Re: What pills were those?

[Roland Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian G Batten 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

> > >Giving her the number of a taxi firm/railway timetable would seem to be
> > >well-within the abilities of the management.
> >
> > She, like I, was under the impression the NHS was there to treat
> > patients. We both went away disappointed, so perhaps you are right.
>
> I think that's unfair, Roland.  If her drugs were that important to her,
> she'd have brought them with her.  If her drugs are that important to
> her, she can go back and get them (or get them FedEx'd, or get a taxi to
> deliver them, or phone up her local motorcycle courier company, or
> whatever).

She was on holiday, probably by public transport, and had forgotten 
them, but only just realised it. I think she said she'd left them on the 
bed. (Forget privacy in such situations!)

> Suppose the drugs are something frighteningly expensive.  Why should I,
> through my taxes, pay for an additional set because someone can't be
> bothered to take them with her?

Forgot. And isn't it called National *Insurance*? Since when did the 
policy exclude such accidental eventualities? Anyway, she's not going to 
throw away either second set, they'll get used up (especially as only 
one month at a time is prescribed these days). How do you know they were 
expensive (as far as I could tell the main problem was not being able to 
find out anything about them at all).

> If you left your iPod at home, should Apple lend you one?  Filled with
> your music?  So why are your drugs any different?

Because the lack of them can be life-threatening. I thought our society 
cared about that. Obviously not :-(

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Roland Perry