Re: What pills were those?

[Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Sunday 07 November 2004 08:37, Roland Perry wrote:

> She had "Lost" her drugs (left them at home 100 miles away) and needed
> urgent replacements.

Taxi.

> They didn't have any doctors on the premises until "after hours", this
> was mid-morning. Would a diagnosis have worked well, without her notes
> 100 miles away (getting hold of them in a minor emergency was the
> situation I was raising)?

The service she was attending was not and is not as capable as a General 
Practice is.  It is more expensive as well.  But we risk straying into 
another argument...
Giving her the number of a taxi firm/railway timetable would seem to be 
well-within the abilities of the management.

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