Next time you have a cold, try mixing a cleveland steamer in your lemsip and save yourself fifty squids at a quack’s expense. You never know…

Ahh well I’d say yes, Twenty, but at the moment I seem to have more than my share of mongrels to deal with. Maybe next spring…

While you’re right about the private hospitals being shiny and clean and new, there are far fewer junior doctors wandering around with far less senior support, and the consultants are only there every so often.

If I were ever properly acutely sick, it’s public all the way. If it something involving a waiting list….

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-nurse, and when people say we just need to bring the nuns back or whatever, I think that’s a bit stupid.

Like Medbh says, it doesn’t take that much…
To me the disparity between private sector health and safety rules and general practice in the hospital is the real shocker.