OMG scary stuff – although I would only ever go to an eye hospital A&E dept for my eyes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-he ... r-11997485
sobering reading
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Re: sobering reading
that is truely scary. What the hell is an xray going to if it is a problem wi the front of our eyes.
On a personal note i would either go n see my optician or the eye a&e department. The opticians in the first instance as they have all my records to hand, know my eyes and have the appropriate equipment, rather than a stranger at the a&e. Plus going through my opticians, they get me straight into emergency eye clinic wi a phone call if needed.
On a personal note i would either go n see my optician or the eye a&e department. The opticians in the first instance as they have all my records to hand, know my eyes and have the appropriate equipment, rather than a stranger at the a&e. Plus going through my opticians, they get me straight into emergency eye clinic wi a phone call if needed.
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Re: sobering reading
Iv ended up in regular a/e a LOT in the last 9 months with my eyes, it is important when going to regular a/e explain you have a eye disorder, and are under a consultant, and insist that tehy bleep the duty optom. They may be hesitant or reluctant but trust me they will eventually.
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Re: sobering reading
Actually I think X Ray is a mistake either in reporting or in the press release! (I hope so anyway!)
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Re: sobering reading
I gope that "x-ray" is wrong too!
Overall - I;d fear that sort of situation is all too common - A&E depts have their set of standard procedures - the "common" problems with which people come to them.
If you have one of those, you-re fine - they know what to do and do it,
Anythng unusual, odd or out of the way, the staff on the dsk don;t know what to do, or who to send you to, so they don;t do anything,
If it;s that unusual, no-one has a clue what it might be you get the choice of a GP who tell syou to go home and book in with you own GP next week *this when you arrived by ambulance when yo collpsed in the street!) or else having them send for Mentel Health Services!
The poor lady in the sstory is lucky in having found - albeit eventually - someone who did work out what the real prolem was and what should be/have been done.
How many mpre of us are they for whom this has never yet happened??!
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Overall - I;d fear that sort of situation is all too common - A&E depts have their set of standard procedures - the "common" problems with which people come to them.
If you have one of those, you-re fine - they know what to do and do it,
Anythng unusual, odd or out of the way, the staff on the dsk don;t know what to do, or who to send you to, so they don;t do anything,
If it;s that unusual, no-one has a clue what it might be you get the choice of a GP who tell syou to go home and book in with you own GP next week *this when you arrived by ambulance when yo collpsed in the street!) or else having them send for Mentel Health Services!
The poor lady in the sstory is lucky in having found - albeit eventually - someone who did work out what the real prolem was and what should be/have been done.
How many mpre of us are they for whom this has never yet happened??!
Rosemary
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