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Tilly, I won't quote your whole post, but in principal:

Firstly, I realise that I have inadvertantly avoided apendicitis, which I may never have contracted of course, but that's not the point. i consented to an appendectomy (which they did), not a slicing open of my torso for no apparent reason. I don't believe anyone else consented either to that particular piece of surgical vandalism.

Secondly, I work at a Medical School now, so I will ask again about this "Dr/Mr" thing in the morning and post accordingly. My Boss (Claire) is very knowlegable so I'm sure she will be able to put this issue to rest.

Johnny wrote:However it doesn't bare thinking about what other healthy organ they may have "accidently" removed given the chance

Indeed it doesn't bare thinking about! You are a NASTY MANJohnny for putting such nightmares into my head before bedtime!

StuartPlymouth wrote:Tilly, I won't quote your whole post, but in principal:

Firstly, I realise that I have inadvertantly avoided apendicitis, which I may never have contracted of course, but that's not the point. i consented to an appendectomy (which they did), not a slicing open of my torso for no apparent reason. I don't believe anyone else consented either to that particular piece of surgical vandalism.

Secondly, I work at a Medical School now, so I will ask again about this "Dr/Mr" thing in the morning and post accordingly. My Boss (Claire) is very knowlegable so I'm sure she will be able to put this issue to rest.

Johnny wrote:However it doesn't bare thinking about what other healthy organ they may have "accidently" removed given the chance

That doesn't bear thinking about! You are a NASTY MAN Johnny for putting such nightmares into my head before bedtime!

Apologies Stu, it wasn't intentional. Have some Vodka that'll make you sleep easier

I am!

Are Les Patterson and Mr. Harvard from the same med school?

Hello again I am back and recovering well after my operation. I'll get to my vanashing in just a moment but to the NHS its self.

I was worried going into hospital because of the superbugs which you can pick up inside, but thankfully everything was just fine. Got there at 8am sharpish, assigned a nurse to collect data and so on. An hour later Dr Rashed came round to speak to me, have a look at the area.

Because my OP was a "dirty" procedure i was last to go down to theatre. So i had to wait over 3hours! But that said it was relxaing watching the nurses go around their daily business. Staff shortages - what staff shortages! Most of the nurses were just mingling at the desk chatting about getting their highlights done.

That aside, the nurses were good, friendly and very helpful. I finally went down to theatre, it went fine but i woke up shaking, and took a little while coming round from the anesthetic. Once again the Nurses were really nice, checking every 30mins or so, offering water.

Now i havent experience Private Care, but NHS does seem the better option - very good Nurses who assisted with what i wanted.

(AOL is the reason why i vanished, sorry to break any dreams which some of you may have hoped to come true! )

onetrickpony wrote:superbugs

Is that a new High Street chain store

tillyoshea wrote:

StuartPlymouth wrote:...realised there was nothing wrong with said appendics but swiped the bugger anyway.

Aye, but on the bright side, you might've been going to get appendicitis one day, and now you never will!

I might be wrong but hasn't it been found that the appendix helps the immune system in some way? Or maybe that's the tonsils.