Very Strange

[teacake44]

That Boris and Matt Hancock are telling everyone to get back to normal / back to the office, yet the same message is not being sent to the many doctors and dentist surgeries.

[Jackdaw33]

For once I agree.

[andy-hughes]

Weirder still is that their own civil servants are not doing it either!

[teacake44]

^^ Yes, forgot about them.

[ichkeria]

Aren’t they urging people to go back to work in the office as opposed to at home?
Which is really not up to them to do.
I don’t understand the point about doctors and dentists.
Are they not already at work?

[Bobbisox1]

my daughter works in a dental surgery and they are working as normal apart from the stringent laws they have to follow re Covid

[teacake44]

13.48 Many seem to think they can examine you on the phone? Don't know how that works with temperature and blood pressure do you?

[teacake44]

There are some no doubt that will continue with a full service so depends were you are I would think.

[david small]

Those two need a road map to find their backsides.

[ichkeria]

Those aren’t very good examples as you can take your own temperature and blood pressure.

[ichkeria]

I agree tho that it isn’t very satisfactory. They are at work tho I think?
It’s the patients who aren’t allowed to come in.

Other that, it’s a bit desperate urging people to actually go in to the office. All to save the over priced sandwich industry I suspect. Which I feel for of course, but those places are there to serve their customers, not vice versa.
It’s sad, but that’s how it is.

[teacake44]

14.04 Just an example, I really think you must know what I was getting at? Not everyone has got a BP machine, and not many would take it right if they did have one.

[Bobbisox1]

patients are required to wait till they are allowed in (dentist) and they have to follow strict Covid codes, the surgery after each person has to have a deep clean and to be closed for an hour also there is now a different method for having a filling, the bouth is clamped and covered

[Bobbisox1]

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[ichkeria]

What I’m getting at is: the doctors and dentists are at work.
So you aren’t comparing two similar things.
I agree that lack of patient contact is very bad.

[fiction-factory]

I had to fill a form in for my surgery. I took it last week and had to knock on the side door (after climbing over loads of flytipped rubbish and nitrous oxide canisters) as instructed by a sign on the locked front door. After 5 minutes banging on the door, I was greeted by someone covered head to toe in PPE. She jumped back in horror as if the envelope I held out was radioactive. She hurriedly told me before shutting the door in my face that they can't accept post due to Covid so I should take a picture of it on my phone and email it.
So, they are back at work but not back to normal.

Friend rang for an appointment (same surgery) and was told to fill in a form online setting out symptoms and someone would ring back within 48 hours. To be fair they rang back the same morning and organised a prescription which was ready immediately, so it was actually faster than it ever used to be. But how on earth would some of the more elderly people I know cope who don't even have a mobile phone never mind internet access.

[jno]

just been to the dentist this morning and had a tooth pulled out. All sadly normal.

[teacake44]

14.13 So are a lot of office workers ( at home) why insist or risk herding them all together, like a previous poster said, for the sandwich shop, I don't think they want to risk illness for them. Doctors could still screen themselves off to a certain degree, much the same as cashiers at the supermarket/ petrol pump.

[jno]

ff, I don't have a mobile phone, but my GP seems to be able to call a landline without difficulty. If people you know have neither landline, mobile phone nor internet access, then surely they would have been struggling even before Covid?

[teacake44]

14.26 You seem to be talking ok. :0)))))

[-SharonA-]

My doctors is like that of fiction factory. I've even seen a patient being treated on a chair, in the street!! By someone who I presume was a doctor in head to toe ppe! You call that getting back to normal.
Collecting prescriptions, the door is opened a crack and your medication virtually chucked out. Yeah, that is normal.