Waiting for the blood test

The quote I wanted is Oliver Cromwell not the nun's prayer (also worth a Google if you don't know it.)

\"I beseech you in the bowels o fChrist think it possible you may be mistaken.\"

Hi BettyE!

It's always been an interesting point - I went to Uni to do medicine originally but left after deciding I didn't want to be a doctor enough to starve for 6 years! I worked in hospital labs for several years and went back to St Andrews Uni to do physiology after I was married. My husband is a physicist who turned into a physiologist when we went to live in Germany (funny people, physicists!) and used to teach medical students. Over the years we had an awful lot to do with two professions: medicine and the Church, and one thing that never ceased to amaze us was the way the general public had this belief that these two groups of people were something special. Medical doctors may know a lot about some things - but they are still humans, and in some cases it is a case of I know more about that than you do. Loud raspberry!! I won't go further into the church side! Let's just say, like the Queen, they, too, need certain rooms in the house!

I've only regretted not finishing medical school a few times, once when my husband had cancer and our relationship with our then GP was strained to say the least and he actually asked me to remove myself from his practice! I went with pleasure - but since then I've never been afraid to speak my mind. He was wrong, very wrong, on two or three counts, and I was lucky in having another wonderful GP in the next village who picked up all the pieces. We have many medic friends (obviously, given David's career) so I'm not totally anti - just careful! I can do library research too - and now I have time to do it, albeit no direct access to the Uni library. I used to spend very enjoyable afternoons in Newcastle Medical Library looking up stuff for translations - I didn't NEED to, it was fun!

We all deserve the same quality of care and if having our own fund of knowledge makes it easier - let's get on with it!

Cheers all - I've had a wonderful day! The snow was great this morning so I had 2 hours skiing under deep blue skies and in brilliant sunshine followed by 2 hours people watching at a hut and then spent the afternoon on the balcony in the sun! It's a hard life... :-)

EileenH

PS - no, it's not switching off the computer that changes the log in. I'm still logged in 2 days later!

Morning all - I thought I would just answer your couple of points about Experience

[quote:f4533ceff9=\"Lizzie Ellen\"]Just checking for 'visual verification code' :lol:[/quote:f4533ceff9]

If you are a registered member of the forum, you will not see the verification code when making a post. The code is there primarily to stop spammers posting all over the site - unfortunately though, those Guests making a posting will need to enter the code.

The obvious way to avoid it - is to register :D

Also with regards to the log in [quote:f4533ceff9]I think the little box we tick asking to logged in automatically only works if the computer is not switched off.[/quote:f4533ceff9]

Just remember not to log-out of the forum when you have finished and you should go back to the home page each time you access Experience.

Hope this helps

Regards

Lin

Thanks Lin,

Just to mention though, since I registered I have not deliberately actively logged out and I do always get the PMR forum unless I deliberately go exploring. However, on a few occasions I got the verification code appearing below the posting box anyway and the first couple of times hadn't entered it because I wasn't expecting to see it so lost the post I'd just written! Not blaming anyone or anything - must be a gremlin somewhere! Never trust a computer I say - they're male!!! :-)

EileenH

Hi Lin,

Thanks for your post.

I find that I have to log in again about every half dozen posts. I never actually log out - just hit the X box at the top right.

If it is late at night - which is my usual time when I can't sleep - I probably don't notice that I am not logged in. There have been three posts that have disappeared - who knows where - and all have been since I registered.

Having said all that, may I thank you for being the Administrator/Moderator of this site. We are all very well behaved and I haven't noticed any trolls so far. LOL.

Tilly

Thanks Lin - I know I've had a couple of problems in the past when you have had to rescue me but all has been tickety boo for me since then.

MrsO

Yes I seem to be logged out every 3 or 4 days and have to log in again but worth all the trouble for the great help and support we are given here

Managed some gardening yesterday and fine today !!!