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@Digital Buddha 598725 wrote:

thats NHS for ya :anal:

Round here the NHS pharmacies and the hospital use exactly the same computer system as many places in the USA; I actually had to purchase a 3 ring hole punch from some random part of America because of this (the previous one was knackered due to being in service for nearly 20 years). It is that old it formats the printed pages by using the original HP Laserjet fonts, which are often way too small to be comfortably read; and the form is complex in itself. I am not surprised there is confusion and errors…

Healthcare in Europe is in reality a mixed public/private funded system; just about everywhere they are very good at looking after babies and very old people and patching up those who injure themselves in accidents, but there can be problems with long term treatment for healthy adults, and a multitude of different computer, telecoms and other signalling systems (nurse calls etc) which can go wrong in various ways (Britain has a habit of neglecting maintenance procedures and testing backup systems).

Where I work we do have a much more modern computer system that also keeps track of the medications administered and dosages and also height/weight of patients that helps reduce these errors. Also any controlled substances prescriptions have to be sent to the pharmacy using an analogue fax machine; and info about new patients also often arrives from the main town hospital by fax.

One reason for this being that line noise and skew could also be used by British Telecom Security and GCHQ to identify that the correct fax machines are being used and not any “man in the middle” attempts to divert substances. Even I can tell if the hospital have sent in a fax as there is a defective bit in the CCD of one machine and a black vertical line down the entire page.

@Requiem 598760 wrote:

That is bizarre.

some of the requests I get have made me wonder if emigrating to elsewhere to become a snakecharmer and witchdoctor could be way less stress, [you seem to only need a turban, a moustache, a snake and basket and good store of benzos and opiates (snakecharmers have tradiionally been classed as medical staff) but its wholly illegal in todays India, discouraged in Malaya and so I’d have to clear Pakistan immgration – even then there are not enough snakes to go round due to environment damage.

And if I did try that 2-C stuff I’d probably do something daft like try and send myself by parcel post to Norway with a live animals sticker on the crate, only to end up being banished with a redirection sticker marked NL-3525 UTRECHT NEDERLAND and although when this is opened I would be let free I might only wander the streets singing to teenage girls / young women (to the tune of Garry Puckett and the Union gap)

Meisje – ons liefde niet kan
Je bent te jong; zodat is niet toegstaan
Ik blijf niet bij hier
Met zo’n jong meisje!

Oh meisje ondanks je bent echt zo mooi
Ik zou verordeeld als een loverboy! [1]
Als ik blijf met je
Te jong een meisje!

[1] NL -an older man who grooms younger girls for immoral purposes

so the politie would be called on 112, they would press the oranje toets (emergency call button) on their portofoons and Nuns would turn up. As I still have a clear safeguarding record they’d sey “well son, as you know some of the language we will forgive you; but first you must learn the rest and the prayers and all the hard maths you shoudl have learnt’; then in two years time you must teach the new generations….