jenny sudell wrote:
> Thanks Paul
> The new building is great, the couches are all the wrong way round,
> lamps at the wrong end, not enough plugs, inadequate flooring, but a
> wonderful laundry (!?) room with specially designed space for a washer
> and dryer.
> The building was designed with no input from a nurse or doctor, and is
> pretty much fixed as it is now,
> So I will have to learn to twist my 18 stone body into a gap of 6
> inches to do a smear, so what.
> God forbid I should be a whinging pom!
> The people in charge of the Shire keep coming up with their own
> "solutions" for the issues I have raised, without any knowledge of the
> things we take for granted when setting up practices, eg, security,
> drug storage, IT needs, the layout of a room and the need to approach
> a patient from the right when examining them on a couch.
> They have their doc, nurse/pm, and new building, and I think we should
> just get on with it.
> I was given the fish eye today when I pointed out the disabled toilet
> doors opened the wrong way, and weren't wide enough.
> It has been suggested to me, that we should forget the curtains around
> the couch, as we can always shut the door....
> Mmm says I, Wot about the right to a chaperone and our policy to have
> one when doing intimate exams.
> Oh, well that doesnt happen here, no-one asks for a chaperone, says
> the burly builder who doesnt look like he has had many intimate
> examinations....(yet....)
> Oh sod it, its still better than the UK
> How are the floods over there?
> I dont have access to much news from the UK anymore
> Jen
>
>
Hi Jen,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ keeps me in touch.
My practice is the same - blank shrugs when I ask the other docs about
screens round the bed - 'but you can lock the door'. :-\
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Cheerio,
Graham
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