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17 Apr 2020, 9:55 am

Oh, duh, that's why no one does it in my area :duh: For some reason I didn't remember that it was just in the UK. I'm not British, I live in Kansas.


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17 Apr 2020, 9:57 am

There's much more productive ways to show your support for doctors, nurses & others than by clapping. People can try to support them by things like contacting their elected officials to give them more PPE & better wages. People can donate their time &/or money into various things that they'd appreciate or use. There's lots of little ways to help. Clapping is like giving a moment of silence after a mass shooting. It's a way for people to feel like their being supportive & helpful without actually doing anything that is.


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17 Apr 2020, 10:31 am

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17 Apr 2020, 10:42 am

I haven't heard of anyone doing that here, but I like the idea of the expressed support and appreciation.


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17 Apr 2020, 11:56 am

I think it's nice for people to clap for the NHS, but at the same time I have nothing against people who don't.


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17 Apr 2020, 12:18 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:
Oh, duh, that's why no one does it in my area :duh: For some reason I didn't remember that it was just in the UK. I'm not British, I live in Kansas.


:lol: that’s that one all explained then! :lol:
Well, you could always import the notion if you think your local healthcare bods would appreciate the gesture... :D



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17 Apr 2020, 2:35 pm

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I'm afraid I wouldn't clap them under any circumstances. When I was a child I went to all these assessments, was put on a vile diet for years and all because the doctor was doing a thesis on my condition and how diet affected it. HE DIDN'T GIVE A DIAGNOSIS! Had he done so I might've got the support that I needed instead I got mercilessly bullied because I couldn't fit in and not a thing was done.


Translation: One doctor once made a mistake, therefore I will never appreciate them again.


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21 Apr 2020, 10:54 am

What's NHS? Is it some kind of fairy? Because unless a little fairy is dying there is no real reason for me to clap my hands. :lol:



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21 Apr 2020, 2:29 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
maycontainthunder wrote:
I'm afraid I wouldn't clap them under any circumstances. When I was a child I went to all these assessments, was put on a vile diet for years and all because the doctor was doing a thesis on my condition and how diet affected it. HE DIDN'T GIVE A DIAGNOSIS! Had he done so I might've got the support that I needed instead I got mercilessly bullied because I couldn't fit in and not a thing was done.


Translation: One doctor once made a mistake, therefore I will never appreciate them again.


One doctor that was a SPECIALIST. He tricked my mother into putting me on that HORRIBLE diet just so he could use me as a lab rat. I was forced to eat things that tasted vile and had to watch others eating things I couldn't for YEARS and for what? The feed his ego.

The NHS are utterly hopeless like diagnosing my father with Parkinsons then giving him the WRONG medications at stupidly high doses? Some of this medication he was ALLERGIC to and threw a reaction that put him in hospital for a fortnight and even then the CLOWNS still didn't put him on the right medication let alone the right dosage?

USELESS.



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21 Apr 2020, 2:40 pm

maycontainthunder wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
maycontainthunder wrote:
I'm afraid I wouldn't clap them under any circumstances. When I was a child I went to all these assessments, was put on a vile diet for years and all because the doctor was doing a thesis on my condition and how diet affected it. HE DIDN'T GIVE A DIAGNOSIS! Had he done so I might've got the support that I needed instead I got mercilessly bullied because I couldn't fit in and not a thing was done.


Translation: One doctor once made a mistake, therefore I will never appreciate them again.


One doctor that was a SPECIALIST. He tricked my mother into putting me on that HORRIBLE diet just so he could use me as a lab rat. I was forced to eat things that tasted vile and had to watch others eating things I couldn't for YEARS and for what? The feed his ego.

The NHS are utterly hopeless like diagnosing my father with Parkinsons then giving him the WRONG medications at stupidly high doses? Some of this medication he was ALLERGIC to and threw a reaction that put him in hospital for a fortnight and even then the CLOWNS still didn't put him on the right medication let alone the right dosage?

USELESS.


That’s just humans being human, happens in every health system in the world on occasion.
I was missed for rumbling appendix for a decade, at times and excruciatingly painful decade: when I eventually saw and adult consultant at age eighteen I was rushed into theatre jumping the entire queue because it was within an hour of bursting.
Several children’s doctors made mistakes, I suffered from them: but I was also saved at top speed from a potentially fatal complication.
Don’t understand resenting the entire massive institution because humans are fallible flawed little critters.



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21 Apr 2020, 4:02 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
What's NHS? Is it some kind of fairy? Because unless a little fairy is dying there is no real reason for me to clap my hands. :lol:


National Health Service aka the people currently hard at work to keep as many British from dying as possible.


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