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My local hospital is a little gem. Theyāre currently closing parts of it down whilst they build a new ambitious one, due to old naff aerated concrete.
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Do keep up Mortyā¦ 
They were going to build a new hospital here, but decided to have a gay pride celebration and open a derelict airport insteadā¦
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Well itās no where near as exciting where I live.
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Give them some navy rumā¦thatāll put life into a dead horseā¦
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How? Why? Iām confused.
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But corridors are dirty anyway. I canāt see how a travellator is worse than anything else 
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Youāre a porcine creature. You canāt possibly hope to understand the intellectual discussion of humans, even if one of them is from Yorkshire. 
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Because I had some today at a navy friends funeral and it was a challenge to drive home afterwardsā¦
You said it wasnāt very exciting where you live Mortyā¦I thought a bit of rum might wake up the residents of your street?
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Deleted. Probably poor taste. Soz
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But you canāt clean underneath a travelator Dex, so all the empty lager cans and fag buts will congregate underneathā¦Have you met any Yorkshire nurses?
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Canāt we send children down there with a bucket of water with disinfectant in it? When I were tālad, Iād have happily earned a bob or two for such a task.
As for the nurse ā¦. I went to see the German comedian Henning Wehn a couple of years ago. One of his jokes was that the reason for hospitals having double doors wasnāt to allow beds to get through, but for nurses to be able to get through.
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Grief, OGF. I hope Mrs. OGFās excursion will result in a definitive diagnosis and plan for treatment.
The parking solution to hospitals here is free valet services at the main entrances (no tips permitted). The valets have a dedicated parking area and anyone can use the service.
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Thanks Surfermom, we are slowly becoming a third world country here with a very overstretched and undermanned national health service. Thereās a good reason why our hospitals, Doctors Surgeries and care homes are staffed by foreign workers, some of whom can not speak understandable English.
All our young people are attending Universities gaining degrees in media studies, journalism and natural history. Unfortunately, we are not short of Wild life reporters, news readers or production teams who make programs to fill our minds with garbage.
And even then, only a few succeed. Both of my Grand daughters are not employed doing jobs they are qualified for, and spent the most important years of their lives working their way through university, for what?. ā¦ 
Mrs Fox spent most of her working life working in care homes and nursing homes, the pay was atrocious and the hours were long, but she loved the work.
Why is the government sponsoring people in university when they could be making training and working in the medical profession more attractive for studentsā¦Or do they think money is better spent propping up foreign wars and compensating countries for things that happened two hundred years agoā¦
Sorry Surfer, rant overā¦
Mrs Fox has been referred to a specialist for assessment, some physio and a cortisone injection in her painful kneeā¦Next weekā¦
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OGF, unfortunately your healthcare challenges are the same here too. I have a neurologist friend who is breaking away from his practice to form his own as one last ditch effort before he leaves medicine altogether (except for volunteer work abroad) because he is so hamstrung by government and insurance bureaucracy.
Our community has a program in which high school students, age 16-18, choose a career program once every semester in which they are immersed into the profession by being paired with a mentor. The idea is that they get the kids past their dreams of a profession into the hard work reality. The purpose is dual; it helps young people figure out what they might - and might not want to do - so expensive education isnāt wasted.It also guides them, often with scholarships and likely future job offer to return to the community and support economic needs. Here, the program offers training in healthcare, hospitality and tourism, construction and maintenance trades, aviation, and education - all careers face labor shortages.
I had no idea that Mrs. OGF had worked with older people as her chosen career. My daughter is working on her degree to do likewise. I wish her some relief with the cortisone along with a more permanently effective treatment plan.
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Thanks Surferā¦
Yes the problems with the health service are international, and I can understand your friends frustrations with the medical profession.
I just wonder about our young people leaving further education at 21 or older.
I was thrust into an engineering apprenticeship at 15 when I left school with no qualifications. I must admit that mechanical engineering was something I loved.
As a numpty 15 year old, I took the orders and learned skills from the old experienced blokes. By the time I finished my apprenticeship at 21 I was let loose on a mechanical world of wonder, with a sideboard full of qualificationsā¦
I just donāt think that students leaving University at 21 with probably more qualifications than their employers are going to take orders or even accept advice when they will obviously know better than their older peers.
Iāve actually taught some of those six month wonders, and they are a pain in the buttā¦
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