I've just been reading an article in the Telegraph. I really shouldn't have as it's just sent my Blood pressure to Alpha centauri.
All patients are to be routinely questioned by their doctors about their alcohol consumption under new Government plans to tackle the country's problem drinking culture.
This is from those fuckwits at Nice sticking their noses in.
In the new Nice guidelines, GPs are being advised to ask 10 "alcohol screening" questions - including how much and how frequently they drink - of patients.
My GP can ask all he want. However he will be politely told to mind his own business.
Nice to see one group has some concern for the patient.
Joyce Robins, co-founder of campaign group Patient Concern, said: "GPs seem to have to ask so many things that there is none left for what you went in about.
But then again we have this twat rearing his head again.
Prof Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians, welcomed the guidance and screening, and said that traditionally doctors' have been 'woeful' at asking patients about their alcohol consumption.
"We have a long way to go to get to a point where people get fed up with being asked."
He added that he saw the evidence of the problem on his wards every day.
"There are a lot of middle age and old age people who are opening a bottle of wine a night and are not managing to get the cork back in again."
Mind you that's all right then, as my whisky bottle hasn't got a cork.
And I thought a new government would leave us alone. Shows how wrong you can be.
Meet the new government, same as the old government. They think they know better, they're wrong, they should just leave us alone.
ReplyDelete"We have a long way to go to get to a point where people get fed up with being asked." - Oh no we fucking don't. I for one am totally sick of it already.
ReplyDelete"There are a lot of middle age and old age people who are opening a bottle of wine a night and are not managing to get the cork back in again." - And in my experience most of them are fucking doctors!
It seems there are stock reasons for everything these days so as an old fart who drinks wine and is overweight, I have no chance of getting out of the surgery without being pilloried.
Mind your own fucking business and get back to curing peoples ills! That's what you are there for isn't it?
I shall ask "Old Sawbones" my man in the NHS what he thinks and blog the answer later....
seen that female BBC doc this morning harping on about 2 glasses of wine is a binge. She also said that docs are taught to double whatever their patients admit to. To be fair she was against the inquisition and even advised it was not a good idea as docs have to disclose info to insurance companies.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to tell mine that I am on forty units. Per day. That would help bugger up the stats.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing to do when they ask how often you drink would be to say, 'only when I can get my hands on the stuff', then pull out your hip flask. Make sure to offer the doctor a shot.
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