Doctors and Nurses

Don't you just love it when you have to go to the doctors?

It's simply great!!!! The nurse tells me that I can get a repeated prescription, so I go to the clinic and try to get one...... then then clinic calls to say that I can't get one without seeing the nurse first. I go then to see the nurse and I get (finally!!!) my so awaited prescription. Up to here all pretty simple!

The challenge comes when you start enquiring about being referred to see a specialist or, in my case, to be referred to an anllergy clinic. I started my research by talking to the nurse. Simple questions such as what would i need to do to be referred to one of these clinics, and where is the closest one...... to the first question all i got was a look as if i was from a different planet. The answer to the second question reminds a mystery!

Aparently such clinics are only available for people with severe allergies..... I guess this means life threatening... basically you have to be more at risk than other people, you need to have a near death experience..... or a death experience in some very extreme cases!

My point at this stage is:

1. that I pay taxes and more taxes, but when i need something back from the health system, it is not there for me
   
2. that you have to be almost death for a doctor to take you seriously
3. that doctors keep putting patches to health issues without even bothering about finding out what is the real cause of the problem.... medicine suddenly becomes a trial and error game, where sometimes they win and sometimes they just find an excuse and a new medicine to play with
4. that you play the lottery each time you visit a doctor, since depending on who sees you will take a different action

So seeing how things are going and that, sadly, they don't seem to get any better, the only solution left is stay healthy!!!! Avoid going to the doctors!!!!