tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post3225939819045850338..comments2024-01-05T19:30:12.040+00:00Comments on Dr Jest's Caseblog: Back in the saddle...Doctor Jesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14446967855995345815noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-6661951713761389852008-05-06T15:18:00.000+01:002008-05-06T15:18:00.000+01:00"anonymous" W-- welcome, or is that welcome back? ..."anonymous" W-- welcome, or is that welcome back? So sorry to hear of your run-in's with the creaking edifice that is the NHS, and your tribulations in Dear Old Blighty. I hope and trust that things will look up soon. Are you back blogging perchance, only I'm afraid I rather lost touch? Do tell.<BR/><BR/>Dr B-- yes, rather like democracy I tend to end up feeling "Britain is the worst of countries-- except for all the others." Then again, having never been away from Blighty for longer that three weeks at a stretch I suppose my chauvinism is baseless, if that isn't already a tautology?<BR/><BR/>Nostrum'-- retired already? I didn't realize they let Pharmacists go so young ;-)... BTW just what defines a "Pommeranian Salad" exactly? And however did you come by a Burmese Head? (So sorry, but I appear to be in a silly mood this afternoon).<BR/><BR/>Orchidea-- I think we both know you really do have a <I>proper</I> job, on top of all the other wonderful things you get up to ;-)And with nasty deadlines and all... I hope and trust all's well in your corner of the globe? <BR/><BR/>Steveg-- "No worries mate", and you're probably right about the weather et al too. And we have bluebells out at Jest Acres!Doctor Jesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14446967855995345815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-88344324350979998832008-05-06T14:47:00.000+01:002008-05-06T14:47:00.000+01:00Good on yer Doc!Is it a co-incidence that your goo...Good on yer Doc!<BR/><BR/>Is it a co-incidence that your good feelings coincide with the nicer weather and the trees starting to "green up"? - I am sure that everything coming back to life in Borsetshire (SP?) would give me some of the joys of life too!<BR/><BR/>I hope this also brings you back to the computer to post more - we have missed you a lot.<BR/><BR/>Thanks<BR/><BR/>Stevesteveghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613989768301181748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-54634363810526860312008-05-02T10:08:00.000+01:002008-05-02T10:08:00.000+01:00This post is one of my favourites to date. It make...This post is one of my favourites to date. It makes me wish I had a <I>proper</I> job.<BR/><BR/>o xxxUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053418339912201502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-19424872678828043052008-05-01T17:16:00.000+01:002008-05-01T17:16:00.000+01:00Just stick with it Dear Boy and you'll find that t...Just stick with it Dear Boy and you'll find that the other end is here sooner than you think. <BR/>I should know, I overshot about six months ago and have been reduced to voluntary work in a Pomeranian Salad Bar in order to have a sense of value. I'm hoping that with some careful networking I can hold myself in that delicious place of anticipating de-mobilisation and yet still having the benefits of being employed and yet strangely detached from the flotsam and jetsam that poses as humanity and imposes on practice life.<BR/><BR/>I also find Burmese Head Massages amusing.Nostrumdammithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03866906406901736951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-70089701963459081582008-04-30T23:33:00.000+01:002008-04-30T23:33:00.000+01:00Hey hey, Dr J! I'm glad to hear you are on top of ...Hey hey, Dr J! I'm glad to hear you are on top of things. Yes, it can be the best job in the world. Alternatively it can be a wearisome struggle. Like you, I've been in both places and obtained the relevant short-sleeved tops.<BR/><BR/>Anonymous: I have a similarly dual view of England: the best of countries, and a sore disappointment. As Betjeman put it: "dear old, bloody old England".Dr Andrew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858213625632400403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16638275.post-6133541086799091302008-04-30T22:15:00.000+01:002008-04-30T22:15:00.000+01:00Hey Dr JYou have, in my opinion, a nice enough job...Hey Dr J<BR/><BR/>You have, in my opinion, a nice enough job. If, that is, you like working with sick, mad, sad people, and body fluids, and death (and yes, birth) and other icky things.<BR/><BR/>But still. A fairly decent job. Ben and Jerry's notwithstanding. <BR/><BR/>However, the NHS sucks. After 8 months in England I am gagging to get back to France and the decent health care they have there. (Although not just for the health care, to be sure. England saddens, and maddens, me. This has not been the best time of my life.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I feel sorry for you, having to work within such a horrid system. Demoralising. Demotivating. Dehumanising.<BR/><BR/>WxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com