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This is what I was saying, your advice to see a nurse (I don't see why I'd do it virtual rather than my NHS practice nurse for free) is something that I would do through the GP's surgery, it's not gatekeeping. Healthcare should be free at the point of use.
December 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is what I was saying, your advice to see a nurse (I don't see why I'd do it virtual rather than my NHS practice nurse for free) is something that I would do through the GP's surgery, it's not gatekeeping. Healthcare should be free at the point of use.
I voted against brexit. I can't imagine knowing whether my stonmach ache means I need to see a gastroentologist or an oncologist. It's not gatekeeping, it's guidance. Also it's free (paid for by general taxation).
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I voted against brexit. I can't imagine knowing whether my stonmach ache means I need to see a gastroentologist or an oncologist. It's not gatekeeping, it's guidance. Also it's free (paid for by general taxation).
As a lifelong recipient of universal healthcare, I suspec the referral system you're experiencing is a result of the private system. Here you get referred and then you see the specialist, that's the system.
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As a lifelong recipient of universal healthcare, I suspec the referral system you're experiencing is a result of the private system. Here you get referred and then you see the specialist, that's the system.
How do you even know which specialists to see without the filter of a GP? I'd trust my qualified doctor over Dr Google any day. But then maybe I'm spoiled by the NHS, which means I can see my GP, or one of their partners same day for anything even possibly urgent, with no payment.
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
How do you even know which specialists to see without the filter of a GP? I'd trust my qualified doctor over Dr Google any day. But then maybe I'm spoiled by the NHS, which means I can see my GP, or one of their partners same day for anything even possibly urgent, with no payment.
Right honourable? He's not a privy counsellor.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Right honourable? He's not a privy counsellor.
Level 1 is traditional.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Level 1 is traditional.
Similarly, I have had conversations with tradesmen where I sounded like I knew what I was talking about thanks to a favourite client, an Australian plumber, who has his reports for home insurance companies transcribed. "Why, yes, the flashing ends short of the box gutter" I know all of those words.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Similarly, I have had conversations with tradesmen where I sounded like I knew what I was talking about thanks to a favourite client, an Australian plumber, who has his reports for home insurance companies transcribed. "Why, yes, the flashing ends short of the box gutter" I know all of those words.
As a kid in the 90s I saw so many rumoured "real" videos of someone dying that were not that. Within a month of taking up transcription and captioning I had seen video from multiple angles of a cop shooting an unarmed child, and a narrated autopsy (video for med students). Life takes strange turns.
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
As a kid in the 90s I saw so many rumoured "real" videos of someone dying that were not that. Within a month of taking up transcription and captioning I had seen video from multiple angles of a cop shooting an unarmed child, and a narrated autopsy (video for med students). Life takes strange turns.
. @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social do you have a sister account @trulyatrociousmedicaltakes?
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
. @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social do you have a sister account @trulyatrociousmedicaltakes?
Both, I need an edit button, especially at 11pm after half a bottle of wine.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Both, I need an edit button, especially at 11pm after half a bottle of wine.
As a freelance trancriptionist I've transcribed quite a lot of calls from prisoners for bot DAs and defence teams. Very common transcript.
![[3 minutes of warnings that the call is recorded and can be used as evidence]
Girlfriend: Hi.
Defendant: Hey babe, you know how I killed Bob in this detailed and specific way? Well I need you to get rid of the knife I used to kill him having premeditated the killing, which is in my storage locker, unit 111 at XYZ Storage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7jpujeg4eagqrkqeziixh6yv/bafkreihoqo4gz34xis46ppfesoqsd6xuuaux2h6axwbnewoa55uh3knt44@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
As a freelance trancriptionist I've transcribed quite a lot of calls from prisoners for bot DAs and defence teams. Very common transcript.
Isn't social growth the main purpose of preschool? These people have the nerve to tell us they're smarter than us but they can't even identify the purpose of a thing they're paying for.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Isn't social growth the main purpose of preschool? These people have the nerve to tell us they're smarter than us but they can't even identify the purpose of a thing they're paying for.
I just watched that while an ad break was on the telly, 3 ads while she was talking, all of them with white people only.
October 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I just watched that while an ad break was on the telly, 3 ads while she was talking, all of them with white people only.
So you just stated the obvious for no reason?
October 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So you just stated the obvious for no reason?
"... or any dependents of P ..." SO P has a child with a British parner, that child is a British citizen, but the child has a diability so mum is deported.
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"... or any dependents of P ..." SO P has a child with a British parner, that child is a British citizen, but the child has a diability so mum is deported.
I don't think there was any implication that he wouldn't
October 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I don't think there was any implication that he wouldn't
Isn't it supposed to be like a public library, where we borrow the books/tunes and the author/artist gets paid per loan?
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Isn't it supposed to be like a public library, where we borrow the books/tunes and the author/artist gets paid per loan?
I broadly agree, but with a codicil, if it's only available on Blu-ray, ethical, because I wouldn't just have to splash out on the disc but on the player, single platform in a multi-patform world is exclusionary.
October 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I broadly agree, but with a codicil, if it's only available on Blu-ray, ethical, because I wouldn't just have to splash out on the disc but on the player, single platform in a multi-patform world is exclusionary.
I forget which number rule of #FSCKThemAll @gregdoucette.bsky.social made it, but "Cops are like a box of chocolates. They'll kill your dog."
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I forget which number rule of #FSCKThemAll @gregdoucette.bsky.social made it, but "Cops are like a box of chocolates. They'll kill your dog."
Hyphenated ableism. Way to fuck up the good point you were making.
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hyphenated ableism. Way to fuck up the good point you were making.
People need to believe they're on the side of good, that's why even the Terror in France or Stalin's purges involve at least kangaroo courts. It's why very few within the French Resistance were up to the task of shooting even Nazi soldiers in the street.
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
People need to believe they're on the side of good, that's why even the Terror in France or Stalin's purges involve at least kangaroo courts. It's why very few within the French Resistance were up to the task of shooting even Nazi soldiers in the street.
I'm a politics geek with a circle of politics geek friends and a podcast/bluesky bubble of politics geeks, and even I laughed at the concept of millions of people worldwide tuning in to the live feed of the UN General Assembly.
September 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm a politics geek with a circle of politics geek friends and a podcast/bluesky bubble of politics geeks, and even I laughed at the concept of millions of people worldwide tuning in to the live feed of the UN General Assembly.