How hard are the people of after hours

cocoshovel

blackwhite wrote: »

A&E Fee without GP referall - €100
A&E fee after being referred by a GP - €0


There's your reason right there. So long as your GP charges less than €100 for a visit then you're saving money by going to them first

Ah now I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

candy-gal1

Well, im not a guy but if i was i could definitly say i was a very hard boardsie :D

Setun

When I was a young lad I fell off a skateboard and fractured a bone around my elbow. Wandered on home to discover my parents were out, so I just grabbed a bag of frozen peas and threw them on my arm and watched Countdown.

Local-womanizer

Broke my collarbone, had my dinner and tea before going to A+E, about 2-3 hours sitting around.

When I went into A+E all the female nurses proceeded to have sex with me as I was so manly and tough*

*Some of this may not be true....*

Mint Sauce

cocoshovel wrote: »

Why do people go to the doctor when they break a bone or something? They doctor cant do anything other then say "yeah its broken, now go to the hospital".

Then the same people usually complain that the doctor did nothing while it cost them.

Because they will only pay 50 or 60 quid to the Doctor, and get an A&E referral. If they go straight to A&E, they'll pay a 100.

Might save them a few quid.

Boscoirl

Broke my finger last year at training, taped it up to another finger with a splint in between, foolishly went to A&E afterwards, they re-taped it with out the splint and now my finger is wonky

Robdude

Broken bones have a tendency to heal crooked; especially things like fingers and toes.

There is nothing 'hard' about being gimpy, IMHO.

I'm all for avoiding doctors when they can't do much, but this is one time when I thought they could?

frozenfrozen

Jumped off the bonnet of a car onto a lug wrench to take the wheel off my dads car when i was younger, missed and had the sharp end go straight under my knee cap, had to stand up and pull it out and went inside and sat down and ate icecream.
Fell off a dirt bike and broke both my little fingers and didn't tell anyone, didn't tape them either because I was an idiot so now they're really wonky.

last year a book was falling out of the top shelf of my locker in school, went to catch it but overshot the mark and punched the side of the locker and couldn't move any of my fingers for about 3 days, nothing was broken but now when it's cold my hand hurts.

Not really a hard person story but my friend got his finger stuck in a car door as he was showing up to school, went to the nurse and while he was waiting to go in he fell down 15 steps and cut open his head. hahahahahha!

Novella

Realistically, unless your GP does x-rays, he/she wouldn't be able to tell you for certain if your toe was broken anyway so going to your doctor would be a total waste of time. Wouldn't it?

For what it's worth, when I was three, I broke my jaw and my nose and knocked out my four top, front teeth after falling on my face, and I'm fine so I imagine you will be too!

beco2010

im so hard all the time maybe i should see a doc over it

Irish Wolf

Currently nursing cracked/bruised ribs the last week or so - sore as all hell. Fk all point in clogging up a doctor's surgery or A&E to be told to go home and take it easy and shelling out for the privilege.

Second bastard time I've done my ribs - really not a pleasant experience.