from frequent contact with the medical fraternity (and no! I don’t mean MRSA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}