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27th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Danny DyerI laughed at a comment on the internet that someone suggested that perhaps the Queen may be rummaging about in her family history to see if she is related to Danny Dyer!!!!! - No need Ma'm, - just check your German side, - plenty of history there.ViewDate:
25th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Are you surprised that Donald Trump won?No I am not surprised - the world is changing, - but someone should tell the politicians everywhere, they don't seem to realise this.ViewDate:
20th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Will you be sending Christmas cards this year?I have ticked the yes, - but send only a small amount, and donate to charity what I normally spend on cards and stamps. Last year we donated to Cancer Research, - £50. I don't mind at all if someone sends me a Christmas greeting via text or email. Go to your local tip after Christmas and look at the mountains of cards being recycled. I prefer to donate to charity.ViewDate:
11th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Are you surprised that Donald Trump won?And me!, - this is called democracy, - like Brexit, - the people have voted, - and some of those crying probably didn't vote, just those who are still crying over Brexit.ViewDate:
11th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Are you surprised that Donald Trump won?I do not think you can call our Queen "poor", - she can handle any situation, even Donald Trump, but I don't think he will get near enough to put his arm round her like Michelle Obama did.ViewDate:
9th Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Should the FA defy the poppy ban?Absolutely, - I hope all the fans where two poppies that day. Loved Theresa May's comment in the house last week.ViewDate:
2nd Nov 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Who would you trust more to be the next US President?Sorry I cannot vote, as I don't trust either of them.ViewDate:
31st Oct 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you think Princess Beatrice and Eugenie should be given royal duties?Definitely not. Their completely out of touch with the real world father should find them a decent job, - he seems to have all the right contacts. They would have a shock if they had to work properly. There are enough hangers on in the Royal Family as it is, - someone will be wanting Pippa and all the Middletons on the balcony next.ViewDate:
9th Oct 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you take HRT?Hi Jo Totally agree with you. Quite frankly I had so much to deal with other than the menopause I really didn't think about the symptoms, - too much is made of the menopause, - but not enough is made of the fact - how many women who have had breast cancer have taken HRT? - there never seems to be any proper data on this. Breast cancer is in my family, - so HRT was a complete no no for me, and I never ever thought of taking it in any case.ViewDate:
7th Oct 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?How can Jeremy Hunt be blamed for so called professionals walking out on the sick and the vulnerable, - that was entirely the choice of the BMA, and I am still in shock that so called professionals, so called caring people would even dream of leaving patients to stand chanting and shouting on a picket line.ViewDate:
7th Oct 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I total disagree.ViewDate:
2nd Oct 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
If you were American would you vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?Absolutely agree, -the most powerful country in the world - as is the United States , - it just beggars belief that these are the only two, - money is the answer. Whoever gets in will only be there for the maximum term of 8 years, but most likely only 4, and completely controlled by the Senate. Thank goodness.ViewDate:
30th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
If you were American would you vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?I think I have already posted this, but I wouldn't vote for either of them.ViewDate:
25th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Thank goodness the planned 5 day Junior Doctors strike has been called off. Dr Ellen McCourt of the BMA, representative for Junior Doctors said because of " patients safety" and the NHS not coping. Talk about stating "the obvious". Where on earth is the BMA coming from, - hospitals are for the sick, people who are ill, people who are vulnerable, people who need help, not to be used in a political fight. So walking out on these people was OK in the mind of those who organised the strike. How callous, and shocking. My thoughts just now are for the people with planned operations and the relief that hopefully the procedures will go ahead. Also for all the people with appointments that would have been cancelled. How dare the BMA state the public were behind them. I certainly was not.ViewDate:
24th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Will you still watch The Great British Bake Off without Mary Berry?Love the programme, - but without Mary, Mel and Sue, - no, definitely will not bother with the Channel 4 version, - and Paul Hollywood, - well he must have a bob on himself, - sorry Paul, - you ain't nothing special. I think he is rather fat.ViewDate:
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15th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Should The Great British Bake Off remain with the BBC?Celtwitch, really you have hit the nail on the head!. Like many people - have always cooked, just plain basic cooking. We do not eat ready-prepared food, we hate them. We don't eat out much either, because mostly it is rubbish. Both my husband and I like cooking, - but as for taking ideas from TV chefs, - no we don't. Neither of us like raw meat, and barely cooked fish, - we do not like our food stacked up like a tower, or with various sauces squirted around as decoration. I admire Mary Berry, - she is a super wealthy woman, but must have worked hard to still be at the top at the age of 81. The Great British Bake Off really does not teach anyone how to cook, - in my opinion it is just an entertainment programme. It will be interesting to see if Mary is mostly interested in the £££££££'s and Mr P too.ViewDate:
14th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Should The Great British Bake Off remain with the BBC?Carol, completely agree, - .... without Mel and Sue... there will not be a Bakeoff, - they are the super linkpins. Come on Mary and Paul - do the right thing, - .....unless the offer is too good to refuse?ViewDate:
12th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?peaches2, I do accept Junior Doctors work long hours, and know that hospitals are obviously open 24/7, and do know they are also paid to do the job, but what I don't get is that these people can walk out on strike and not care about the sick they are supposed to be treating, if they did care, they wouldn't strike and would think about the vulnerable.ViewDate:
12th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?On reading your post Capricorn - I do agree with the wasted money splashed out in all Public Sector Departments. As I have said before, if these people were running businesses, - i.e. self employed - there would be absolutely no money wasted - as every penny earned has to be carefully utilised. I have been self employed for 42 years, still working - in my 70's, having been hit by several recessions it has been and is truly hard and difficult to keep going, but we do. I have also said before, - I do not see the health service providing me with free service, as I pay my taxes etc., it is only free on the point of delivery. My mindset is not to claim for this that and the other, but that you need to work to pay to live - ...................................and I still do not agree with the Junior Doctors strike, - looking after the sick is what they trained and signed up for, - not to walk out on the vulnerable. I feel, like all good working people, I pay the wages via tax etc of the junior doctors, - and walking out for five days each month is not a good return on our investments.ViewDate:
11th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Capricorn, how would that work. I cannot imagine for the life of me Junior doctors leaving the NHS to work solely in private hospitals. I don't understand your comment - I am sorry. Private hospitals are a business, - doctors who use their facilities have to pay for the use of the room etc. Insurance companies mostly pick up the tab for the testing and operating facilities used by the consultants. Consultants work in the private sector all the time, but mainly they retain their NHS status, this status usually feeds their private work.ViewDate:
11th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?7woody6 I agree entirely with your comments. I too was brought in a household where there was no money. So I am at a loss to take on board the cruelty of the BMA and the Junior Doctors even contemplating taking strike action. Punishing the innocent. So monstrous, words fail me. No person striking ever has my support, and especially the medical profession.ViewDate:
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8th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Should you be fined for missing a GP appointment?Can someone advise me please how the cost of a missed appointment is calculated? I believe GP's are paid for their services, however many patients they see, - or am I incorrect?ViewDate:
8th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Blocat, - love your post, - straight talking, - great..... In the newspaper today, "NHS England has stated that "no good for patients will come from Junior Doctors walking out of accident and emergency units for several days at a time". Well frankly this is just stating the obvious. I think whatever the outcome, the reputation of so called medical professionals has been badly damaged.ViewDate:
8th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I agree MommyA with the content of your post - and you hit the nail on the head saying " it is easy to say strike until you need them" - I can only speak from a patient point of view, and absolutely know that Junior Doctors withdrawing their services has an obvious enormous and dreadful impact on patients, - the very people they treat. The long term effects of striking will be felt in the appointment system for many months, - and do people who have supported the strike tell those patients suffering - "serve you right" - goodness me - It is a shocking state of affairs. Can I please add MommyA - Junior Doctors are not the only people who work incredibly hard.ViewDate:
7th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?jentie51 just to say I would expect a doctor on a picket line to help someone who had collapsed in front of them, goodness me it would have to be a very cold uncaring person to ignore someone in need. But they still choose to walk out on those people actually in hospital. Also someone collapsing at a football match, - again a person who had been trained to attend the injured or sick should really step forward. Members of the public with no medical training also step forward to help when needed. I hope your appointment with your oncologist will be going ahead, - both my husband and I have had the big C, we know how crucial these appointments are. We have observed much during our treatment, - for sure we are very aware and grateful for the care we have received.ViewDate:
6th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?But they do have an alternative, - why do Doctors, who are supposed to be looking after the sick think it is appropriate to walk out on the vulnerable. As for having sufficient rest - so what is the answer, - and until we can educate illnesses to obey time scales, - unfortunately it will be that hospitals need to run for 24 hours, 7 days per week. There is no other way.......... but the staff are not expected to work 7 days of the week, for 24 hours, - there are have always been shifts in the medical profession.ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I wholeheartedly agree with you Westminster that Doctors should be forbidden to strike, - like the Police and Prison Officers. How anyone can back and condone Doctors going on strike it beggars belief to me. Seeing so called intelligent educated people waving banners and screaming and shouting on picket lines thinking that the public backs them in this action is quite awful. Then having the gall to say we are doing this for the patients!!!ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Oh thank goodness the strike next week is off, my dear friend's daughter can now have her very complicated and serious operation, - I cried when I heard, - please you Junior Doctors please please realise the suffering you are causing the vulnerable and sick, - you are not doing this for the public, - I have witnessed first hand the stress from someone who has been waiting to hear the strike is off.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I know, - why not the whole country out on strike for five days, every month, - Junior Doctors, Paramedics, Train Drivers, Bus Drivers, Taxi Drivers, Shop Workers, Refuse Collectors, Teachers, Hairdressers, Child Minders, Electricians, Plumbers, Builders, - etc etc, - then the country would really grind to a halt, - and who would be blamed. Oh I know, Jeremy Hunt.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I am pretty there is no doctor or person working 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. That is not what is expected of the Junior Doctors, - but what is not expected is to walk away from the people they are supposed to be treating. That is the fact, on the day of the strike, they will walk out, like sheep - it is all political.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Quite frankly I have yet to see a doctor when they appear on TV, or anywhere, - including the Junior Doctors who look even remotely tired. They are paid to do a job, and as they climb the ladder very lucratively, - and so they should be. Again I refer to the fact the public are putting them on pedestals, - and it is wrong. This is why we are in this situation - Junior Doctors think they are above everybody and everything.ViewDate:
3rd Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I have come to the conclusion after reading several articles in the newspapers today that the people working in the BMA hate the government, but also the sick, - so by calling this strike they can further the campaign against the vulnerable.....ViewDate:
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2nd Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I am thinking that if patients were called "customers" - perhaps doctors and especially those going on strike might start to think like people running a business, - and like people running their own business, the self employed, - I think if the government made doctors "self employed" - they would all act somewhat differently. Especially when you have to pay out......... to accountants - pay your tax, pay your VAT, pay premises rental, pay rates, pay electricity, pay business bank charges, pay vehicle charges - pay your staff, - it is all pay out, - all the time......but our "customers" always come first, - they have to - they are our "bread and butter", we are always mindful of that. Can anyone in their right mind imagine the "self employed" going on strike.- absolutely not.ViewDate:
2nd Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?whilst I agree with some of your comments bea747. Reference what you said about people only valuing what they pay for - We must always remember that the NHS services are only free on the point of delivery, we as patients, who have paid our Tax and National Insurance have paid into the system, - I do not consider that what I am receiving is free. I have paid, and am still paying......but I totally agree about the UK offering free treatment to overseas patients, this is ludicrous. If you were in the USA requiring treatment I am sure the first thing requested would be a credit card. To my mind the admin in hospitals is far from good or universal. Some hospitals are probably better than others. Yes I do agree about surgeons utilising theatre time better, but it has to be remembered that most surgeons enjoy lucrative pay from the Private sector, - and so would not be willing to give up that part of their working week.ViewDate:
2nd Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?...but looking after the sick is their job, - and should be carried out with dignity and respect, that is mandatory - as I have already posted unfortunately none of us can be sick to order, i.e. 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 pm, Monday to Friday. Hospitals are for sick people. Junior Doctors/medical staff look after the sick. Firemen take care of fires. The Police look after Crime, Teachers teach children, Ambulance people take the sick to hospital. Dustbin staff deal with our rubbish, etc etc That is what it is about. I would expect a Junior Doctor to treat me well, and likewise I would and definitely should be courteous and respectful to them, and always be mindful of the fact that I am not their only patient. All of the care services have huge workloads, - that is a fact, - but hopefully they won't all be going on 5 day strikes. The country would grind to a halt.ViewDate:
2nd Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Junior Doctors Strike - your viewsSo I am thinking if the British public could be persuaded to be ill only between the hours of 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 pm and only Monday to Friday then the Junior Doctors hours could be cut, then they wouldn't have to work unsociable hours. Unfortunately when a person is ill and needs hospitalisation then that illness must be serious, and also unfortunately illnesses don't always act to order. Junior Doctors are using the sick as a pawn in their fight against the Government. I look forward to hearing just one Junior Doctor saying anything compassionate about sick patients.ViewDate:
1st Sep 2016BrumEJ43 commented on:
Junior Doctors Strike - your viewsNo-one can blame Jeremy Hunt for the fact that Junior doctors will be withdrawing their services to the sick, injured, the elderly, children, babies, - it is their choice. Yes I hate to think and am extremely sad what a 5 day strike will do to poor patients, - I personally know of people this will be a huge problem. I feel we must stop putting the Junior Doctors on a pedestal, - they are no ministering angels if this is how they choose to behave. I have lost any respect I had for this section of the medical profession because of their actions. Now several weeks of strikes are planned. What next.