Re: Going to GP

used2be <used2be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I'd've tried the macrame book in preference. Who needed a book to hang
yourself, anyway? I was a suicide risk left with my belt and braces.
Crap staff, wouldn't you say?


that's really terrible. everytime i've been on lockup here in amurica,
they've taken away my belts, my shoelaces, the mirror from my makeup
compact, and my razor.

I even had a scalpel blade on me - which I had packed in my driving
documents wallet a long time previously (and forgotten about as it
happens) as a sort of joke (I had a curious sense of humour) on the off
chance that I might get locked up in a loony bin one day. I was curious
to see if they'd take it off me - but no-one made any attempt to either
remove the obvious `hazard items' from my person, or to check what I had
in my pockets.

Quite funny, actually. It's a good job that I wasn't in fact any sort
of suicide risk, 'cos it would have been dead easy to top myself,
although not with a scapel blade; just jumping out of the window would
have been the straightforward option. And yes, I was put in a room
where that would have been easy to do - splat onto concrete. Patient
care? Locked up for my own safety? Bollocks. It was punishment for
daring to ask for help, I reckon.

I had a bloody strange GP. I'd been to see him, and he told me to go to
the hospital where I'd get some help. So I did, but when I got there, I
found that reception was shut (it was about 7pm IIRC) and there was no
bell to ring and no signs to tell you where to go after hours.

So I went back to my GP and explained this, asking what I should do. So
he told me to go to the hospital and ring the bell at reception. So I
explained again that I'd been there and there was no bell. He told me
to ring the bell. I told him that there was no bell. He told me to
ring the bell. I told him that there was no bell. Etc. I don't think
he ever believed me, but he did eventually ring the hospital and found
out where I should go. I /suspect/ that he might have taken the line
that there hadn't been time for me to get to the hospital and come back,
without taking into account that I was riding a 145mph motorcycle and,
erm, making good progress on wide, nearly empty roads that I knew very
well (N.B. I have a clean licence and I've never caused an accident
involving anyone else, nor has anyone ever claimed off my insurance in
22 years of riding; I don't ride like a loony even when I am making my
very best progress - I like to think that I stick to making *safe*
progress. Seems to have worked pretty well so far).

Yes, he did speak English with a heavy Indian accent... It doesn't help
the anti-racist-bigot cause when so many Indians let the side down like
that. It's very common to come across an Indian doctor with poor
English. I wish I knew why - it's not like I didn't go to school with
dozens of Indian (and Pakistani and Bangladeshi and all the rest) kids,
all of whom spoke English as well as me aside from Sanjay Patel who had
a speech impediment which had nothing to do with his Indian parentage,
and I've met plenty of Indians from India direct who speak near perfect
English. One even managed to startle me by speaking in cut-class
upper-crust Oxford English (and almost no-one speaks like that), as if
he'd been to an English public school (i.e., dead posh fee-paying
school) and then Oxford. Turns out that he had...

Rowland.

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