Thursday, March 08, 2007

Pull Your Fingers Out Guys

You know what? The NHS would have a lot more time and money to provide a better service if you lot started taking some responsibility for your own health.
We'd be happy to treat you if somebody smashed into your car and now your leg is hanging off. And similarly, if you're pregnant and don't know much about obstetrics then we'll be more than happy to pop the kid out for you. Basically, if it's not your fault, then it's cool by us.
But it's you lot that waltz through life ignoring all the thoughtful little messages we give you that piss me off. Like the notes on fag packets or on alcohol adverts. The little clues that should say to you, "hmmm, maybe this isn't such a great idea, I'll probably get ill". Unless you happened to smoke before the 1950s when the research linking it with lung cancer got published, you've got pretty much no defence against an ear deafening bollocking from your consultant about how silly you're being. You can't say you're not getting enough warning, but you still hammer down the A+E doors coughing up blood with that "it'll never happen to me" look on your faces. And booze too. Didn't you get the idea that drinking 40 pints might be a bad idea the first time you did it and punched a paramedic? Why do you do it again and again and keep on playing the innocent? And why do you blame us for not warning you about the risk of liver cirrhosis when your insides finally pack in?
As for getting fat, I know it's a slow process and it's hard to pick a time to make a change, but how hard would it be to skip the take-away just once a week? And maybe take a walk during lunch? That's all it takes to keep us happy and to stop you waking up at 3am every night because your neck is too fat to hold your airway open.
Sigh, I know you're heard it all before, but that's the point, you never learn. I suppose at the end of the day you aren't trying to get ill, you're just too naive to know any better. We don't mind taking care of you because you couldn't get the message, but we wish we didn't have to. Modern medicine is actually doing surprisingly well at taming rare disease like MS and HIV, but it's being mauled to death by preventable things that would only happen once in a blue moon if you guys just stopped being so naughty with your habits. And we might even have some left over money to give everyone a big bag of Herceptin, or whatever other drug you have been conned into thinking cures everything outright.
Come on guys, take some responsibility for yourselves. Everybody wins.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Good theory, but in practice you nailed it yourself when you said "it will never happen to me attitude". unfortunatly british culture nis now shit, there is no way this is going to change.. ever (bar some drastic government measures which would never happen anyway unfortunatly.

Anonymous said...

Shouldnt u be on a medics social getting hammered.....pot kettle black my friend

Anonymous said...

Here Here!!
did you see that woman in the paper the other day, moanin cos the NHS wouldn pay for her liposuction!
she was the size of a small car. come on, surely there must have been a time in her life that she relised what was happening to herself? when she was struggling to get out of bed she had the choice, get up and do something about it, or order another take away...what do u think she did, put the local chinese on speed dial and give them a fucking key so that she didn have to fuckin move!!
Then she fuckin expects the general public, who are probably payin for her house, food, bills, everything, to now pay to put her back in good health!
it pisses me off!