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Dream of a Word: A Tia Chucha Press Anthology
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Februar 2006
BeschreibungA fifteen year archive of real American life, a testament of democracy in verse, from the gritty streets of East Los Angeles to lonely Indiana avenues. The work in this anthology explores the tough and the tender, the personal as political, with humor, passion, humanity, and grace. It addresses both thematic and craft issues.
PortraitQuraysh Ali Lansana is author of three poetry books including They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, 2004) a children's book, and editor of five anthologies including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2001). He is director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University, where he is also an assistant professor of English and creative writing. Lansana serves as associate editor for poetry at Black Issues Book Review and earned an MFA in creative writing at New York University.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: TIA CHUCHA PRESS
Erscheinungsdatum: Februar 2006
Seitenanzahl: 150 Seiten
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The weekend's fierce debate over government spending is certain to conclude with President Obama signing a "clean" government-funding measure into law, Democratic leaders said Saturday night. The question remains when.
"We all know the end of this story. The president's going to sign a clean CR," Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) said, referring to a continuing resolution to fund the government.
Andrews, who heads the Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee, forecast that the Republican bill expected to pass through the House late Saturday night would be stripped of the GOP ObamaCare amendments by Senate Democrats and returned to the lower chamber within 48 hours as the same "clean" proposal the Senate passed on Friday. But it won't be done in time to prevent a government shutdown, he predicted.
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Just hours earlier, Republican leaders unveiled their strategy for funding the government beyond Monday, when the fiscal year ends. The plan features two amendments to the Senate-passed bill: One to delay the central parts of Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and another to eliminate a tax on medical devices that's helping to fund the law.
The package was designed to cater to conservatives in the conference, who had opposed an earlier Republican CR that did not tie the extended funding to a scaling back of ObamaCare.
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Agglutination Reactions
Agglutination reactions are used to assess the presence of antibodies in a specimen by mixing it with particulate antigens.
Learning Objective
Describe how agglutination reactions can be used to assess the presence of antibodies in a specimen
Key Points
- Agglutination reactions produce visible aggregates of antibody-antigen complexes when antibodies or antigens are conjugated to a carrier.
- Carriers used in agglutination methods could be artificial (e.g., latex or charcoal) or biological (e.g., erythrocytes).
- There are various methods of agglutination reactions that follow the same principle, but they differ in the elements they employ based on the desired endpoint and the main purpose of the test.
The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.
Red blood cells.
the clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody
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Agglutination is the visible expression of the aggregation of antigens and antibodies. Agglutination reactions apply to particulate test antigens that have been conjugated to a carrier. The carrier could be artificial (such as latex or charcoal particles) or biological (such as red blood cells). These conjugated particles are reacted with patient serum presumably containing antibodies. The endpoint of the test is the observation of clumps resulting from that antigen-antibody complex formation. The quality of the result is determined by the time of incubation with the antibody source, amount and avidity of the antigen conjugated to the carrier, and conditions of the test environment (e.g., pH and protein concentration). Various methods of agglutination are used in diagnostic immunology and these incude latex agglutination, flocculation tests, direct bacterial agglutination, and hemagglutination.
In latex agglutination, many antibody molecules are bound to latex beads (particles), which increases the number of antigen-binding sites. If an antigen is present in a test specimen, it will bind to the antibody and form visible, cross-linked aggregates. Latex agglutination can also be performed with the antigen conjugated to the beads for testing the presence of antibodies in a serum specimen.
Flocculation tests are designed for antibody detection and are based on the interaction of soluble antigens with antibodies, producing a precipitate of fine particles that can be seen with the naked eye.
Direct bacterial agglutination uses whole pathogens as a source of antigen. It measures the antibody level produced by a host infected with that pathogen. The binding of antibodies to surface antigens on the bacteria results in visible clumps.
Hemagglutination uses erythrocytes as the biological carriers of bacterial antigens, and purified polysaccharides or proteins for determining the presence of corresponding antibodies in a specimen .
Hemagglutination assay
Red blood cells are used as carriers to detect antibodies from a patient's serum.
Agglutination tests are easy to perform and in some cases are the most sensitive tests currently available. These tests have a wide range of applications in the clinical diagnosis of non-infectious immune disorders and infectious disease.
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Russell Brand Blogs Tribute to Amy Winehouse
British comic and actor Russell Brand has posted a tribute to Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in her London home this Saturday. Brand, who has had his own public battles with addiction, published his eulogy to Winehouse on his website.
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Chloe: Something More
The morning after her near death experience, Chloe was greeted by the warm rays of the sun that she had rarely seen in the morning these days. As her mind came back to reality, she arched her back and stretched until she was satisfied.
She peeked a look from under her eyes and half expected to be back in her dorm, still in school going through the same routine but all she saw was her new room in her new life.
She shook her head as if to forget everything bad and gave herself a little grin and hopped out of bed, but the toll of yesterdays torturous routine had finally caught up to her as she limped into the bathroom, putting on some new clothes and slid a brush through her hair a few times before she came back out just in time to catch her alarm go off.
"Lovely," she smiled and walked out her room making her way down to the dining hall.
"Chloe!" She heard her name as Emily came struggling down the hall where her room was.
"Hey," Chloe waited for Emily to catch up and when the two girls were finally walking together they laughed at their synchronized limp.
"I'm guessing you're not looking forward to todays work out either," Emily grimaced, thinking about all things she had to do the day before.
"Well you never know. Today could be a history day," Chloe reassured her.
"I doubt it," she sighed. "Hey, have you seen Marcus?" she looked down the hall where Marc would usually come to join the two on their long trek towards the dining hall.
"Do you really think he would stay here after what happened yesterday? He probably bubbled off to China or Madagascar for all we know," Chloe frowned thinking about her conversation with Marc.
"I just hope he hasn't bubbled into another life or death situation," Emily said.
"Let's just hope he hasn't and think about happier things, shall we?" Another voice chimed in.
"James!" Emily seemed just a bit too excited to see him.
At least we wont have to think too much about Marc now. Chloe thought as the three talked about what was in store for today.
"We're not doing any more weight training, are we?" Emily groaned. "I can barley hold myself up now, let alone lift more weights."
"You'll see," was all James would give them.
As the trio entered into the dining hall, they took their places trying not to notice the empty seat that somehow created an awkward barrier around it. And then...
"Well I hope me being here makes this a tad less awkward," Marc smirked, clearly noticing how uncomfortable Chloe and Emily had been trying to avoid talking about him.
"Marc!" The girls looked over to see a surprisingly delightful face.
"And I can't forget about you, darling," he shot a wink towards Olivia as Chloe and Emily both rolled their eyes and laughed.
"So where have you been?" Chloe asked.
"Oh, you know. Here. There."
"Wow, that explains everything!" Chloe exclaimed, sounding sarcastic.
Marc simply smiled and went back to 'woo' Olivia.
"He still looks normal," Chloe whispered to Emily.
"Yeah, and he sounds normal, too," Emily added obviously catching what Marc had just said to Olivia.
"He can also hear you," Marc leaned in and whispered like the girls had been.
"Do you think he's broken?" Chloe continued to whisper as if Marc wasn't even there.
"Well, I hope not," Emily seemed slightly worried this time.
"I hope not, too," Marc continued to listen in as the girls just looked at him with a concerned look.
"Look, a lot has happened since we got here, I'm sure you both can testify to that. I'm just going through my fair share of 'happenings'."
"Well," Chloe said in the girliest voice possible. "If you ever need someone to talk to, we're always here for you!"
And with that, the air was cleared, somewhat, but Chloe couldn't help but feel like there was something else bothering Marc other than nearly blinking her, Emily, Olivia and James to their death. As Chloe thought this, she looked over at Emily who shared her worrisome face.


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Four Chilean women gather at the edges of a lake where the intense and diverse personal histories of each one appear. They were all marked by the socialist experience of Allende and the military coup of 1973. Marcela Serrano involves the histories of the protagonists with those of other women, exposing the dilemmas of the liberty, submission, infidelity, marriage, work, and sex.
This audiobook is in Spanish.
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The joys and sorrows, aspirations, loves and passions, careers and failures of a group of Chilean women provide a intriguing view of middle class life in Chile in the late 20th century.
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Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal's early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup's Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World argues that beneath the surface of formal government, an intricate web of interpersonal relationships played a key role in binding together the Portuguese empire.
Myrup draws on archival research in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and China to demonstrate how informal networks of power and patronage offered a crucial means of navigating-or circumventing-the serpentine paths of the governmental hierarchy. The decisions of the Overseas Council, which governed Portugal's imperial holdings, reflected not only the merits of the petitions that came before it, but also the personal and institutional affiliations of the petitioner. In far-flung areas such as São Paulo and Macau, where the formal bureaucracy was weak, local cultural and economic factors held as much sway over the agents of the colonial state as did the dictates of the imperial court at Lisbon.
Populated by a host of colorful characters, from backland explorers to colonial magistrates, Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World demonstrates how informal social connections both magnified and diminished the power of the colonial state. If such systems contributed to corruption and fraud, they also facilitated effective cross-cultural exchange and ensured the survival of empire in times of crisis and decline. Myrup has produced a truly global study that sheds new light on the influence of interpersonal networks on the administration of a vast overseas empire
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Diggy and Kel turned and waved to everyone as they got in their cars and drove away.
Diggy picked up his keys and walked away from Kel.
"Did you mean what you said?" said Demetreus.
Kel responded, "about what?"
"Did you mean what you said, Mikhael?"
"That I love you?"
"When you called me your boyfriend?"
Kel walked up to Demetreus and said, "Demetreus, listen to me?"
Demetreus quickly interrupted, "I think its best if you go home with Malik."
"Wait... what?"
Demetreus picked up the phone and called Malik.
Demetreus: Hello?
Malik: Hey Frat!
Demetreus: Can you come back and pick up Mikhael, he would like to go home now.
Malik: Is everything okay?!
Demetreus: Thanks Malik, I'll talk to you later.
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Kel interrupted, "You didn't have to do that."
Demetreus snapped his head and uttered, "Listen, you just made me prove that I was a man over there. We are both soaked and I feel that it is best that you go live the life that you are accustomed to. You clearly look at me as a female when I am a male. I'm not even that feminine, but because I am submissive to you, that's the role that you want me to play. Well I am not a woman. I have a penis, I have testosterone and I am a man." Diggy proclaimed.
"Diggy, I didn't mean it like that..." interrupted Kel
"Let me finish! I am comfortable in my skin, and I want a man that is comfortable in theirs. I think it is best if you go back to being straight. Conform to the realities that you made for your life. Date a woman that will love and cherish you. Fall in love with someone whom you can't live without."
Kel's facial expression started to tense up.
Diggy gave Kel his keys and said, "The messed up part about it, was that you only called me your boyfriend, when people were expecting you too. Yea, you called me your boyfriend in front of your friends, but that because they were looking at you. When will you just be honest with yourself? When will you not care what others think about you? I know its hard, but your not willing to try."
Diggy walked up to Kel, and kissed him softly on his lips. When Kel opened his eyes, Diggy said, "It was nice meeting you. Have a nice life."
Kel tightly grabbed Diggy's arm. "Don't leave me! Demetreus, just know that I love you."
Kel released his arm, and Diggy started to walk the opposite way. Kel wiped his tears away.
10 minutes later
Malik drove up in his car. Kel got up from sitting on the curb and walked over to the car. Malik opened the door, greet Mikhael and turned down his music.
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Good Lord...Jerome Bettis is now one of the co hosts of NFL Live
As if we needed any more Steeler ballwashers in the media. I mean really are there no other former players that are qualified? Am I going to have to hear his fat ass every damn day when I just want a quick NFL update? Looks like it.
ESPN is such a garbage channel at this point if they aren't careful they are going to lose what little credibility they have left. They just cater to large fanbases and that is it, even with their hires these days. The Tebow coverage is a complete joke, but again it is all about the numbers and he pushes the needle, like the former Steelers apparently.
7 minutes in and he is acting as Harrison's defense attorney, who could have figured that out.
It must be nice to have a huge platform like that to drive public perception about an issues you have a vested, biased interest in. I bet the Steelers do backflips every time one of these clowns are given a job on TV.


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Rabee Allafi is a Libyan footballer, who scored the first goal for the Libya national football team in the post-Gaddafi era.[1]
During the Libyan civil war, the national team played in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification game against Mozambique in Cairo, wearing a white kit, under a new flag and new anthem. Allafi scored the first goal for Libya which enabled Libya to beat Mozambique. Libya then qualified to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after a goalless draw with at Zambia.


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Friday, April 27, 2012
Choice And Voice?
So, yesterday morning sense prevailed and a nice admin lady phoned to explain that not only was there no way of getting my notes to the two hospitals as patients are still absolutely not allowed to go anywhere near their own notes without applying in writing, but that they'd also booked me in with the wrong consultant so did I want to rearrange. I did and now I've got an apppointment with the nice rheumatologist in about three weeks time. The difference in the way the NHS performs when poorly paid, and generally poorly treated admin staff have the freedom to use their extensive knowledge and common sense organising skills is astonishing. Focusing on that kind of issue from the bottom up, allowing these excellent and dedicated staff members to suggest practical, locally based improvements would certainly improve both NHS performance and experience. However, no-one in government actually listens to me, or anyone else floating around the 'bottom' of the system because it's really far to important to impose top down, opposed by almost everyone, 'we promise we won't do this' reorganisations.
Only having to get myself to one appointment made a big difference to my day. I was able to fit in an early nap, cope with scooter hoisting in the rain, and having previously met Dr Breathe I wasn't overwhelmed with "they think it's all in my head" anxiety.
The other big difference was that yesterday's staff demonstrated how to communicate well with patients, in complete contrast to tuesday's experience. It's important to say that Dr Heartsink wasn't in any way unpleasant and although he said some rather odd things, there was clearly nothing behind that apart from a need for some communication skills training. In many years of accessing healthcare, both here and for a short period in the USA I have seen my fair share of outright crueltly to patients. Cruelty crosses a very obvious line, often created by understaffing and poor leadership, but its also very distinct from someone saying things that are really no more than a bit daft.
So, back to the 'how to communicate with patients' experience. When I arrived at outpatients yesterday there were a few people waiting, and shortly afterwards a nurse appeared to explain to people and write on the board that clinic was running 55 minutes behind. Anyone who's spent much time in hospitals knows this is either because the clinic is in utter chaos, or because it's running brilliantly and the consultant is choosing to give each patient as much time as they need, not the alloted time. Several people in the waiting room grumped and snarked about the delay, but I'd found the open staff wi-fi so was quite happy.
A nurse came to take me off for the weighing, measuring, blood pressuring ritual. When we got into the room there was no lock on the door and my sleeve wouldn't roll up enough for the blood pressure cuff, so my top had to be lifted over my head. So, without being asked, the nurse popped out, found another member of staff and asked them to stay outside the door. Just in case I was accidentally exposed. I was very impressed. When I had my bloods taken on tuesday the guy spent quite some time extensively scratching his balls before picking up the torniquet. My dilemma of whether to vomit on him or say something was solved by him putting a glove straight onto the scratching hand, but still. It's not really what you want to see a hand doing before it shoves a needle into your arm.
Measuring and examining over the nurse walked me the few steps back to the waiting room and continued with her work, part of which seemed to be popping back occasionally to check on the mood of the waiting room and keep people updated on the wait. The staff were keeping the waiting room updated after each patient came out, and at one point another nurse offered to make me a cup of tea. If you're a 'not yet disabled' person who's sat in a hospital waiting room and wondered why the occasional patient gets brought a hot drink its because well trained, caring medical staff can spot the patients who aren't able to go off and get their own drinks and often look like they could do with a good meal. Or patients who the staff don't want to let go off alone because it'll make them more poorly. Outpatients is a bit of an odd place to work as a nurse, you get judged by ward nurses as it's perceived as 'easy' but the potential for patients shouting is just as high as on a ward. What outpatients don't tend to get is the experience of much continuing care, so the nurses usually know any of the long term patients. In Dr Freak's clinic, the outpatient nurses usually greet me with a big hug, because of the gap between appointments they get to see patients conditions fluctuate in a way many other staff don't and so delight in any progress made, however minor.
There is a point to all this NHS fluffiness - I wasn't particularly anxious. And a patient who's not anxious doesn't carry that anxiety and negative expectation in through the consultation door with them, for it to then be projected onto a doctor derailing a consultation before it even begins. No doctor, however well trained can deal with decades of anxiety caused by other doctors being projected onto them, particularly when they don't even know the patient is anxious in that way.
So, eventually I saw Dr Breathe. We had a bit of a chat, well, one of us spoke, one croaked but you get the point. Unsurprisingly all my test results are ok. I can tell from the measuring results that Dr Breathe has a slightly relaxed definition of ok which is great, because it means not endlessly investigating things that are miniscule measurements away from the defined 'normal' in someone who's body doesn't do normal. Chest x-ray is clear, breathing tests mostly clear, and bronchoscopy was fine. I'd expected all that as Dr Breathe had been looking for something obvious affecting my ability to breathe and speak such as a stricture. So, that left us back where we started; laryngeal malacia issues caused by hypotonia. In normal person speak that means my larynx is collapsing on itself and my muscle tone is so poor the structures of my throat aren't properly held in place, move about alot and then interfere with my breathing when the soft tissue spasms as a result. Although there is nothing wrong with my lungs per se, the infections are caused by my chest muscles being too weak for me to breathe properly most of the time. When that happens all the natural secretions sit and hang out having germ parties in the bottom of your lungs. Its dangerous because if your muscles are too weak to breathe properly, they're often too weak to sustain coughing properly. The laxity of my tissues and obvious gap when I swallow witnessed by ENT means I'm also prone to aspirating food, liquid or saliva which is the preferred way for bugs to organise illegal raves in your lower lobes.
Some more croaking ensued about what to do when the muscles spasm so badly it cuts off my airway. I explained my clear preference was to hide at home avoiding hospital at all costs. Dr Breathe conceded he didn't have a better plan. There is no medication or surgery which can treat this problem apart from antibiotics for acute infections. The only possible source of help and improvement is specialist Speech and Language Therapy (SALT). I've been on the waiting list for that specialist intervention since Christmas, and without normal speech since October. Had I been in work say as a teacher or call centre worker and had to sign off sick after a week or so of this new problem I would now be six months into my twelve months time limit for contributory ESA, with no real sign of when treatment might be. Dr Breathe did say we could if I wanted try various inhalers but that he didn't think they would make any difference. Neither do I, and as I don't require the only difference they might make, which is the psychological semblence of having some control over the situation we both decided not to bother and Dr Breathe said he'd chase up SALT. Again. SALT was under funded during the New Labour years and not subject to the same kind of targets as being seen by a consultant, so although it's the only potential source of help for me the waiting list is indefinite.
What we did spend some time discussing was the requirements of the DWP to know about this particular problem, in black and white, preferably in triplicate. Not only do the DWP need to know what the problem is, but they also need to know that there is no medicine or surgery which can help it, and that its not going to get better. Hopefully it will improve, but with EDS there isn't an actual 'better' point and improvements tend to fluctuate over time back to not improvements. Dr Breathe is going to explain everything in a letter for my GP and rheumatologist so will include the DWP details and send me a copy to keep it on file for the next time my benefits are looked at.
I said my thanks to Dr Breathe and we parted company. I don't have to go back to see him unless something changes. Despite negative tests and the usual medical bafflement a bendy body causes, at no point did Dr Breathe make me feel disbelieved or negatively judged. He also understood the need to provide information for the DWP in writing. This means that I won't have to use up my time or his contacting him for a letter to provide to the DWP in a year or so's time when I'm no longer his patient and he's forgotten all the details.
Unfortunately just as I've shaken off the respiratory department I've fallen into the clutches of gastro-enterology and I don't think ENT are in much of a hurry to release me either. I'm very relieved Dr Heartsink thought it was a bad idea to stick tubes up and down a bendy person, but I do have to go through a barium meal and ultra-sound. I'm negative about this as I have previously been through the barium meal, ultra sound, head shaking, referral to dietician merry go round and have learnt as much as is possible from the experience about how to manage symptoms and maintain my weight. If it wasn't for the insistence of the DWP on reassessing everyone endlessly I might have had the confidence to have that conversation with my doctors and some of these tests might not have been needed.
What I do have is the confidence of almost a decade as a diagnosed EDS'ers, the knowledge and understanding that brings in terms of symptom management. I've had lengthy periods of time in this type of relapse, where I'm so extensively hypotonic that my body struggles just to perform basic functions. I've previously lost speech for a period of time, although in a very different way to this current problem I have managed to relearn to talk myself without support from SALT. It took several years of drudgery before I could see any realistic improvement last time, and this time round I can take comfort from not having to learn anatomy, physiology, medicine, physiotherapy and speech therapy alone, from scratch myself. This time I knew how to avoid becoming so weak that I had to spend months using a wobble cushion, adding 30 seconds on each day until I could learn to take one step more a day, and cope with the crushing disappointment on the days the steps only went backwards. This time I know I can do this, because last time I did it too. This time I know not to worry about being 'better' or 'fixed' because there is no such thing for people with EDS, but that there are improvements to be made, that eventually with enough time and effort life will get a bit easier. This time I know that just pushing myself harder and harder will never work, and that as much as I don't want to, I have to make this my day to day priority. That's dull and dreary at the best of times, but particularly galling at a time when finally potential opportunities to work may be on the horizon. This time I know that wanting to focus on writing, speaking and campaigning so much that I can't even bear to type out the alternative won't help. That I have to suck it up and spend alot more time looking after myself. That despite all my protestations of campaigning being just from home in my pyjamas so it's fine and not damaging my health, that I can somehow figure out how to work in my jammies from home floating on an oramoprh cloud...well, wanting something to be so does not make it true.
And really, that's why I don't want to have to go through more tests and hospital trips. With a long term degenerative condition such as Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, this is just the card life dealt me. I'd prefer to spend my time playing that card to the best of my ability, not having to go through hoops mostly to satisfy the Department of Work and Pensions insistence that people like me will be repeatedly and regularly reassessed. At the end of each of those hoops I get issued with exactly the same card, and life is just too short to keep going back, fruitlessly asking for another one. I just wish those making welfare policy actually understood that, but they had the good fortune to be dealt a winning hand in the game of life, and that winning hand means you can never understand what it is like to be issued with a losing card.
*In a nice way - it's a little on the tired side, but clean, small, friendly & staffed by very long term volunteers.
6 comments:
- Susan said...
An interesting and great piece. My 28 yr old son has HMS and other issues that may be ED. I get fed up with DWP needing to repeatedly told that it's not going to go away. ATOS first said he could be expected to be better in 18 months.I got DWP to over turn that. But, in 2 years time we will have to go through it all over again. It's distressing and a waste of money. When will DWP wake up to the facts about life long conditions.
- 11:48 am
- Dave said...
"Patients are still absolutely not allowed to go anywhere near their own notes without applying in writing,"
This could be solved very quickly and easily by the use of a sealable plastic envelope. We use them to send confidential documents through the mail. They cost pennies. I've heard tales of hospitals using taxis to transport patients notes from one dept to another. I despair. Just pop the notes into the plastic envelope. Write address on the outside. Seal it. Give it to the patient.
I currently have a season ticket for the various departments at our hospital and I've sat in the waiting area waiting for my notes to follow me.
I know they're hard pressed but they should stop and take a breath and realise there are simple systems out here that work and are easy to introduce, like bar codes and bar code readers for keeping control of stocks, and thereby keeping control of costs.
Better stop before I get started.
Keep up the good work BG and congrats on your nomination
- 1:29 pm
- sad times said...
Each day a challenge one way or another. A big one today or not? Every corner every turn whatever each day brings. Your bogs explain well. As it is x
- 7:54 pm
- sad times said...
Blogs I meant. Fog brain me!
- 8:34 pm
Awesome. I feel bad knowing these posts won't help your recovery, but I am so grateful because you put these things so clearly it really helps me and no doubt countless others. And it helps explain all this stuff to the people in our lives who are looking on without being able to identify.
- 8:27 am
- Stonehead said...
The NHS processes and systems here in Scotland are beyond a joke. Fortunately, some staff bend over backwards to make them work for the patients, but not all do.
When I went to Fracture Clinic recently to have my cast removed, the technician refused to do so until the paperwork had come through. The hospital physio wouldn't see me until the cast was removed and the paperwork passed through. However, the paperwork had got lost somewhere along the 20ft corridor between the doctor's office and the slots outside Plaster. No one seemed able or prepared to resolve the situation.
Eventually, I gave up, had the doctor discharge me, went home, and removed the cast myself. Before I left the hospital, I was told I'd get a referral to the physio service at my local health centre.
After a fortnight, I'd heard nothing so I phoned the physio self-referral line. I discovered I wasn't supposed to self-refer to my type of injury—that requires a hospital referral. I explained the situation, fortunately finding someone who was prepared to make the system work.
An appointment was arranged, then the physio phoned to ask for details of my injury as no paperwork had reached her and no one at the hospital could find my records. She'd been unable to speak to the doctors I'd seen.
I explained the nature of the injury and told her my wife had dropped off some early paperwork at the health centre (very basic stuff with no X-rays and minimal detail). It was just enough but the physio would have liked much more detail.
When I first saw the physio, the paperwork still hadn't turned up. I saw her twice more and there was still no sign of the paperwork. The physio has now discharged me because three appointments is what I get—I continue to have problems with the injury but I'm on my own from here and "will have to accept some limitations from now". Well, sod that. I'm doing my research and putting together my own physio programme.
I've had excellent treatment from some parts of the NHS over the years, but I've also found that if you run into faulty procedures and processes or "budget limitations" then you're stuffed unless you find the right person in the right post at the right time.
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The location is very nice, only when checking-out the landlady preferred for us to pay the stay with cash even though they have all credit card stickers on the web page and on the door. Since people carry a limited amount of money with them, a way of paying with credit card must be available.
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Extremely friendly staff and dedicated services for each person almost targeting perfection!!! Great experience! I was a little bit dissapointed about the diferrence between the website presentation about location, suggested right on the slopes and next door to ski school. In reality is not ski in/out facility and the school is close but not next door. Actually for the meeting point you should walk in ski boots about 400 meters and cross the main road. And for ski slopes you should walk in any direction at least 200 meters. Maybe it's not too far but I've chosen this hotel because of ski in/out and ski school location . The rest is perfect!
I liked very much the personal attention that I was given by two members of their staff Mrs.Tanja and Mr.Markus The quality level of the room was under no circumstances equivalent to a four stars hotel and definetely we were overcharged and unfortunately we had absolutely no understanding from the manager of the hotel Mrs.Rigele herself which was really a shock having in view this is a family owned hotel and they only stand by their reputation
The location was its strongest point. It is located 50m just across bridge 5 right at the slopes. The hotel staff was young, friendly and helpful. The beds were horrible. The mattresses offered no support. They were soft with a big dip in the middle and tilted to one side. We changed our room once while we were there. The beds in both rooms had the same problem. Those mattresses need to go. The hotel has no English channels available (No BBC, CNN, HBO, etc.). Hotel Kohlmayr is not a bad hotel but it is way too expensive for what it is. We paid 105.00 EUR per person per night. I cannot recommend this hotel for this price.